Tuesday, April 14, 2009

I haven't laughed this hard in a while...

Wow... So you may be aware of the latest Amazon news where all of the listed books with any gay or lesbian themes or content were moved off of the regular category and off into the "adult" book section. Which means that any book that so much as talks about people who are gay, or has gay characters is no longer searchable and will not appear unless it is specifically named by a customer who is signed in and is verified to be over 18 years old. It apparently also removed all of the "rankings" for these books.

The jury is still out on why this happened. Amazon says that there might have been some odd glitch, while a "famous" hacker, Weev, is claiming he pulled off the prank.

Whatever. Its annoying but is being rectified apparently, so isn't worth getting too many panties bunched up about...

But! For a while, despite removing most of the gay literature, there were plenty of anti-gay books that remained in the normal category. As a result, this book popped up as the first hit when searching "homosexuality" on Amazon:




Check it out for yourself.



But when you are done looking on in aghast horror, take a peek at the "User Submitted Pictures" associated with the book.

O... M... G...

(pst... Its in the upper left hand corner, just under the book picture.)

Thursday, April 2, 2009

On Sleep and Dreams...

So... While I have to say that my sleeping patterns are a lot better, I still do nod off from time to time while doing odd things or listening to a seminar... Ever since I started sleep walking a few months ago I have been deathly terrified that I am going to wake up someday doing something really strange in the middle of the Carnegie auditorium with my entire building full of co-workers staring at me along with some esteemed scientist whose presentation I have just interrupted with my odd antics...

Of course... This little story didn't make me feel too much better...




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The MOTH Podcast
Length: 14:00
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