It is very difficult to determine the sex of a pigeon. There are three ways to do it:
1 – Check their reproductive organs
Not the outer ones but the inner ones. Pigeons genitalia all look alike so you will have to cut them open to actually see what you want to see.
2 – See who goes on top
There isn’t much variation in the sex life of a pigeon. Males go on top. No Kama Sutra here. Fortunately all they do is eat and, well you know, so you won’t have to wait very long to see that happen. But you do need 2 pigeons and some patience.
3 – look at their faces
Yes, pigeons have faces just like humans.
It takes years to be able to read the face of a pigeon. I kept up to 30 pigeons as a kid so I can tell the sex of any pigeon just by looking at it for 2 seconds. Just like with most humans. Humans have the added benefit of clothing, hair and breasts (or not) but even without that a face looks feminine or masculine.
I thought about that as I was watching Dragons Den. The investors try to look under all those feathers but up close all excel sheets look the same. They try to see who goes on top but then you would have to wait until the entrepreneur meets an actual client.
But once you have met enough starting entrepreneurs one look at someones face is usually enough. You know what you have got and who is a good bet and who isn’t.
The image here is pretty funny but also makes you wonder about how to deal with children online. My 7 year old daughter has a profile on a Social Network and is connected with every child in her class. How should I talk to here about the opportunities AND dangers of the online world. Should school have a separate course on it? Are the teachers active on social networks? And how about Sex education? One look at BangBros will taint her ideas about sex forever. And unfortunately not in a very positive way either.
It is clear that the Internet and the World Wide Web will play an even more important part in the lives of our children than it will ever do in ours. How should schools and parents prepare their children for that? How do you do it?
Having said that, the image below STILL managed to bring a smile to my face:
Some people seem to have their priorities mixed up. I’m leaving it up to you which part of the poll I’m thinking about.
For start-ups focus is important. If you are running a start-up you certainly don’t have time for any social activities. Focus is everything! Check out this example of extreme focus:
Intel has just done a survey of adults in the United States and published the results under the title “Internet Reliance in Today’s Economy”. One thing they found out is that 46 percent of women and 30 percent of men would rather go without sex for two weeks instead of giving up access to the Internet.
This raises some questions. First: what is their definition of sex? My definition is very different than Clinton’s as you might remember. Semantics aside the result is hardly surprising. Two weeks months without sex is pretty normal for 90% 99% of our readers but 2 weeks without the web, well, that hasn’t happened to me since I first got online in 1996. Seriously.
Sex isn’t the only thing we would sacrifice though. Cable television, dining out, shopping for clothes and gym memberships are all less important to us than Internet access.
“The survey revealed that 65 percent of adults feel they cannot live without Internet access, and even more — 71 percent — responded that it is important or very important to have Internet-enabled devices, such as laptops, netbooks and mobile Internet devices that can provide them with real-time updates on important issues including the state of the economy.”
Who needs sex (with someone else) if you have the Internet? Check this out:
According to a new survey, the number of people who use the Internet to search for porn is down by 50%. In a related story, the number of people who lie when responding to surveys is up by 50%.
- Conan O’Brien
Maybe you have seen the ASCII art generated video clip for AC/DC recently? It is hot on Youtube. Check it out:
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What do Polaroid, VHS, and the Internet have in common? They owe a huge part of their success to sex. As Boris once said in the comments on this blog: “Porn is usually the killer app“. He was referring to Qik, the mobile video streaming service that has a lot of porn-related opportunities (The Qik team doesn’t want to take advantage of this though, as they’ll blacklist users who make naughty videos). There’s another company who doesn’t want anything to do with porn, but which WILL profit from it – big time.
Since TIME published an article about the endless porn possibilities the iPhone has – large color AND touch screen, speaker, web access -, Apple spokeswoman Jennifer Bowcock has a hard time claiming that Apple will do anything to stop this. But there’s one thing that Bowcock, nor Steve Jobs, can’t control: the users’ browsing adventures. And thus, the solid Safari browser opens the gates to a mobile porn heaven.
Some people get really excited by the thought of a new iPhone and the sex part combined. Not everyone dares to express these fantasies though. Apart from one blogger, Jason Swifter, who wrote “what everyone wants, but is too chicken to say“:
I wish that there was an application that allowed you to undress people by dragging your fingers across the screen and literally dragging it off.
Seems like the iPhone has everything going for its success. It already was a killer app, yet the popularity will multiply now the sex frontier is in sight.
Jack Thorogood came across this sign-up form that kind of caught him off guard. Start reading the form and image what you would answer. Let us know in the comments and feel free to make up another few options besides the 3 current ones. Sex? Yes! Done!
I can image the smallest Matryoshka containing a USB stick with some important files on it. Don’t know what else to say about this except that I want it:
If you see anything funny online which would make a good ‘Mischievous Monday Morning’ post don’t hesitate to send it to me! I will reward you with linklove, but no sex.
When I visited San Francisco a few weeks ago, I noticed that people got really excited when I told them I’m from Amsterdam. Not for the obvious reasons – “oh you guys smoke pot all the time, right?” – but just for the reputation of Holland’s capital. When I got back in Amsterdam, somebody told me we partly owe this reputation to Mediamatic, a cultural organization that organizes exhibitions, presentations, workshops, and more things on these lines. They’re now organizing an evening about DIY and the web, which appears to be pretty interesting. The event goes by the name of “Say Yes / No to the Internet” and is part of a series of evenings on The Power of Negative Thinking.
According to the people from Mediamatic, there’s a yes-yes-mentality today:
Everyone seems gay these days. This lack of conflicting emotions fails to arouse alternative passions. Here, every critical position dissolves.
So by organizing evenings as “Say Yes / No to the Internet“, Mediamatic wants to stimulate you and me to break from this positive consensus. We must make negative statements about anything and in this particular case, the web.
Three speakers address examples of Do it yourself and the web. Brian McKenna’s talk has the title “Proprietary Hardware Do It Youself vs. the Ever Elusive Potential of Software”, Harm van den Dorpel discusses life changing experiences on the web, and Roald de Boer will hold a lecture about porn on the Internet. De Boer will look into the history of porn, especially porn movies, and the amateurish aspect of porn. He will show how images evolved and tries to answer the question whether Internet created a new pornographic language.
So if you’re in the neighborhood and not into football (Holland will defeat France that night), you might want to drop by the PostCS building in Amsterdam. It can be inspiring and refreshing to hear a more philosophical talk about the web, instead of all the start-up bla bla all the time.
I guess we all know that selling domain names can be pretty good business. But exactly how much money is in that business is anybody’s guess. To give you an impression of what your 4 letter, dictionary safe, erotic style domain name could be worth here is a list of the most expensive domain names ever sold:
1. Sex.com: $12.5 million
2. Porn.com: $9.5 million
3. Diamond.com: $7.5 million
4. Business.com: $7.5 million
5. Casino.com: $5.5 million
6. Asseenontv.com: $5 million
7. Korea.com: $5 million
8. Wine.com: $3.3 million
9. Creditcheck.com: $3 million 10. Vodka.com: $3 million
The interesting thing about this list is the amount of traffic they all generate as measured by Alexa. Sex.com is an obvious winner here but porn.com is only just getting started. And sex.com isn’t even a real site. It just redirects to another domain: sptc.information.com (Yeah, I checked so you don’t have to). If I would own such a great domain name I would use it for something more, well, to the point.
Another surprise is Asseenontv.com. Isn’t that a damn ugly and long domain name? I would guess that it would be a lot cheaper than the 5 million they got for that one.
Do you own any domains you don’t use which might be worth more than usual? Tell us in the comments!
Written on 12th May 2009
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Written on 28th June 2008
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1. Sex.com: $12.5 million
10. Vodka.com: $3 million
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