Month: May 2012

One of San Francisco's signature events is Folsom Street Fair- the world's largest 'leather event' where over a seven hour period over 400k people from all over the world come for a funnel cake- a beer or a good spanking. Their promo posters are always pretty rowdy and this one is no different. Strangely of […]

Happy birthday WordPress – 9 years old! Here's Matt's post from 2003: http://wordpress.org/news/2003/05/wordpress-now-available/ WordPress

GOP bill in the NY Senate: 'A WEB SITE ADMINISTRATOR UPON REQUEST SHALL REMOVE ANY COMMENTS POSTED ON HIS OR HER WEB SITE BY AN ANONYMOUS POSTER UNLESS SUCH ANONYMOUS POSTER AGREES TO ATTACH HIS OR HER NAME TO THE POST AND CONFIRMS THAT HIS OR HER IP ADDRESS- LEGAL NAME- AND HOME ADDRESS ARE […]

I look forward to the day we're all watching as a human steps off a space craft on Mars- pats the Rover on the head and says- 'That'll do.' NASA's Opportunity rover snaps a rare self-portrait It's one of the most impressive photographs of Mars' Endeavour crater ever taken- but the image featured here is […]

If it's new age or 'alt' or 'woo' it probably can be tracked back to the Esalen Institute. Esalen: 50 Years Ago- A 'Crazy Place On A Godforsaken Road' Launched The New Age Movement In 1962- on a stunning stretch of land bordering the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur- California- two Stanford graduates founded a […]

Orwell and Huxley had inklings of corporate control but never would have guessed the marketers have taken over: Olympics 2012: branding 'police' to protect sponsors' exclusive rights Fears stringent restrictions on use of terms such as London 2012 will limit economic benefits of Games to capital's economy

West Hollywood gay bar bans bachelorette parties: 'Every Friday and Saturday night- we're flooded with requests from straight girls in penis hats who want to ogle our go-gos- dance with the gays and celebrate their pending nuptials. They are completely unaware that the people around them are legally prohibited from getting married.' Gay Bar The […]

Participants in the study wore compression suits for 24 hours. #sausagefest Compression Clothing Doesn't Help Performance- Might Help Recovery

Snappin' em up. Everybody wants the social checkbox checked. Social Media Marketer Vitrue Has Been Bought By Oracle For $300 Million TechCrunch has discovered that software giant Oracle has bought social marketing platform Vitrue for $300 million. The acquisition will give Oracle a strong Facebook marketing platform to offer its enterprise clients. Vitrue had taken […]

'Analysts at three of the major underwriters- including Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs- significantly reduced their forecasts for Facebook's revenues just before the IPO- according to Reuters. They did not widely publicize this information via- say- a Facebook status update. They quietly shared it with their buddies at hedge funds and other big investment firms- […]