Victory Records

A number of people are pushing this Victory Records story. And claiming it is huge news suppressed by whomever it is the suppresses such things. I will admit that the article is really fucking long and I lost interest about a page and a half in. It wasn't very well-written. Now I think that record companies should act right, all record labels. And I don't think this company should receive more flack because they are an "indie label." And maybe I would care more if I liked any of the band on the label. But I figured I will share the story. If you care, then good. Don't buy their records. I already don't. But this is like all things, I don't think it will make a difference.
Suicide Girls and American Apparel are frequently attacked for management's practices. But that doesn't stop indie people from purchasing what they're selling. I will honestly admit that I like Suicide Girls (I talk occasionally with Morgan) and I own American Apparel clothing. I hear you should actually buy from Alternative Apparel, but there is an American Apparel around here and I know what size I wear so it is easy. And that is the thing, people are going to do what is easiest. That is why everyone knows Wal-Mart is horrible, but shops their anyway. I don't shop at Wal-Mart for a myriad of reasons, including the corporate reputation. I do shop at American Apparel because I don't care that the founder is a pervert and that the ads are borderline pornography. I know that sounds bad, but I really don't. I think that if the girls feel exploited, they should do something about it (and be supported in doing so), but I also think that American society is so puritanical that we need more ads promoting sex. People need to be desensitized. It's just sex. People are desensitized to violence, which is far worse in my opinion. I would love opinions on this and if I am wrong or taking something too lightly, tell me. My opinions are not steadfast. So let me know, send me links, let's be friends.

No one has checked on me this morning

I think everyone forgot I work here. Whatever. As long as I get paid.
I decided to do a round-up of sites I actually read/use regularly.
I am planning a trip to gorgeous San Francisco and my favorite flight finding tools are SideStep and Farecast. SideStep is kind of like Travelocity or one of those sites in that it compares flight prices, but it compares them between the airlines and the discount sites so you get a more full picture of what is available. It is also nice looking and easy to use. Farecast is a neat little tool that predicts whether ticket prices are going to go up down or not change. So far, I have found it to be pretty accurate. It only works on major airports right now, but for a Tampa to San Francisco flight, it works fine and is very accurate.
I also like to read this blog. I think the rampant stealing of intellectual property on the internet poses an interesting issue. I generally agree with what the people on this site say. They are pretty levelheaded.
A friend of mine sent over this article about sex play on the internet.
I also thought I'd link to these oft-linked to items from Forbes. It is a list of inventions they wish would be invented . Some are dumb, some are really cool. But the whole plausibility thing is the most interesting.
I found this place which seemed really cool and fun. It makes me wish I had a more creative job. I mean, I use work time to be creative. Sometimes I write stories, plus my incessant blogging. Though I also use work time for the much less productive social networking aspect.
Speaking of that. I got a Virb account. My name on there is, of course, SylvieBean. I encourage everyone to get one before it gets all crowded and ugly like myspace.

LOVE and sex, sex, sex

Something happens in every girl's life where she discovers a gay man that she fucking adores. Mine is Dan Savage who I do nothing but link to (not this time though). I am reading one of his books, his column, and listening to his podcasts. It is all Dan Savage, all the time. Which means, it is all sex all the time. Kinky fucking crazy ass sex ALL THE TIME. Also, I have gotten into this cute little indie comic (see above). Thus today being LOVE and sex, sex, sex.
Since we already got the first love out of the way, here is the second love. A comic about Apple computers. I love comics. I love Macs.
Everything from here on out is dirty. Don't click if you are at work/in the same room as your mom/afraid of sex
Yeah, I don't remember why I wanted to
post this, but it was included in the post this link message I left for myself.
This is neato. I have seen a weird comic thing that involved these rope things and it was pretty awesome looking. Not my thing, but I figured, you know, you might be into that.
And finally, if you find yourself having kinky sex with a lot of people and need to notify them of that pesky STD, there is a website for that. Yeah, basically everyone I know got one of those.
See how sweet this started? With that cute little comic? NOW look. You're messaging your acquaintances to tell them about the STDs and to apologize for the rope burns. Quite the day you're having.

I say this a lot

But Dan Savage, while not right 100% of the time, is a fucking genius.

"And up to now the mainstream media have refrained from calling the right's opposition to the HPV vaccine what it is—delusional, psychotic, homicidal—because up to now only women's lives were at stake.

That's about to change.

Here's the headline from my morning paper: "HPV Factors in Throat Cancer: Study Could Shift Debate About Vaccine." You bet it will. Up to now the HPV vaccine—which, again, has proven 100 percent effective against the cancer-causing strains of the virus—could merely prevent 10,000 cases of cervical cancer in American women every year, along with 4,000 deaths. But now the debate could shift—it will shift—because it's no longer "just" the lives of 4,000 American women that are on the line, but the sex lives of 150 million American men."

Welp, it has been a few days

My work days have been filled with whiny posts in the real blog and cat macros (Google it if you don't know). But I have gathered some cool/cute/fun shit for you to look at.

THIS IS PORNOGRAPHY. Definitely not work safe and possibly not home safe. Don't click unless you want to see a half-naked girl pirate. I have been looking at lots of SG pictures and I even bought the bra you see here because some girl looked really cute in a similar one. (It is from Urban Outfitters. It is the cheaper one.)

Twitter hates me and won't post my updates. i'm in like with you is working out well once I got past the totally creeped out part.

I need someone to buy me one of these. I want a cat so badly. SO SO BADLY. But I need it to be hypoallergenic.

I found these suicide notes sad and interesting. I honestly wish there were more. I would have kept reading.

Ok. That's all for now.

French AIDS PSA About a Lonely Girl

The French make by far the best PSAs. Nothing has ever made using a condom cooler.

Best Story on SomethingAwful Today

"I was fucking this one girl, and things were going well, she was into it and making noise, until I wanted to switch to doggy style. At that point she went stone cold silent, and just kind of layed there. I asked if she was enjoying it, and she replied "no, I was raped like this once."

Yeaaaaah, we changed positions after that."

Not so much cool, as gross

But I thought you should see it.