Porntifications

Posted by mikezillion at December 24th, 2007

Folks seem to be getting all upset about Larry Flynt’s recent comment in Vanity Fair: “I don’t hate gays. But I don’t want to live in an apartment full of
them. They’ll bitch and cry and all. That doesn’t bother Giuliani. It
doesn’t bother Giuliani to put a dress on to do ‘Saturday Night Live.’
I don’t trust him.”

Seriously, the man is making political statements, not social ones. He’s pandering to the right wing extremists who will be put off by associations between Giuliani and those tired stereotypes of homosexuality that resonate so clearly. Flynt is not a stupid man. He has shown time and time again that he is not a homophobe. He just doesn’t want Rudy Giuliani in the white house. I don’t either.

Rock on!

Posted by mikezillion at January 27th, 2007

Ebay, a name which needs no link (but gets one anyway), has decided to delist all virtual property. This means that it is no longer possible to use the popular c2c commerce site to sell land or goods which exist only in Second Life, World of Warcraft, Everquest, or any of the other growing virtual economies. While this isn’t technically about porn, it does concern the online valuation of digital property, and it’s inevitable that the world of porn is going in that direction.