Google hates sex: the end of sex blogs

edited (on may 13): 

Yes, so finally the change to Blogger's Adult Content policy announced previously is not being implemented. More at: https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/6177281?p=policy_update&rd=1

---> Deep in the story with Violet Blue (Note: Tinynibbles.com, is not a Blogger site).

Original post:

Bad news today!
I suppose it will be the end of Unscathed Corpse. Since it's not a "money blog"... no banners, ads etc... I can't pay for hosting etc... and I will have no time to devote to a migration and organize a new website. 12 years !! it was fun while it lasted.... "Google hates sex". (More at ZDNet by Violet Blue).

Today I received the following:

Dear Blogger User, We're writing to tell you about an upcoming change to the Blogger Content Policy that may affect your account. 

In the coming weeks, we'll no longer allow blogs that contain sexually explicit or graphic nude images or video. We'll still allow nudity presented in artistic, educational, documentary, or scientific contexts, or where there are other substantial benefits to the public from not taking action on the content. 

The new policy will go into effect on the 23rd of March 2015. After this policy goes into effect, Google will restrict access to any blog identified as being in violation of our revised policy. No content will be deleted, but only blog authors and those with whom they have expressly shared the blog will be able to see the content we've made private. 

Our records indicate that your account may be affected by this policy change. Please refrain from creating new content that would violate this policy. Also, we ask that you make any necessary changes to your existing blog to comply as soon as possible, so that you won't experience any interruptions in service. You may also choose to create an archive of your content via Google Takeout. 

For more information, please read here. Sincerely, The Blogger Team (c) 2015 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043.

Through the Window by Maria Jose Garcia Piaggio

In Maria Jose Garcia Piaggio’s Through the Window, she appropriates found images as part of her investigation about cybersex.
quote [Through the Window is devided into two parts, one part is men looking though free portals and the other side is women that offer live shows where you have to pay to participate. Is a project of accumulation and appropiation of images. I want to be able to show this scenarios that we all know are there but we keep hidden, deconstructing it from the virtual context and taking it to other scenaries to show this two groups to the expectator. I’m interested to show the construction of the body language this women have in front of the camera to be liked and atract the expectator].

Software Library: MS-DOS Games

Software Library: MS-DOS Games ...2.295 games!!! ...from The Oregon Trail to Prince of Persia, but also Sim City, Street Fighter, Doom, Leisure Suit Larry, Tetris, Pac-Man, etc..
Software for MS-DOS machines that represent entertainment and games. The collection includes action, strategy, adventure and other unique genres of game and entertainment software. Through the use of the EM-DOSBOX in-browser emulator, these programs are bootable and playable.

Lonely Sculpture by Tully Arnot

Lonely Sculpture by Tully Arnot is a concise comment on the current condition of "social" networks.
quote [Lonely Sculpture is a piece of technology that reflects the way we interact. Dating apps like Tinder are an aspect of socialization that allows for isolation: it reduces identity and demands judgement. The work heightens an absence or disconnect that already exists with this form of interaction. However, Lonely Sculpture does not reserve judgement. The artist’s mechanized silicone index finger taps yes to every dating profile that appears on the screen, even when the screen is loading new profiles the finger keeps unconsciously tapping, anticipating, longing].

What colour is it?

Created by Berlin based artist & designer James E. Murphy, What colour is it? generates a new hex colour every second based on the current time. It will be perfect for the lock screen click of my phone!

I Know Where Your Cat Lives

I Know Where Your Cat Lives is a data experiment that visualizes a sample of 1 million public pics of cats on a world map, locating them by the latitude and longitude coordinates embedded in their metadata. The cats were accessed via publicly available APIs provided by popular photo sharing websites. The photos were then run through various clustering algorithms using a supercomputer at Florida State University in order to represent the enormity of the data source.
[Previously on... cats @ Unscathed Corpse]

More Reallifecams: The Insecam Project

The Insecam Project is the world biggest directory of online surveillance cameras. A girl in Brasil, A garden, a room, an hairdresser in France, something in Sweden, a family in Kiev, a shop in Tallin, an hospital or sort... in Spain, not sure about that in Madrid, a pharmacy in Oviedo, a pool, another pool in Korea, a school or sort, flowers...
The coordinates of the cameras are approximate. They point to the ISP address and not the physical address of the camera. This information is accurate only to a few hundred miles. The coordinates are provided only to locate the city where the camera is located, but not it's exact position or address.
[Previously: RealLifeCam]

Computer Virus Catalog

Computer Virus Catalog, an illustrated guide to the worst viruses in computer history.
[Thumbnail: Ika-Tako by Saïd Kinos].

Bad Grandma

Bad Grandma, stealing your man since 1928, the 86-year-old woman who posts Instagram shots of herself in a swimsuit, taking pills and dancing... and she's gained a cult following. Meet her on Twitter, Instagram and Etsy.

Webdriver Torso: YouTube mystery

quote [On 23 September 2013 at 14:45, YouTube user Webdriver Torso quietly uploaded a video.
The mysterious 11-second sequence of red and blue rectangles could easily have been lost, unexplained and unappreciated among YouTube's plethora of kittens and music videos. But 28 minutes later Webdriver uploaded an almost identical video, and another an hour after that, and another, until eight months later - apparently happy with nearly 80,000 clips - they fell silent, with 236 hours of video to their name.
Almost all of the uploads follow the same pattern - 10 slides, each with a red rectangle, a blue rectangle and a computer-generated tone.
The shapes change size and the notes change pitch. Each video appears to be unique, but the format stays the same].

Spy messages?



Wired magazine first stumbled on the clips in February as part of a feature on obscure YouTube uploads.

A Google search for “Webdriver Torso” only turns up results related to the YouTube channel. (We reached out to Webdriver Torso via the YouTube messenger, but have not heard back.)

A search for “Webdriver” alone, however, is somewhat more fruitful.

On the blog BoingBoing, user Enkidu speculated that the videos might be a digital version of spies' "numbers stations". These cold war relics are radio stations that broadcast seemingly random numbers at periodic intervals.

The very first video uploaded to the channel, over a month before the first rectangle classic, reveals a completely different side to Webdriver.
Locked behind a 1.99 euro ($2.76; £1.63) paywall and only accessible if you're in France, is a clip from the cartoon series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, in which the show's three anthropomorphic fast-food items - Frylock, Meatwad and Master Shake - fail to win a pub quiz.

The second anomalous clip only raises more questions.
In video 1,182 we have what could be our first sighting of Webdriver.
Filmed from a Parisian balcony, the six-second clip shows an Eiffel Tower lightshow followed by a fleeting glimpse of a face.


Below the video, Webdriver has left a comment, their only known communication with the world: "Matei is highly intelligent."

(via BBC)

quote [Selenium is a set of tools that help you automate Web-based tasks. According to its site, “it is for automating Web applications for testing purposes, but it is certainly not limited to just that.” One of the tools Selenium offers is something called WebDriver.
“WebDriver is a tool for writing automated tests of websites,” reads the WebDriver FAQ. “It aims to mimic the behavior of a real user, and as such interacts with the HTML of the application.” So we reached out to the owners of Selenium WebDriver identified in this list of developers. It looked likely that “Webdriver torso” was part of this project, not only because of the shared neologism but also because automation seemed like the only plausible explanation for uploading this quantity of video.
But Patrick Lightbody, who has been involved with Selenium since 2005, denied that there was any connection between their WebDriver and Webdriver Torso. “Those videos look like they are trying to make contact with aliens,” he wrote].
(via The Daily Dot)

[Previously: The mistery of Numbers station ]

Live Sex on the PS4

quote [Provided you're not "lucky" enough to catch them live, YouTube and Reddit are the new homes for clips of people doin' it live on their PlayStation 4. No "game shows", no pretence, just couples filming themselves hard at it. On Reddit - I'm not going to link it because even the banner image of the subreddit is super-NSFW - the vids roam free, but even on YouTube, some escape Google's army of robot censors].
Read more: Kotaku.

CamGirls Project by Vanessa Omoregie

CamGirls Project by Vanessa Omoregie is an investigative project that explored the female image within the online space.
The project throughout its course looked at themes of questioning “beauty” standards, ideas of censorship, and representation in art. It was an interactive piece starting with the instruction “copy this pose”, allowing people across the internet to re-create women portrayed in famous paintings.

quote [The project asked questions about why the internet in regards to art isn’t taken as seriously and why important cultural phenomena like selfies are kind of mocked by the media, especially when they involves women. I wanted to look at who the “online girl” is and how her image is perceived through the lens of cyber-space].

Selfiecity

Selfiecity investigates selfies using a mix of theoretic, artistic and quantitative methods:

• We present our findings about the demographics of people taking selfies, their poses and expressions.
• Rich media visualizations (imageplots) assemble thousands of photos to reveal interesting patterns. 
• The interactive selfiexploratory allows you to navigate the whole set of 3200 photos. 
• Finally, theoretical essays discuss selfies in the history of photography, the functions of images in social media, and methods and dataset.

Website model involuntarily pumps up the jam

Created by Ben Chambers, Website model involuntarily pumps up the jam it's a viral video where an American Apparel website model appears to be dancing to Pump Up the Jam by Technotronic.

There's also an HQ sequel: Website models dance involuntarily to You Spin Me Round by Dead Or Alive.

Urban Jungle Street View

Turn your neighbourhood into an overgrown urban jungle with Urban Jungle Street View a software hack for Google Street View built by Stockholm-based developer Einar Oberg.
Visit any place available in Street View by entering a location, drag the map to browse around and drop the little guy on a road. It works best in environment with large buildings surrounding the streets. Some locations need a little more imagination than others.

Escape from Mr. Birdy Room

quote [A funky beat, a big screen television, a bunch of puzzles, and several not at all creepy bird statues watching you from every single angle... it beats me why you'd want to Escape from Mr. Birdy Room (apart from the aforementioned peeping peepers), but Tesshi-e's latest free escape game wants you to do just that].
(via Jay is Games)
[Previously on ...Room Games Escape]

Cybersex by Arko Datto

With Cybersex, danish photographer Arko Datto documents women and men engaged in the virtual prostitution industry. (Cybersex gallery).
quote [Moving beyond the traditional use of a physical camera for social documentary work, I have used screenshots using a virtual camera to document moments in between paid sexual performances when they are on public view, searching for new clients. My aim with photography is two-fold. I want to push the boundaries of photography, question what it means to be a photographer in the digital age while simultaneously playing the role of observer and commentator on critical contemporary social issues".

Fashion or Porn?

Fashion or Porn? Can you distinguish fashion from pornography?

Looks Like Miley Cyrus Is Masturbating

The 21-year-old singer has released another clip from her new video Adore You, and she is masturbating in it.
She posted the short clip posted in her Instagram and the full music video premieres on Vevo December 26th.
She did recently say she liked being by herself ...so, Merry Christmas, I Guess?

Invisible Bicycles

Invisible Bicycles, not to be confused with the LOLcats image macro series Invisible Bike, is a photoshop meme that involves erasing the bicycle out of a photograph of a cyclist to make the subject appear as if he or she is floating above ground.
[Photos: Leonardo DiCaprio, Lindasy Lohan, Bill and Hillary Clinton (thumbnail) and Robert Downey Jr.]
(via Know Your Meme)