Famous French adult film director John B. Root, nee John
Guillore, has launched a self-described "sexblog" about his life and
the porn biz: Inkorrekt, the Diary of a Pornographer. Not
long ago, Root was the author of an open letter protesting a French
ban on TV porn organized by right-wing and "family values"groups.
"Porn's subject matter is physical love, a theme that has produced
countless masterpieces in painting, in sculpture and in literature,"
wrote Root.
"If celluloid sex has never succeeded in hoisting itself to the rank
of a cinematographic or televisual genre, it is because we have denied
it the right to be economically viable. We wouldn't be having this
debate if porn was what it should be: joyous, well-made, aphrodisiac
art, respectful of its actors and its audience, portraying real people
and making sense of its subject matter."
Link to John B.
Root's blog (written in French, and not worksafe),
Link to Guardian interview with Root (snip:
"There's no earthly reason why a porn film shouldn't also be a good
film. I want the product to respect me." )
Free French film lands director grand bill (Reuters)
Free French film lands director grand bill (Reuters)09/20/2004 08:38 AM Reuters - French director Claude Lelouch says he is 150,000 euros
(102,000 pounds) out of pocket after footing the bill for an
evening of free screenings of his latest film.
Yes, But John Kerry Looks French
Yes, But John Kerry Looks French04/10/2004 03:45 AM Bush
Was Warned of Possible Attack in U.S., Official Says
"President Bush was told more than a month before the attacks
of Sept. 11, 2001, that supporters of Osama bin Laden planned an
attack within the United States with explosives and wanted to hijack
airplanes, a government official said Friday.
The warning came in a secret briefing that Mr. Bush received at his
ranch in Crawford, Tex., on Aug. 6, 2001. A report by a joint
Congressional committee last year alluded to a "closely held
intelligence report" that month about the threat of an attack
by Al Qaeda, and the official confirmed an account by The Associated
Press on Friday saying that the report was in fact part of the
president's briefing in Crawford." Then again, he had
more important things to deal with that Summer.
a closer look at the new director of national intelligence: john negroponte
MSNBC - Boy Scout director charged with having child porn
MSNBC - Boy Scout director charged with having child porn03/30/2005 07:37 AM Boy Scout director charged with having child porn; Douglas S. Smith
Jr. was charged with one felony count of having photos that show
"minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct."
3/30
French art-remixes of porn photos05/29/2004 03:17 PM From France (natch), "pornotuning" -- odd
little visual remixes of hardcore porn images. Sexually explicit, not
worksafe. Link
(merçi, Jean-Luc)
1558 porn images, arranged to make a portrait of one John Ashcroft
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French "Blog your music" online bl0gosphere shindig
French "Blog your music" online bl0gosphere shindig06/17/2004 01:10 PM The second annual Blogue Ta Musique is under way. "This is a
volunteer and non-profit music sharing event, and a important
collaborative moment for french-speaking bloggers (and others)," says
Jean-Luc in Paris. "Download the beautiful small BTM logo, and more information (en Français) is here."
I have never used paFAQ, and in fact, I had
never heard of the application until today. However, in this security
announcement there is a very good explanation about how a SQL
Injection problem occurs:
The variable $username is taken directly from the submitted login form
and executed in the query, so if magic quotes gpc is off an attacker
can use UNION SELECT to bypass admin authentication!
He also notes that it seems like a lot of developers don't
quite understand what make a SQL injection and why they can be so
dangerous. He recommends this
article from Steve Friedl as a good resource. Also of note, the
response of the paFAQ
developers - none. They didn't respond or issue a new version on their
site (or even an announcement, for that matter). Definitely the wrong
way to handle it...
John Carmack's archived plan files become bl0g
John Carmack's archived plan files become bl0g09/04/2004 10:03 AM Xeni Jardin:
An anonymous BoingBoing reader writes, "This is a sort of retro blog.
I took John Carmack's archived plan files (finger johnc [at]
idsoftware.com) and put them into blog style, and will continue to do
so (I have plans starting from 1997)." Link
[ GLSA 200409-18 ] cdrtools: Local root vulnerability in cdrecord if set SUID root
Porn Valley's HIV Crisis -- Lara Roxx interview, bl0g updates
Porn Valley's HIV Crisis -- Lara Roxx interview, bl0g updates04/19/2004 12:15 AM Adult Video News has what appears to be the first extensive interview
with Canadian teenager Lara Roxx, the second of two porn actors to be
diagnosed HIV positive last week.
When she arrived in L.A. in mid-March from Montreal, on a ticket paid
for with borrowed funds, her short brown hair streaked with pink, all
she wanted to do was perform in enough scenes to create a nest-egg
that she could take back to Canada and use to go on with her life.
Instead, she's now broke, jobless and had been staying with friends,
and if the tests come back Saturday evening as she's hoping they
won't, HIV-positive.
"My manager [Daniel Perrault] woke me up on that morning that they
all found out,"Roxx told AVN.com. "I was very upset on that day; I
don't even remember what day it was."It was Tuesday, April 13, the day
the news broke that popular performer Darren James had contracted HIV
-- the first active performer on the straight side of the industry to
do so in nearly five years.
"When I got there, me and Marc had a little conversation, because
Thomas Hope told me I was going to do a d.p., and so I get there and
Marc Anthony tells me it's a d.a., which stands for double anal, "Roxx
recalled. "And I'm like, 'âWhat? I've never done a double anal.' And
he's like, 'Well, that's what we need. It's either that or nothing.'
And that's how they do it. But Marc Anthony was playing that, and I
think that really sucks, because I'm mad at the friend I thought I had
in Marc, because he knew double anal was dangerous. I knew it too,
really, probably, but I was just putting it way back in my mind
because I was down in California to make the maximum amount of money,
to come back home wealthy. I had plans for the money."
LinK to AVN interview. Fleshbot has also been doing a
terrific job of pointing to good sources of breaking news on the HIV
scare -- the industry's first in five years.
AVN is collecting donations to assist
Ms. Roxx, and also posts news that adult film star
Jenna Jameson has launched a fundraising campaign to help porn
industry workers suffering financial hardships from both the
quarantine and the production moratorium. And Carly Milne at
Pornblography posts
this damning rant from one porn industry worker who says, "I'm
about the most gung-ho porno guy you'll ever meet. But I'm pretty sick
to my stomach right now hearing about the people who just don't care."
Blog-detectives tackle suspected Mexican child-porn recruitment site
Blog-detectives tackle suspected Mexican child-porn recruitment site07/24/2004 06:10 PM Eduardo Arcos, editor of the Spanish-language blog ALT1040, is conducting an online
investigation into a website suspected of recruiting teenage girls in
Mexico for child porn. He's soliciting help from other bloggers, and
using the "comment" feature in his blog as a way to exchange info with
concerned citizens throughout the blogosphere. Together they're
collecting data, with the apparent goal of revealing who's behind the
suspect site -- and seeing to it that appropriate action is taken to
protect potential victims. Here's my clunky attempt at translating
Arcos' summary post:
A site called TV-whores with a theme and intentions that are
very clear, contains the following text: Girls from 13 - 19 years
of age: earn thousands of pesos simply by taking photographs. More
information here. (...)
The page in question offers thousands of pesos to 13-19-year-old girls
for taking digital photos. You don't have to be naked, you can be
in a bikini or underwear, it says... but it's more than
suspicious."
"French investigators questioned seven men pointed out by U.S. intelligence but found no evidence they planned to use a Los Angeles-bound jet to launch terror attacks against the United States, French authorities said Thursday"
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Radio Interview with John Brady Kiesling and John H. Brown
Radio Interview with John Brady Kiesling and John H. Brown03/15/2003 06:05 AM KALW in San Francisco did an hour
long radio interview with John Brady Kiesling and John H. Brown,
the American Foreign Service officers who resigned over Bush's Iraq
policy. Both are impressive speakers, and Kiesling is as articulate
and as convincing as his letter:
If we can't convince
our historical allies that this is a good thing to do, there is no way
we are going to be able to convince the Arab world.
People have to take a stand. War may be inevitable, but we need to do
what we can to keep our consciences clean.
There is a policy to make America safer, but this is not it.
"America is still the safest country in the world. The
administration is trying to scare people with this talk about terror
and duct tape. We should use our safety and prosperity and our
strength to do good and we can do good."
Brown said his resignation was "in part a result of Andrew Card's
comment, 'Never launch a product in August.' War is not a
product."
I learned a lot from listening to it. Recommended. Requires
Real Player.
It's fun to use google and see what it returns when searching for
'sticky buns' as, well, the imagination is a poor substitute for
reality. When food and skin porn collide it gets fairly ugly pretty
quickly. Sticky buns are likely the source of inspiration for the
Finnish bostonkakku which are served like a pie rather than the
individual buns. One of the guys at work quipped that it is served
this way because you can feed 20 instead of 8 people.
I figured that since I was making dallaspulla that I'd make the
inspiration for texaspulla and bostonkakku so that my test subjects
would know just what they had been missing all these years. :) The
dough is a snap to make even without a mixer and is much easier to
work with than the pulla dough. The only drawback is the time spent
waiting for the dough to rise. With a four-day weekend approaching
where absolutely nothing will be open and we'll likely have crappy
weather given that it's a holiday, what could be better than making a
pan of sticky buns and eating them instead of chocolate eggs? These
are, by far, the best cinnamon rolls I've ever made and my test
subjects consumed them in a shark chum feeding frenzy. Two guys even
asked me for the recipe.
Sticky Buns, a.k.a. caramel rolls or cinnamon rolls
This recipe has four components: the dough that is shaped into buns,
the filling that creates the swirl in the shaped buns, the caramel
glaze that bakes in the bottom of the baking dish along with the buns,
and the pecan topping that garnishes the buns once baked. Although the
ingredient list may look long, note that many ingredients are
repeated. Leftover sticky buns can be wrapped in foil or plastic wrap
and refrigerated for up to 3 days, but they should be warmed through
before serving. They reheat quickly in a microwave oven (for 2 buns,
about 2 minutes at 50 percent power works well); they can also be put
into a 325F/175C-degree oven for about 8 minutes.
Dough
3 large eggs at room temperature
3/4 cup buttermilk (2 dl piima) at room temperature
4 1/4 cups (10,5 dl) unbleached all-purpose flour, plus additional
for dusting work surface
6 tablespoons (85g) unsalted butter, melted and cooled until warm
In bowl of standing mixer, whisk eggs; add buttermilk and whisk to
combine.
Whisk in sugar, salt, and yeast.
Add about 2 cups (5 dl) flour and butter; stir with wooden spoon or
rubber spatula until evenly moistened and combined.
Add all but about 1/4 cup (1/2 dl) remaining flour and knead with
dough hook at low speed 5 minutes.
Check consistency of dough (dough should feel soft and moist but
should not be wet and sticky; add more flour, if necessary); knead at
low speed 5 minutes longer (dough should clear sides of bowl but stick
to bottom).
Turn dough out onto lightly floured work surface; knead by hand
about 1 minute to ensure that dough is uniform (dough should not stick
to work surface during hand kneading; if it does stick, knead in
additional flour 1 tablespoon at a time).
Lightly spray large bowl or plastic container with nonstick cooking
spray. Transfer dough to bowl, spray dough lightly with cooking spray,
then cover bowl tightly with plastic wrap.
Set in warm, draftfree spot until doubled in volume, 2 to 2 1/2
hours.
Caramel Glaze
6 tablespoons or 85g unsalted butter
3/4 cup (1,75 dl) light brown sugar, packed
3 tablespoons corn syrup, light or dark
2 tablespoons heavy cream
1 pinch table salt
Meanwhile, combine all ingredients for glaze in small saucepan.
Cook over medium heat, whisking occasionally, until butter is
melted and mixture is thoroughly combined.
Pour mixture into nonstick metal 13- by 9-inch (33cm x 23cm) baking
dish.
Using rubber spatula, spread mixture to cover surface of baking
dish.
Set baking dish aside.
Cinnamon-Sugar Filling
3/4 cup (1,75 dl) light brown sugar, packed
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1 pinch table salt
1 tablespoon or 15g unsalted butter, melted
Raisins (optional)
Combine brown sugar, cinnamon, cloves, and salt in small bowl.
Mix with a fork until thoroughly combined, using fingers to break
up sugar lumps.
Set aside.
To assemble and bake buns:
Turn dough out onto lightly floured work surface.
Gently shape dough into rough rectangle with long side nearest you.
Lightly flour dough and roll to 16-inch x 12-inch (40cm x 30cm)
rectangle.
Brush dough with 1 tablespoon melted butter, leaving 1/2-inch
border along top edge; with butter remaining on brush, brush sides of
baking dish.
Sprinkle filling mixture over dough, leaving 3/4-inch border along
top edge; smooth filling in even layer with your hand, then gently
press mixture into dough to adhere. Add rasins if you desire.
Beginning with long edge nearest you, roll dough into taut
cylinder.
Firmly pinch seam to seal and roll cylinder seam-side down.
Very gently stretch to cylinder of even diameter and 18-inch (45
cm) length; push ends in to create even thickness.
Using a serrated knife and gentle sawing motion, slice cylinder in
half, then slice each half in half again to create evenly sized
quarters.
Slice each quarter evenly into thirds, yielding 12 ~1.5 inch (3,75
cm) buns (end pieces may be slightly smaller).
Arrange buns cut-side down in prepared baking dish.
Cover tightly with plastic wrap and set in warm, draft-free spot
until puffy and pressed against one another, about 1 hour.
Meanwhile, adjust oven rack to lowest position, place pizza stone
(if using) on rack, and heat oven to 350F/175C degrees.
Place baking pan on pizza stone; bake until golden brown and center
of dough registers about 180F/82C degrees on instant-read thermometer,
25 to 30 minutes.
Cool on wire rack 10 minutes; invert onto rimmed baking sheet,
large rectangular platter, or cutting board.
With rubber spatula, scrape any glaze remaining in baking pan onto
buns; let cool while making pecan topping.
Pecan Topping
3 tablespoons or 50g unsalted butter
1/4 cup (.5 dl) light brown sugar, packed
3 tablespoons corn syrup, light or dark
1 pinch table salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract or vanilla sugar
3/4 cup (1,75 dl) pecans or walnuts, toasted in a skillet over
medium heat until fragrant and browned, about 5 minutes, then cooled
and coarsely chopped
Combine butter, brown sugar, corn syrup, and salt in small saucepan
and bring to simmer over medium heat, whisking occasionally to
thoroughly combine.
Off heat, stir in vanilla and pecans until pecans are evenly
coated.
Using soup spoon, pour heaping tablespoon of nuts and topping over
center of each sticky bun.
Continue to cool until sticky buns are warm, 15 to 20 minutes.
Pull apart or use knife to cut apart sticky buns; serve.
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Thanks, Bloggies! BB wins best group bl0g, and bl0g of the year!
Thanks, Bloggies! BB wins best group bl0g, and bl0g of the year!03/14/2005 05:29 PM Xeni Jardin:
Boing Boing pal Scott Bealeinforms us that our blog just won Group Weblog of the Year at the
Bloggies. OMG! What a huge honor! Thank you, Bloggies. We honestly
didn't expect this, and we are deeply moved and grateful. There were
many other deserving blogs up for awards, backed by talented folks who
work very hard, and we raise our collective pirate-eye-patches in
their honor: check 'em all
out. On behalf of my blog-mates Cory Doctorow, Mark Frauenfelder, and David Pescovitz; our wise "band manager"
John Battelle; our sysadmin
par excellence Ken Snider; and the rest of the team and extended
family that makes Boing Boing possible -- a humble thank you. But most
of all, we are grateful to you, our readers, for wasting otherwise
productive time on our collective scrapbook of "wonderful things," and
for pointing us to even more of those wonderful and undiscovered
things each day. We're really sorry that we couldn't make it to SXSW in person to accept the award,
but we hope you'll join us in celebrating in person tomorrow at ETCON (
all five of us will be in the same place for the first time).
Boing Boing sprouted online a little over
five years ago, from paper zine roots planted by Mark Frauenfelder
and Carla
Sinclair. It is a privilege to blog for you. With you, we look
forward to another adventurous year of link-discuss to come. Link
Update: Holy crap! Reader Nathaneal Heasley
sez, "Not only did BB win best group âblog, it won âblog of the
year/best weblog overallâ â congratulations!" For those keeping
track, this is the second year in a row Boing Boing has received these
two awards: Link to 2004, Link to 2005. Man. We're
speechless, and overwhelmed by your generosity. Grok Description matches for French porn director John Root now has a blog GrokA matches for French porn director John Root now has a blog
Google's Latest: Localized Ads04/15/2004 02:20 AM Has anyone noticed that Google seems to be launching new offerings at
a fairly rapid pace these days? Following just a few weeks after they
began testing local
search, they've launched localized ads as well. The ads would let
advertisers specify that they only want the ads to show up for people
in a certain location. Obviously, this opens up Google to a lot of
local advertisers who wouldn't have bothered before - though, it still
remains to be seen if local businesses have really thought much about
internet advertising.
Over 24 localized versions of Firefox 1.0 now available
Google Unveils Targeted Localized Ads (AP)04/15/2004 12:57 PM AP - Google is giving online merchants and other Web sites more
options for tailoring their advertisements to local audiences. Under a
new program set to begin Thursday, a pet store in Boston, for
instance, can specify that it wants to reach Google users in the
Boston area only. Or a national company can have different ads run in
San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
Fix Safari localized file errors in 10.3.406/17/2004 03:02 PM After updating to OS X 10.3.3, Safari's contextual menu would replace
"Save Image As...", "Copy (Image or Link) to Clipboard", and others
with the text "localized strings not found." Also, I was unable to
login to password-pr...
Why India is struggling with localized language computing
Why India is struggling with localized language computing08/17/2004 07:53 AM While IT is improving the quality of life in many developed nations,
the use of technology is still out of reach for people in many other
countries. Nowhere is this digital divide as big or visible than in
India. Apart from access to a computer, unfamiliarity with the English
language is one of the biggest factors contributing to this problem.
In countries like India, where the majority of the population is
English-illiterate, computing has to speak a language the locals
understand. This is where user-interface localization steps in.
Wotbox Launches 8 New Localized Search Engines
Wotbox Launches 8 New Localized Search Engines09/02/2004 02:06 AM Wotbox.com, the Search Engine upstart of last year is back with 8 new
local search sites - Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, New
Zealand, Spain & United States. [PRWEB Sep 2, 2004]
Macaroni 2.0 system utility whacks localized files
Macaroni 2.0 system utility whacks localized files01/22/2004 02:13 AM Atomic Bird LLC has released
Macaroni 2.0, a new version of their Mac OS X maintenance utility. The
new version now features the ability to remove user-specified
language-specific localized files from applications. Macaroni 2.0 can
automatically maintain Mac OS X-based systems. The developer claims
that Macaroni performs improved versions of standard Unix maintenance
tasks and maintenance specific to Mac OS X, such as running the
"repair permissions" task.
MSN joins Google, Yahoo to offer localized search service
"Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing."
- Fight Club
PAiN 0.45
PAiN 0.4506/08/2004 07:42 AM A new MUD code base written in Java.
Pain in the Asteroids
Pain in the Asteroids04/09/2004 04:04 PM The news story on William Carlton's 27-hour Asteroids marathon, the
fifth-highest-scoring game of all time, really makes you feel you were
there. For the whole 27 hours. (04-04)
No pain, no gain
No pain, no gain12/24/2003 09:21 PM USA Today Dec 24 2003 8:06PM ET
Beam of Pain06/07/2004 10:56 AM A roundup of new weapon technologies in this Sacramento Bee
piece:
Test subjects can't see the invisible beam from the Pentagon's new,
Star Trek-like weapon, but no one has withstood the pain it produces
for more than three seconds. People who volunteered to stand in front
of the directed energy beam say they felt as if they were on fire.
When they stepped aside, the pain disappeared instantly.
The long-range column of millimeter-wave energy is known as the
"Active Denial System" for its ability to prevent an aggressor from
advancing. Senior military officials, who plan to deliver the device
for troop evaluation this fall, say years of testing has produced no
sign it will lead to health effects beyond perhaps causing skin to
temporarily redden.(...)
But in an era of secret interrogations of al-Qaida suspects and
revelations of U.S. abuse of prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison,
Executive Director Doug Johnson of the Minneapolis-based Center for
Torture Victims is skeptical. "It seems fundamentally a weapon that's
designed to create a great deal of pain and fear," Johnson said. "The
concern I would have is ... once this kind of technology is available
and there's a perception that it's safe and nonlethal, it seems like a
natural device to be used in interrogations.
Authoring Pain07/20/2004 06:25 PM The person from the General Counselâs office called to talk about
some legal/regulatory stuff weâre pulling together, and she asked
how it should be delivered. I said it would eventually end up on the
Web, so why didnât they write it as a web page. She sounded
uncomfortable: âI donât know how weâd do that,â she said. At
the same time, Iâm hearing private gripes from our internal writing
community, from the President to the marketers to the Solaris geeks,
about how their writing tools stink. The state of Web authoring tools
is kind of like the state of what we used to call âWord
Processingâ twenty years ago when I was getting into this business.
If everyoneâs going to write for the Web (and it looks a lot of
people are going to) we need the Web equivalents of Word Perfect and
Wordstar and Xywrite and Microsoft Word, and we need them right now.
The Atom protocol will give them a standardized way to push the
content online, and the fact that itâs all open formats will make it
real hard for a monopolist to scoop out the market. So, whoâs
building them?
Pain bites.
Pain bites.09/20/2004 08:52 AM
No pain, no gain, they say, and when it comes to real pain, the inverse is true as well.
"We
now have research indicating there's a memory of chronic pain,"
said Dr. Doris K. Cope, director of chronic and cancer pain for the
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. It changes the genic code
sometimes, it changes the biochemistry, and it causes new proteins to
be formed." Or in other words, the more pain you have, the
more pain you have. (More on this.)
It's no wonder, then, that more money is spent on pain relief than any
other medical problem, and that there has been so much p
ain research and so many clinical trials
revealing such painful facts as redhead
s feel more pain, men
feel less pain, and that there's a genetic
difference between tough guys and wimps. (Much more pain
inside.)
Telephone Pain
Telephone Pain03/27/2005 03:11 AM Dave Shea expl
ains the painful choices facing Canadians whoâd like a better
phone. I am in exactly the same boat, except for Iâm near
the end of my service contract with Telus and when it lapses I am
so out of there. By the way, if you get a GSM phone theyâll
try to sell you one thatâs locked so that when youâre in Europe
you canât put in that SIM card you bought in a grubby Brussels
storefront; but I have it from reliable sources that most retailers
will unlock it for a few bucks in cash money under the counter.
Especially if you make it clear that the alternative is you walk out.
No Pain, No Hain09/01/2004 08:13 AM Hain Celestial puts up organically sound prospects -- if not earnings.
Total Pain of Using
Total Pain of Using08/16/2004 04:09 PM TCO or "Total Cost of Ownership" is a notion that one can calculate
(with some accuracy) the complete cost of owning something, including
all the weird side effects of acquiring and owning that thing. For
example, I can by a new 3.2GHz notebook for $2,000 and it comes with
Windows XP. But odds are that I'll spend 20 hours in the first year
dealing with device drivers, spyware, and viruses. If I value my time
at $50/hour, then the total...
The Pain of Text
The Pain of Text01/22/2004 02:12 AM Yeah, this stuff's all getting cranky. Deal. :) At the moment, I'm
trying to work on specifying text stuff for Parrot. Not simple, of
course, because text is such a massive pain. Right now I'm just trying
to sort the various functions on characters and strings into the right
spot so they can be properly overridden, thumped, assaulted, and
generally beaten about. If you've been following along, you've no
doubt seen the rants about text, so I won't reprise them (much) and
instead go for the actual useful bits. As far as I can tell (and this
is all welded...
French porn director John Root now has a blog
The following phrases have been identified by the grok system as matching this entry: symbios pain localized
From France (natch), "pornotuning" -- odd
little visual remixes of hardcore porn images. Sexually explicit, not
worksafe. 
