We here at Scanner are in no way medical professionals. So why in the world would we seek medical advice from others who are? Instead, we like to ask our friends what's up. That's right, we asked a boy who has no medical training whatsoever to break down female birth control for us, b...

Our friend Fedora just shot some sultry hot new stuff for Blue Blood and the set that just posted is really sexy. I love the candid punk feel captured and public nudity can be so much fun. Fedora takes what looks like a naked smoke break and the sexy tough girl attitude is thick. She’s also gr...

I thought I would continue my Mike Rothman Daily Incite series today.  The only dangers I can see in this are I might start getting grumpy and give up meat!  But hey Fake Steve Jobs stopped blogging, maybe I can be Fake Mike Rothman.  Seriously, this format allows me to comment on a bunch of diff...

Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360 Many of Liberty City's proxy residents who'd returned to the crime-riddled metropolis following the release of The Lost and Damned were recently perplexed by what appeared to be some random acts of censorship that tagged along with the expansion -- certain European ve...

My husband and I decided last week that we had earned a well-deserved and long overdue vacation -slash- Valentine’s Day getaway, so we packed up the boy and headed to Atlanta and Helen over the weekend. We had a wedding we had to shoot on Saturday, but we had all of our bags packed and ready t...

First off thanks to all who have taken the time to take the readers poll on what virtual synths you own. I’ll leave the poll up for a while to keep collecting data. I also appreciate all the comments and links to synths not in the list. A couple of early observations after look at the results so f...

DyNAmic sequencer from Lo-Fi Massahkah on Vimeo. Ready for some musical genetic engineering? Much of the sound of electronic music today grows out of the use - and abuse - of specific designs. The electronica beats bred in discos and techno, Detroit and Berlin have a direct lineage to analog step se...

Filed under: Online, Meta (about Joystiq), MMO This past week in the World of Warcraft was enough to make moonkins laugh with glee (that's what a moonkin is above, in case you don't know your WoW lingo). And WoW Insider covered it all -- here's our top 10 posts of the week for you to peruse at your ...

The problem with broken group commit was discusses many times, bug report http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=13669 was reported 3.5 years ago and still not fixed in MySQL 5.0 / 5.1 (and most likely will not be in MySQL 5.1). Although the rough truth is this bug is very hard (if possible) to fix proper...

Despite being originally planned for release in Europe and Japan simultaneously, the PixelJunk Eden "wah, it's too hard" patch is still not out in PAL regions. The official PixelJunk website has now been updated to reflect the fact that, finally, the patch will see release in Europe on January 29. T...