whores and other former feminists
today Salon features a profile of former feminist turned active prostitute Veronica Monet. this swell enough piece profiles Miss Monet’s double life as a working ho’ who also has a computer executive husband.
sometimes i, myself, think of becoming a prostitute. the money. the limos. the hotels. but then i remember i would be getting paid to have someone plug their stuff in my butt. and then i sit back down at my computer.
[the reverse cowgirl’s blog]
Richard M. Helms Dies at 89; Dashing Ex-Chief of the C.I.A.. Richard M. Helms, a former director of central intelligence who defiantly guarded some of the darkest secrets of the cold war, died today. By Christopher Marquis. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
Google Fight. Take that Microsoft. Linux wins a google fight, my life is now complete :)… [kasia in a nutshell]
Short of The Sopranos, it’s the best show on television.
Yeah, I agree with Dave, they’re getting a little preachy – but I love the show, even the reruns…
The NY Times says The West Wing is running out of gas. WTF? It’s the best TV ever. Actually after reading the review, I agree with it. They are getting preachy and a bit more knowitall than usual. Something the NY Times might do itself, occasionally. “;->” [Scripting News]
The core servers that direct email and Web surfers to their desired destinations around the world have been attacked in an apparently coordinated yet unsuccessful attempt to cripple the Internet. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog]
Only in Russia: “A company commander has received a two-year suspended sentence after a military court in the Urals industrial centre of Yekaterinburg found him guilty of battering his subordinates with a ”black latex baton shaped like a male sex organ”. The soldiers, however, said at the hearing that the commander ”only hit them lightly”. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog]
A fascinating tour through Mitch Kapor’s mind in 2002. Mitch was the founder of Lotus, I worked with him many years ago at Personal Software. He is recreating Agenda, apparently, in some fashion, entirely using open source technology. Mitch is one of the great software designers, so it might be well designed. In a brief review of his site I find a lot to like, but other things, hmmm, well — okay, let’s see the software he creates. [Scripting News]
