New story: Muscle for Hire 6 by Londonboy

New story: Muscle for Hire 6 by Londonboy

DRM

• DRM sucks redux: Microsoft to nuke MSN Music DRM keys
• UK retailers to record labels: DRM is killing us
• Amazon and Wal-Mart unwittingly team up against DRM
• Roll over, Beethoven: Deutsche Grammophon ditches DRM
• Universal's CEO Once Called iPod Users Thieves. Now He's Giving Songs Away
• Sony BMG to sell DRM-free downloads through stores--And here's why it won't work.
• Content Cartel Taking Control of USB? New Revision To Include DRM--Looks like it's true.

Oh, Canada

• Canadian labels: We get "absolutely zero credit" for not suing fans
• Canadian Heritage Copyright Policy Rocked By Conflict of Interest Concerns
• CRIA about-face on iPod levies tied to concerns over legitimizing downloads
• Canadian coppers admit making up piracy figures
• Canadian DMCA Introduction Delayed--Would (and still could) be very bad if it passed
• "iPod Tax" smacked down in Canada
• DRM violates Canadian privacy law
• Uninvited to the Public Policy Forum Symposium

New chapters added to A Better Man by Clarence591

Updated story: Three new chapters added to A Better Man by Clarence591

10 impossibilities conquered by science

At 71, Physics Professor Is a Web Star

Brain Scanners Can See Your Decisions Before You Make Them

Under the sea

• Swimmers' Sunscreen Killing Off Coral
• Oral sex gene helps male fish fake it
• Giant Squids Inject Selves With Semen, Die

Bad Science Journalism and the Myth of the Oppressed Underdog

Top 10 science hoaxes of all time

New story: Lee Goddard, Jock by Peterbilt

New story: Lee Goddard, Jock by Peterbilt

Men

• Masturbation may prevent prostate cancer--Gentlemen, start your engines
• High Testosterone Linked to Men's Lower Death Risk
• Deep-voiced men father more children
• Autistic children linked to same sperm donor
• More men turning to implants for chests of gold

Height

• Hey shortie, grow up
• For Small Woman and Tall Man, Size Doesn't Matter
• 7 Feet 7 and 360 Pounds, With Bigger Feet Than Shaq’s

Food

• Top 10 Bad Things That Are Good For You
• Fast-food toxicity comparison chart
• 'This, Not That' practical for fast-food diners
• "Too much 'sugar-free' chewing gum can lead to severe weight loss and diarrhoea"--But another study ties artificial sweetener to weight gain
• Good trans fats could reduce heart disease, diabetes risk--Gah.

New stories: Muscle for Hire 5 by Londonboy and Innocence on the Wind 2 by dymondbolt

New stories: Muscle for Hire 5 by Londonboy and Innocence on the Wind 2 by dymondbolt

Disapproval of Bush breaks record

Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand

What Every American Should Know About the Middle East

The Green Light--How torture was given the go-ahead

The Difference Between Feeling and Reality in Security

Montana Governor: DHS 'Blinks' on Real ID

Innocent photographer or terrorist?

New stories: Muscle for Hire 4 by Londonboy and The Orphanage 9 by Jaypat

New stories: Muscle for Hire 4 by Londonboy and The Orphanage 9 by Jaypat

Access Denied: report on Internet censorship around the world

Web creator rejects net tracking

UK ISPs To Start Tracking Your Surfing To Serve You Ads

Bad Phorm? UK ISPs to sell clickstream data to advertisers--And of course, they lie about it

Newspapers Argue For First Amendment Right to Snoop on Readers

ISPs Meddled With Their Customers' Web Traffic, Study Finds

When Monetizing ISP Traffic Goes Horribly Wrong--Why are they fiddling with subdomains they don't own in the first place?

New stories: Muscle for Hire 3 by Londonboy and The Rise of the Ubermen by muscl4life

New stories: Muscle for Hire 3 by Londonboy and The Rise of the Übermen by muscl4life

The stupidity of banning gay priests

Six Things in Expelled That Ben Stein Doesn't Want You to Know...

Dutch Islam film website 'shut'

Parents Indicted in Faith-Healing Death

Praying passenger removed from flight

Church Explodes In Downtown Oconomowoc

The Rules of Living Biblically

New stories: Muscle for Hire 2 by Londonboy and Cadet Firefighter by Peterbilt

New stories: Muscle for Hire 2 by Londonboy and Cadet Firefighter by Peterbilt

Much ado about Mukasey

• Michael Mukasey's tearful lies
• Attorney General Mukasey lies about 9/11 and international spying
• US Attorney General: Piracy funds terror

Privacy matters

• Harman: It's Not My Fault I Couldn't Figure Out Domestic Wiretapping Was Illegal
• Telcos Spent $10K Per Telecom Amnesty Vote, Sunshine Group Says
• Feds Use Phone Bills to Get Journo's Sources on NSA Spy Program

Vote machinations

• Whistleblower: Voting Machine Company Lied to Election Officials About Reliability of Machines
• The Mysterious Case of Ohio's Voting Machines
• Diebold voting machine key copied from photo at company's own online store

Election fun

• Students Would Give Up Voting Rights for an iPod--We're fucked.
• 2008 Campaign Logos--How do the candidates' logos stack up? Salon
• Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early--The Onion strikes again

New stories: Muscle for Hire by Londonboy and How I Got Started by Peterbilt

New stories: Muscle for Hire by Londonboy and How I Got Started by Peterbilt

Parent things

• Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone--"Half the people I've told this episode to now want to turn me in for child abuse. As if keeping kids under lock and key and helmet and cell phone and nanny and surveillance is the right way to rear kids. It's not. It's debilitating — for us and for them."
• Mother Goes Too Far For Hannah Montana Tix
• Alleged explicit sex discussion gets mom probation
• Can Medical Marijuana Cost You Your Kid? In California, It Can
• "I gave birth to a bad son and I rid society of him."
• Sperm donor liable for child support, judge rules--WTF?
• Father knows best: Dad cleared of assaulting rebellious teen daughter
• Mom faces trial for leaving toddler in car--"Treffly Coyne was out of her car for just minutes and no more than 10 yards away."

Happy Tax Day

New comic: It's still all set-up since I wanted to post a part of it today. Read The Taxman Cometh.

New stories:

• Sex in the Hayloft by Peterbilt
• A Better Man by Clarence591
• The Orphanage 8 by Jaypat
• Birthday Wishes by Londonboy
• I Want To Be Young Again by zulator

Sex Tech

• Woman Sleeps With 50 Men From Facebook "I Need Sex" Group
• PC stripper helps spam to spread
• German Invents 'Spray-On' Condom to Fit All Sizes
• Bad vibrations over car love toy
• Brit women prefer web to sex

You've been RickRoll'd

• Rick Astley interviewed--"I think it’s just one of those odd things where something gets picked up and people run with it."
• Taking the Rick
• YouTube RickRolls Users--One of the better April Fool's pranks
• The Real-Life RickRoll--Nice voice
• Rick Rolled to child porn = you're a pedophile, says FBI

Most unusual data disaster horror stories for 2007--Don't neglect to backup your stuff

New stories by stimle, O'Melissokomos, Peterbilt, xythan_shadow and

New stories:

• Outrageous Fortune 2 by stimle
• The Biker Bar by O'Melissokomos
• The Garage Mechanic by Peterbilt
• Yet Another Choice by xythan_shadow
• My Roommate's Body 15 by Londonboy

Stories I'm Reading: Virtual Insanity

• Mannie the Marine
• The Prick (tt oral anal hs)
• Summer of Change
• Trapping Travis
• Wade and Christian

Creation Museum Selling Mastodon Skull--Only 6,000 years old!

The shy, fragile face of ID

Bill promotes school religion at expense of education

Do You Teach Your Kids About Darwin?

Big Brain Theory: Have Cosmologists Lost Theirs?

Evolution Wins as Creationists (Accidentally) Switch Sides in Florida--However, the battle goes on.

Expel, expelling, expelled!--Will this movie sway lawmakers? Salon

New stories: High School Wrestler by Peterbilt and Fitting In zulator

New stories: High School Wrestler by Peterbilt and Fitting In by zulator

Stories I'm Reading: Justin Shorts

• Bulging Nylon Briefs Teen Orgy
• Juicy Young Bulges
• Nylon Bulges

Five Years of Iraq Lies--Was it worth it? Salon

• War advocates like Anne-Marie Slaughter demand that you forget the past
• What I Got Wrong About Iraq
• My Iraq War Retrospective

Lessons on the Surge from Economics 101

'NYT' Op-Ed Recalls Errors of 'Liberal Hawks' on Iraq

Bushwhacking

• The Economic Consequences of Mr. Bush
• The Illustrated President
• Bush's legacy

Moussaoui prosecutor kept CIA tapes secret

Waterboarding is legal, White House says

Employee's suit: Company used waterboarding to motivate workers

McCullagh's Law: When politicians invoke the do-this-or-Americans-will-die argument

New stories: Blind to Love by Iainlthr, Boy Without a Name by Peterbilt and Brian Gets What He Wants by derek phillips

New stories:

• Blind to Love by Iainlthr
• Boy Without a Name by Peterbilt
• Brian Gets What He Wants by derek phillips

Stories I'm Reading: xangel (inc)

• Bayberry Broken Hearts
• Blue Lights & Blue Balls
• Garage Sale Son

Education

• "The head of the Nazis was a killer named Hitler whose evil partner, Mussolini, was president of the USSR. Ultimately, the war ended with the bombing of Iwo Jima and Hitler's suicide."
• Churchill flew to the moon... right?
• Teens losing touch with historical references

Religion

• Wrath, Lust, and Littering? The New Seven Deadly Sins
• Indians blinded looking for vision of Mary
• Viagra ruled kosher for Passover

The Onion

• Pornography-Desensitized Populace Demands New Orifice To Look At
• 87 Killed In Violent Kerfuffle
• Wii Video Games Blamed For Rise In Effeminate Violence

New stories: Dakota and His Dad by Peterbilt and My Roommate's Body 14 by Londonboy

New stories: Dakota and His Dad by Peterbilt and My Roommate's Body 14 by Londonboy

Stories I'm Reading: karl williams

• Dad's Workmate
• Gym Buddy
• Scoring at the Pool

Why Apple fans hate tech reporters--Actually, it's more the question of why tech reporters seem to hate Apple, but yeah, some fans can be annoying. Salon

• Apple Death Knell Counter--Apple Has Been Declared Dead 52 Times Since April, 1995
• Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work--Six years later, here's why it does.
• How Leander Kahney Got Everything Wrong by Being a Fucking Jackass
• Roger Kay’s Wax Wings of Icarus vs the Flight of Apple
• Bampot of the Week: Alexander Wolfe

Apple and the value of design--More often than not, it just works.

Forget MTV - Apple's iPod ads are the new music-star makers

1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple's Future--Coincidence? I think not.

The Apple Product Cycle

Mac Tricks And Tips: Top 100 Essential Mac Applications

New stories: Construction Worker by Peterbilt and Lost Needs by Iainlthr

New stories: Construction Worker by Peterbilt and Lost Needs by Iainlthr

A Brilliant Reply to Sally Kern

"Giving money to institutions that failed at their only job, which was to have money, may not be the best strategy."--Things aren't looking too good right now.

Privacy

• Whistle-Blower: Feds Have a High-Speed Backdoor Into Wireless Carrier
• Time magazine invents facts to claim that Americans support Bush's domestic spying abuses Salon
• Hoover-Era Spying on Father Motivated Anti-Wiretapping Plaintiff
• Wiretapping's true danger
• Montana Governor explains why Real ID sucks

Supreme Court may rethink broadcast indecency--Fuck yeah.

Put young children on DNA list, urge UK police--This is to target 'potential offenders'. Thoughtcrime, much?

You're racits!--What passes as intelligent discourse

New stories by Peterbilt, screamingmoist, Londonboy, Redkage and Jaypat

New stories:

• Brocker, Baseball Player by Peterbilt
• Academic Changes by screamingmoist
• Size Doesn't Have to Matter by Londonboy
• True Heroes 3 by Redkage
• The Orphanage 7 by Jaypat

Dear Sally Kern--Homophobia's always ugly [Thanks Wolfie!]

House Democrats reject telecom amnesty, warrantless surveillance--Dem's do good this time. Keep up the fight. Salon

Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam and al Qaida--Good luck reading about it.

A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears

GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com

New stories by Peterbilt, derek phillips, Iainlthr, Jaypat and Londboy

New stories:

• County Fair by Peterbilt
• Mark's Birthday Present by derek phillips
• Continuity by Iainlthr
• The Orphanage 6 by Jaypat
• My Roommate's Body 13 by Londonboy

Afghan MPs oppose Prophet cartoon--Money quote: "Freedom of expression has its limits - it should not harm religious feeling and beliefs."

Retired Priest Sentenced for Bilking Two Churches

Catholic nuns and monks decline

Banned from church--"Reviving an ancient practice, churches are exposing sinners and shunning those who won't repent."

Preacher under investigation claims financial documents belong to God--"It’s not yours, it’s God’s and you’re not going to get it and that’s something I’ll go to prison over."

More new stories by Peterbilt, redkage, Naedre, Jaypat, and Londonboy

New stories:

• First Big Date by Peterbilt
• True Heroes 2 by redkage
• Sinners and Saints 4 by Naedre
• The Orphanage 5 by Jaypat
• Read My Lips 4 by Londonboy

Privacy and accountability, or the lack thereof

• House Democrats may move to split spy bill--Watch these losers cave in yet again.
• On Cusp of Senate Telecom Immunity Passage, White House Admits Phone Companies Spied--And they'll do everything to keep them in business.
• Sen. Rockefeller Lets Slip the Spying Truth: Drift Nets To Be Legalized
• FBI Wiretaps Dropped Due to Unpaid Bills
• Why does AT&T want to know what you're downloading?
• US drafting plan to allow government access to any email or Web search--They'll be monitoring everything.
• Court Rejects ACLU Challenge to Wiretaps
• White House guts Intelligence Oversight Board

New stories by Peterbilt, redkage, Naedre, Jaypat, Londonboy and muscl4life

New stories:

• The Architect's Son (inc) by Peterbilt
• True Heroes by redkage
• Sinners and Saints 3 by Naedre
• The Orphanage 4 by Jaypat
• Read My Lips 3 by Londonboy
• A (Very Peculiar) Civil Action 2 by muscl4life

Vegas chapels' unholy hustle--So much for the sanctity of matrimony.

Avoiding scientists' protests, pope cancels university speech

Wikipedia Islam Entry Is Criticized--But they're standing their ground.

Oxford to Study Faith in God

War Breaks Out Between Hackers and Scientology -- There Can Be Only One

Happy Leap Day!

New stories: Happy Leap Day!

• The Masturbation Chronicles, Tale No. 4b -- Security Guard Tony Bruno's Capture by Glaucon55
• Joaquin 2 by stimle
• Bobby Gets Pantsed in the Boiler Room 2 by derek phillips
• A Marine Called Justin by Peterbilt
• Sinners and Saints 2 by Naedre
• Only Skin Deep 14 by dymondbolt
• The Orphanage 3 by Jaypat
• Josh & Gabriel by MS_Alberta
• Take It Or Leave It by Iainlthr
• Read My Lips 2 by Londonboy

Choosing the lesser of two evils: Comcast or AT&T?

Is WikiLeaks Judge Having Second Thoughts?--Thanks to this censorship, WikiLeaks is more popular than ever. UPDATE: He has reversed his possibly unconstitutional order.

Professor Layton And The Perpetual Torment

1000th post! -- New stories by O'Melissokomos, Naedre, Peterbilt, derek phillips and others

New stories: According to Blogger, this is my 1000th post, and I thought I'd make it extra-special by putting up a slew of new stories including one from me and some from the site's newest contributors: Naedre, Peterbilt and one of my all-time favorite authors, derek phillips.

• Dominating Dominic by O'Melissokomos
• Sinners and Saints by Naedre
• The Horny Groom by Peterbilt
• Josh Makes His Move by derek phillips
• The Masturbation Chronicles, Tale No. 4a -- Security Guard Tony Bruno's Capture by Glaucon55
• Cigars in a Hotel Bar by mcgarguy
• Jim's Closet by Iainlthr
• BallBoys by FanTCMan
• Gym Encounter by John D.
• Dream a Little Dream by wbhulk
• What Happened on B____ Island by Magus
• A (Very Peculiar) Civil Action by muscl4life
• High School Bully 7 by BBMSN
• Read My Lips by Londonboy
• Anatomy of a Transformation by zulator
• Tow Truck by xythan_shadow
• The Orphanage 2 by Jaypat
• Full Moon Muscle: Final Chapter by Texzilla

As you can see, the site has grown quite a bit over the years, and so I'd like to thank my contributors for their wonderful works, PrideSites for their generous patronage, and, of course, you guys for being into the same shit I am. Makes the world a little more fun to live in.