On Foursquare, we check in to restaurants, the 405, concerts and airplanes with such competitive zest over mayorship, it puts Tonya Harding to shame — so why wouldn’t we want to check in to clinics when we’re getting an STD check-up? MTV, which is running a campaign to get people t[...]
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Why We’re Not Lynching Apple’s Phillip Shoemaker
The web is up in arms about Apple App Store director Phillip Shoemaker following escorts and porn stars on Twitter. We’re here at Sex and the 405 refuse to jump on the bandwagon screaming hypocrite. We believe in personal choice and freedom. Whatever value Shoemaker finds in these connections [...]
The Carnal Carnival
Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, feast your eyes if you dare! It’s real, it’s alive, it’s… your own body, its different parts, and the products from it! That’s right, from the minds of the web’s most forward-thinking scientific bloggers comes The Carnal Carniv[...]
Foursquare Foreplay
Over at NakedCity LA, our editrix wrote a piece about how to use Foursquare to be a good liar and avoid other people (leave it to her to find a way to make social media anti-social). She makes no secret of the fact that she thinks people who give away their location and get competitive [...][...]
Making Up With Twitpic
A couple of months ago, NakedCity LA reported on the battle between porn star Kristina Rose and the Twitter image-hosting site Twitpic. As NakedCity LA pointed out, even the hundreds of tweets of support from her followers (calling Twitpic fascists) did nothing to help. Per the platform’s term[...]
June 21st, 2010 - 5:53 AM § in web
Monday Morning Cheap Thrills
We’ve seen it before. Truth is, the one night stand joke never ceases to amuse us, so when we saw this on FailBlog, we just had to share: Via bentoboxx.[...]
Offer Your Significant Other To An Unruly Mob!
And because we can’t seem to get enough abuse, here’s WiseMuv, a new site that — if it catches — is bound to make everyone just a little more bitter and annoyed than usual. Yay! No, seriously, this is insane. But what do we know, some of you people love to go Facebook officia[...]
June 9th, 2010 - 11:05 AM § in web
Facebook Gets Sexy
OK, so the title is a lie. Facebook is still pulling off pics like it’s no big thing, even when they’re friends-only. However, the SF Weekly has reported some really lolsy activity we can’t resist but want to share with you. Get a load of this captcha (for those who don’t kno[...]
Your Friends’ Secrets Right on Their Facebook Walls
It was a typical day for our editrix of hacking through the contents of her inbox to try to get some sense of what the week would look like. Suddenly, a notification from Facebook — she’d been tagged in a photo! Always the narcissist, or perhaps always aware of the tinge on her conscienc[...]
Juicy Confessions from Cheaters!
Cheaters. Love them or hate them, at the end of the day, they’re the ones having the cake and eating it, too, when many of you are still outside the veritable smorgasbord looking for a parking space. While we can’t get you some ass, we can at least provide access to cheaters’ sleaz[...]