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9:06 am Sat
Sep 8, 2007
A music video for the song "pornografia," from Trisfe, a band from Seville (Spain). Barbie and Ken get it on, then take a milkbath. It's kind of lovely. Here's the video, directed by Joaquin Leon, and here's their MySpace, the song appears on a forthcoming LP. (thanks, Susannah Breslin)
Grindr, a popular hookup app, yesterday announced it was removing its “ethnicity” filter. Announcing the change, Grindr said it had a “zero-tolerance policy for racism and hate speech” on its platform. It’s a problem Grindr long ignored, but something has forced its hand. The BBC’s Ben Hunte says because white users have started speaking out: […]
In the 1990s, Australian urologist Helen O’Connell performed the first magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans on aroused women’s clitorises. She found that the clitoris is 10 times larger than most anyone suspected. In this video, science journalist Rachel Gross, who is currently writing a book called Lady Anatomy, shares some medical history and takes us […]
Over the past decade or so, Lauren McLaughin (previously) has written a handful of outstanding YA novels, each dealing with difficult issues of gender, personal autonomy and the casual cruelty of teens, starting with Cycler (and its sequel, Re-Cycler) (a teenaged girl who turned into a boy for four days every month); Scored (a class-conscious surveillance dystopia); The Free (a desperate novel about a teen car-thief in juvie) and now, her best book yet: Send Pics, a gripping thriller about sextortion, high school, revenge and justice.
Father’s Day is June 21st, otherwise known as the roughest shopping day of the year. Don’t get us wrong, Dad deserves an awesome gift for all the great things he gave you. But let’s be honest — buying for your father is often a chore. Your gift has to take into account what he already […]
Even in horrible economic times, a few simple rules hold unshakably true. And one of those rules is that if you possess an in-demand skill, you’ll always find work — and often, at a top market salary, to boot. If you understand Big Data and how to find order from the chaos of massive stockpiles […]
We live in a disposable era. If you can’t fix a broken item with a wrap of duct tape, there’s a very strong likelihood that its next destination is the trashcan. However, that probably leads to a trigger-finger death sentence for many household items that could be saved with just a bit more ingenuity. Before […]
