What Amazon Knows, Amazon Keeps. Amazon changed its privacy policy again to appease the state… Yet, there is still no overriding regulations on how companies can use the data that they collect. And Amazon certainly has quite a bit of potentially problematic privacy information.
Here’s a funny review of Good Vibrations’ Make Your Own Dildo item.
Ooh… a new book is out by Steven Pinker. Say what you will about evolutionary psychology or Pinker himself, but i have to give the man props for making a set of scientific concepts accessible to the public in a readable form. In fact, i utterly enjoy reading his books, even when i disagree with approaches, because they are written in a way that allows me to mentally argue with them, even while sitting on a train; i don’t have to find a focused environment to deconstruct the simplest of ideas from obscure language. Hell, even in interviews he’s comprehensible.
Arts & Letters Daily is now dead, but conveniently, Philosophy & Literature has a striking resemblence to my old beloved.
Remember: today is red panties for reproductive choice day…
A few weeks ago, i read an interesting cover story about psy trance that i’ve since seen passed around a couple dozen times, which reminded me that it belonged up here, for all of you curious about the silly music that i so adore.
This week’s Village Voice Horoscope reads like one of my Zen tarot cards… Interesting.
I’m going to suggest an “as if” exercise, Sagittarius. It’s meant to take place entirely in your mind’s eye and most definitely NOT be acted out, at least not yet. Here’s my proposal: Spend four days imagining what your life might be like if you decided you were no longer saving yourself for a mythical “later.” See yourself doing exactly what you long to do most, passionately carrying out the mission you came to Earth to accomplish. During this brief sabbatical, you will banish all excuses about why you can’t possibly follow your bliss. You will act as if you are aligned with the heart of creation-as if you’re a genius in love with your life.
Yay for sexual awareness! The NYTimes reports a fun trend: more and more colleges are maintaining sex columns in their school papers.
The Street Harassment Project is a cool little thing, similar to Take Back the Night, vowing to make the streets a women’s place too…
Through a funny set of events, i was just pointed to a geek who writes a colum called techsploitation, which is absolutely entertaining, even if she is a bit too enthralled with MIT. But then again, it’s my awareness of MIT culture that makes things like “Fear of Necco” utterly entertaining…