On Twitter today I learned that Vancouver Public Library is making a change to its internet use policy. You can read the document yourself, but here’s the addition: Users must not use any workstation or the public wireless network to display explicit sexual images. Staff will advise users of inappropriate conduct as required and will…
According to the Times Online The British Museum and British Library have some of the biggest collections of smut in the world. They just published an informative and slightly humorous article on the contents of the so-called Porn Cupboard that begs to be read with your coworkers on your next coffee break: Most of the…
Here’s some interesting links from this week. I have some stuff to say about the manga/porn case (in sum: a fair chunk of some manga is porn, and that’s completely OK), but that will have to wait until I’ve got some more time. From Boing boing: Apple gets into the book banning business Apple’s refused…
The amazing Mariko Tamaki (who is a finalist for this year’s Governor General award for Children’s literature*) wrote a nice piece for Xtra ripping apart the misconception that erotica = bad writing. She points out that some of Canada’s top queer female fiction writers, are also skilled at writing a fine dirty story: The assertion…
Last night I went to Roundhouse to hear Queerotica, a erotica/porn reading, that was part of Pride in Art. I thought the reading was going to take place in the theater, but instead it took place in the open space outside the theater where the art exhibition was located. I was surprised at how packed…
This looks like it’s going to be hot, literarcy and smut-tastic. Hear local authors read queer erotica and the Little Sister’s staff reading smut that was stopped at the Boarder. Queerotica is part of the Pride in Art Festival. WHEN: 7:30pm | Wednesday, July 30, 2008 WHERE: The Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre (181…
Xtra West is Vancovuer’s Lesbian and Gay Biweekly free newspaper. Xtra West has been banned for free distribution at Granville Island and Fraser Valley public libraries, with the ban later rescinded at both Granville Island the the libraries . Here are some recent highlights from their website and print newspaper. This is a clip, of…
The management team of the London Public Library recommended that adult workstations continue to be filtered with a commercial internet filter (Netsweeper). They had done a pilot project to see what patrons and staff thought of having many adult workstations filtered. Not children’s workstations, but adult ones. I like that they are transparent in making…
Canada Border Services Agency sent out their quarterly list (19 page PDF) of items (CDs, newspapers, records, books, calenders, CD-ROMs, comic books, DVDs, DVD-Rs, magazines, pocket books, and video cassettes) that have been seized and reviewed by the Prohibited Importations Unit. In the 19 page report there is half a page of items listed under…
i just caught the tail end of an interview on CBC radio’s Search Engine with Tom Wood, the 16 year old Australian who hacked the $84 million porn filter created by the Australian government in about 30 minutes. download this episode, the interview with Tom is from 15:00 to 19:13. this makes me laugh, even…
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