Wet Spots

· For some lucky folks, picking up girls is easy—but if you're not a forklift driver or a big time hep cat with all the swingin' lines, maybe it's time you learned how. (hydeparkrecords.net - thanks J.)

· The UK's Video Appeals Committee defines what constitutes pornography using Michael Winterbottom's "9 Songs" and Ben Dover's "Finger Buffet For Six" as examples of each, and citing "context" and "story" as the determining factors. Wait, "9 Songs" had a story? (channel4.com)

· Meanwhile, a Miami "antigaming activist" jumps on the post-Hot Coffee gravy train and calls for ban on "The Sims 2", citing "a cheat code that can remove the blur that covers the nether regions". Hell, we could've told him that. (gamespot.com)

· The Houston Chronicle asks, "Will Whiskers and Spot notice when their humans get frisky?" In our case, Whiskers could really care less ... but Spot, on the other hand, totally likes to watch. (chron.com)

· Mecka-lecka-hi, mecka-heiney-ho! Celebrate the third annual Paul Reubens Day by joining the good people from the Center for Sex and Culture for a pub crawl and "Pornographic After Party" in San Francisco this weekend ... or by getting yourself arrested at your favorite local dirty movie theater in solidarity, whichever works for you. (paulreubensday.com, via Boing Boing)

· We're glad that someone finally designed the proper flotation vest for Hooters Airline: Bikini Lifejackets by Swedish designer Thomas Bernstrand promise to save lives while offering an additional in-flight amenity to the rubber inflation fetish community at the same time. Now that's progress. (we-make-money-not-art.com)

· And finally (because she's too modest to bring it up herself), go see what Fleshbot assistant editrix Violet Blue has to say about sexy podcasting in today's Wall Street Journal. Because she knows about that sort of stuff. (wsj.com)

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