She seems peaceable enough, but this woman squatting against a wall seems to have just attracted the attention of the (previously oblivious?) riot police:

From Naked Protesters.

Poor Zoe. I know it’s rough out there on the dating sites, but she had to hear from this goon?

Dear Lord. Now you’re not only looking for an “intellectual,” but a poet laureate as well. A sex blog? You do realize that you’re asking for trouble there, considering what’s probably in store for you.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you’re on the wrong site if that’s your thrill. Most of the guys on this site are only capable of thinking with the head that does not encapsulate the brain. Do you know the difference between morons and idiots? The morons go too slow while the idiots go too fast.

Seriously, contrary to your idealistic theory, a good sex blog writer does not translate into a good f*#! The guys (and gals) on this site just want to get laid (sorry, that doesn’t sound so intellectual)so you might want to consider [again] changing your criteria. It’s all in the name, right? F-L-I-N-G. Sorry, the “I” doesn’t stand for “intellectual.”

O.K., enough of the verbal diahhrea. I see that you checked out my profile yesterday but never replied to my message. Guess I’m not smart enough, eh? Ha, ha, ha … Again, you can email me at p——-@verizon.net or call me during the day at 617———. Considering that most guys wouldn’t even take the time to correspond in depth (and attempt to rearrange your priorities), you might at least have the decency to reply in kind (a few meager words). Don’t worry, I won’t bite and, at the risk of sounding snobbish/jerky, I’d venture to say that I have had many more years of “writing” and being intellectual than you. Be brave. Phil

… and you want “real” stories. You would be naive to think that these guys are going to be able to deliver anything but the mindless smut they will undoubtedly plagarize from their under-the-bed collection of Penthouse Forums. The moral of the story, Miss Originality, is that it’s better to make your own stories. Hey, are you doing your school thesis on cyberspace sex or something? LOL

I see that you’re back up and running here. You were a bad girl and Fling put you on probation? Enough cyberspace blather already. Can you just call me atb617——— (M-F 9-6)? Phil

In what universe is this guy going to get laid using this technique? What did he do, read a few pickup-artist manuals and utterly misconstrue the already-dubious and highly situational advice about the purported value of deft, funny “negative hits”?

(Plus, is it just me, or is asking to receive your online booty phone calls during regular business hours only a sign that you’re married and bored in your cubicle?)

This is how you win at the internets. You post an article called The 11 Most Scorching-Hot Female Cosplayers Ever and justify it with illustrative photographs:

1. Post article.
2. Get a zillion links and a metric buttload of traffic.
3. ???
4. Profit!

Link via Sexoteric.

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This is one of those old snapshots that grown children sometimes worry about finding in a shoe box in the attic. It was back when the kids were babies, in that first crackerbox of a house over in that little neighborhood about three blocks from the tracks, and after Mom saved enough green stamps to get Dad a camera and darkroom kit for his birthday, how could she refuse to model for him in the garden?

Found on Usenet.

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Overheard at The Twisted Monk:

Monk: On Saturday I assaulted a dear friend of mine with a dildo mounted sawzal.

CB: Did you just say a sawzal?

Monk: Yeah, as in reciprocating saw with a rather large fake cock mounted on the business end.

CB: Sounds dangerous.

Monk: Could be, but I was wearing eye protection. The big risk is cramping in the forearms from having to hold it for so long while it is jamming away. Those things can shake filling loose if you turn them up too high. However once I figured out how to brace it against my hip it was not too bad.

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Lumberjacks. Sweaty ones:

From this trove of gay art. Enjoy!

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In making this post, I feel like some guy in 1996 going “there’s this little website called eBay, it’s like an auction but it’s all over the world at once, right now it’s just got a few old lunchboxes and some busted electronics, but I think it could be huge someday!”

First, some background. Nobody I know of is happy with the current search monopoly situation. You search one place because they have the best results, nobody else even comes close. But when those results suck, what can you do? Nothing.

This problem is particularly acute with adult blogs, which often perform poorly in the search engines despite having some of the most detailed textual discussions extant of many sexual issues. There’s presumably a complex of reasons for this, the biggest of which is probably spam. So many porn spammers attempt to game the search engines to promote their sex sites, that the search engine “immune systems” (filters and controls) are quick to kick in when adult search terms are present. There’s also some evidence (endlessly blogged about elsewhere) that the search engines, being corporate, are fairly hostile to sexual material, or at best indifferent to the quality of adult searches.

Anyway, what can be done? The paradigm of automatic crawling plus automated anti-spam filters yields a functional index, but in adult areas the subjective quality of the results often seems low. And, in my experience, the more I know about a search term, the worse the results look to me — there are too many “where is that site, it should be here?” and “that site is just a slick-looking front end for spammy scraped-and-morphed RSS” moments.

Enter Jimmy Wales, the guy (love him or hate him) who was instrumental in making Wikipedia what it is today. He’s been working for quite awhile on using wiki-style user interaction to create better search results than anything available today. It’s an insanely ambitious concept, because the easier you make it for folks to “improve” search results, the easier you make it for them to game them, spam them, and crap all over them in wild orgies of sheerest vandalism. Is it possible for the crowdsourced wiki magic to overwhelm the forces of spam, or at least to fight them to a useful draw? Right now, it seems unlikely. But everybody thought Wikipedia could never be useful, either. That turned out to be dead wrong; for all its manifest flaws, Wikipedia is insanely useful on many topics.

If — please join me in my pipe dream — if only the new Wikia Search (re-released today in open Alpha with, for the first time, useful user-editing features) could produce a user experience that’s competitive with the current search behemoth, wouldn’t that be awesome? It doesn’t have to win or be better — it just needs a fan base and an integer percentage of total search volume, enough to trigger some concern and competition from the corporate search providers. We all know that internet users search for adult stuff (including, but not limited to, porn) a whole lot. Right now, those search outcomes are poor, and nobody in corporate America seems much interested in improving them.

I am hoping that Wikia Search offers a way forward. Why not check it out, play around with the very intuitive tools for improving the results of the searches that you do, see if it isn’t fun to use and fun to improve? (I got sucked in on my first visit; before I knew it, I’d deleted tons of spammy results from several searches and fixed the ugly “snippets” for several favorite sites. I even added a few worthy sites that weren’t showing up. It’s addictively fun, and much easier than working on a Wikipedia article.)

We know the spammers — including the porn spammers — are going to be all over this if it gets any traction. In my (metaphorical) pipe dream, I’m imagining the non-spammy adult web people getting there first, to help build and defend useful search results for adult terms. Idealistic, I know, and pointless if this turns out to be a failed experiment. But imagine the fun if it succeeds!

Here’s the TechCrunch article where I learned of today’s relaunch, and there’s also a short video there explaining how to use the user-modification tools to improve the search results:

Today, Wikia Search is beginning to suck a lot less. It has only indexed 30 million Websites, but it is finally rolling out a set of editing features that lets searchers reorder, add, remove, rate, annotate, and comment on results. It also makes it easier for anyone to try to game the search results. Although, as with Wikipedia, an spammers can be banned by the community. We should see some fierce edit wars on this one.

Here’s Jimmy himself, in Forbes:

Participation in Wikia search has the same incentive as anything online–it’s something people enjoy doing. People edit wikis not because it’s a charity, but because they have common interests and because it’s fun. Also, we’re making the barriers to participation very, very low. If you search for something and find a result that’s not relevant, it’s gone with a single click, and you’ve made the search results a little better.

…

Right now search is a closed box, and there are some plausible reasons for that, like preventing people from gaming the algorithm for commercial gain and keeping out malicious players. But can we create something that’s as open and transparent as possible and publicly accountable? That’s what we’re shooting for.

Two years from now, people may point at this post and go “LOL, whut?” But I’m hoping, instead, that everybody goes “You mean, search used to be done by brainless robots trying to follow clever rules? Wow, that must have really sucked.”

Because, it does.