I Gave Birth to Prince's Love Child

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The Posting That Gave Birth To a Web
Site

The Posting That Gave Birth To a Web
Site 06/10/2004 04:34 PM

A long time ago, in the wee hours of the morning, I made a post to Gadgetopia entitled Fake Escrow Sites. It was a posting about how crooks use fake escrow sites to cheat people out of money. It was just one or two sentences, and it linked to a news article. I was a little disturbed at what I read, calling it "ugly stuff."

It's gotten great search e ngine placement, and, consequently, it gets an enormous amount of traffic every day and a ton of comments. The average entry on Gadgetopia has 0.83 comments — this one has 130+.

There's apparently a real need for people to know which escrow sites are good and which aren't. I like this posting a lot because — at the risk of sounding dramatic, it's really helping people. Here are excerpts from some of the comments.

I have someone trying to get me to go through this site as well, instead of via amazon. I'm very glad I haven't sent off anything yet [...]

Thanks to this site I've been saved from sending off a £6000+ diamond ring [...]

Like Nick Allan, I too have just been saved from what appears to be the same person in Moldova [...]

I too have been saved a ton of money by this site. I was almost duped for a Rolex Yachtmaster watch [...]

So, as you can see, this is a very good thing. Since it's SO good, we're happy to announce:

http://www.fakeescrowsites.com/< /a>

Nothin' but a big discussion board that will hopefully continue the great discussion and impact that the blog posting has had. It's an expirement really — if you throw up a simple collaboration platform to address a real need with a real audience, will it thrive? We're about to find out.

There's still some work to do in configuring the forum, but since this isn't a revenue-generating operation, I wanted to get it up and out there before other pressures took me away from it. It's a case of, "if you wait until you're ready, you'll never be ready."

In doing this, I had to work very hard to stifle over-analysis that would scare me out of it — namely, the potential for lawsuits. I wrote some very clear and frank policies for the site, and I'm simply going to brave the legal waters and hope for the best. I have faith that we'll do much more good than harm.

I have never used an escrow site. I've only used eBay once. But in seeing some of the stories in that news article, and some of the comments that were posted, I really think we have a chance to make an impact here.

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Yahoo! News - Ark. Family Marks Birth of
15th Child

Yahoo! News - Ark. Family Marks Birth of
15th Child 05/26/2004 01:46 PM
These people are scary .. 15 KIDS?! .. here

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Judge tosses coin for tug-of-love child
(Reuters)

Judge tosses coin for tug-of-love child
(Reuters) 12/30/2004 11:21 PM
Reuters - When the separated parents of a five-year old Italian boy could not agree whose house he should stay at over Christmas, a judge settled the dispute by tossing a coin, an Italian newspaper has reported.

Love, Family, and Fairness, or How to
Raise a Gay Friendly Child

Love, Family, and Fairness, or How to
Raise a Gay Friendly Child 06/17/2005 05:03 PM
Imagine that one day you hear your child at play say to another "The way you throw is so gay." It seems "gay" has become a catch-all insult. How do you respond? You could just let it pass. After all, home and family should provide a refuge from the clamor...

The secret love-child of Rush Limbaugh
and Perry Mason

The secret love-child of Rush Limbaugh
and Perry Mason 12/05/2003 11:21 PM
The secret love-child of Rush Limbaugh and Perry Mason gets his day in court. Vince Foster conspiracy theorist nutjob challenges SCOTUS on whether the government can deny a FOIA request on the grounds of invasion of personal privacy. Amusing write-up by Dahlia Lithwick.

Italy Judge Tosses Coin for Xmas
Tug-Of-Love Child (Reuters)

Italy Judge Tosses Coin for Xmas
Tug-Of-Love Child (Reuters) 12/30/2004 02:48 PM
Reuters - When the separated parents of a five-year old Italian boy could not agree whose house he should stay at over Christmas, a judge settled the dispute by tossing a coin, an Italian newspaper reported on Thursday.

NYTimes on Prince's year so far

NYTimes on Prince's year so far 07/12/2004 10:42 AM
making him sound downright sane

a non-fan reviews prince's current tour

a non-fan reviews prince's current tour 04/20/2004 04:48 PM
always makes me happy to see someone understand why i'm a fan

MP defends prince's cull stance

MP defends prince's cull stance 02/16/2004 12:06 PM
Prince Charles' role in trying to stop the foot-and-mouth cull is defended by a former minister.

john's mom reviews prince's show

john's mom reviews prince's show 07/20/2004 01:15 PM
so funky even mothers approve

Property boosts Prince's income

Property boosts Prince's income 06/30/2004 06:22 AM
The Prince of Wales's pre-tax income rose by nearly a fifth last year to nearly £12m, a Royal report has shown.

terrific overview of prince's
reappearance

terrific overview of prince's
reappearance 09/17/2004 07:47 PM
a little more insightful than the rest of the "year in prince" articles

prince's CD distribution strategy is
working

prince's CD distribution strategy is
working 05/20/2004 04:05 AM
and it's only an option for people who can actually put on a decent show

the Free Times covers Prince's comeback

the Free Times covers Prince's comeback 04/14/2004 06:27 PM
man, these kids are *excited*

terrific SFGate recap of prince's
comeback

terrific SFGate recap of prince's
comeback 05/29/2004 03:22 PM
the consensus seems to be it's savvy marketing, but good to have him back

" A belief that we are connected as one
people. If there’s a child on the south
side of Chicago who can’t read, that
matters to me, even if it’s not my
child. If there’s a senior citizen
somewhere who can’t pay for her
prescription and has to choose..."

" A belief that we are connected as one
people. If there’s a child on the south
side of Chicago who can’t read, that
matters to me, even if it’s not my
child. If there’s a senior citizen
somewhere who can’t pay for her
prescription and has to choose..." 07/29/2004 01:02 AM

Are You a Perpetual Bad Relationship
Magnet? Nobody's Unlucky in Love:
Learning Core Causes for Lousy Love
Relationships

Are You a Perpetual Bad Relationship
Magnet? Nobody's Unlucky in Love:
Learning Core Causes for Lousy Love
Relationships 06/18/2004 03:10 AM
Relationship advisor and author Nancy Pina dispenses free relationship advice to adults struggling with individual, couples and marriage issues. She advises teens and young adults in recognizing healthy, loving relationships. [PRWEB Jun 18, 2004]

Boys love games, girls love ringtones

Boys love games, girls love ringtones 06/02/2004 10:08 AM
But neither gives a hoot for 3G

Chris Abraham: Liberals Find Mad Love at
Act For Love

Chris Abraham: Liberals Find Mad Love at
Act For Love 06/22/2005 02:45 AM
Liberals Find Mad Love at Act For Love .. Permalink

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I love women...no, wait, apparently I
love men

I love women...no, wait, apparently I
love men 01/04/2004 04:59 AM
mirror.co.uk

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"Wait... they don't love you like I love
you" [sorry, got stuck in my head]

"Wait... they don't love you like I love
you" [sorry, got stuck in my head] 03/25/2005 04:09 PM
Social Explorer. "Social Explorer is dedicated to providing demographic information in an easily understood format, data maps. We serve hundreds of interactive data maps of United States. Here, you can visually analyze and understand the demography of the U.S., explore your neighborhood and learn about the people that live around you."

Love Macs? Then Learn To Love Macsurfer

Love Macs? Then Learn To Love Macsurfer 05/19/2004 08:55 AM
It does a bang up job of providing the Apple community with interesting reads day in day out. By Hadley Stern, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

The Irish Have a New Jackass: If You
Like Dumb, Stupid and Funny Stuff, Then
You Will Love This New Site From a Group
of Crazy Mental Irish guys Who Just Love
to Party

The Irish Have a New Jackass: If You
Like Dumb, Stupid and Funny Stuff, Then
You Will Love This New Site From a Group
of Crazy Mental Irish guys Who Just Love
to Party 03/22/2005 04:47 PM
The Americans have Jackass while the Irish have the Crazy mental team. These guys film all their stupid and funny stuff for our enjoyment, from driving a Ferrari 355 at breakneck speeds around the Hollywood hills in Los Angeles to drilling a hole in one of their arms with a hammer drill, these guys are really crazy. [PRWEB Mar 21, 2005]

Against Love: Love Politics Revisited

Against Love: Love Politics Revisited 03/22/2005 04:54 PM

The Idea: Author Laura Kipnis argues that monogamy is unnatural and unhealthy, and possibly complicit in our emotional detachment from political life and our ecosystem as well. Laura Kipnis, despite the title of of her 200-page "polemic", is not Against Love. Rather, she's against the trappings, the rules, the rituals that our culture imposes on love relationships. She goes even further -- she sees marriage, the institution, as every bit as repressive, suffocating and unnatural as our mind-numbing employment in modern hierarchical organizations, and draws strong parallels between the slavery of the workplace and the slavery of the matrimonial home. These two canons of civilization: our need and responsibility to devote our daytime hours to meaningless subordinate labour, and our need and responsibility to devote the rest of our hours to boring, stifling and unsatisfying monogamy, work together diabolically to keep us suppressed, and in our 'place' in society. Small wonder, she says, that one of our most enduring conventional wisdoms is that "a good marriage takes work". If this protestation against the rigours of monogamy, fidelity and marriage-slavery as the complement to wage-slavery sounds familiar, it's because it's very similar to the argument that Glenn Parton made in his essay posted first on these pages last year entitled "Love Politics". Glenn's argument is that we have become so emotionally numbed by our twin bondage to job and marriage that it has made our hearts cold and hard, uncaring of the plight of our planet and of others, and that this is a direct cause of the destruction of our world. "If I'm miserable, why should I care about anyone else?" Dare to love more than one person, he suggests, and the shackles of this self-imposed imprisonment are broken, and the inrush of emotion will shock us into awareness of, and eagerness to heal, the massive emotional and physical illness of our entire planet. Why should we, why do we subject ourselves to this one-love-partner-slavery as easily and as passively as we do to wage-slavery? This is the subject of much of Ms. Kipnis' book. Her prose is so adept and so powerful I won't attempt to paraphrase her arguments. Here are a few teasers: Is it the persistence of the work ethic that ties us to the compassionate couple and its workaday regimes, or is it the ethos of compassionate coupledom that ties us to sould-deadening work regimes...Resenting the boss? Feeling bored or overworked or dissatisfied? Getting complaints about your attitude? Whether it's "on the relationship" or "on the job" get yourself right to the therapist's office, pronto. There are only two possible diagnoses for all such modern ailments: it's going to be either "intimacy issues" or "authority issues". You'll soon discover that the disease doubles as the prescription at this clinic: You're just going to have to "work harder on yourself"... Take the modern consumer. Clearly, routing desire into consumption would be necessary to sustain a consumer society -- a citizenry who fucked in lieu of shopping would soon bring the entire economy grinding to a standstill. Or better still, take the modern depressive. What a boon to both the modern pharmaceutical and the social-harmony industries that such a social type would be. These are merely hypotheticals of course, since it's not as if we live in a society of consumers and depressives, or as if the best strategy for the latter weren't widely held to be strategically indulging in the former -- "retail therapy"...Love's proper denouement, matrimony, is also of course the social form regulated by the state, which refashions itself as a benevolent pharmacist, doling out the addictive substance in licensed doses...What about re-envisioning [marriage] or... insisting that social resources and privileges not be allocated on the basis of marital status? No. let's demand regulation! Not that it's easy to re-envision anything when these intersections of love and acquiescence are the very backbone of the modern self, when every iota of self-worth and identity hinge on them...Domestic coupledom is the boot camp for compliant citizenship, a training ground for gluey resignation and immobility... Ms. Kipnis suggests the same lack of innovation that permeates the workplace in the 21st century also permeates domestic institutions: Different social norms could entail something entirely different: yearly renewable contracts for example. And if we weren't so emotionally yoked to the social forms we've inherited that trying to envision different ways of having a love life seems intellectually impossible and even absurd, who knows what other options might present themselves?...It behooves [our] society to convince its citizenry that wanting change means personal failure, starting over is shameful, and wanting more satisfaction than you have is illegitimate...As love has increasingly become the center of all emotional expression in the modern imagination -- the quantity without which life seems forlorn -- anxiety about obtaining it in sufficient quantities and for sufficient duration has increased to the point that that anxiety suffuses the population, and most of our cultural forms...Uncoupling [then] can only be experienced as ego-crushing crisis and inadequacy...[and] the grief of failed love is exacerbated by inevitable feelings of personal failure... Much of the latter part of the book is focused on the psychological gymnastics of all three (or more) parties in the polygon of adultery, from the rationalization that hiding the affair is to protect the feelings of the cuckold, to the feelings of self-hatred and self-flagellation of the 'sinner(s)'. She also discusses the awkward mechanics of the ultimate break-up of either the marriage or the affair (or both), and the degree to which children of the relationship become hostages, or excuses for deception, or excuses for the boredom that gave rise to the deception. Of course the book also talks about famous infidelities in high political circles, and the twisted hypocrisy of conservatives' opposition to same-sex marriage, as well as the equal-opportunity-for-misery desire of lesbians and gays to gain access to the sad and repressive regulation of 'official' marriage rather than 'settling for' merely the legal and resource rights that come with equivalent-to-married status. And there's also a discussion of the pragmatic phenomenon of "serial monogamy" -- the fall-back that there's nothing wrong with marriage per se, it's just that we were all married to the wrong person. All of this is complicated (even more) by the emergence of the Two-Income Trap, which imposes a financial prison on top of the emotional one in marriage. We have to stay together because we can't afford to live apart. I am convinced that this one factor is overwhelmingly responsible for keeping the rate of divorce from reaching astronomical levels. It is also probably helpful in keeping birth rates in the West below replacement levels -- Not only can we not afford children, we certainly don't want any (or any more) with the spouse we're economically shackled to. And having one with the secret love is just too messy. In my recent article predicting a baby boom, perhaps I underestimated the sheer perverseness of a socioeconomic system that not only makes parenthood financially reckless, it also suppresses fertility rates by its expressed moral repugnance for having a child by someone other than your boring spouse. A lot of people, some of their own free will, and many more who have been pushed, have recently broken free of wage slavery and are now working, mostly for much less income, for themselves. That's probably a good thing in many ways -- it reduces the supply of the remaining wage slaves, which might actually, in time, allow them to bargain from a position of at least a bit of power. It increases self-sufficiency. It reduces excessive consumption. What if there were a similar revolution against marriage slavery? What if a whole generation just refused to define themselves (in more ways than one) as married, or to live with the constraints of monogamy, and instead opted for a polyamory life-style? Paternity 'rights' and responsibilities would both probably suffer, as the new family unit would be a woman (or possibly, and more logically, a group of women, in self-selected community) and their children. They would have the power, and could strike whatever contract they chose with males who wanted the responsibilities and privileges of fatherhood. The nuclear family and the 'single-family dwelling' would disappear. Conjugal relations would not attach to parental responsibility, and could be negotiated between any two people as individuals on a one-shot basis, with no responsibility other than the responsibility to prevent unwanted pregnancy and disease. This would probably be bad for the oldest profession, as the supply/demand ratio for quick couplings would soar. Jealousy and the consequent domestic violence that is the scourge of our nuclear spouse-as-property society would, slowly (old habits die hard), disappear. I think the vast majority of men, driven by million-year-old biological imperatives, once they reached a certain age, would choose to attach themselves to one of the matriarchal communities (if so invited), and would do their share to provide for its well-being, in return for the company and sense of purpose that would bring. We are told it takes a village, a community, to raise a child. Perhaps the community is necessary, and sufficient, for far more: To break us all free from both the emotionally numbing subjugation of wage-slavery and the misery and boredom of marriage-slavery. The community would then become truly self-sufficient in every respect, and we would be happier and freer than we can, or dare, imagine. Cartoon: By Peter Steiner from The New Yorker, in the Cartoon Bank

Wolk analyzes prince's
"comeback"

Wolk analyzes prince's
"comeback" 05/06/2004 09:56 PM
as usual, slate has a much savvier and subtler take on pop culture events

I gave my cat an enema!

I gave my cat an enema! 07/10/2004 06:48 AM
an enema was adminstered to a cat .. story to sink your teeth into .. not for the faint-hearted .. He gave his cat an emema! .. this poor kitty .. this .. dit

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and he gave me the world

and he gave me the world 08/11/2004 08:36 AM
Via the equally excited Neil McIntosh comes OSXPlanet. The Mercator projection of Earth, with clouds set on is just lovely. The sun is coming up over Chicago as I type. Also via Neil, and most likely only going to work...

I Gave My Cat an Enema

I Gave My Cat an Enema 07/09/2004 10:09 AM
I Gave My Cat an Enema .

Mine gave me the Jruns

Mine gave me the Jruns 09/21/2004 10:25 PM
Let your children play with the common cold... introducing giant microbe plush toys. [link via die puny humans]

Man 'recklessly' gave women HIV

Man 'recklessly' gave women HIV 06/21/2004 11:31 PM
A man had unprotected sex with a woman despite knowing he had already infected another with HIV, a court hears.

"I gave a lot of time to women ..."

"I gave a lot of time to women ..." 04/06/2005 11:31 AM
Our greatest post-War writer, Saul Bellow sent his overeducated bulls stumbling through the china shops of love.

AP: Chevron Gave Big to Schwarzenegger
(AP)

AP: Chevron Gave Big to Schwarzenegger
(AP) 09/02/2004 06:01 PM
AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's ambitious plan to reorganize almost every aspect of state government was influenced significantly by oil and gas giant ChevronTexaco Corp., which managed to shape such key recommendations as the removal of restrictions on oil refineries.

And in my thirst they gave my vinegar to
drink

And in my thirst they gave my vinegar to
drink 05/23/2004 05:00 AM
heartfelt, thoughtful post .. same Catholic symbolism .. Jeanne of Body and Soul

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Airline says it gave U.S. passenger data

Airline says it gave U.S. passenger data 04/11/2004 01:09 PM

Ex-AIG Chief Gave Wife 41.4 Million
Shares (AP)

Ex-AIG Chief Gave Wife 41.4 Million
Shares (AP) 04/12/2005 11:06 PM
AP - Three days before he resigned as head of American International Group Inc., Maurice "Hank" Greenberg gave his wife 41.4 million of his shares in the insurance company, according to a regulatory filing Tuesday.

"gave an impressive and eloquent keynote
address"

"gave an impressive and eloquent keynote
address" 06/21/2004 09:19 AM

Russia Gave U.S. Intel on Iraq, Putin
Says

Russia Gave U.S. Intel on Iraq, Putin
Says 06/19/2004 10:38 AM
Xposed Jun 19 2004 2:06PM GMT

Dino impact gave Earth the chill

Dino impact gave Earth the chill 05/31/2004 04:11 AM
Scientists find firm evidence for a global winter following the asteroid impact that is thought to have killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

Putin Says Russia Gave U.S. Intel on
Iraq (AP)

Putin Says Russia Gave U.S. Intel on
Iraq (AP) 06/18/2004 07:22 PM
AP - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday his government warned Washington that Saddam Hussein's regime was preparing attacks in the United States and its interests abroad — an assertion that appears to bolster President Bush's contention that Iraq was a threat.
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