Porn Pages Reach 260 Million:
An 1,800 percent growth rate over five years is typically considered an online success story, but in this case, the statistic pertains to Web porn. N2H2 found that the number of pornography related Internet pages grew from 14 million in 1998 to roughly 260 million in 2003.
This data comes on the heels of news that Microsoft Corp. is closing down chat rooms in 28 countries, in efforts to stem the presence of sexual predators of children, and Internet Filter Review found that the average age a child is first exposed to pornography online is 11 years old. Nearly all (90 percent) of kids aged 8-16 have viewed porn online, mostly while doing homework.
N2H2 identified an additional 28 million porn pages during the month of July alone, and the content filtering company expects the trend to continue, particularly since the industry is so profitable. In fact, Internet Filter Review finds that Internet pornography accounts for $2.5 billion of the $57 billion worldwide market.
While Google only indexes about 3 billion pages, purportedly there are about 10 billion pages in existence. That said, even with Google’s number, less than 10% of the web is outright fapping erotica. I think Erasmus and Diderot would be proud.
Via MarketingWonk.
Porn stars found to be very hard working, detail oriented
Is it High Noon for the western?:
The western movie is 100, but it is in truly appalling health. Hollywood released no cowboy films in 2002, so will audiences flock to the spate of big-budget westerns due out soon?
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But exactly 100 years on, has Hollywood abandoned the very genre that kick-started the movie industry as we know it?
“The westerns have become space movies,” says Martin Kelly, who fell in love with cowboy movies in the 1940s and has a collection of more than 3,500 in his own film archive.
He says contemporary directors have taken the basic skeleton of the good old western and clad it in a sci-fi skin to appeal to younger audiences who clamour for spectacular special effects.
“I blame Blazing Saddles [Mel Brooks' 1974 comedy]! It spoofed westerns so badly, that almost no one could watch westerns seriously again.”
Despite having been born, raised and schooled in Texas, I really haven’t had much of an interest in Western films — though I am quite the city slicker (real vaqueros don’t care about Linux…).
Of course, I’m of the same mentality that dueling should be brought back in place of all out war (with Kalashnikov’s of course).
Draw pilgrim!
Movie stars get hung up on KGB’s anti-hangover drug:
A drug created by the former KGB to keep its agents sober so that they could drink opponents under the table before stealing their secrets is being sold on the internet to Hollywood stars as a defence against hangovers.
The drug, known as RU-21, is made in Russia and sold as a natural remedy on the internet. Hollywood actors are said to be fond of the fix, called after the American legal drinking age, which enables them to make the most of LA’s party circuit without red eyes or pounding headaches detracting from their delivering the goods on the film set next morning.
Its makers claim that it stops the body making an enzyme which turns alcohol into acetaldehyde, a toxic chemical which can damage tissues.
The pill lets you get drunk, but indefinitely delays the hangover and damage to the body’s organs.
A little less convenient, the makers say that you have to take two pills before or during every two drinks – a suspicious activity in trendy watering holes.
The KGB invented the drug just after the second world war.
The secrets of the pill were declassified in 1999, and it was developed into a market commodity by scientists at the Russian Academy of Sciences as part of an extended study of alcohol’s effects on the body. Its makers and Californian marketeers say it is selling to the tune of $10,000 (£6,000) a week.
“Russians can out-drink anybody in the world anyway,” said Emil Chiaberi, head of Spirit Sciences, which sells the pill in the US.
“I don’t know why they needed a pill.”
I have several friends, whom are from various parts of that former federation (sounds like something from Star Trek), and they can totally out drink everyone I know… and I went to A&M. That’s my claim to fame too.
