The San Francisco chapter of the Society for Human Sexuality has a web page.
Ummm... you needed it for a friend. Yeah, that's the ticket. The STD Clinic Locator at http://www.unspeakable.com/locator/nph-locator.cgi
I think I've found my new religion. The Polyorchid Religious Society . Except that I'm short one prerequisite.
It's critical information like this that the web was developed for. Notes on deepthroating , sounds kind of uncomfortable to me, but I haven't tried it.
A debunking of the sexual addiction myth.
Philip Greenspun and Adriane Chapman present The Game .
Just in case you wanted to know, here's the definitive list of rectal foreign bodies .
Are you using the wrong browser ?
What happens when the power to a major city fails? For months? A scary reminder of how fragile infrastructures can be.
Q: How many Aucklanders does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Does it matter?
Pickup line for Aucklanders:
"Would you like to come up to my room and see mywork?"
Q: What did Aucklanders use before candles?
A: Electricity.
Power's been restored now, but it's still sobering.
The Society for Photographic Education (http://www.spenational.org/) is a non-profit membership organization that provides a forum for the discussion of photography and related media as a means of creative expression and cultural insight
Grad School and Automatic Weapons includes gems like:
"Does the way Jon Webb keeps flicking the safety of his Mac-10 on and off at thesis defenses make you nervous, too?"
Oh yeah, that LA quote comes from http://www.faisal.com/quotes/l.html
A little ego searching on a new (to me, at least) search engine at http://google.stanford.edu/ reveals this gem:
While it's obvious (to me, at least) that while the real solution to some of the environmental issues we're facing is to at least go for zero population growth, a first step might be to work towards not growing our huge population centers in the middle of the desert and then importing the lacking resources at the expense of ecologies hundreds of miles around. This isn't to say that there aren't advantages for developments such as LA. Concentrating the types of people who actually like smog-filled valleys, non-native foliage and awful sprawling suburbs near fault lines is a good thing.
Unfortunately, while I do remember writing it, I don't remember in what.
Susie Bright's got a new one on Salon Magazine, titled Move over, Ken, it's "Bend Over Boyfriend" .
The Ansel Adams Gallery is sponsoring an exhibit at the Mumm vineyards in Napa .
Christopher Burkett is the greatest color printer I've ever seen. His work is gorgeous in person, his web pages don't do it justice.
William Neill has a good eye.
Galen Rowell is really a photojournalist more than a landscape photographer, but his work is still worth a look even if the final prints don't look as good as his images in books or magazines.
Another great cartoon on the web, User Friendly . ISPs note especially http://www.aspectus.com/uf/uf980510.htm and users of Win95 should pay attention to http://www.aspectus.com/uf/uf980119.htm
This week Jon Katz talks about community, ethics, morality, and the Froistad case . In an online drinking moderation support mailing list, Larry Froistad confessed to killing his daughter to avoid child support payments. Several members reported his confession to police, but others felt the reporting was a violation of their community.
An Open Letter about the Politicization of the PC Industry , Dan Fylstra gives compelling reasons for all of us in the computer industry helping to fund this little startup called the Libertarian Party .
Part two of the Ellen Ullman article in Salon Magazine talks about how so many programmers now have lost the knowledge of what's going on under the hood. Good reading.
Hey, has anyone out there read Hamlet on the Holodeck? Good? Bad? What's the story?
Mr Science presents Things that go Boom . Potato guns, watermelon canons, things like that.
Ellen Ullman has the first part of an essay on the dumbing down of computer programming in Salon this morning. I usually don't agree with her, but I usually think her stuff is worth reading.
Nerve Magazine has Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress . For those of you who believed your High School English Teacher who claimed that sexuality in literature was a recent thing...
Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day;
The revolution is over. Wired has been sold to the publisher of GQ. Computers are a branded commodity. Pepsi is suing Coke for monopolistic practices, like anyone cares which caffeine, corn-syrup and water combination they drink.
Just in case you have been living in a cave for the past decade, Wal-Mart sucks .
Great parody of new media associations .
Yep, a day early, it's Susie Bright's column in Salon . It's about her use of Viagra:
"Should there be a code you can call out if you need me?" Joe asked. "No," I said, "I'll just throw the first exhausted victim out on the carpet and growl."
The Schmio Awards , a response to the Clios. May 12th in New York (alas). Honors include:
Dave Winer has a new DaveNet diatribe, called Time Changes Everything . Some pretty good observations on the nature of Microsoft the corporation versus the idealistic individuals who make up the company.
Jade and Rebel present The Unofficial Butch versus Femme Test . It's fun, and I wrote the CGI for it!
Dave Winer, editor of Scripting News (a great source of gossip on the industry) posted the lyrics to If I Were a Rich Man ...
There are a bunch of neat examples of various styles of modern art available on the web, maybe I will have to revise my earlier complaints about lack of content...
The CIA has a web page for kids up. I don't think there's anything I can add that would make this any more surreal. Note the smiling happy people in trench-coats. Seriously.
Anim physics explained!
Protect Artists It's Not Shareware comes across as a bunch of ranting underinformed whiners, but I agree with them in concept.
The Fully Informed Jury Association promotes information relating to the true nature of juries: That they are, in fact, empowered to decide both the law and the facts.
URLOTD: Bizarre stuff you can moake in your kitchen
Archives of neat sites posted to Flutterby , notes to webmaster@flutterby.com