Reddit’s Jailbait Is On Message With Conde Nast’s Creepy Children Photos In Vogue
REDDIT has a section called “Jailbait”. Anyone clicking on it should know what to expect: soft porn and rather ordinary photos of young women and under age girls. Reddit is owned by Advance Publications, Conde Nast’s parent company. Conde Nast publishes Vogue, among other titles, a magazine that publishes creepy photos of children and salutes a stylish dictator’s wife.
Gawker’s Adrien Chen reports:
The controversial Jailbait section (NSFW) features sexualized picture of girls as young as 13—many taken from their social networking profiles—and a ban on tattoos because “generally, girls have to be of the age of consent to get a tattoo.” Last month it was shut down, not due the fact that it’s gross and exploitative but because of problems with “out of control” moderators… Were they free to get dirty again now that they didn’t have to worry about besmirching the reputation of Conde’s fancy magazines like The New Yorker and Vogue?
Chen may care to clicm on the links above and see what Conde Nast puts in its magazines, including Teen Vogue.
Posted: 21st, September 2011 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Scarlett Johanssoning Photos: Scarlett Johansson’s Mirror Bum Starts A Meme
SCARLETT Johansson has started a trend. The meme is called ScarlettJohanssoning. All you need do it take a photo of your bum reflected in a mirror and see it leaked it onto the internet… Somr of these are very funny…
Posted: 20th, September 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Glowing Live Cats To Replace Cats Eyes On Motorways: Photos
HAVE you seen the cats that glow in the dark? Cats Eyes are now a thing of history as scientists invents cats – whole cats – that can sit in the middle of motorway lanes and prevent accidents. After years of waiting, might this be that moment when cats can finally help mankind and do a day’s work? Maybe. Anorak would prefer to go with glowing dogs, who are more likely to “sit” and “stay” than cats. And what of tortoises? But the debate is best saved for later.
Posted: 12th, September 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Guardian Tweets 9/11 Live On Twitter: Bad Taste Porn Crashes And Burns @AuschwitzLive
THE Guardian wonders what 9/11 would have looked like in real time on Twitter. What would the mass murder and horror have looked like on the social network? So. The Guardian creates a Twitter feed called @911tenyearsago. It will guess what people would have said in 140 characters or fewer as thousands were murdered. You can already read thousands of FBI pager messages on Wikileaks. But the Guardian loves Twitter. And if this experiment is a success it could set up a Facebook page and see how many people “like” 9/11 and then repeat the exercise in live Tweets from @ImLiveAtAuschwitz and @OnBoardTitanic.
The Tweeting begins:
This account of the events is now ending 3 hours ago · reply · retweet · favorite
George Bush – preparing to meet children at a Florida elementary school – is told an aircraft has struck the World Trade Center3 hours ago · reply · retweet · favorite
An attendant on Flight 175 tells a United Airlines office via airphone that flight has been hijacked, with both pilots killed 3 hours ago · reply · retweet · favorite
Flight 77 is hijacked3 hours ago · reply · retweet · favorite
The first news reports of the crash. CNN tells its viewers: ‘You are looking at obviously a very disturbing live shot there’3 hours ago · reply · retweet · favorite
Flight 11 crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center, between floors 93 and 993 hours ago · reply · retweet · favorite
Posted: 11th, September 2011 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Ignacio Torres’ Moving Photographs Makes Stars Of Us All: Photos
IGNACIO Torres has created ”Stellar“. Says he:
“I created the images shooting the subject from four different angles, taking the pictures all at the same time with a synched flash.”
Posted: 8th, September 2011 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Turk Guvenligi Hacks Daily Telegraph And Other Websites
THE Daily Telegraph has been hacked. Also hit are UPS, BetFair, The Register, Vodafone, National Geographic and around 200 other sites. All sites are vulnerable. It’s just a shock that such big sites should be so easily hit.
The hackers are called Turk Guvenligi (trans: Turkish Security, Come to Papa).The sites are still there – the hackers attacked the domain name system (DNS), by which users are directed to websites.
This means that emails sent to the sites would have been delivered to the hackers’ site.
Back in April this year, the Telegraph was hacked by a group called Romanian National Security. It was upset at the paper’s identification of “gypsies” and “Romanians”.
Posted: 5th, September 2011 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
All Wikileaks Top Secret Information Is Now Online And Free – Maybe
WHAT news of Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder – he of the many dead? Well, the joke is that Wikileaks are unhappy that their own secrets are being leaked:
Wikileaks says its former pals at the Guardian, “negligently disclosed top secret WikiLeaks’ decryption passwords.”
Posted: 2nd, September 2011 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Are These Photos Of Sick Steve Jobs Fakes?
STEVE Jobs is ill. How ill? Well, the Now former CEO of Apple has cancer. Anyone who has lived with a cancer patient nows how grim it can get. The weight loss is the visible sign of change. And the photos doing the rounds show a painfully thin Jobs. But as with many things on the internet, an argument develops that the photos may be fakes? Why anyone would make fake photos of an ill man is an odd one. But a voice on Reddit says the pictures are fake. Anorak would guess that the Reddit photoshop expert has not watched a love one get eaten by cancer, much less a vicious form of the disease that is attacking Jobs.
Posted: 27th, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Tripping Steve Jobs Gets The Taiwan CGI Treatment: Bill Gates Is Darth Vader
STEVE Jobs is starring on Taiwan’s NMA News channel. Yep. He’s finally made it. You will see the the drugs haze, the birth of a computer, a fight with Bill Gates and a bout with death. Who wins..?
Posted: 26th, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
WE. ARE. RICH! Astronomers have found a planet made of….diamond.
Says Matthew Bailes of Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne:
“The evolutionary history and amazing density of the planet all suggest it is comprised of carbon — i.e. a massive diamond orbiting a neutron star every two hours in an orbit so tight it would fit inside our own Sun.”
Yeah, whatever. D.I.A.MOND.
Posted: 25th, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
No Quick App for Apple’s Mr Fixit: How Steve Jobs Inspires Diabetics
STEVE Jobs, the 56-year-old who co-founded and led a world revolution in communications with Apple Corp and then introduced the IPod and IPhone has quit as head of the world’s most successful company.
Thousands of column inches will be written of the man who: left college to become co-founder of a computer giant in a Silicon Valley garage; left the company and later returned to head up the ailing company’s new found success.
He will stay linked to Apple as Chairman of the Board.
Posted: 25th, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comments (11) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
AOL London Party Captures Coke Snorting Boob Groping Internet Workers On Camera: Photos
DID you go to the AOL party in Shoreditch, London, where partygoers were invited into a booth to have their photos taken? The pictures were on poloroids. But unbeknownst to the revellers, all photos were also uploaded to the company’s website. So, hard luck on the girl seen groping a pal’s naked boobs and the bloke snorting white powders…
Posted: 21st, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Daily Mail Kills Off IstyOsty – Are There Other Ways To Read The Mail And Not Encourage It?
GOODBYE IstyOsty, you were the site that enabled people to read the Daily Mail without having to actually read the Daily Mail. The Mail was not too keen to someone using its work without even a link back to its own site.
Posted: 17th, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Why Was Facebook Murder Plot Victim Corey White Killed?
COREY White, 22, has been shot dead in Philadelphia. His lover, 20-year-old London Eley, allegedly offered $1,000 on Facebook for someone to kill him. She advertised thus:
“I will pay somebody a stack to kill my baby father.”
Posted: 16th, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Pathetic Police Arrest Man For Organising Water Fight On Blackberry And Facebook
SO tough are the police in David Cameron’s Bullingdon Britain that a 20-year-old man from Colchester in Essex has been arrested for allegedly arranging a big water fight via BlackBerry Messenger and Facebook. The man is charged with “encouraging or assisting in the commission of an offence“.
An Essex policeman addresses media:
“In the light of recent events, we would have to be careful that [the planned water fight] is not all that it seems.”
Are the police observing Blackberry Messenger and Facebook – or are the big US corporations working with the police to profile their customers?
Cameron says he will “look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services when we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality”.
Posted: 16th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Operation Cup Of Tea: Forget The London Riots Let’s Have A Nice Sit Down
OPERATION Cup Of Tea is the Twitter hashtag that will undo the London Riots and make things better.
Operation Decent Biscuit is in the planning phase. What we need is hero to make OCoT fly. We’ve found him…
Posted: 9th, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Graham Linehan Finds That Twitter And Reddit Are Like Brass Eye – Only Less Believable
GRAHAM Linehan – a writer on Father Ted, The IT Crowd, Brass Eye and more – finds that writing for twitter on 140 characters or fewer can create problems. has made it to the front page of Reddit. His Tweet was:Forget @DeanEsnard and do searches for anyone else boasting about involvement in riots. Take screengrabs. #riotprevention
Posted: 9th, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Blackberry Security: Another victim of London Riots?
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THE bleeding-heart liberals among us are worried that the backlash to the London Riots will usher in a harsher police state and that tolerance will get swept out with the broken glass. Let me just put in a techie’s plea for something else in danger of getting pushed aside: the security of Blackberry Messenger.
Posted: 9th, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
London Riots: Forget BBM, It’s the Back-Button That Has Created Generation Whatever
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Every week, the Daily Mail will blame the internet for something else. Pedophiles, exam results, cancer and yes, the random violence that has swept through London in the past three days. I love the internet, but I’m going to do the same.
Posted: 9th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Riot Police Promise To Spend More Time on Twitter
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POLICE Officers promised to spend more time on Twitter trying to predict where violence would break out after copycat riots sprang up in Brixton, Walthamstow, Dalston, Islington, Westfield, Oxford Circus and Ponders End following the protest about the death of Mark Duggan in Enfield on Saturday night.
Posted: 8th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The iPhone 5 Will Be Really Thick and Fat
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NO, no it won’t be. I’ll give every reader of this blog $100 if the iPhone 5 is thicker than the iPhone 4. The iPhone, rather like Steve Jobs, always gets thinner at each new launch.
Posted: 5th, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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SO FAR the government’s ePetition website has proved one thing: Government by online polls would definitely work.
Posted: 5th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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PEOPLE claim that social networks aren’t popularity contests. But some of us know that they are: and that you can win them by paying lots of money. Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is showing the way.
Posted: 5th, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Twitter And Facebook Toddlers Are Future Daily Mail Writers And BBC Experts
BYLINE writers, nodding heads, football show experts, Question Time panelists, MPs and anyone who insists on using a title listen up:
Facebook and Twitter have created a generation obsessed with themselves, who have short attention spans and a childlike desire for constant feedback on their lives, a top scientist believes. Repeated exposure to social networking sites leaves users with an ‘identity crisis’, wanting attention in the manner of a toddler saying: ‘Look at me, Mummy, I’ve done this.’
Posted: 1st, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Flamboyant hacker Jake Davis, who now facing 10 years in prison, was a “clever, quiet” boy who developed a fear of open spaces and withdrew from school and friends after a family member died while he was in his early teens according to a woman who claimed to know him.
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Posted: 1st, August 2011 | In: News, Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
