links for 2008-02-20
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“Of all the shameless acts of social networking, sex parties are the most off-the-graph. Officially, there aren’t any orgies in the Valley. None of your friends go to any, certainly not.”
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“A group of Canadian sex workers hoping to set up a legal ‘co-op’ brothel in time for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver said they have won approval to incorporate themselves.” Via $pread.
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“Semicolon sightings in the city are unusual, period, much less in exhortations drafted by committees of civil servants. In literature and journalism, not to mention in advertising, the semicolon has been largely jettisoned as a pretentious anachronism.”
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“Prostitution is unlike other jobs for the same reasons that any job is unlike other jobs. … It’s a fact that prostitution is unlike other jobs. It’s a delusion that prostitutes are unlike other humans.”
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Lots of photos of abandoned mental hospitals, schools, jails, power plants, etc… *Very* cool.
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Really fascinating history here. Via Atlanta Time Machine.
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I must have this. (Via Melissa.)
Feb 20 2008 06:26 pm | Category: del.icio.us links
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