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test drives
Sexual Chocolate: Testing The Clone-A-Willy Kit
Clone-A-Willy kits enable you to make penis-shaped chocolate pops, candles, or soap from a mold you create out of a real-live boner. I've used a DIY dildo kit before, but the dildo it made was so fucking disgusting looking — all pock-marked like Edward James Olmos — and it smelled like it would give me cancer. But it didn't matter because I don't even ever masturbate with dildos anyway. The Clone-a-Willy kits, however, make products that I can at least put to good use. So the other week, I ordered all three of those kits, plus some Clone-a-Pussy kits to make vulva chocolate and last night, invited a friend (and his penis) over to help me out. (Some stuff after the jump NSFW.) More »
geek love
Iz Tecknology Ruining Yr Relationships? Expert Sez Yes
Would you rather text someone than talk to them face to face? Then you might have technology overload, which means you engage in addictive behavior towards technological devices According to John O'Neill, the director of addictions services at the Menninger Clinic, "I think [technology overload] shares some of the same components as people who become addicted to alcohol and drugs in that we start to see that someone cannot really put it down and cannot stop the use of it even when there are some consequences." So what are the symptoms of this life-ruining addiction? O'Neill tells Reuters: "Using text messages, email and voice mail when face-to-face interaction would be more appropriate, or limiting time with friends and family to tend to your email, return phone calls or to surf the Internet." Hmm, by those rubrics, 90% of our friends are incurably-addicted to their sweet, sweet tech.More »
silicone valley
Dig A Tech Girl: Where The Shit You Accomplish With Your Brain Means Nothing
There's this site called Dig a Tech Girl, (which used to be called Dig a Silicon Valley Girl, before they were issued a cease and desist from Digg) that's sort of like Hot or Not for geeks who like geeks... sort of. As Boinkology points out: "...Many of these tech girls were chosen more on the basis of appearance than any tech skills — even nominal ones." For example, Attack of the Show! co-host Olivia Munn, or Time Out New York columnist Julia Allison who was nominated apparently because she "was in the valley for a few days in the summer and caused quite a stir." Uh, oh-kay. But perhaps more insulting was the inclusion of this in Ms. Allison's description: "Good looking but a bit empty in the head." So is this what constitutes a "tech girl"? And is that what would make someone "dig" her? More »
rants & raves
Engraved iPods: Worst Gift Idea For Someone You're Merely Banging
Word to the wise, or rather, to the fools in love: Don't buy an iPod for someone you're dating and then have it engraved, 'cause Apple won't take that shit back once your ass gets dumped. I don't normally spend money on boys, or anyone other than myself for that matter, but I'd been seeing someone off and on for a decent amount of time. We'd been going through another "off" period, but made plans to hang out for his birthday last week. I'd sorta been an asshole to him recently, and I wanted to make it up to him by taking him out to eat at a nice fancy restaurant and getting him an iPod Touch. Basically, I figured if history were anything to go by, we'd be "on again" soon. When I was placing my order online, the option for engraving was presented. It was free! Why the hell not? I'll tell you why not! Because the day before the big fancy dinner, motherfucker told me that we shouldn't "hang out" and that it was the "best thing for now." It became clear that by "now" he meant "ever" and by "hang out" he meant "have any contact at all." So now what? More »
A mobile program created by a Japanese video-game developer that allows women to ward off gropers has just become the seventh-most downloaded cellphone application. By pressing on an "anger icon" on the cellphone screen, women can flash the following messages at guys getting a little too close for comfort around: "Excuse me, did you just grope me?," "Groping is a crime," and "Shall we head to the police?". An alarm goes off at increasing levels of volume with each succeeding message as well. Though the program was created to help subway-riding women specifically — the developer says the program is a must-have "for women who want to scare away perverts with minimum hassle and without attracting attention" — we think it would be particularly helpful at frat parties. And yoga class! [ABC News]
kids play
Miss America: Busty, Bikini-Clad Internet Policebabe
The Miss America Organization, in collaboration with the Children's Educational Network, has developed a kid-friendly internet browser — available for download starting tomorrow — that aims to protect children from the the "dangers" of the internet, like online predators and inappropriate sites. (We actually maintain that aspiring to a specific beauty standard in which you walk across a stage in a swimsuit and heels might actually be more dangerous to little girls, psychologically at least, than accidentally running across amateur porn online, but we digress.) The Miss America Kid-Safe Web Browser, as it is called, incorporates a bunch of standard security and blocking mechanisms but also contains many unique (read: weird) features of its own, namely, an animation of the reigning Miss America, 20-year-old Lauren Nelson, who is always there, walking across the screen in a crown, sash, and evening gown. (Miss America! Watching over your kids, even if you're too busy for the job!) After the jump, all the ways Miss America aims to protect and educate young, impressionable American girls. More »
on the line
The Ultimate Cell Phone For Women: Not Pink, But With A Pregnancy Test!
Marie Claire magazine asked Popgadget founder Mia Kim to come up with the ultimate cell phone for women. But the results did not please Sonia Zjawinski at Wired's Underwire blog. In fact, they made her gag. The shePhone has pill storage, condom dispenser, vibrator, corkscrew, atomizer for perfume or mace, and a home pregnancy test. Um, peeing on electronics? Really? We kind of like the pill pod, the "voice analyzer" (is your BF where he says he is?) and the universal remote, which overrides other remotes. As for Zjawinski, she writes that what she really wants in a phone is outstanding audio quality, a distress signal (with GPS), an option to block certain numbers from calling or texting and a mini compartment for money and ID. More »
beauties and the geeks
Computer Geeks Auction Themselves To Sorority Girls
Washington State University has developed an interesting way to recruit more women in to its computer science program — by pimping out the male students. The plan is a little complicated, but basically, the Linux Users Group, the university's largest computer club, will be auctioning off its geeks to girls who can use them to either fix their computers or help them with homework. But before they put themselves on the auction block, they want a sorority to give them makeovers, says the club's president Ben Ford:The problem is that we're all still nerds. If anyone's going to bid on us, we'll need some spicing up. And who better to help with that than sorority girls who like nothing better than a makeover?Do these guys live in a movie or something? Is Elle Woods gonna take them shopping to turn them from totally geek to totally chic, after which they'll defeat Alpha Beta at the homecoming carnival, much to the chagrin of Dean Wormer? Well, according to Ford, the computer geeks have big plans for this whole thing: More »
high scores
Yup, It's True: Girls Play Games
Online Media Daily says that in a Denizens of Digitivity survey, 44% of women said that they owned a gaming console, compared to 39% of men. The stereotype of the American gamer — 18-34, male, single and white — is not necessarily on target, claims the report. Between the Wii, Xbox, Playstation and Nintendo DS, there's a a rise in the female gamer. "The Wii has really caused a democratization of gaming, because that has opened it up to all generations and both genders," said Ann Mack, director of trendspotting for JWT.More »
