Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Porn

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Wired -- Larry Flynt: Life, Liberty and
Pursuit of Porn

Wired -- Larry Flynt: Life, Liberty and
Pursuit of Porn 02/19/2004 11:34 AM
For today's edition of Wired News, I interview Larry Flynt. As Hustler magazine nears its 30-year anniversary, the adult entertainment magnate reflects on how technology has changed his business, the Justice Department's new "porn czar," the f irst major federal obscenity prosecution in over a decade, how the Patriot Act relates to porn, and why online anonymity matters. I also asked him about some recent allegations regarding George W. Bush that were attributed to Flynt, and published by New York Daily News. His response: a new book he's releasing on July 4 will document a year-long investigation into those claims. Snip:

Larry Flynt: [Technology has] had a dramatic effect. In the 1980s, publishing was 80 percent of my business. Now it's about 20 percent, and the rest is Internet or video. I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information. Now everybody does -- but some did in time, and some didn't. That's one of the reasons Penthouse filed for bankruptcy. They were relying totally on publishing. We knew in the early 1990s that we needed to diversify and branched out into a lot of different areas. Technology still has many surprises for us down the road, particularly in the wireless area. It's going to be absolutely phenomenal. In the next two to five years, you'll see the computer and your home television set merging. You'll have one remote control, and they'll effectively be one device.

WN: Do you ever get tired of having to answer for the actions of some of your more extreme colleagues in the industry?

Flynt: No. I let them do their thing and I do mine. I try to set an example for them. But I've been to prison, and I don't think some of them have. Let them try it, maybe it will change their attitude.
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Porn For Liberty!

Porn For Liberty! 08/10/2004 08:03 PM
You wanna be free? Accep t pornography. Or so says Salman Rushdie. He argues that a free and civilised society should be judged by its willingness to accept pornography. So which comes first, the liberty, or the boobies?

Preserving Life & Liberty

Preserving Life & Liberty 10/31/2003 06:22 PM
propaganda site extolling the virtues of the Patriot Act .. dispelling some of the major myths .. Preserving Life and Liberty .. www.lifeandliberty.gov .. new Government website

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Life, Liberty and High-Speed Internet
Access

Life, Liberty and High-Speed Internet
Access 09/19/2004 09:09 PM
New York Times Sep 20 2004 0:26AM GMT

Net porn providers to get life sentences

Net porn providers to get life sentences 09/06/2004 10:42 AM
iafrica.com Sep 6 2004 1:59PM GMT

Life imprisonment for Internet porn
vendors

Life imprisonment for Internet porn
vendors 09/06/2004 07:22 AM
Ciol.com - Mon Sep 6, 10:17 am GMT

China threatens Internet porn merchants
with life

China threatens Internet porn merchants
with life 09/05/2004 10:05 PM
Manila Bulletin Sep 6 2004 2:49AM GMT

China threatens to jail Internet porn
providers for life

China threatens to jail Internet porn
providers for life 09/06/2004 07:22 AM
Khaleejtimes.com - Mon Sep 6, 10:24 am GMT

China Threatens Internet Porn Merchants
with Life (Reuters)

China Threatens Internet Porn Merchants
with Life (Reuters) 09/05/2004 10:14 PM
Reuters - China has intensified its battle against Internet and mobile phone pornography by threatening distributors with life in prison, Xinhua news agency said.

China Threatens Internet Porn Merchants
with Life In Jail...

China Threatens Internet Porn Merchants
with Life In Jail... 09/06/2004 07:22 AM
Cnn.netscape.cnn.com - Mon Sep 6, 09:54 am GMT

Internet porn or phone smut could now
mean life sentence in China

Internet porn or phone smut could now
mean life sentence in China 09/06/2004 10:39 AM
Xeni Jardin: Xinhua news agency reports:

China has intensified its battle against Internet and mobile phone pornography by threatening distributors with life in prison... A pornographic Web site that had been clicked on more than 250,000 times would be considered a "very severe" case that could warrant a life sentence for its producers.

Link to news story (Thanks, John)

China vows tougher penalties, up to life
in prison, for Internet porn

China vows tougher penalties, up to life
in prison, for Internet porn 09/05/2004 11:46 PM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Sep 6 2004 3:45AM GMT

In Pursuit of Happiness

In Pursuit of Happiness 09/22/2004 12:27 PM
One Fool experiences more than two hours of lost pre-party productivity in a Barnes & Noble quest.

In hot pursuit of Firefox

In hot pursuit of Firefox 04/13/2005 05:11 PM
IBM wants programmers who can work with the open-source browser, while Web surfers in general keep streaming to the Firefox site.

Solar Pursuit

Solar Pursuit 04/10/2005 09:34 PM
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Qwest may continue pursuit of MCI

Qwest may continue pursuit of MCI 03/31/2005 07:18 PM
Boston Globe Mar 31 2005 11:31PM GMT

A Sluggish Pursuit, Mostly by Faith

A Sluggish Pursuit, Mostly by Faith 01/07/2005 12:11 AM
Many people in boxing are concerned that Evander Holyfield, 42, is risking his well-being by prolonging his career.

Qwest likely to continue pursuit of MCI

Qwest likely to continue pursuit of MCI 03/29/2005 08:09 PM
San Jose Mercury News Mar 30 2005 12:39AM GMT

Qwest Likely to Continue Pursuit of MCI
(AP)

Qwest Likely to Continue Pursuit of MCI
(AP) 03/30/2005 03:12 AM
AP - Although its multibillion-dollar offer for MCI Inc. has been rejected a second time, Qwest Communications International Inc. isn't likely to be content to simply stay home in the Rockies.

Broadband Users Better At Trivial
Pursuit

Broadband Users Better At Trivial
Pursuit 09/22/2004 02:58 PM
Now that so many people have broadband, what are they doing with it? Broadband Reports points to a study suggesting that broadband users know a lot more useless info. They know a lot more from all that surfing -- but a lot of it is really trivial information. Of course, they determine this based on how involved users are with "important political developments," which seems like a fairly subjective metric. A more reasonable conclusion might be that people who are politically active find that important enough to do, even at dialup speeds. Once they get broadband, however, they don't increase their political activity, because they've already gotten as involved as they could -- so they use the extra speed to do other things that are important to them.

Microsoft pursuit of Google revealed

Microsoft pursuit of Google revealed 10/31/2003 01:56 PM
Guardian Unlimited Oct 31 2003 12:28PM ET

Trivial Pursuit Auditions At Comic-Con

Trivial Pursuit Auditions At Comic-Con 07/24/2004 07:48 AM
Hasbro Games held auditions at this year's Comic-Con, giving fans a chance to become immortalized as part of the upcoming Star Wars Trivial Pursuit DVD Game. Check out all the details, including the cutest little Darth Maul ever, by clicking here.

Apple: In Pursuit Of The ENterprise
Customer

Apple: In Pursuit Of The ENterprise
Customer 01/22/2004 07:35 PM
We caught up with senior consulting engineer Tom Weyer, who is one of the company's top resources in the enterprise-gear arena. By Paul Kapustka (Networking Pipeline via MyAppleMenu)

The Pursuit of Knowledge, From Genesis
to Google

The Pursuit of Knowledge, From Genesis
to Google 12/19/2004 03:19 PM
We can still read words on papyrus; we don't know how long it will be possible to read a text inscribed in a 2004 CD. This is not a complaint, just a reminder.

The Corporation: The Pathological
Pursuit of Profit and Power

The Corporation: The Pathological
Pursuit of Profit and Power 01/10/2004 01:06 PM
A good story in this weekend's Globe and Mail about an upcoming documentary entitled The Corporation. A special note for Rob Paterson: the article says that Tima Bansal, a professor at Western's business school, plans to use the film as the basis for a curriculum unit on corporate social responsibility and make her study guide available to other business schools. Might be of interest to you or others you know....

Need for Speed Hot pursuit 2 <= 242
client's buffer overflow

Need for Speed Hot pursuit 2 <= 242
client's buffer overflow 01/22/2004 02:07 PM
Luigi Auriemma (Jan 22 2004)

Police to walk a virtual beat in pursuit
of paedophiles (AFP)

Police to walk a virtual beat in pursuit
of paedophiles (AFP) 06/09/2004 12:29 PM
AFP - Police officers are to patrol the virtual world of Internet chat rooms as part of a global effort to tackle paedophiles operating on the World Wide Web, Britain's National Crime Squad (NCS) said.

Companies craft specialty PCs in pursuit
of profits (USATODAY.com)

Companies craft specialty PCs in pursuit
of profits (USATODAY.com) 06/21/2004 06:14 AM
USATODAY.com - Computer makers seeking profits beyond passé PCs are pushing pricey models made specifically for video games and home entertainment.

Go Digital In pursuit of perfect
acoustics and mobiles as concept art

Go Digital In pursuit of perfect
acoustics and mobiles as concept art 05/04/2004 05:11 AM
BBC May 4 2004 8:49AM GMT

No Longer a Solitary Pursuit, Video
Games Move Online

No Longer a Solitary Pursuit, Video
Games Move Online 07/05/2004 01:23 AM
New York Times Jul 5 2004 5:55AM GMT

Go Digital: 1500 GMT / 1600 BST In
pursuit of perfect acoustics and mobiles
as concept art

Go Digital: 1500 GMT / 1600 BST In
pursuit of perfect acoustics and mobiles
as concept art 05/03/2004 03:44 AM
BBC May 3 2004 8:01AM GMT

where skin porn and food porn collide

where skin porn and food porn collide 03/23/2005 10:09 AM

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

Makes: 12 sticky buns
Time: ~30 minutes prep, 3 hours for dough rising
Source: Cook's Illustrated

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
• 1/4 cup (.5 dl) granulated sugar 
• 1 1/4 teaspoons table salt 
• 2 1/4 teaspoons instant yeast  (1 packet sunnuntai dry yeast)
• 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

1. In bowl of standing mixer, whisk eggs; add buttermilk and whisk to combine.
2. Whisk in sugar, salt, and yeast.
3. Add about 2 cups (5 dl) flour and butter; stir with wooden spoon or rubber spatula until evenly moistened and combined.
4. Add all but about 1/4 cup (1/2 dl) remaining flour and knead with dough hook at low speed 5 minutes.
5. 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).
6. 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).
7. 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.
8. 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 

1. Meanwhile, combine all ingredients for glaze in small saucepan.
2. Cook over medium heat, whisking occasionally, until butter is melted and mixture is thoroughly combined.
3. Pour mixture into nonstick metal 13- by 9-inch (33cm x 23cm) baking dish.
4. Using rubber spatula, spread mixture to cover surface of baking dish.
5. 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)

1. Combine brown sugar, cinnamon, cloves, and salt in small bowl.
2. Mix with a fork until thoroughly combined, using fingers to break up sugar lumps.
3. Set aside.

To assemble and bake buns:

1. Turn dough out onto lightly floured work surface.
2. Gently shape dough into rough rectangle with long side nearest you.
3. Lightly flour dough and roll to 16-inch x 12-inch (40cm x 30cm) rectangle.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Beginning with long edge nearest you, roll dough into taut cylinder.
7. Firmly pinch seam to seal and roll cylinder seam-side down.
8. Very gently stretch to cylinder of even diameter and 18-inch (45 cm) length; push ends in to create even thickness.
9. Using a serrated knife and gentle sawing motion, slice cylinder in half, then slice each half in half again to create evenly sized quarters.
10. Slice each quarter evenly into thirds, yielding 12 ~1.5 inch (3,75 cm) buns (end pieces may be slightly smaller).
11. Arrange buns cut-side down in prepared baking dish.
12. Cover tightly with plastic wrap and set in warm, draft-free spot until puffy and pressed against one another, about 1 hour.
13. Meanwhile, adjust oven rack to lowest position, place pizza stone (if using) on rack, and heat oven to 350F/175C degrees.
14. 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.
15. Cool on wire rack 10 minutes; invert onto rimmed baking sheet, large rectangular platter, or cutting board.
16. 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

1. Combine butter, brown sugar, corn syrup, and salt in small saucepan and bring to simmer over medium heat, whisking occasionally to thoroughly combine.
2. Off heat, stir in vanilla and pecans until pecans are evenly coated.
3. Using soup spoon, pour heaping tablespoon of nuts and topping over center of each sticky bun.
4. Continue to cool until sticky buns are warm, 15 to 20 minutes.
5. Pull apart or use knife to cut apart sticky buns; serve.

Trivial Pursuit - What classic board
game, created in 1979, is on the
decline? By Bryan Curtis

Trivial Pursuit - What classic board
game, created in 1979, is on the
decline? By Bryan Curtis 04/18/2005 02:26 AM
Trivial Pursuit: that game of wit and erudition, invented by Canadian hockey fans .. the great repository of middlebrow boomer culture

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US rules all porn is child porn

US rules all porn is child porn 06/24/2005 04:04 PM
Prove otherwise

Half-Life facial expressions used in
autistic life-skills classes

Half-Life facial expressions used in
autistic life-skills classes 05/14/2004 07:41 PM
Here's a novel use for a First-Person Shooter:

An autism institute apparently is interested in using Half-Life 2's facial animation capabilities to help teach autistic children how to recognize expressions, according to PC Gamer magazine.

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LifeBio.com’s “Road of Life Adventure”
Seeks Ordinary People with Extraordinary
Life Stories

LifeBio.com’s “Road of Life Adventure”
Seeks Ordinary People with Extraordinary
Life Stories 07/23/2004 09:58 AM
LifeBio, Inc., the leading online personal history company, believes that everyone has a story to tell and they need to tell it. From August 2 to August 7, the company will conduct free audio interviews, present workshops on why and how to tell life stories, and give away old-fashioned wooden YoYos, traveling through the Midwest. People they meet will pick LifeBio questions from a traveling treasure chest and share memories through audio and written recordings. [PRWEB Jul 22, 2004]

Liberty? What liberty?

Liberty? What liberty? 04/16/2005 09:57 AM
America has need of idealism and courage, because we have essential work at home - the unfinished work of American freedom. In a world moving toward liberty, we are determined to show the meaning and promise of liberty" -George W Bush Just what liberties do we Americans have that other countries do not have?

"Liberty Alliance"

"Liberty Alliance" 04/22/2004 09:29 PM

Religious Liberty

Religious Liberty 05/13/2004 09:25 PM
The Alliance Defense Fund, which describes itself as a legal alliance of more than 700 attorneys defending religious liberty, announced Thursday it has filed a lawsuit against the city of San Jose and Mayor Ron Gonzales in an effort to...
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