Has anyone else seen this movie?

Hey well-wishers.....Until choggie's probationary status is lifted, he is unable to perform properly and efficiently. Can't re-rase comments from users clogging his personal profile, (some old as dirt, others banal and self-destructive), can't privatize comments (which we can't imagine why this restriction even matters with all the cut-and-pasters and ignorers out there), and he can't FIX DEAD VIDS WITH NEW EMBED CODES-Which is what he would like to do before they die.

Choggie received some auto-generated e-mails this AM from siftbot, reminding that a number of his published viddies are dead-Choggie checked, the embeds are out there for most of them. Perusers with good-intentions or otherwise in their stalwart efforts to keep the sift free of clutter have started a clock-o-tikkin' he is helpless to smash with a hammer.

Would anyone like to help fix some of them??? He would be most gracious, as always, to return the favor in kind once his restrictions are removed.

Eat More Greens,
Mildred Krauthammer, SAC, SPA, NHA

I think it was with the advent of Sift 4.0 that this nasty *quality function was added, and since then it's done nothing but clog up my front page with years-old videos. What is this, a retirement home for youtube? There already exists *promote along with a big old box at the top of the page, why was an alternative needed?

And for the record, if I select to sort by "newness"... the first five videos that greet me range in age from one to four months. That speaks for itself.

Sunday, September 10, 2006
The Seattle Craigslist sex scandal

San Francisco Chronicle columnist Violet Blue has posted a comprehensive roundup of the Craigslist sex scandal making the blog-rounds since last week. Over the weekend, I solicited comment from others known for insight on privacy and life online, and will post their thoughts here as they come in.

For what it’s worth, I think what Jason Fortuny did is shameful and wrong in the extreme. But one obvious moral to this tale: your private information is as intimate as your private parts. There are serious risks to sharing either with strangers you bump into online.

Violet writes:

Last Monday Seattle resident Jason Fortuny [Ed. Note: pictured at left] (and a friend) carried out a thought experiment into reality -- one I think anyone who has surfed Craigslist sex ads has entertained. He took a hardcore Women Seeking Men ad from another city and reposted it to see how many replies he could get in 24 hours (the ad's photo at right). Then he published every single response -- photos, emails, IM info, phone numbers, names, everything, to a public wiki (Encyclopedia Dramatica -- site is up and down, check back if down). Then they went public on Jason's LiveJournal page calling it The Craigslist Experiment, inviting readers to identify the CL ad's responders and add more info ("Your Goal: identify people you know IRL and point them out. We've already had great successes here.") It has turned into quite a meme, getting posted all over the place.

(...) They got 178 responses, with 145 photos of men -- cocks, faces, more; full email addresses (both personal and business addresses), names, and a few IM names and phone numbers. One respondent used a Microsoft employee email address, another used a usar.army.mil (military) email address. They got audio, too. Since then, there has been one copycat in Portland. Respondents have emailed him asking him to take the info down, and he has simply published their requests.

Since then Jason has had *his* private info published to CL and been threatened physically, threatened with lawsuits, and has been hated on by everyone from online BDSM communities to Wired (and I saw he was interviewed by the NY Times on friday Sept. 8, so I wonder what position they'll take on all of this). Wired called him "sociopathic" while commenters are saying things like "Disclosing an email to the public is indeed a violation of privacy, and if anyone has a spine, they will take you down with a massive lawsuit that will make you regret ever doing this. You are a liar, a xenophobe, an asshole, and deserve to have your ass beaten to within an inch of your life."

Link to more on the story.

Reader comment: Anonymous BoingBoing reader says,

I'm writing to you from my real email account in order to demonstrate that I'm for real, but hoping that anything I may say will only be published anonymously.

I am a woman in my early 30s who has used Craigslist in my city to find casual sex, so I took a particular interest in the story of Jason Fortuny.

I tend to agree with Wired News: I think this is a deeply hateful act.

I've posted a few "Casual Encounters" ads at different times looking for various things. The first ad alone received over 300 replies. Some of them were beyond repugnant -- the bestiality proposition springs to mind. The majority were unappealing but mundane -- people who just didn't dance the same way I do, mentally speaking, didn't know how to compose a well-thought-out email or articulate themselves attractively. Those were ones like the one-liner "yo, hit me on MSN", that kind of thing. I received a lot of dickpix. Then, there were a tiny fraction that drew me in and showed me that as much consideration had gone into their reply as I put into my original post. Those were people I connected with, corresponded with (from a gmail account), and eventually met.

As a writer I have put a lot of thought into how I could use these experiences in my work. But even though I have a goldmine of material in my gmail account, I would *never* reveal these people's identities or post their personal information. It simply breaks a very basic implied trust. Now, the situation with Fortuny is different because he's just taking the piss for his own amusement. But I think that makes it even worse.

It's a big ol' world and there are intelligent, worthwhile people in the Craigslist personals... *real* people. They're (mostly!) not much different from you in that we all have the same needs and desires and cravings. This is just one manner of fulfilling them. My experiences have brought me much joy and a small measure of sorrow, but ultimately they have made my life unquestionably richer. The fact that this jagoff thinks that he is above these feelings, that he is pissing all over CL personals posters -- by extension pissing all over me -- is to me simply repugnant.

taken from- http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/10/the_seattle_craigsli.html

Thoughts?

Just wanted to share this.

http://15.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpzm7fOJzx1qzbfx5o1_500.jpg

if you don't get it...watch this http://www.videosift.com/video/Kanye-Insults-Taylor-Swift-at-VMAs

Apparently the wack-job hairstyle and inimitable nose are not enough to identify this mystery rock legend. Read the hilariously disappointing story below.


http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090815/D9A30C6G1.html

I've been on Videosift for a while, and I've only ever reached a bronze star, which was recently taken away from me with videosift 4.0, but that's not the issue here.

The issue here is that, the simple invocations, (blocked, NSFW, long and brief), are unavailable till silver star, do I really need to sift 50 videos in order to tell that a video is longer than 600 seconds?, likewise for blocked, and brief, the only one that I could see an issue with is NSFW, which is open to interpretation, and is not objective.

But quite frankly, its a sorry state of affairs when I have to spam comments to get the *blocked invocation on a video.

It seems quite unreasonable and rather idiotic to keep it this way.

In my back-and-forth with burdturgler I noticed his personal subdomain name was "nigger" and consequently the address linking to his profile is listed as " http://nigger.videosift.com/ " also his "Favorite Tags: Spook"

I'm sure stirring the pot on this matter will only cause more drama but if you dont like it, dont comment. IF personal attacks are ok, as established via my last sifttalk post, and nigger.videosift.com is ok where do we draw the line exactly?

What kind of response does this deserve then?
http://www.videosift.com/video/Ann-Coulter-More-Lies-About-Obama-s-Health-Plan#comment-832086

"I heard from a reliable source that QM sucks dick left and right."
-budzos
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I'm not trying to be a prick about it and I have my disagreements with QM as much as anyone else; but if personal attacks like this are being tossed around and QM is made to be on the receiving end of them, open and honest discourse degenerates into a food fight in a middle school lunchroom.

I'm all for a heated debate, but we need to keep it civil, and it should be frowned upon especially in cases where the community is in strong opposition of the opinions of those being attacked.

Okay, so when I was a kid growing up in Puerto Rico, I remember seeing this weird movie when I was relatively young. As best as I can remember, this movie seemed to be something from before the 80s, though it might be early 80s at the latest. More likely though, this was something from either the 60s or 70s which had just been put on TV and dubbed into Spanish.

I don't know if this was a US film or not and worse, I only remember one scene:

At the very end of the movie, a man and a woman are put into this giant machine. The interior of the machine may have had throw pillows in it. When the machine is turned on, all sorts of 60s/70s psychedelic special effects happen and they are fused into one hermaphrodite-like being that walks out of the chamber to some macabre sounding music...

For some reason that scene always stuck with me, but I have never been able to identify the movie, likely some bad, seldom referenced sci-fi thingy.

A'ight sifters, have at it. Remember that since this happened on PR tv, it may not be a US film... very possibly it was foreign.

They are fuckers.

Via SciFi Wire:



No one was more thrilled than us at the news that Comedy Central was resurrecting Futurama with an order of 26 new episodes, to begin airing in 2010.

But now comes news on Forces of Geek that 20th Century Fox Television, which produces the series, may be considering recasting the voice roles. Say it ain't so!

... more inside ...

http://gawker.com/5310339/embedding-a-youtube-video-may-cost-you-a-bundle-in-ascap-bills

Bastards.

Check it out - http://www.videosift.com/video/The-RIGHT-way-to-peel-a-banana

In particular, check out Westy's comment.

I don't have any kind of seniority here, so can someone ban him? Or can someone temporarily allow me the privilege of banning him?

Thanks

from time to time i notice that siftbot is censoring my comments.

<paranoia>
this seems to only happen when my queue is filled up with hair raising femme sifts.

im pretty sure thats a clear sign that my anarcho-feminist views are being stifled, suppressed by the male-centric robot regime.

my official protest begins now.
</paranoia>

From NY Times:

"John Cobb, 59, a former commercial fisherman who is disabled with cirrhosis of the liver and emphysema, lives in a studio apartment in Greensboro, N.C., on a fixed monthly income of $674. He has been hoping to receive more government assistance and, in February, he did.

It came in the form of a free cell phone and free service.

Cobb became one of a small but rapidly growing number of low-income Americans benefiting from a new wrinkle to a decades-old federal law that provided them with subsidized landline telephone service.

In a twist, wireless carriers are receiving subsidies to provide people like Cobb with a phone and typically 68 minutes of talk time each month. It is a form of wireless welfare that puts a societal stamp on the central role played by the mobile device.
Advertising

Cobb's cell phone is a Motorola 175. “I feel so much safer when I drive. If I get sick, I can call someone. If I break down, I can call someone,” Cobb said. “It's a necessity.”

The users are not the only ones receiving government assistance. Telecommunications industry analysts said the program, while in its infancy, could benefit mobile phone carriers, who face a steep challenge of their own: Most Americans already own cell phones, so the poor represent a last untapped market.

Okay statists/liberals/communists/democrats. You are very charitable but tell me this doesn't piss you off. Free cellphones to alcoholic chain-smokers sitting on their ass receiving $8000 a year, and free money going to the CEOs of mobile carriers.

Having recently been introduced to the concept of "Rush Limbaugh" and after watching a few videos of cocksure nonsense I got around to doing a bit of research on him tonight. I read only one page and decided I knew all I needed to know. This is taken verbatim from the About section for his radio show:

The Rush Limbaugh Show is the most listened to radio talk show in America, broadcast on over 600 radio stations nationwide. It is hosted by America's Anchorman, Rush Limbaugh, also known as: America's Truth Detector; the Doctor of Democracy; the Most Dangerous Man in America; the All-Knowing, All-Sensing, All-Everything Maha Rushie; defender of motherhood, protector of fatherhood and an all-around good guy.

There is a "consensus" among the American people, who have made this the most listened to program, that it is also the most accurate, most right, and most correct.
People who disagree with this are Rush Deniers.


I think that second paragraph is the most disgusting piece of vanity I've ever read. I really don't think that that someone that believes everything he says is utter truth should be allowed to portray his views so widely. It sounds like he believes he has so much of the American public behind him that the rest are insignificant and that ain't healthy.

i guess we knew this was coming.
stay tuned for Bea leaves the US 2012... whos with me?

http://www.sarahpac.com/
oh and
http://www.thealaskafundtrust.com/

jesus, are these even legal????

Would be OK if he just did the one. but its non stop its like really bad slapstick humor.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Fred-Goes-to-The-Doctor-downvoting-is-cool#comment-748800

The Pirate Bay founders have finally been nailed down by Swedish cops and Interpol. They were just sentenced to a year in prison plus fines for conspiring to violate copyrights. More here.

Has anyone seen this informercial? It's one of those "This book can tell you how to do everything for free! Get people to do what you want against their will! How to be a better lover!"

http://www.insideinfobook.com

I mean, his picture is right there.

I just woke up so I can't tell if this is actually a joke or not.