Category Archives: Technology

Missed connections infoporn

Condensed and sorted state-by-state: craigslist Missed Connections USA. Separate maps were made for w4m, m4w, w4w, and m4m. (via Metafilter)

Still more time to sex::tech

There’s still a few more days to submit an abstract to sex::tech — the deadline has been extended to January 15th.
Also for your consideration: Audacia Ray has rounded up more sex, tech, and feminist media conferences — four this spring alone. (Video above by Wreck and Salvage)

Porn is code for dissident

A follow-up on China’s demands to Google and other search engines to block Chinese citizens access to web porn: PRI’s The World reports that Chinese activists believe this crackdown has far more to do with intimidating dissidents than going after porn. Not only is Google being held responsible for regulating material they do not control, [...]

Hacking gives us permission to speak of vaginas.

After a round of phony Twitter.com links circulated this weekend in a pretty big phishing scheme, what’s left is a this morning there’s a new and unrelated hot mess of hacked accounts, captured pre-deletion by Wired contributor Mat Honan. Here, Britney heads to Pinkberry with her vagina dentata; Fox News outs Bill O’Reilly; and Facebook [...]

“My stylesheet is where I want you to touch.”

(CSS how-to photomontage by exey, via Taylor McKnight)

iminlikewithyou: now with video, and no, not so much anymore

That? That was the shiver of agreeing with Valleywag for this tip: 2007’s standout flirting-for-nerds site iminlikewithyou, in trying to adopt web video’s hotness, has jumped its own rainbow-striped shark. Where the limited interface and smarts required to seduce well with it once drew out the best in commitment-free wit, the rapid-fire comments [...]

That Facebook App for Sex We Were Asking For?

Only 5% of the Facebook users who actually installed it are actively trading Naughty Gifts, but that’s nearly 200,000 people, just saying. And no one is ever just saying, so consider: there is a social function in these app-driven gestures. Already the poke has been graphed for it’s sexual possibilities:

(img: Dave McClure)
So what, [...]

Web Porn Zen: Wikipedia, You Have the Right to Objectify Me

As found on the blog of postmodern pornstar Tatum Reed: “I, Tatum Reed ackowelege [sic.] the public domain and license of the above photograph taken in New York City, May of 2007.” Is Reed still working out her notoriety with Wikipedia users? Her argument for her entry’s continued existence is that her media [...]

Bubble Hotties: “Let’s Join a Social Network Built Just For Two”

Everybody’s former internet-boyfriend ze frank, who was there for us every day until not too long ago, wakes us up this morning with this self-portrait of a love song…

“and omg i would luv that picture of you
taking a picture of you
holding the camera for me
in the bathroom mirror…”
I’m not the only one reminded of ze’s [...]

The Moaning Lisa: Arthacking the wii with 200 womens’ orgasms

Created by Matt Ganucheau, as presented at Arse Elektronika, orchestrated by Vienna-based art/tech rabblerousers monochrom (you remember them, from the Future of Sex “Sex Hacks” salon), video by sex hacker supreme, qDot.