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March 5th, 2010 - 10:00 AM § in Culture, web

Adventures in Decreased Productivity: Mahalo Answers

Our editrix was over at the Mahalo offices last week where she did a few more things than simply scandalize the employees there. Their answer site has a NSFW (Not Safe For Work) category! Check out some of the stuff we stumbled across. OK, fine, we didn’t — Mahalo’s newest acquisi[...]

March 4th, 2010 - 8:00 AM § in Culture, web

Traffic Is For Lovers

As denizens of Los Angeles, we spend more time on the road than we do anywhere else (seriously, we don’t know why L.A. bothers with foursquare. Locales? We’re either on the 405 or the 10 — stuck. Make us mayor of that). Anyway — it makes perfect sense that we would find a s[...]

March 2nd, 2010 - 8:00 AM § in Business, Culture, Freedom, News, web

Dear Bank: Get Out of Our Blogs and Bedrooms

Last week, TechCrunch reported on something terrifying: Citibank had blocked the business account of the brand-spanking new startup fabulis due to what they were calling “objectionable content” on the fabulis company blog. What’s objectionable? Fabulis is a soon-to-launch social network se[...]

March 1st, 2010 - 7:01 AM § in Culture, Fertility and Babbys, News, web

Live-Tweeting An Abortion

Last week the web went up in flames when a woman, by the name of Angie Jackson, began live-tweeting her medical abortion. Jackson discovered she was pregnant the week prior, following the failure of her method of birth control. A single mom with a little boy, Jackson claims that she was was told th[...]

February 18th, 2010 - 10:00 AM § in Culture, web

The Vajacial: A Facial “For Your Vagina”

The web is all freaked out about this and we can’t for our lives figure out why. The idea of applying a masque to the vulva (not vagina — the vagina is the internal part of the female genitalia) is nothing new, especially among those who use traumatic depilatory procedures like waxing. W[...]

February 16th, 2010 - 10:00 AM § in Culture, Eyecandy, Women, web

The Girls of Etsy

Leave it to UrbanDaddy to turn the common shopping experience into a celebration of sexy. During a cursory browsing of Etsy, a site used the world over by sellers of jewelry, knits and other crafts, they noticed something spectacular: sometimes really hot girls model the wares. Welcome to the Girls[...]

February 12th, 2010 - 7:00 AM § in Culture, Interview, web

Cyan Banister Bares It All In Never-Before-Seen First Zivity Shoot

In 2007, a start-up rocked the web with its fearless vision to combine the social network with adult photography into a formula that enables models and photographers to profit via a user voting system. The start-up, Zivity, even managed to raise a $1 million round of seed capital from Silicon Valle[...]

February 11th, 2010 - 4:32 PM § in Culture, web

Oldest Married Couple Hit Twitter To Give Us Answers

Oh, sweet! If love is confounding you, you can put Twitter to use and connect with the longest living married couple, who will be answering questions about finding and sustaining love. Herbert and Zelmyra Fisher (@longestmarried), were married in 1924 and are 104 and 102 years old respectively. The[...]

February 9th, 2010 - 8:00 AM § in Culture, web

Facebook to Humanize the One-Night Stand? 0N N0Z!

POSSIBLE TECH URBAN MYTH ALERT! But still, so scary and full of sensationalist goodness, we just have to tell you. So get this — the Facebook app lets you sync the contact info on friends’ profiles with your address book, right? Awesome! Except… FACEBOOK KNOWS YOUR ONE-NIGHT STANDS[...]

February 8th, 2010 - 8:00 AM § in Culture, web

Signing Out — FOREVER!

So you executed the changes you needed to make your Facebook safe but it’s still causing you grief? Hey, we hear you. Living out loud isn’t easy. Between your girlfriend demanding “Baby, why don’t you poke me anymore?!” and a client catching that fib about being sick [...]



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