New stories: Thanks Gordon by R Christopher Cooper and A Twist of Fate by zulator

New stories: Thanks Gordon by R Christopher Cooper and A Twist of Fate by zulator

iPhone

• iPhone 4 Complaints Mounting: A Rocky Rollout
• Why Consumer Reports can't recommend the iPhone 4
• More iPhone 4 woes; 5-megapixel camera takes yellow photos
• What Apple really thinks about its customers
• iPhone 4 Video Sex Chat Services Already Staffing Up--Porn? In Steve's iPhone?
• The Jabscreen
• Stop-motion iPhone 4 disassembly--Cool.
• iPhone4 vs HTC Evo--Best Buy allegedly tried to fire the guy who made this, but they might have caught wind of the bad PR and backed off.

New stories by Aardvark, BBMSN, Glaucon55, MTL Bear and Otaru_grower

New stories:

• Brady Cannon’s Unexpected Medical Exam 3b by Glaucon55
• Hypnotic Shine by MTL Bear
• The Photo Booth: Five Exercises in Transformation by Aardvark
• My New Pal by BBMSN
• Stepping Into Dad's Shoes 9 by Otaru_grower

Blizzard Scraps Plans To Display Real Names In Forums-- I've got some things to say about that.

• Why Real ID is a Really Bad Idea
• The Grim Curriculum--Tycho weighs in.
• Four Lessons From Blizzard’s Real ID Snafu

No good deed...

• Elderly man facing serious charges for shooting at thieves--"One of the thieves... later admitted to the theft. He and his partner... both have prior arrest records and are believed to be in the country illegally. But they are not facing any charges."
• Sprint employees fired for capturing shoplifter
• Colorado rafting guide arrested after girl's rescue
• Bank teller foils holdup, nabs suspect — loses job
• Police use ice cream music to embarrass teen rioters in Belfast
  

Old Spice

• The Man Your Man Could Smell Like
• Questions
• Boat--Third time's not quite the charm but charming enough

New stories by AKA, R Christopher Cooper, Wordshop, Xyggurat and zulator

New stories:

• Jake by AKA
• Reunion by Xyggurat
• Three That Got Away by R Christopher Cooper
• Tim's Adventure 9 by Wordshop
• When I Was 89 by zulator

The Supreme Court and Corporate Free Speech--This is how corporations can further subvert the law for their own ends at the expense of everyone else.

BP

• The BP/Government police state Salon
• White House Enacts Rules Inhibiting Media From Covering Oil Spill
• Images BP Doesn't Want You to See
• Hundreds Of Fishermen Missing Checks From BP
• Tar Balls Hit Texas, BP Oil Spill Now Reaches All Gulf States

Shilling

• A Pepsi-Induced Hiatus Exodus--Pepsi starts a "nutrition blog" on ScienceBlogs and bloggers leave in protest.
• Mosanto-connected professor asks what's wrong with GM food--After all, a man's got to eat, right?
• Breastfeeding is 'creepy', says parenting magazine--Kathryn Blundell practically pitches for formula-milk companies.

Bad for Business

• Venting Online, Consumers Can Find Themselves in Court
• Goldman Sachs hires law firm to shut blogger's site --And GoldmanSachs666.com is still going strong as of this writing.
• Towing Co. Loses Half Its Accounts After Suing Over Facebook Page

New stories by Jaypat, Londonboy, Otaru_grower, R Christopher Cooper and zulator

New stories:

• Eustace Conquers the World 3 by Jaypat
• Mr. Ross 2 by Londonboy
• The Psychiatrist 2 by R Christopher Cooper
• Stepping Into Dad's Shoes 8 by Otaru_grower
• Time in a Bottle by zulator

Fat Tuesday

• Childhood Obesity Takes Psychological Toll, Too
• NYT Distorts Image Of Christina Hendricks, Calls Her "Big"
• Looking for love, 650-pound virgin loses 410
• Too fat for your plane seat? I'll sell you part of mine.
• Why Americans are Fat
• Evolution
• The 7 Stages Of Being Fat
• A Rather Depressing Gallery of Fat Superheroes
• No Size-36 Pants Can Contain Me TheOnion

In the Army

• Tomorrow’s GI Joe May Be Too Fat to Fight
• Recruitment drive
• Army Strong
• Army of One...
• Army's Fat Recruit Problem TheOnion

New stories by Glaucon55, Wordshop and zulator

New stories:

• Brady Cannon’s Unexpected Medical Exam 3a by Glaucon55
• Redirection of Life by zulator
• Tim's Adventure 8 by Wordshop

Top judge warns against overzealous anti-terrorism measures

Torturous

• Torture is Torture
• The NYT's nice, new euphemism for torture
• What the new Jim Comey torture emails actually reveal
• Author of Torture, Spy Memos Was Just Doing His Job
• All the President's Accomplices: How the country acquiesced to Bush's torture policy
• How an ABC Interview Shaped a Torture Debate
• Ahmadinejad's Imam: Islam Allows Raping, Torturing Prisoners

Jesse Ventura on Impeachment, George Bush, And War Crimes

Government

• CIA 'often lied to congressmen'
• The FBI Sucks at Photoshop
• The War is Making You Poor--And this Democrat wants to do something about it.

Bald Eagle Tired Of Everyone Just Assuming It Supports War TheOnion

New stories by R Christopher Cooper, Shade and Wordshop

New stories:

• Fraternity Muscle 3 by Shade
• The Psychiatrist by R Christopher Cooper
• Tim's Adventure 7 by Wordshop

The trouble with telcos

• Here's The Latest Way AT&T Is Screwing Its Wireless Customers
• Is Verizon Wireless Making It Harder to Avoid Charges?
• Marine Widow Michaela Brummund Battles Verizon Over $350 Termination Fee

Net Neutrality

• Court Tells FCC It Has No Mandate To Enforce Net Neutrality (And That's A Good Thing)
• Republicans to FCC: Leave Net Neutrality to Congress
• "74 Democrats sold you out to AT&T, Verizon and Comcast"

New stories by AKA, IsoGAYCop, Londonboy, MTL Bear and Otaru_grower

New stories: I am very happy to announce the arrival of two of my long-time favorite authors to the site: AKA who's into muscle growth and MTL Bear who's into hypnosis.

• Bike Sycophants by MTL Bear
• Business Affair by AKA
• Hypno Cop 8 by IsoGAYCop
• Mr. Ross by Londonboy
• Stepping Into Dad's Shoes 7 by Otaru_grower

Bad Cops--If anyone has stories of good cops, please send 'em over.

• Police fight cellphone recordings
• Video of confrontation after U-Md. basketball game shows police beating
• Peter Watts won't go to jail
• Ottawa Hills officer's trial opens with dash cam vid
• Video of SWAT Raid on Missouri Family
• Seattle Police Officer Caught on Tape Punching Woman During Jaywalking Stop
• LaGrange PD needs animal control re-training after unnecessary pet shooting

BP

• Jindal vetoes bill to open oil spill records
• BP Based Spill Plans on Outdated Government Models
• Oily Rain In Louisiana
• Judge who overturned Obama’s offshore moratorium owns drilling stocks
• 'Reasonably High' Chance BP Files for Bankruptcy
• How Long Can Mississippi's Governor Keep Downplaying The Oil Spill?
• Costner Cleanup Device Gets High Marks From BP

New stories by R Christopher Cooper, Shade and Wordshop

New stories:

• Adam Bestows Muscle 3: Adam and the Park Ranger by R Christopher Cooper
• Fraternity Muscle 2 by Shade
• Tim's Adventure 6 by Wordshop

Apple

• Come Bloomsday, Apple admits mistake over 'Ulysses' app
• Apple Mistake Isn’t Censoring Literature… It’s Censoring Everything But
• Joyce Found Too Graphic, This Time by Apple
• Why Apple Should Not "Open Up" the iPhone
• Former App Store King iFart Gets Blocked From The iPad
• How to get rejected from the App Store--But sometimes, you'd never really know where the wind is blowing.
• I don't like wires but I do like ports

Adobe

• Thought on thoughts on Flash
• HTML5 vs. Flash: The case for Flash
• Adobe employee calls journalist “twerp” for criticizing Flash
• Adobe Calls Out Apple With Ads In NY Times, WSJ
• Regarding John Nack on Apple’s Control Over Native iPhone OS Software

New stories by ISOGayCop, Otaru_grower, R Christopher Cooper, Wildman410 and zulator

New stories:

• Adam Bestows Muscle 2: Adam at the Madison Hotel by R Christopher Cooper
• Hypno Cop 7 by IsoGAYCop
• Seeing is Believing by Wildman410
• Stepping Into Dad's Shoes 6 by Otaru_grower
• A Magical Mid-Life Crisis by zulator

Bringing in Politics

• Don’t Get Mad, Mr. President. Get Even.--Barack wrung something out of BP, but was it enough?
• GOP congressman apologizes to BP for ‘$20 billion shakedown’--He has other things he'd like to apologise for.
• Congress tells Hayward BP ignored oil well dangers
• Louisiana lawmakers propose prayer to stop oil disaster
• Many Gulf federal judges have oil links

BP boss won’t quit over Gulf spill

Barring the Press

• BP Blocking Media Access? New Orleans interview
• Press Hassled on Gulf Coast?
• BP-Hired Mercenaries Keep Reporters From Interviewing Workers

BP Ignores Order to Pay for Barrier Islands, Drops $50 Million on Oil Spill Ad

BP dropping

• Boycott BP
• Anti-BP Art: The Best Visual Jabs To Come From The Oil Spill
• Mario Brothers - BP Oil Edition
• Another Casualty of the BP Oil Spill
• BP Spills Coffee

Gulf Oil Leaks Could Gush for Years

New stories by Glaucon55, Jaypat, R Christopher Cooper, Shade, Wordshop

New stories:

• Adam Bestows Muscle: Adam at the Super Bowl by R Christopher Cooper
• Brady Cannon’s Unexpected Medical Exam 2 by Glaucon55
• Eustace Conquers the World 2 by Jaypat
• Fraternity Muscle by Shade
• Tim's Adventure 5 by Wordshop

Marijuana

• Are US Pot Laws the Root Cause of Mexican Drug Violence?
• Decriminalizing pot would devastate cartels
• High Support for Medical Marijuana
• Tobacco CEO’s Need Exorbitant Profits Too
• Dude, where's my amuse-bouche? NYT on haute stoner cuisine
• Have You Not Heard of Michael Phelps?
• Your Turn: Stop the prohibition of marijuana

Toke of the Town

• Oregon Reclassifies Marijuana As Medicine
• Palin: 'Not For The Legalization Of Pot,' But It's 'Minimal Problem'
• Man Chooses 30 Days In Jail Instead Of Quitting Marijuana
• Washington Drug Agents Seize Pot Legalization Petitions
• 100-Year-Old Government Hemp Farm Diaries To Be Revealed

New stories by IsoGAYCop, Jaypat, Otaru_grower, R Christopher Cooper and Tyler Bernard

New stories:

• Beginning of a Long and Fruitful Relationship by R Christopher Cooper
• Eustace Conquers the World by Jaypat
• The First Time Abroad 5 by Tyler Bernard
• Hypno Cop 6 by IsoGAYCop
• Stepping Into Dad's Shoes 5 by Otaru_grower

Bad Press

• Calm no more, Obama lashes out at BP on Gulf visit
• Apologetic BP ads get criticism, not sympathy
• Once again, BP experiment in Gulf spill hits snag
• In Gulf, It Was Unclear Who Was in Charge of Oil Rig
• Why Obama Should Put BP Under Temporary Receivership
• BP's Dismal Safety Record
• Photos: Protesters Bashing BP
• Caught in the oil
• Beyond Petroleum
• The Universal Analogy

BPGlobalPR

• Leroy Stick – the man behind @BPGlobalPR
• BP’s Global PR vs. BPGlobalPR
• BP Twitter spoof generates $10K for Gulf helpers--The Gulf Restoration Network needs all help they can get
• Ten Questions With @BPGlobalPR
• BPGlobalPR Billboards

New stories by Glaucon55, Londonboy, R Christopher Cooper, Tyler Bernard and Wordshop

New stories:

• Adam 3: Starting All Over Again by R Christopher Cooper
• Brady Cannon’s Unexpected Medical Exam by Glaucon55
• The First Time Abroad 4 by Tyler Bernard
• My Protector 4 by Londonboy
• Tim's Adventure 4 by Wordshop

The Internet is for pr0n

• Travellers to be searched for porn
• Porn virus publishes web history of victims on the net
• Porn Stars Decry Piracy in New Video (SFW)
• 25 Examples of Unintentional Porn
• 7 Richest Porn Stars on Earth
• 25 Porn Parodies
• Internet Porn

Texas

• Texas congressman uses porn to kill science funding
• Texas lawmaker: Obama is ‘God’s punishment on us.’
• Calif. bill would block Texas textbook changes
• Texas is charging rape victims who cooperate with the police
• Texas boy, 7, dies after shot in mistaken trespass

New stories by BBMSN, IsoGAYCop, Otaru_grower, R Christopher Cooper and Tyler Bernard

New stories:

• Adam 2: The Secret Shared by R Christopher Cooper
• College Finals 4 by BBMSN
• The First Time Abroad 3 by Tyler Bernard
• Hypno Cop 5 by IsoGAYCop
• Stepping Into Dad's Shoes 4 by Otaru_grower

BP-ty boppity boo

• BP shifts to new strategy to cap Gulf spill --Their "top kill" option failed.
• Documents Show Early Worries About Safety of Rig
• AP: Spill grew, BP's credibility faded
• BP contractor denies beefing up workers for Obama visit
• Ex-EPA Officials: Why Isn't BP Under Criminal Investigation
• Limits on access to oiled waters, coast frustrates journalists
• Nature pays the price
• BPGlobalPR--Public relations in 140 characters or less

  "Flying Rand Paul in to consult. Evidently he's an expert at keeping black out of places. #bpcares"
  

  "This horrible spill wouldn't be happening in the gulf of AMERICA! Arizona knows what I'm talking 'bout!! #fistpound #bpcares"

  "Our company psychiatrists say now is the time to move onto the last phase of experiencing a tragedy, acceptance mixed with forgetfulness. #bpcares"

• What should be British Petroleum's new logo

New stories by Jaypat, Londonboy , R Christopher Cooper, Tyler Bernard and Wordshop

New stories:

• Adam: At the Gym by R Christopher Cooper
• The First Time Abroad 2 by Tyler Bernard
• Green Legacy 9 by Jaypat
• My Protector 3 by Londonboy
• Tim's Adventure 3 by Wordshop

Happy Draw Mohammed Day!

Republicans

• Right Wing Reacts With Rage To First Muslim American Miss USA: ‘An Odd Form Of Affirmative Action’--Even though she grew up Catholic, she apparently ain't American enough as blue-eyed, blonde-haired Miss Oklahoma.
• Even After Law Aimed At Banning It, RNC Still Sending Misleading 'Census' Mailer
• Some right-wingers ignore facts as they rewrite U.S. history
• Proud Of Being Ignorant
• Obama health care supporters: Florida doctor tells Obama health care supporters to go elsewhere

7 Gay Sex Scandals of Career Anti-Gay Crusaders--Including Baptist minister George Rekers

Teabaggers

• Republicans and the Tea Party of No
• Are Tea Partiers Racist?
• The Tea Party's Phony Populism
• The Only Tea Party Stat You Need to Know
• Poll Finds Tea Party Backers Wealthier and More Educated---Follow the money.

How the GOP Purged Me

New stories by IsoGAYCop, Otaru_grower and Tyler Bernard

New stories:

• The First Time Abroad by Tyler Bernard
• Hypno Cop 4 by IsoGAYCop
• Stepping Into Dad's Shoes 3 by Otaru_grower

Think for the Children

• Young photography whiz's art worries church
• Springstead High valedictorian's graduation speech rejected as too real
• Jolly Rancher lands Brazos ISD third-grader in detention for a week--"[T]he school was abiding by a state guideline that banned 'minimal nutrition' foods."

Lower Merion School District

• Spying school took "thousands" of photos of students with covert webcam app, caught kids sleeping, half-dressed
• School district admits installing covert webcam activation software on student laptops, denies wrongdoing
• School Spying Scandal Gets Even More Bizarre: Student In Question Was Disciplined For Eating Candy
• Lower Merion report rips “overzealous” Web cam use
• Students, Parents Allowed to View Webcam Scandal Photos

New stories by Drakkenfyre, Londonboy, R Christopher Cooper, rtrose and Wordshop

New stories:

• Compewter by Drakkenfyre
• Fitness Plus Spa and Resort by R Christopher Cooper
• My Protector 2 by Londonboy
• Tim's Adventure 2 by Wordshop
• The Speeding Ticket by rtrose

Men and Women

• When A Guy Does Something Wrong
• If Men Wrote Women’s Magazines
• Advice About Relationships
• 6 Absurd Gender Stereotypes (That Science Says Are True)
• 9 Deadly Words Used By Women

Facebook

• Facebook Adds Two Privacy Tools--A result of the "all-hands meeting" that could have gotten quite hairy.
• 'Firestorm of anger' hits Facebook after EU condemns privacy policy
• Looking to Delete Your Facebook Account? You’re Not Alone
• Four Nerds and a Cry to Arms Against Facebook
• A Bewildering Tangle of Options
• How Facebook Pulled a Privacy Bait and Switch
• Well, These New Zuckerberg IMs Won't Help Facebook's Privacy Problems--"Dumb fucks."

New stories by BBMSN, dymondbolt, ISOGayCop, Otaru_grower and R Christopher Cooper

New stories:

• College Finals 3 by BBMSN
• Fine Tuning the Bull 3 by dymondbolt
• Hypno Cop 3 by IsoGAYCop
• Stepping Into Dad's Shoes 2 by Otaru_grower
• Magic Man of Maui by R Christopher Cooper

The iPad, and the Staggering Work of Obviousness--And can it finally kill print?

Apple vs. Adobe v.2

• Thoughts on Flash
• Adobe scraps work to bring Flash apps to iPhone--Raising the white flag--But not without one parting shot across the bow.
• Sorry, Adobe, you screwed yourself
• Flash is not a Right
• On Adobe, Flash CS5 and iPhone Applications
• Will iPad kick Adobe Flash off the Internet?
• BBspot - Adobe Tweaks Photoshop EULA to Protect from Substandard Computers Using CS5
• "Superman, this is the iPad. It's the future of comics. It's going to save you."

Why Apple Needs to Loosen Up --They're already losing their "cool".

AppStore

• Cartoonist: Apple Backs Down After Denying iPhone App--Steve Jobs calls it a mistake.
• Creepy Steve Jobs May Not Want You to Read This (or Will Break Down Your Door)
• Steve Jobs Reiterates: “Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone”--Sliding doown slippery slope of censorship.
• It's Not the Control, It's the Secrecy
• Non-Apple’s Mistake--What the other companies can learn.
• Steve Jobs Replies to Email: There Won’t Be A Mac App Store
• The User’s Manifesto: in defense of hacking, modding, and jailbreaking

How Apple sells their products--Reminds me of an oldie but goodie.

New stories by baboonfan, Londonboy, Markjo342, Peterbilt and Wordshop

New stories:

• The Island of Dr. Mortimer 4 by baboonfan
• My Protector by Londonboy
• A Story for Jack by Markjo342
• Tim's Adventure by Wordshop
• Truck Driver by Peterbilt

Password protection

• Please Do Not Change Your Password
• How I’d Hack Your Weak Passwords
• A Baffling Collection of the 500 Worst Passwords
• Are you password protected?
• Are users right in rejecting security advice?

Vote machinations

• Sequoia Voting Systems hacks self in foot
• Diebold Quietly Patches Security Flaw in Vote Counting Software
• Firm to Give D.C. Information About Its Voting Devices
• Voting System Adds Nearly 5,000 Ballots to Tally
• Is Internet Voting Safe? Vote Here
• Irish reject e-voting, go back to paper
• Voting machine expert criticizes "clueless" industry report
• Finnish Court Dismisses E-Voting Result
• Most electronic voting isn't secure, CIA expert says
• Philippines elections marred by violence and voting chaos--"[T]he leading presidential candidate had to wait five hours to cast his vote [...] as the countrywide automated voting system — being used for the first time — caused chaos."

New stories by Aardvark, BBMSN, Cicero, dymondbolt, fillups44, hypnoboy, IsoGAYCop, Londonboy, Otaru_grower, R Christopher Cooper and zulator

New stories: Sorry for the lack of updates lately as I just had wrapped up a months-long project that culminated last week, but I've been working behind the scenes as well in inviting new contributors to archive their stories on this site. Some of you may have noticed some new names on here like Gentry DuVane, Markjo342 and Seekingsometruth over the past few weeks, and so I'd like to formally welcome them as well us the guys who'll be joining us today: Otaru_grower, R Christopher Cooper, hypnoboy and IsoGAYCop.

• Alphaman Meets Mr. Cole Lector 2 by Cicero
• College Finals: 1 | 2 by BBMSN
• The Destroyers 3 by fillups44
• Fine Tuning the Bull 2 by dymondbolt
• Getting Used To Being Unstoppable 11 by Londonboy
• Hunter: Hello, Houston by Aardvark
• Hypno Cop: 1 | 2 by hypnoboy and IsoGAYCop
• A Magical Mid-Life Crisis by zulator
• Stepping Into Dad's Shoes by Otaru_grower
• The Thrill of the Hunt 2 by R Christopher Cooper

Your mom

• Happy Mother's Day
• My Son is Gay?
• The Phone Call
• The Christmas Tree
• Make Your Mom Proud

Losing your Facebook

• Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook
• Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative
• What Happens When You Deactivate Your Facebook Account
• Facebook Exec Extols the Virtues of Setting Privacy To ‘Everyone’
• Understanding Facebook's privacy aftershocks

New stories: A Real Bug's Life 2, or From Jock to Cock(roach) by baboonfan and Just to Make Sure by Touchstone

New stories: A Real Bug's Life 2, or From Jock to Cock(roach) by baboonfan and Just to Make Sure by Touchstone

South Park

• ‘South Park’ Episode Altered After Muslim Group’s Warning--Comedy Central capitulates to extremists' threats by censoring the episode which executive producers Matt Stone and Trey Parker stand behind.
• Islamist Death Threats Aren’t a Cartoon Joke--"[W]hy have there been no arrests?"
• Seattle cartoonist: May 20 is ‘Everybody Draw Mohammed Day’
• 'Simpsons' show support for 'South Park'
• 'South Park' Creators Threatened By Extremists TheOnion

Your Privacy and Facebook

• Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over Personal Information
• Time to Audit Your Facebook Privacy Settings, Here's How
• Facebook privacy hole 'lets you see where strangers plan to go'
• Schumer challeges Facebook over info sharing
• Facebook's Great Betrayal--What's the real reason behind the move?

New stories from Aardvark, Cicero, dymondbolt, in2other, Londonboy, musl4life, Seekingsometruth, Wrestlr, z119z and zulator

New stories:

• Alphaman Meets Mr. Cole Lector by Cicero
• Communion Ver. 2 by zulator
• Finetuning the Bull by dymondbolt
• Hunter: Father's Day by Aardvark
• Latex Manacles by Seekingsometruth
• Mid-Life Crisis by in2other
• Night at the Carnival by muscl4life
• Polar Opposites by Londonboy
• Training Andrew by Wrestlr
• White Noise 5 by z119z

Gays@Work

• BioWare rethinks policy on homosexuality
• Gay videogame designer sues Microsoft for discrimination
• Gay Britons Serve in Military With Little Fuss, as Predicted Discord Does Not Occur

Gays and Religion

• Pope Benedict attacks government over Equality Bill
• Ex-Archbishop Speaks About Catholic Church and Homosexuality
• Gay couple cuffed, cited after kiss near LDS temple
• Straight believers find a home in gay churches, synagogues
• Clergy say, "I won't" Salon

The Sassy Gay Friend saves...

• Ophelia
• Juliet
• Desdemona

New stories: Getting Used To Being Unstoppable 9 & 10 by Londonboy, Night Blind by Wrestlr, and Taking an Interest by Tyler Bernard

New stories:

• Getting Used To Being Unstoppable: 9 | 10 by Londonboy
• Night Blind by Wrestlr
• Taking an Interest by Tyler Bernard

iPad

• How Apple's iPad Succeeded Where Microsoft Failed
• My iPad as a tool
• iPad: Do they *really* get it?
• I was shown the media's future 16 years ago: now with the iPad, it's here

iBad

• What's wrong with the iPad? Let's start with the lack of a clock
• Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't, either)
• Steve Jobs: Apple owns the trademark on 'Pad'
• Tinkerer’s Sunset
• iPad FAIL

Adobe vs. Apple

• The Adobe - Apple Flame War
• Excuse me? Why does God need a Starship?
• Why Apple Changed Section 3.3.1
• Apple against the world
• Its all about the framework…
• Apple's wager

AppStore

• Apple Adult Content Purge Encouraged By Developers
• The App Store Isn’t about Control
• The App Store: Quality control without the quality

New stories by Jaypat, Londonboy, Walter Ego, Wrestlr and z119z

New stories:

• The ABCs of Desire by Wrestlr
• The Happy Place by Water Ego
• The Hulk Pill 5 by Jaypat
• The Thrill of the Hunt by Londonboy
• White Noise 4 by z119z

Poles Mourn, Await President's Coffin After Crash

The Unfriendly Skies

• Air France may bar obese passengers from flights
• Airline to charge for carry-on bags--Last year it was for checking bags at airport instead of online.
• United Breaks Guitars
• Virgin: the world's best passenger complaint letter?

Security Theater

• Pomona Senior Detained at Philadelphia Airport--Hope he wins his lawsuit
• Man takes knife through airport security but stopped for bottle of water
• It was no joke at security gate
• The Terrorists Win

New stories: Catching Jaocb Tritt by Gentry DuVane and The Health Club by Markjo342

New stories: Catching Jaocb Tritt by Gentry DuVane and The Health Club by Markjo342

Haters

• We had eight years of Bush and Cheney, Now you get mad!?
• The Rage Is Not About Health Care
• Censuring the census
• Wingnuts approximate “clever” while threatening the President
• Why Republicans Make Sore Losers--Written a year ago, still true today.

Teabaggers

• Former Bush officials rip Tea Parties: They’re ‘outrageous,’ based on ‘fear and hatred,’ bad for GOP.
• Teabaggers: No one saw nuthin'!
• Congressman Spit On By Tea Party Protester
• Teabonics--A Flickr feed of signs
• The Hutaree militia and the rising risk of far-right violence

Beck

• Conservative Libertarian--Jon Stewart doing what he does best
• The Beck Factor at Fox: Staffers say comments taint their work
• James Cameron trashes Glenn Beck

New stories by Randy Dragon, Wrestlr and z119z

New stories:

• Barnstorm by Wrestlr
• Unfinished Business 4 by Randy Dragon
• White Noise 3 by z119z

Telecoms

• 4G in America: Lies, Lies, and More Damn Lies
• This Is Why People Hate the Phone Company, AT&T
• Final Word on AT&T 3G MicroCell: Meh
• You want broadband? That'll be £45,000, BT tells couple
• Bell Canada doesn't want to share next-gen fiber network

Credit Cards

• Credit law should help, but read the fine print
• New credit card laws won't stop gouging by companies
• Credit Card Rates and Fees Soar as New Credit Card Law Takes Effect
• Watch out for new credit card traps
• AmEx, Discover Ditch Overlimit Fees

New stories: Coyete Creek Chronicles by muscl4life and Stolen by zulator

New stories: Coyete Creek Chronicles by muscl4life and Stolen by zulator

#passthedamnbill

• Congress Finishes Health Care Reform--For Good This Time
• Why This Moment Matters
• Health Care Reform Reax
• Health Reform Bill Summary: The Top 18 Immediate Effects
• Project for a Healthy American Future by Steve Benen--The roadmap to success

Ain't so Grand these days

• An Absence of Class in the G.O.P.
• Frightening GOP Behavior
• Fox News, health care, and the right-wing nervous breakdown
• The backlash: Reform turns personal
• Can the GOP Succeed by Running Against Health Care?
• How GOP Treats the Tea Party Could Sway November Elections
• Health Care Repeal Wars Fracturing GOP Primary Candidates
• Waterloo--And how it can save itself from it

Catholic guilt or innocence?

• Vatican Declined to Defrock U.S. Priest Who Abused Boys
• Pope 'led cover-up of child abuse by priests'
• Tear down the wall of silence in the Roman Catholic Church
• Sin Or Crime?
• Vatican attacks media on 'Pope role' in sex abuse cases

New stories by Jaypat, Touchstone and Tyler Bernard

New stories:

• The Hulk Pill 4 by Jaypat
• The Penthouse Apartment by Tyler Bernard
• Rough Sketch by Touchstone

Health Care Reform

• House Approves Health Overhaul, Sending Landmark Bill to Obama
• Fear Strikes Out
• An open letter to conservatives
• Man With Parkinson's Who Was Berated By Tea Partiers: 'I Embody The Controversy' Thanks Wolfie!
• SOCIALISM!

New stories from Aardvark, AbsMan420, Londonboy, Wrestlr and z119z

New stories:

• Cratus' Coots 4: Old Man Jasper by AbsMan420
• Getting Used To Being Unstoppable: 7 | 8 by Londonboy
• Handsome Boy by Wrestlr
• Hunter: An Education by Aardvark
• White Noise 2 by z119z

Bullying

• Schoolboy Jai Morcom beaten to death during recess
• Studies Reveal Why Kids Get Bullied and Rejected
• School pays out $150,000 after boy stoned, scalped in bullying incident
• Black belt teen strikes back at bully, and rallies community against racism
• Bullied Swedish schoolboy given bodyguard

Net Neutrality

• A Wrong-Headed Right-Wing Take on Broadband and Net Neutrality
• How Robber Barons hijacked the "Victorian Internet"
• Big Cable: Net neutrality violates ISP 1st Amendment rights
• Net neutrality and bandwidth caps don't matter
• Google begins effort to find Internet blockers--This was a year ago. Haven't seen any updates to this story yet.

Happy Pi Day! New stories by Aardvark, Londonboy, TImelord65, Wrestlr and z119z

Happy Pi Day!

New stories:

• Getting Used To Being Unstoppable: 5 | 6 by Londonboy
• Hunter: Breathe Me by Aardvark
• Jokers by Wrestlr
• Secret Mission 5 by Timelord65
• White Noise by z119z

The L Word

• Catholic School Rejects Child Because Of Lesbian Parents--Religions, despite their calls for inclusivity, trumpet their exclusionarity (i.e. You go to hell if you're not _____.), but where is the line before their actions go beyond discriminatory?
• Mississippi School Prom off After Lesbian's Date Request
• Driver's suspension urged after lesbian couple denied bus ride

Educamation

• Another Dumbass School Official Story--Innocent casaulties in the so-called war on drugs.
• School Pays Educator Falsely Charged In ‘Sexting’ Probe
• A library without the books
• L.A. Unified pays teachers not to teach
• Warning over narcissistic pupils

New stories from Aardvark, Drakkenfyre, Jaypat, John D., Londonboy, rtrose, Touchstone, Ultrabeef, Walter Ego and z119z

New stories:

• Babysitting an Alpha Kid by John D.
• The Car Lot: Copped by Aardvark
• Daddy Issues by Touchstone
• Dont' Try This Online! by rtrose
• Escape by z119z
• Friday Night Freaks by Ultrabeef
• Getting Used To Being Unstoppable: 3 | 4 by Londonboy
• The Great Mysto by Walter Ego
• The Hulk Pill 3 by Jaypat
• Room Service by Drakkenfyre

Creationism

• Meet the Flintstones--Nearly 1/3 of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs co-existed.
• Revisionaries: How a group of Texas conservatives is rewriting your kids’ textbooks
• Muslim academics and students are turning against Darwin's theory--Embracing ignorance is one of the hallmarks of extremist religious teachings
• Kirk Cameron monkeys with Darwin Salon
• Evolution T-Shirts on Trial in Missouri Town
• Molecular Evidence Supports Key Tenet Of Darwin's Evolution Theory
• Charles Darwin film 'too controversial for religious America'
• More ‘Evidence’ of Intelligent Design Shot Down by Science

New stories by Aardvark, Absman420, Jaypat, Londonboy, purejetfuel, Randy Dragon and stimle

New stories:

• Bases Loaded 2 by stimle (nc coll)
• Cratus' Coots 3: Daman by AbsMan420
• Getting Used To Being Unstoppable 2 by Londonboy
• The Hulk Pill 2 by Jaypat
• Klutz by Aardvark
• Unfinished Business 3 by Randy Dragon
• Virus by purejetfuel

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• Science Valentine
• 10 Ways to a Geeky Girl’s Heart
• Facebook Employee Proposes to Google Girlfriend

New stories by Absman420, dymondbolt, Jaypat, Londonboy and Richard Jasper

New stories:

• Cratus' Coots 2: Ravishing Rick by AbsMan420
• Getting Used To Being Unstoppable by Londonboy
• The Hulk Pill by Jaypat
• Hey Edgar by dymondbolt
• Superman Gets BIG! by Richard Jasper

iPad Aftermath

• Apple Finally Unveils iPad TheOnion
• The iPad is a Comedy Gold Mine
• The Morning After

New stories: Based Loaded by stimle, Hunter: Phone-Sexed up by Aardvark and Unfinished Business 2 by Randy Dragon

New stories:

• Bases Loaded by stimle (nc coll)
• Hunter: Phone-Sexed Up by Aardvark
• Unfinished Business 2 by Randy Dragon

Apple Tablet

• Malignant Rumor
• Rapidly Pressing The Button Beneath The Counter
• "It's everything!"

App Store

• App Store Is a Game Changer for Apple and Cellphone Industry
• Apple's Schiller Defends iPhone App Approval Process--How efficient can it get?
• Apple relaxing App Store rejections in certain cases?
• Steve Jobs intervenes, approves Knocking streaming video app
• Airfoil Speakers Touch 1.0.2 Is Now Available--The apologists can STFU.
• iPhone Web Apps as an Alternative to the App Store--That's now how Google Voice bypasses Apple's ATT's restrictions.
• The only 2 fixes for the iPhone platform

New stories by Aardvark, AbsMan420, buff cf, Randy Dragon and Timelord65

New stories:

• Building Walls 2 by buff cj (mc musc)
• Cratus' Coots: Cameron by AbsMan420
• Hunter: Once Gawky, Once Cocky by Aardvark
• Secret Mission 4 by Timelord65
• Unfinished Business by Randy Dragon

Religion

• Opponents to continue fight after blasphemy made illegal--In Ireland.
• GOP Introduces 2010 'Year of the Bible'
• Pentagon reports no longer quote Bible--"The Pentagon said Monday it no longer includes a Bible quote on the cover page of daily intelligence briefings it sends to the White House as was practice during the Bush administration."
• Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition--"A Michigan-based supplier of advanced optical gun sights for use on military weapons announced that it was discontinuing its practice of engraving the side of the sights with references to the chapter and verse of scriptures from the New Testament."
• Pastor Urges His Flock to Bring Guns to Church --Or "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition Part 2"
• Washington's Plan B ruling overturned--"A federal judge overreached when he sided with religious-freedom arguments to block Washington state’s rules mandating the sale of 'morning-after' birth control, appeals judges said...."
• HOTT Professor convicted of harassing Fritz Coleman over TV weathercasts-- Professor convicted of harassing Fritz Coleman over TV weathercasts says, "I did what I felt God was calling me to do."

Religion in School

• Judge: School must allow 'God' on posters
• Don't go to prom, school tells teen--"A senior at Heritage Christian School will be suspended Monday for attending Findlay High School's prom because the event involves dancing and rock music."
• Gay Teen Worried He Might Be Christian TheOnion

New stories: Behold the Power of Words 2 by F_R_Eaky, Building Walls by buff cj and Secret Mission 3 by Timelord65

New stories: I'd like to welcome a new mind control/muscle growth author to the site, buff cj. The more, the merrier.

• Behold the Power of Words 2 by F_R_Eaky (mc musc)
• Building Walls by buff cj (mc musc)
• Secret Mission 3 by Timelord65

G.O.P. Takes Massachusetts Senate Seat--Time for little schadenfreude served to the Democrats who richly deserved this ass-whuppin for being spineless saps.

TSA

• Stop the panic on air security
• TSA Withdraws Subpoenas Against Bloggers
• The TSA's Flying Circus
• Baby toys and national security Salon
• Eight-Year-Old on TSA Terrorist Watchlist Gets Frisked

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

New stories by Muscl4life, Tyler Bernard and Ventrego

New stories:

• Genie Trouble 4 by Ventrego (tf)
• Hit F1 to Continue 4 by Tyler Bernard (mc musc)
• The Ninth Dragon 2 by Muscl4life

Late Night

• The Late Night War Reaches Its Boiling Point: All the Clips You Missed
• Why We're on Team Conan O'Brien
• Why Some Comics Aren’t Laughing at Jay Leno

Marijuana

• Weed Takes Root
• Calif. judge orders police to return 60 pounds of marijuana
• Puff, Puff, Pass: Ammiano's Pot Bill Clears Assembly Committee