D.C., as you should be aware of by now, isn’t just the captial of the United States, but also rampant, apparently unsatisfied sexual libidos.

Besides the Madame incident, The AP says that after complaints were lodged by a single employee, D.C.’s mayor launched an investigation of city workers browse for porn on any of the 10,000 government computers .

Surprise, surprise: nine city district workers were found to have accessed porno more than 19,000 times in 2007 and that 32 other emplyees took their porn hobby to work, frequenting adult sites more than 2,000 times last year. A total of 18 agencies were found to be festering in adulterously digital sin.

Featured Song: “Sexual Healing” by Hot Chip

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Source:
Porn Viewing Runs Amok at DC Agencies ABC News

American Apparel: where even the babies have better haircuts and the dogs are more attractive than you. But the bright colors make it all better.

Or if you like your puppies and kittens de-hipsterfied and British:
http://www.dailypets.co.uk/

Not so rock & roll.

If you’ve got www.acdc.com (seriously, folks: XNSFW, unless your boss is into that kind of stuff) bookmarked on your computer, you better refresh your Favorites.

Legendary Aussie band AC/DC (okay, this one is SFW) has staked its proverbial flag into the domain name, which was previously being used by a kinky porn site. Kinky like bondage, water sports and more of the like.

Why, after years of conceding the domain name to the porn site, would they reclaim the URL now? Like always, it’s for the children. Label manager Sam Horsburgh:

The young fans are so net savvy it’s the first thing they do. The push to get it back came predominantly because they knew there were a lot of younger fans coming through.

It’s really cute listening to your 10-year-old singing, “She told me to come/But I was already there.” You have to treasure those precious moments, people.

Featured Song: “You Shook Me All Night Long” by AC/DC


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AC/DC become masters of their domain
AC/DC wins back website from porn business

Radar Magazine’s October issue hosted the Hype Report starring overly portable dogs, cupcakes and Keira Knightly. CW humbly offers the flip side. Add to the list.

TACOS
Food trends have seized classics like hot dogs and vamped them up with gourmet add-ons. The charm of an eight dollar weiner aside, tacos remain a pure every-man’s meal. The taco is endlessly modifiable without being fussy.

GARY OLDMAN
The Brit who reinvents himself completely for each role like a Spice Girl with an identity crisis. CW is especially delighted by recent supporting roles as the future Commissioner Gordon in ‘Batman Begins’ and Sirius Black in the Harry Potter series. As if playing Sid Vicious and Pontius Pilate weren’t enough to please us.

HELIO
Helio’s ‘Ocean’ offers almost all of the conveniences of an iPhone/Blackberry without looking like a yuppie dick’s must-have. The most useful feature is a GPS locator that pairs with snappy Internet access from the Sprint network. When using Google Maps, you’re actually a blinking blue dot on the screen with step-by-step instructions from where you are. The phone service was originally pitched to the Korean-American market. So, it’s therefore totally inherently good. Insert joke about kimchee and nuclear proliferation.

TIMES NEW ROMAN
Helvetica got an adoring round-of-applause this year with its namesake documentary doing well on the indie circuit. We could say Times New Roman is worthwhile for simply foiling the dominance of Comic Sans, squiggly fonts and the unforgivable Arial. However, not all defaults are bland. Add a high gird to a word typed in Times New Roman and you’ve created a clean anti-statement statement.

HOUSTON
The shadow of Austin hides a gem, albeit an industrial one like a diamond mounted on an oil drill. Edgy without being contrived, Houston also offers a ridiculously diverse and cheap restaurant scene specializing in Tex-Mex and Vietnamese. Music and nightlife in the country’s fourth largest city remain affordable even as the raw size of the diverse population ensures tour stops from wide-ranging national artists. Nicely, Houston* is still a city where you can go out for a night with only a twenty dollar bill and ID in your back pocket.

*One more note, the minority-majority city gives off the feel of a modern Constantinople. A random single strip could host a washateria, noodle shop and ice house side-by-side. Cons: No-zoning laws mean incredible sprawl with no serious mass tran options.

(I ripped off various people for some of these — Jen Turner and Caitlin WhatsHerName)

You know that feeling that you should be having fun, but you’re not? When going out makes you feel lonelier than staying in? This Brit chalks it up to the raw fact that ‘clubbing’ is a verb equivalent to ’sucking.’

“Clubs are such insufferable dungeons of misery, the inmates have to take mood-altering substances to make their ordeal seem halfway tolerable. This leads them to believe they ‘enjoy’ clubbing. They don’t. No one does. They just enjoy drugs.”

Source:
Charlie Brooker: Nightclubs are hell. What’s cool or fun about a thumping, sweaty dungeon full of posing idiots? The Guardian

So what? Sometimes we setup elaborate photo shoots of ourselves and our friends. The most appealing shots end up on the Internet. Some make it to brief Facebook profile fame, others fade into photo set obscurity. Well, this time things went differently. I took some pictures of a friend and look what happened.

BEFORE


Taken in December when pastel polos were safely hidden under tweed coats.

And then a few months later the front page of the Express…

AFTER
A shockingly original capture

This one makes me a little uncomfortable

Tip-off courtesy of Will Nolan, who should blog here by the way.

Finally, the New York Times magazine is covering something I care about: internet porn.