March 08, 2009
For those listeners of the Spark Minute on Green 960 or 910 KNEW in San Francisco, you’ve found the summary of all the follow up information and reports you heard on air for the week of 3/9/09. The number one spot for prostitution: Nevada or Craigslist? The market for used games, online and offlin...
Spark Minute
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David Spark
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March 06, 2009
One of the ways of starkly illustrating an aspect of the gender divide is DeBecker’s quote: “At core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.” I think there’s a class and mothering parallel here: Middle-class women are afra...
Hoyden About Town
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Lauredhel
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March 04, 2009
Filed under: Cell Phones One of the newest weapons in the arsenal of stalkers is text messaging. Texting has two major perks for those hell-bent on harassment: the constant attachment folks have to their cell phones and the tendency of handsets to pester their owners until unopened messages are view...
Switched
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Terrence O'Brien
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March 02, 2009
We don't specifically set out to attack the Catholic Church, Catholicism itself, or any specific religion or practice. But when we see hypocrisy or any other repulsive public behavior, we'll call it like we see it... A nun in India, like the ones pictured above, is speaking out about ...
Nerve Scanner
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Brian Fairbanks
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February 26, 2009
Teresa, the reader who was banned from XBOX Live for self-identifying as a lesbian, caused quite a stir on the internet. Joystiq managed to get a statement out of Microsoft regarding the issue. Microsoft says they do not allow expressions of sexuality of any kind in GamerTags or in profiles, and tha...
Consumerist
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Meg Marco
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Fighting harassment in the online world is a tricky problem, as is dealing with a diverse community. Sony found this out firsthand when there was a backlash against Home, its free online service, when it was discovered that the very words "gay" and "Jew" were deemed too offensive to be uttered. Now ...
Ars Technica
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bkuchera@arstechnica.com (Ben Kuchera)
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February 24, 2009
Former Yankee prospect Andy Phillips is considered one of the nicest family men in all of baseball by other writers and his peers. So why has an adult actress filed a police report against him? There have been a slew of athlete impersonation stories, from the recently sentenced Joba Chamberlain impe...
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DAULERIO
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The Supreme Court has declined to take up the case of a Kentucky High School student who wants to sue the school district for barring him from expressing opposition to homosexuality. 365gay.com has the following report: Morrison, a senior at Boyd County High School, sued the Boyd County school distr...
Deep Something
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John
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February 23, 2009
Below is a report I have just read by a Bunge la Mwananchi activist. We have been urging the activists who are being harassed to document their experiences as best as they can. I have promised to make sure that what is going on in Kenya right now gets a wider audience. The report is disturbing to sa...
Kenyan Pundit
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Ory Okolloh
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February 19, 2009
The Sun took a peek at the controversial new female uniform for National Express's East Coast line in England, where people still ride trains because they're cool. What they found will shock you... especially if the uniform turns out to look anything like this... The Daily Mail has a ...
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Brian Fairbanks
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