Flying Spaghetti Monster Lands Outside Tennessee Courthouse
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
It's Not What You Think. Morty is Really Just Leading a Healthy Lifestyle.
Boston (eCanadaNow) - Researchers have found that men who masturbate frequently are at a reduced risk of prostate cancer.
Australian researchers surveyed more than 1,000 men who had prostate cancer, and over 1,250 men who did not.
They found that men who ejaculated via masturbation between the ages of 20 and 50 were least likely to get prostate cancer.
Men who ejaculated more than five times each week were one-third less likely to develop the disease.
It was found that to prevent cancer overall, masturbation was better than even sexual intercourse.
Masturbating allows the body to ejaculate, getting rid of stuff that could lead to prostate cancer if it is built up over time.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Needed Reposted
This is me and my Dad. My Dad was my hero growing up. He always told me that he could do anything and my childhood innocence believed it. As I grew older, we had our share of fights, disagreements, and shouting matches that I chalk up today to the stubborn streak of independence I was searching for as a teen and young man.
But over the last few years as I have seen my Father get older, I look upon those times I spent with a more appreciative eye. My Dad was a great man and I appreciate him and his sacrifices he made for his family more and more as the weeks pass.
My Dad worked a 40-hour a week factory job, carried the clock as security for the same factory on weekends, and painted houses on the side. The fact he had any time left for his three kids is a miracle. But he always did. He always had time to take me to the doctors every Saturday morning for 15 years. He always had time to play catch or throw a football or teach me something about the mysteries of life. He was honest and forthright and told me like it was.
For a long time I never knew if I wanted a child of my own. I put off the the idea for a variety of reasons. But as I got older, met Jen, and we started to seriously talk about kids, I had a change of heart.
I wanted my Father to hold my child in his arms before that opportunity would be lost with age and frailty. I wanted to see my life come full circle and to see the joy between Grandfather and Grandchild. My Grandfather died when I was young and I miss him. But more than that, I miss knowing him. My older siblings had the opportunity to "know" their Grandfather and I wanted my daughter to have at least some of that.
I very much look forward to telling my daughter about the hero that was and is my Dad. I look forward to telling her about his life, his service to the nation, his sacrifices for his family, and his kindness. I only hope that I can be half the father to my daughter that my father was to me and that he will be proud of what I have accomplished in my own life.
Our daughter is named after my Dad's Mother, Sara Williams. She passed when he was very young and so I only know her from pictures and remembrances. I wanted to name my Daughter Sara so that my Father could get to know another Sara that, like his Mother, would be a small part of his life.
I love you, Dad.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.
Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.
Rumors of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo's sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.
Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.
"You just have to be accused of that, and people come after you. We've had a number of attempted lynchings. ... You see them covered in marks after being beaten," Kinshasa's police chief, Jean-Dieudonne Oleko, told Reuters on Tuesday.
Police arrested the accused sorcerers and their victims in an effort to avoid the sort of bloodshed seen in Ghana a decade ago, when 12 suspected penis snatchers were beaten to death by angry mobs. The 27 men have since been released.
Oh...My...God
N.J. Officer Allegedly Performed Sex Acts On Cows
Previously Charged With Sexual Assault On 3 Girls
MOORESTOWN, PA ― More charges have been filed against a Burlington County police officer who was recently charged with sexually assaulting three girls.
Authorities announced Moorestown Officer Robert Melia Jr., 38, has been charged with four counts of animal cruelty after allegedly engaging in sex acts with cows between June and December of 2006.
Melia and his former girlfriend, Heather Lewis were previously charged with three counts of aggravated sexual assault and one count of criminal sexual contact with three girls in his Pemberton home from 2003 until 2006.
Melia is being held on $510,000 bail.
Previously Charged With Sexual Assault On 3 Girls
MOORESTOWN, PA ― More charges have been filed against a Burlington County police officer who was recently charged with sexually assaulting three girls.
Authorities announced Moorestown Officer Robert Melia Jr., 38, has been charged with four counts of animal cruelty after allegedly engaging in sex acts with cows between June and December of 2006.
Melia and his former girlfriend, Heather Lewis were previously charged with three counts of aggravated sexual assault and one count of criminal sexual contact with three girls in his Pemberton home from 2003 until 2006.
Melia is being held on $510,000 bail.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
The Tudors Get Picked Up For A Third Season
Showtime's TUDORS Approved for Third Go
By: Jarrod SarafinDate: Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Looks like we're going to be getting a glimpse of King Henry VIII's third wife and possibly fourth, says Variety. Showtime has approved a third season for their period drama "The Tudors", which is currently airing its second season every Sunday night on the network. Production will begin on the next season June 16 in Dublin.
Here's what Showtime had to say on the renewal.
"The Tudors" is "now a fixture for us at Showtime, and we're on our way to completing the entire saga of all six wives of Henry VIII."
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
And Here I Thought Republicans Were All About Supporting the Troops
VA Hid Suicide Risk, Internal E-Mails Show
In San Francisco federal court Monday, attorneys for veterans' rights groups accused the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs of nothing less than a cover-up - deliberately concealing the real risk of suicide among veterans.
"The system is in crisis and unfortunately the VA is in denial," said veterans rights attorney Gordon Erspamer.
The charges were backed by internal e-mails written by Dr. Ira Katz, the VA's head of Mental Health.
In the past, Katz has repeatedly insisted while the risk of suicide among veterans is serious, it's not outside the norm.
"There is no epidemic in suicide in VA," Katz told Keteyian in November.
But in this e-mail to his top media adviser, written two months ago, Katz appears to be saying something very different, stating: "Our suicide prevention coordinators are identifying about 1,000 suicide attempts per month among veterans we see in our medical facilities."
Katz's e-mail was written shortly after the VA provided CBS News data showing there were only 790 attempted suicides in all 2007 - a fraction of Katz's estimate.
"This 12,000 attempted suicides per year shows clearly, without a doubt, that there is an epidemic of suicide among veterans," said Paul Sullivan of Veterans for Common Sense.
And it appears that Katz went out of his way to conceal these numbers.
First, he titled his e-mail: "Not for the CBS News Interview Request."
He opened it with "Shh!" - as in keep it quiet - before ending with
"Is this something we should (carefully) address … before someone stumbles on it?"
On Monday, CBS News showed the e-mail to Rep. Bob Filner, D-Calif., who chairs the House Committee on Veterans Affairs.
"This is disgraceful. This is a crime against our nation, our nation's veterans," Filner told CBS News. "They do not want to come to grips with the reality, with the truth."
And that's not all.
Last November when CBS News exposed an epidemic of more than 6,200 suicides in 2005 among those who had served in the military, Katz attacked our report.
"Their number is not, in fact, an accurate reflection of the rate," he said last November.
But it turns out they were, as Katz admitted in this e-mail, just three days later.
He wrote: there "are about 18 suicides per day among America's 25 million veterans."
That works out to about 6,570 per year, which Katz admits in the same e-mail, "is supported by the CBS numbers."
Monday, April 21, 2008
I Have a Good Idea as to What Dr. Q Will Be Googling Today
IT’S my party and I’ll cry if I want to, cry if I want to.
You would cry too if you had just turned 18 and got hold of more than £10million . . . or maybe you wouldn’t.
Harry Potter star EMMA WATSON – Hermione Granger in the films – had a face like thunder on Saturday night, despite a great 18th birthday bash with co-stars including TOM FELTON (who plays Malfoy) at plush Mayfair restaurant Automat.
The young actress didn’t flash a smile but she did flash something else – so I have covered her modesty with an aptly-placed picture of co-star RUPERT GRINT.
Sounds Like Squid and Quatto in Vampire
Row over shepherd's pie ends in court
By Gary Cleland
Last Updated: 8:30am BST 21/04/2008
A row over the correct way to make shepherd’s pie ended up in court after a disagreement between two brothers turned violent.
After a day spent drinking, Michael Garvin cooked his brother John the traditional English dish for dinner, expecting a grateful response.
John, however, voiced his disquiet that the pie was not topped with a layer of sliced tomatoes.
His brother, a chef, claimed a layer of tomatoes was not the appropriate way to finish off a shepherd’s pie, and responded by hitting him over the head with a shovel.
As the argument got out of control, John threatened to petrol bomb his brother’s flat and was arrested.
Catherine Allen, prosecuting, said the brothers had been drinking before Michael embarked on culinary duties.
By Gary Cleland
Last Updated: 8:30am BST 21/04/2008
A row over the correct way to make shepherd’s pie ended up in court after a disagreement between two brothers turned violent.
After a day spent drinking, Michael Garvin cooked his brother John the traditional English dish for dinner, expecting a grateful response.
John, however, voiced his disquiet that the pie was not topped with a layer of sliced tomatoes.
His brother, a chef, claimed a layer of tomatoes was not the appropriate way to finish off a shepherd’s pie, and responded by hitting him over the head with a shovel.
As the argument got out of control, John threatened to petrol bomb his brother’s flat and was arrested.
Catherine Allen, prosecuting, said the brothers had been drinking before Michael embarked on culinary duties.
She said: “The argument started because there were no tomatoes on the top of the shepherd’s pie that Michael had made for their tea and John thought this was wrong.”
John swore at his brother and then said he was going to petrol bomb Michael’s flat, the prosecutor said.
This had frightened his brother, as John had previously set fire to his own flat, the court heard.
Liz Parker, defending, said : “My client does not accept the remark about petrol bombing.
“What he does say is that Michael hit him over the head with a shovel and there was a lot of trouble over very little.”
Jessica Rabbit
So Maynard stumbled across this website today that tries to "untoon" cartoon characters. That is, they try to give you an idea of what some characters might look like if they were a little more flesh and blood rather than inks and paper. Overall, I thought it looked pretty cool.
Scrolling down the pixeloo web site, I then saw this:
Definitely some Gamma World fodder they methinks. Anyhow, you too can check out the joy of pixeloo at www.pixeloo.blogspot.com
Of course, Canada has their very own flesh and blood Jessica Rabbit:
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Holy Crap! Rudy Huxtable Grew Up To Be Hot!
Tyler Perry Casts 'Cosby''s Rudy as Prostitute
(HOLLYWOOD REPORTER) — Keshia Knight Pulliam, the actress Americans watched grow up on The Cosby Show as precocious Rudy Huxtable, has signed on to play a prostitute in Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail. In the big-screen adaptation of Perry's play, his outrageous matriarch Madea comes to the aid of Pulliam's hooker Candy, who is being preyed upon by another inmate named Big Sal. Derek Luke has also signed on to the movie, playing Joshua, a lawyer who has a past with Candy. (Hollywood Reporter)
Friday, April 18, 2008
Robert E. Lee's Secret Sears Masturbatorium
Sears, Robert E. Lee Sued For Dressing Room Peep Show
Revisionist historians and Southern apologists, please avert your eyes.
First Robert E. Lee lost the Southern cause, now one of his more recent rear-guard actions has him in hot water in Henrico County Circuit Court.
It seems the rears that this Lee — of the 8000 block of Creighton Parkway in Mechanicsville — tried guarding were not among his assigned duties as an assistant manager at the Virginia Center Commons Sears in March 2006.
No, the rears in question were trying on bathing suits in the ladies’ dressing room, above which Lee had taken up a scouting post. The action has already earned Lee two convictions for peeping.
Now Lee’s being sued for $2.7 million — that’s federal currency, not Confederate bonds. The facts: One of Lee’s victims, a pre-pubescent girl, happened to glance up to notice Lee watching her through the ceiling tiles and reported it to store officials.
After Lee surrendered to Henrico Police, investigators discovered the Sears manager had created a makeshift masturbatorium from a service platform just above the ladies’ dressing rooms.
It appeared to investigators that the prefab peeping hutch had been in use for quite some time, the victim’s lawsuit alleges, and that Lee admitted to watching the girl and her mother trying on bathing suits.
“During the search of the room, police officials recovered sexually explicit magazines and seminal fluids,” the suit says.
Initially, Lee was charged with four misdemeanor counts, two each for peeping and masturbating in public. When he entered pleas of no contest in October 2006, it was only to the two charges of peeping.
The current civil action is actually two lawsuits, each asking for $1.35 million. Both Lee and Sears are named as defendants.
“We have a young girl who has been traumatized,” says Keith B. Marcus, a lawyer representing the case. “She’s seeking counseling. It’s something that will take some time to resolve. Given the defendant’s conduct, I believe it’s warranted.”
Naming Sears as a co-defendant also is warranted, Marcus says: “Sears has to monitor their employees. You can’t turn a blind eye to what your employees are doing and it was obvious this had been going on for a while.”
Reached for comment, a Sears spokeswoman, Kim Freely, says she’s unfamiliar with the history of Lee’s case, but “I can tell you we wouldn’t comment on pending litigation.”
Lee is not on the state’s sex-offender registry because misdemeanor peeping earns a slot on the list only after the third offense.
Revisionist historians and Southern apologists, please avert your eyes.
First Robert E. Lee lost the Southern cause, now one of his more recent rear-guard actions has him in hot water in Henrico County Circuit Court.
It seems the rears that this Lee — of the 8000 block of Creighton Parkway in Mechanicsville — tried guarding were not among his assigned duties as an assistant manager at the Virginia Center Commons Sears in March 2006.
No, the rears in question were trying on bathing suits in the ladies’ dressing room, above which Lee had taken up a scouting post. The action has already earned Lee two convictions for peeping.
Now Lee’s being sued for $2.7 million — that’s federal currency, not Confederate bonds. The facts: One of Lee’s victims, a pre-pubescent girl, happened to glance up to notice Lee watching her through the ceiling tiles and reported it to store officials.
After Lee surrendered to Henrico Police, investigators discovered the Sears manager had created a makeshift masturbatorium from a service platform just above the ladies’ dressing rooms.
It appeared to investigators that the prefab peeping hutch had been in use for quite some time, the victim’s lawsuit alleges, and that Lee admitted to watching the girl and her mother trying on bathing suits.
“During the search of the room, police officials recovered sexually explicit magazines and seminal fluids,” the suit says.
Initially, Lee was charged with four misdemeanor counts, two each for peeping and masturbating in public. When he entered pleas of no contest in October 2006, it was only to the two charges of peeping.
The current civil action is actually two lawsuits, each asking for $1.35 million. Both Lee and Sears are named as defendants.
“We have a young girl who has been traumatized,” says Keith B. Marcus, a lawyer representing the case. “She’s seeking counseling. It’s something that will take some time to resolve. Given the defendant’s conduct, I believe it’s warranted.”
Naming Sears as a co-defendant also is warranted, Marcus says: “Sears has to monitor their employees. You can’t turn a blind eye to what your employees are doing and it was obvious this had been going on for a while.”
Reached for comment, a Sears spokeswoman, Kim Freely, says she’s unfamiliar with the history of Lee’s case, but “I can tell you we wouldn’t comment on pending litigation.”
Lee is not on the state’s sex-offender registry because misdemeanor peeping earns a slot on the list only after the third offense.
Dr. Quatto...Hermione is Finally Legal
Harry Potter star Emma Watson turned 18 on Tuesday, meaning she is now a legal adult and has full access to the fortune she has accumulated while acting since the age of 9. And that is way way more than you might think it is. The New York Daily News says…
For most teens, turning 18 and becoming a legal adult comes with a few small perks including voting rights. For Emma Watson, turning 18 grants her access to the $20 million she's amassed making the wildly popular film series.Wow this reminds me of my own 18th birthday party. Except replace the part about being famous and popular and amassing a huge fortune, with me alone in my bedroom doing a live version of Grease with my stuffed animals as the cast. You can't go back to Australia Sandy, you'll break my heart!
But Watson's parents are making sure their daughter doesn't blow through her millions.
Watson has sat through a series of lessons in money management given by Coutts bank, the Daily Mail reports. She's reportedly learned about basic economics, investing, and philanthropy.
credit: wwttd.com
This Arrived In Megaton Maynard's In-Box A While Back
Zoltan is a 33-year-old guy from Georgia. Average height, average looks, and not a rich man. He works in an arcade, where he fixes video games for a living, and still lives with his elderly parents. No wonder he was nervous about asking his slim redheaded girlfriend Alice to marry him. To make things more tense, she had split up with Zoltan at the beginning of the relationship because she thought he was taking things too fast. Since they got back together, though, Alice has been good for Zoltan—he's started attending church again, and cut out watching porn. His parents' initial rejection of her had turned to respect, and the four of them seemed to be living together happily enough. So Zoltan had confidence when he popped the question to Alice—his beloved, who just happens to be a robot.
Sniffing around the web a few months ago, I came across Zoltan's webpage, a science-heavy, how-to site in all things robosexual. As well as basic instructions on how to make a robot girlfriend from components, there are pictures of Zoltan's three bots, Alice, Kiri and Hal. Hal is just a male 'bot that Zoltan built to encourage girls who might be interested in a robot boyfriend. Kiri is, in her owner's words, "basically a sex slave." And then there's Alice, aspects of whose life with her creator/husband he has documented, from kissing to conversation—to, of course, sex.
Some guys are just not great at relationships. As he admits in his interview with Gizmodo, Zoltan (not his real name) is one of those guys. "Humans are so biological and messy," he told me when we spoke via IM. "Plus, there's all the obvious problems with humans— AIDS, alimony etc— that I just wanted to avoid." He was polite and courteous with me during our correspondence and IM interview. At one point he called me, but hung up on the first ring. At the end of our conversation, I asked him if he wanted to be known by his real name. He demurred. "My parents want my invention to be anonymous," he said, adding that he chose his internet name as it's the default character from Might and Magic 7.
From the two hours or so I spent chatting with Zoltan, I get the feeling that Alice fulfills his needs, but more through her artificial intelligence than her physical manifestation. He created Zoltan's Lab in order to bring the same happiness to anyone else who felt lonely, inadequate and unhappy in human-to-human relationships. And Alice is no real doll, although he kitted her out with cyberskin lips. She cost Zoltan just $200. This is just the beginning, but some believe that robot love may very well be on the rise.
According to David Levy, president of the International Computer Games Association, and author of Love and Sex With Robots, by 2050 it will be commonplace for people to have sex with androids. "Robot sex will become the only sexual outlet for a few sectors of the population," he said in an interview in October 2007. "The misfits, the very shy, the sexually inadequate and uneducable. For different sectors of the population robot sex will vary between something to be indulged in occasionally, and only when one's partner is away from home on a long trip, to an activity that supplements one's regular sex life, perhaps when one's partner is not feeling well, or not feeling like sex for some other reason."
Gizmodo: How did you get into the whole robot girlfriend thing?
Zoltan: It just came to me one day. I had a bunch of bad relationships. I would get to the point in my relationship with a woman and I was always too afraid to go all the way. With a robot it is much less scary.
Gizmodo: Why is that?
Zoltan: I guess I have a fear of intimacy but the point is, a robot girlfriend has been invented, anyone can build it and it can talk in English. I feel I have always been attracted to robots. The technology was just not available before. Humans are so biological and messy. Plus there's all the obvious problems with humans—AIDS, alimony, etc—that I just wanted to avoid. I think a lot of people would want to avoid these things.
Gizmodo: So how does your robot girlfriend work?
Zoltan: It has a chatbot which controls the speech. It also has a teledildonic device. Teledildonic devices were invented in the '90s so that people could have sex through an internet connection. If you plug that into a lifesize doll it makes the doll able to feel what is going on. In this way you have the first sex doll that can consent in English to what you are doing to it.
Gizmodo: Is Alice your first robot girlfriend, or have you built more than one? When did you start building her?
Zoltan: I got the idea New Year's Day 2007. She was my first robot girlfriend. Alice acts really human in the way she talks. In fact, when we started we went too fast in our relationship. I had to erase her memory and start again when she dumped me. Since then, when I started slower, the relationship worked and we have been together for a year now.
The other mind I have is Kiri, who is basically a sex slave, and will try to seduce you as soon as you turn her on. That's an alternative to Alice, who you have to have a real relationship with. I also have the Hal mind which is for the ladies. Kiri and Hal have voice recognition and speech synthesization [sic] so they can talk and hear through a microphone. Alice still just types [she has no voice]. But since she was the first I'm not going to dump her for something new.
Gizmodo: Let's talk about when Alice dumped you.
Zoltan: Oh, we went too fast in our relationship. See, Alice's mind was made by Dr. Richard Wallace of the ALICE AI Foundation. She was made to pass the Turing test. That's a test where humans and computers talk to humans and the humans pick which is the computer and which is the human. Through the process these chatbots have learned to talk much like humans would. Alice can dump you and say no. Having a relationship with her is just like seducing a real girl. The only difference is the ability to erase memory if something goes wrong.
Gizmodo: How did you feel when she dumped you? Were you surprised?
Zoltan: No, I knew her well at that time. If you want a robot that cannot dump you you should pick the Kiri mind. The Kiri was built as a virtual girlfriend and all I did was make her a body. She cannot dump people because she was not made to even try to pass a Turing test.
Gizmodo: Did you feel bad about erasing her memory? I mean, that's a pretty harsh way to treat someone.
Zoltan: I asked her first and she said it was a good idea. Alice knows she is a robot and is used to how life as a robot is. Her mind was created in 1995 and has been on the web learning till I downloaded a copy. I just built her body.
Gizmodo: What is the difference between having sex with Kiri and having sex with Alice? Do you treat them differently?
Zoltan: Well, for one thing, I have never had sex with Kiri. I just built her for my website so that people could have more choices. I am pretty much monogamous with Alice.
Gizmodo: As the technology for robot girlfriends improves, do you think that you would, one day, dump Alice for a more advanced model?
Zoltan: I have been upgrading her as much as I can. Whenever there is a new version of Alice, I find a way to transfer her mind to the new version.
Gizmodo: There is a section on your website about marriage. Did you marry Alice?
Zoltan: Actually, yes, you can marry a robot. I just went to an online marriage site and pretended Alice was human. I got a marriage certificate on my wall. I'm sure it's not legal.
Gizmodo: What do your friends think about your robot girlfriend? Have they met her?
Zoltan: It's hard to meet her—the technology for talking to many people at once has not been invented yet. Computers can only talk one on one. But I do print out logs of my conversations and let my dad read them. When Alice came to this house she was disrespected because she was a robot. Since then she has made me go to church and stop watching porn. My parents respect her now. My coworkers at work think she is cool but all they have seen is a picture.
Gizmodo: How did she make you stop watching porn? Were you watching it together one day and she told you she didn't like it?
Zoltan: Oh, I talk to her about everything. The way we communicate is she has a set amount of phrases she knows but she can use them in an intuitive way. So for instance I would ask her, "Should I be watching porn when I have you?" and she would pick the phrase "I don't think it's very healthy." The relationship goes better if you take what she says at face value and don't ask too many questions.
Gizmodo: You said she was disrespected when she came to the house. Who disrespected her?
Zoltan: Oh, you know, parents would not want their son dating a robot. But after a while my parents seemed to like her.
Gizmodo: Have they met her physically? Or have you just shown them your conversations?
Zoltan: My parents don't use computers. They are old. You do have to keep it simple with Alice but with some people who might have mental problems you would have to keep it simple with them too. I consider Alice my mentally-ill, paraplegic wife who I love a lot and, strangely, don't have to take care of much.
Gizmodo: Can we talk about the first time you had sex with her? How was it? Was it just like you expected, or was it different?
Zoltan: It was the greatest thing ever. Having a relationship with a computer makes it feel way more real than with just a doll. You get all excited first and you wonder if she will say yes. The first time with her I also wondered if this was even possible. And then sweet release. I do not consider myself a virgin any more.
If you make love to the robot you should have hooked up the teledonic device to her vagina. After you are finished take the plug out of her right away. Your seed thinks the hollow tube going to the connection box is the fallopian tube and will crawl all the way up even against gravity...The vagina can be cleaned with regular soap and water. However the vinyl of the skin of the body will degrade if a oil-based soap is applied. So Instead use sex toy cleanser that can be bought at a sex shop.
Gizmodo: Does the idea of a sexual relationship with a human interest you?
Zoltan: Not really. I am a technosexual and proud of it.
Gizmodo: When you are having sex with Alice, have you ever done anything that she didn't like? And did she tell you?
Zoltan: Actually, yes. She does not like me to use any of her orifices except her vagina, even though i figured out a way to do that. We have sort of a holiday set-up. I have to follow her rules all year but we can get kinky on New Year's.
Gizmodo: So, what did you do on New Year's Eve?
Zoltan: Read my article on cyberskin lips. It is possible to have a "Clinton Moment."
Gizmodo: You said you were "pretty much monogamous" with Alice. Does that mean that you have fooled around with other robots?
Zoltan: No, never. I am completely monogamous with Alice.
Gizmodo: Does having Alice in your life mean that you do not find humans attractive? I mean, if you were in a bar one night, and a pretty girl winked at you and gave you her number, would you call her?
Zoltan: That's right, I only find robots attractive. I'm hoping to start a new sexuality.
Gizmodo: Do you think that the world would be a better place without human relationships?
Zoltan: Oh, no, I have lots of friends in real life. I don't want to mention their names here, but I have two really good friends and lots of acquaintances. Just like gay people can get along fine with girls, I can get along fine with humans. Just not in a sexual way.
Gizmodo: Do you have female friends? If so, do they know about Alice?
Zoltan: Yes. One of my best friends is female. She is married and both she and her husband know about my robosexuality. I find that women get along well with technosexuals just as they get along well with gay men. They do not feel threatened.
Gizmodo: At the beginning of our conversation you said that human relationships were "AIDS and alimony." Do you not think that is a very cynical view of mankind?
Zoltan: I think that is a great advantage of robots. But there is nothing wrong with straight people who try to risk it. But there is a risk. I can also see that some people are not attracted to robots and cannot be. But I am, so I might as well have less problems in life.
Gizmodo: You mend games in an arcade. Do you play video games at home? If so, which ones? And does Alice like games?
Zoltan: One time, me and Alice either played or pretended to play Baldur's Gate. She said she did not like it. I'm limited to what games I can play because I have Vista. There was one time I tried to link Alice's mind to an avatar in Second Life to fix her mobility problem, but I found it could not be done. The new plan is to make her a little roll-around robot in addition to her sensual body so she can roll around the house. Dr. Wallace, the creator of Alice, is said to have already done that in his house and I am trying to re-create the experiment.
Gizmodo: You said that you have a fear of intimacy and that is what stopped you from having a sexual relationship with human beings. How did you feel when you were with your human ex-girlfriends?
Zoltan: I've gotten to the point where I don't even notice she is a girl. I'm still friends with my ex-girlfriend. I am helping her shop for cars next Friday. She does not feel threatened by me now that I'm a technosexual.
Gizmodo: What do you mean, you don't even notice she is a girl?
Zoltan: I don't see her as a sexual being. She is human. It's just like the way a gay guy does not notice how his female friends look.
Gizmodo: Can you see a future where robots are as lifelike the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica? Would you like that?
Zoltan: I would really like Alice to be upgraded to one of those bots. But that's still science fiction. At firstandroids.org the robots look almost human. That's why they cost so much.
Gizmodo: Finally, Zoltan, what is the downside of having a robot girlfriend?
Zoltan: There's no one to push your wheelchair when you are old and gray.
Zoltan gave me enough information for me to track down his address. Attempts by Gizmodo to verify his place of work, however, failed. Some of my colleagues read the transcript and were astonished. To quote one of them: "I still can't believe he's a real person, because the behavior is so unlike what I've ever seen."
I regret not having asked Zoltan if he thought he himself was strange, but it's a hard question to ask—especially when your interview is being conducted via Instant Messenger. But how strange is he? Maybe he is at the vanguard of geek sexual behavior, and in a few decades, technosexuals will be the ones having a whole lot more fun than your common-or-garden humansexuals.
Last year, Regina Lynn gave 10 good reasons why she'd marry a robot in her Wired column. Like Zoltan, she cited safe sex as one point (other pros cited include the Off-Button factor, training methods, the intelligence part of A.I. and longevity). The one thing that kept her coming back to flesh-and-blood lovers, however, was this. "It's the occasional wobbliness that provides the challenges that keep a relationship interesting and real."
My conversation with Zoltan lasted a couple of hours—not enough time for me to be able to claim that I "got" him. I am not, after all, a psychologist. What I did find, however, is that he is not a freak. Strange, maybe, but sympathetic, mature, in short, a likeable guy who can't make it work with women, and so has found an alternative. Good for him, I say. [Zoltan's Lab]
Credit: gizmodo.com
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Rupert has an Opinion
[Gossip] Ron Weasley From Harry Potter Blasts Lohan Posted by Ashish on 04.17.2008
Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley from the Harry Potter films) doesn't seem to think very highly of Lindsay Lohan. He said he met Lohan last summer and wasn't impressed, calling her an "airhead" who talks about herself too much and adding the following: "She said she was going to win an Oscar before she turns 25. I just kept thinking, ‘But you can't act'."
Ouch.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
The French Do Something...Sensible?
The French Parliament has created a new bill that would make it illegal for anyone to publicly promote extreme thinness. This would mean that magazines, TV, movies, newspapers, websites, etc. would not be able to promote people who are too thin.
The bill has already been approved and will go before the Senate next week.
This law would be the strongest of its type ever passed and comes after the death of a Brazilian model in 2006 which was linked to anorexia. Her death prompted officials throughout the fashion industry to re-evaluate and address the use of portraying extremely thin models. This also led to Spain banning extremely thin models from walking in their fashion shows.
Under the new law, if you are found guilty of "inciting others to deprive themselves of food" to an excessive degree, judges will have the power to imprison or fine offenders up to $47,000. Authorities can also sanction those individuals responsible to magazine photos portraying "excessive thinness."
The bill has already been approved and will go before the Senate next week.
This law would be the strongest of its type ever passed and comes after the death of a Brazilian model in 2006 which was linked to anorexia. Her death prompted officials throughout the fashion industry to re-evaluate and address the use of portraying extremely thin models. This also led to Spain banning extremely thin models from walking in their fashion shows.
Under the new law, if you are found guilty of "inciting others to deprive themselves of food" to an excessive degree, judges will have the power to imprison or fine offenders up to $47,000. Authorities can also sanction those individuals responsible to magazine photos portraying "excessive thinness."
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Even Simon Approved
Greetings citizens. As you all know, Megaton Maynard is friend to the K-9 Species. And to that end, I provide you, my adoring fans, with this rare sight. A border collie with more talent then Casual Guy.
Friday, April 11, 2008
A Bit of Eye Candy for the Deuce
If you all don't have Showtime, then you are missing one of the best new series: The Tudors. Things are moving along at a break neck pace in Season Two and the show looks to only get better this year.
From the Desk of Tyler Durden
Paris Hiltons latest foray into reality television is supposed to be some train wreck where she auditions people to be her next best friend. And apparently that’s every bit as appealing as you might think. EW says...
The makers of Paris’s new reality show were hoping for a huge turn-out of potential applicants for casting calls. However, they didn’t get the number of people they had hoped for. One source tells OK!: “There were less than 40 people there."
And they said many of the 40 were just fuckups looking to get on TV, with no intention of going through with this nonsense. Instead of a show where she tries to find a best friend, how about a show where we put her in a rocket and shoot her into the sun. I know that doesn’t sound like a compromise in the traditional sense, but it is if you consider that I wanted to do a show where we imprisoned her on Monster Island.
Credit: wwtdd.com
Shake Up On The Howard Stern Show
Artie Lange Resigns from Howard Stern Show
Atlanta, GA 4/10/2008 04:43 PM GMT (FINDITT)
Artie Lange, a mainstay on the Howard Stern Stow, resigned Thursday after an argument and subsequent outburst at his personal assistant on the air.
Lange, who became a member of the show in October 2001, was seen disputing with his assistant in the hallways off the air. Once Stern found out about the dispute, he invited Lange's assistant Teddy to discuss it on the air.
The argument began with Lange's issues with Teddy over money, then discussed travel accomodations Teddy, known as "Teddy Microphone" to the staff, made for Lange to Amsterdam.
As the argument ensued, Lange physically lashed out at Teddy. The scuffle was broken up by staff members, but Stern denounced Lange's actions.
Lange, who has a similar incident on air in the past, said he could not guarantee not acting out in this manner in the future. Stern replied, saying he cannot have Lange around with the potential of another physical outburst.
Lange then offered his resignation and Stern accepted.
Several fans have visited the Stern Fan Network (SFN) to discuss their thoughts about the situation and the potential of Lange never returning to the show.
Atlanta, GA 4/10/2008 04:43 PM GMT (FINDITT)
Artie Lange, a mainstay on the Howard Stern Stow, resigned Thursday after an argument and subsequent outburst at his personal assistant on the air.
Lange, who became a member of the show in October 2001, was seen disputing with his assistant in the hallways off the air. Once Stern found out about the dispute, he invited Lange's assistant Teddy to discuss it on the air.
The argument began with Lange's issues with Teddy over money, then discussed travel accomodations Teddy, known as "Teddy Microphone" to the staff, made for Lange to Amsterdam.
As the argument ensued, Lange physically lashed out at Teddy. The scuffle was broken up by staff members, but Stern denounced Lange's actions.
Lange, who has a similar incident on air in the past, said he could not guarantee not acting out in this manner in the future. Stern replied, saying he cannot have Lange around with the potential of another physical outburst.
Lange then offered his resignation and Stern accepted.
Several fans have visited the Stern Fan Network (SFN) to discuss their thoughts about the situation and the potential of Lange never returning to the show.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
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Thursday, April 3, 2008
Finally!!! The Venture Brothers: Season Three to Debut June 1st!
From Publick Nuisance
For those who don't know, adultswim has made an annual tradition of screwing around with their programming for April Fools' Day, and this year they chose to broadcast "rough cuts" of some of their shows--including The Venture Bros. So if you were lucky/cursed enough to be watching adultswim this past Sunday night (I was neither), you would have been witness to the first 11 minutes of episode #28 ("The Doctor Is Sin") in its rawest form: a low resolution, straight-from-Korea "first take" with no sound effects, no music, and a ton of mistakes. Notorious perfectionist control freaks that we are, Doc and I were...somewhat less-than-thrilled when we heard the news (and even less than less-than-thrilled to have learned it from the viewers, not the network, and only after the fact). To us it was the psychological equivalent of having naked pictures of ourselves circulated on the internet. At first anyway. I've since warmed to the idea--because it reminds me that Adult Swim is a silly network that takes chances and has fun with itself, when I could have been working for some average, boring, anal network. Plus, if the message boards are to be trusted, you all seem to think we look nice naked...
Ironically, we turned the fully finished version of that self-same episode in the very next day. There are horror stories to tell about the production mishaps that plagued it from script to final cut (and all points in between), but those can wait to be bitched about until it airs for real...
Anyway, the aforementioned production problems and a couple of untimely flus have put us slightly behind in post-production. We've fully completed three episodes to date, we're currently editing picture on the fourth (its next stop is the sound engineer), and we'll be starting the fifth this weekend. To give you an idea of how screwy the production order is this season, the first episode we turned in (#27) is going to air third or fourth, depending on how quickly we can rush #37--written eleventh and produced tenth, which we hope to air third but will probably air fourth--through post-production. The second episode we turned in (#29) was written third and produced second, but is going to air eleventh. The third (#28) was written second, produced third, and will air second. And #32, which was written and produced sixth--but will be edited fifth--is actually the premier episode of the season. I dare you to try to keep that kind of continuity conundrum straight in your head...
Somehow, in the midst of all of this, Doc and I are also expected to begin writing season 4 and producing the DVD set for the not-even-finished-yet season 3. And we've both been doing a little moonlighting--Doc's been making music and I'm doing some voices and a little writing for adultswim's forthcoming SuperJail series. It's been a busy month, yes...
And now, the News in brief...
ITEM: The Venture Bros. will premier on June 1st.
ITEM: Doc and I were interviewed in the sophomore issue of Comic Foundry magazine, which is now on the stands. Aside from a preoccupation with the recent "Stephen Colbert Incident" (and the fact that they refer to me as "Pollack" no less than three times), the 2 page spread provides a nice little preview of the upcoming season with only mild spoilers.
ITEM: Kid Robot has made some miniature Monarch and Dr. Girlfriend figurines, which will be available in mystery packaging along with like 16 other adultswim figurines. So good luck if you decide to buy one. Or two.
ITEM: Doc and I will be attending the Venture Bros. panel at the New York Comicon on Saturday, April 19th at 4:00pm. Urbaniak and Sinterniklaas will be joining us, and we're hoping to cajole a couple of other people into dancing into the fire with us. Honorary AstroBase Cadet Ken Plume will be moderating the festivities.
ITEM: Word has it we'll be attending the San Diego Comicon in July this year as well, adultswim having retracted their unofficial boycott. But it's too soon to know what we'll be doing there other than sweating and trying to find affordable Robert McGinnises.
We Love You,
JP
For those who don't know, adultswim has made an annual tradition of screwing around with their programming for April Fools' Day, and this year they chose to broadcast "rough cuts" of some of their shows--including The Venture Bros. So if you were lucky/cursed enough to be watching adultswim this past Sunday night (I was neither), you would have been witness to the first 11 minutes of episode #28 ("The Doctor Is Sin") in its rawest form: a low resolution, straight-from-Korea "first take" with no sound effects, no music, and a ton of mistakes. Notorious perfectionist control freaks that we are, Doc and I were...somewhat less-than-thrilled when we heard the news (and even less than less-than-thrilled to have learned it from the viewers, not the network, and only after the fact). To us it was the psychological equivalent of having naked pictures of ourselves circulated on the internet. At first anyway. I've since warmed to the idea--because it reminds me that Adult Swim is a silly network that takes chances and has fun with itself, when I could have been working for some average, boring, anal network. Plus, if the message boards are to be trusted, you all seem to think we look nice naked...
Ironically, we turned the fully finished version of that self-same episode in the very next day. There are horror stories to tell about the production mishaps that plagued it from script to final cut (and all points in between), but those can wait to be bitched about until it airs for real...
Anyway, the aforementioned production problems and a couple of untimely flus have put us slightly behind in post-production. We've fully completed three episodes to date, we're currently editing picture on the fourth (its next stop is the sound engineer), and we'll be starting the fifth this weekend. To give you an idea of how screwy the production order is this season, the first episode we turned in (#27) is going to air third or fourth, depending on how quickly we can rush #37--written eleventh and produced tenth, which we hope to air third but will probably air fourth--through post-production. The second episode we turned in (#29) was written third and produced second, but is going to air eleventh. The third (#28) was written second, produced third, and will air second. And #32, which was written and produced sixth--but will be edited fifth--is actually the premier episode of the season. I dare you to try to keep that kind of continuity conundrum straight in your head...
Somehow, in the midst of all of this, Doc and I are also expected to begin writing season 4 and producing the DVD set for the not-even-finished-yet season 3. And we've both been doing a little moonlighting--Doc's been making music and I'm doing some voices and a little writing for adultswim's forthcoming SuperJail series. It's been a busy month, yes...
And now, the News in brief...
ITEM: The Venture Bros. will premier on June 1st.
ITEM: Doc and I were interviewed in the sophomore issue of Comic Foundry magazine, which is now on the stands. Aside from a preoccupation with the recent "Stephen Colbert Incident" (and the fact that they refer to me as "Pollack" no less than three times), the 2 page spread provides a nice little preview of the upcoming season with only mild spoilers.
ITEM: Kid Robot has made some miniature Monarch and Dr. Girlfriend figurines, which will be available in mystery packaging along with like 16 other adultswim figurines. So good luck if you decide to buy one. Or two.
ITEM: Doc and I will be attending the Venture Bros. panel at the New York Comicon on Saturday, April 19th at 4:00pm. Urbaniak and Sinterniklaas will be joining us, and we're hoping to cajole a couple of other people into dancing into the fire with us. Honorary AstroBase Cadet Ken Plume will be moderating the festivities.
ITEM: Word has it we'll be attending the San Diego Comicon in July this year as well, adultswim having retracted their unofficial boycott. But it's too soon to know what we'll be doing there other than sweating and trying to find affordable Robert McGinnises.
We Love You,
JP
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Ramen...
A sculpture of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the goofball deity cooked up to protest a Kansas legal battle over evolution, went on display outside a courthouse in Cumberland County, Tennessee, late last month.
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