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No, it won’t be televised. It’ll be live at The Dark Room in September!

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This Greasemonkey script will lift all the Questions you answered on OKCupid so you can take them with you. OKCupid questions downloader. It puts them into JSON format which you should be able to convert into other, more readable formats.

I don’t have any good way of copying the other data, messages and photos and such. But that greasemonkey script is a good start.

I’m mostly giving up on OKCupid. I’ve been at it a while and I keep finding people that say, “You’re really great but I just realized I’m not available.” Some literally already had one-way plane tickets to India or New York before we met, some don’t know if they want to date at all. I’m a bit bitter.

My niece is running a Monster High drawing contest. Monster High are dolls very popular with the under 16 set. If you have friends that are fans of the dolls, watch “Kelsey”‘s video and make your submission!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKK5AHrS8NI

This from Simone Davalos of Robogames.net

We only have three days!

Hey guys and gals, I am popping up and will offer you labor, time, excitement and beer if you help me spread the word and vote for a grant for RoboGames for the Pepsi Refresh program!

Here’s the link: http://pep.si/nHlOZZ

We’re up for a chunk of change which would enable us to get more kids competing at RoboGames and generally make things more badass than ever! The top 15 finishers get funded, it will be so easy if we mobilize everyone we know!

Please send it to lists, tweet, facebook, whatever. The Robots thank you!

Thank you!

I went out with Rick, Charlotte, her brother Robert, and Laurie last week and saw “Pornography in Denmark”. It was pretty awesome from several angles: historical, sociologically, and hey porn is pretty much always awesome.

Short form: there were laws against hardcore porn for pleasure but an exemption for documentaries. Exploit the loophole. Make money. Change attitudes and laws about porn in America. Win.

Yes, it’s a real documentary. The most striking moment for me was watching a couple going at it and hearing the narrator list off the prices of myriad pornographic literature. The intention was clear from a documentarian’s viewpoint, “See this? This is big business. We should have this in the US.” But I was a bit distracted to listen to the prices. ;-)

Here is the (fascinating) handout we got before the film:

PORNOGRAPHY IN DENMARK
(aka: CENSORSHIP IN DENMARK: A NEW APPROACH) BY ALEX DE RENZY (1969, 90 min, 16mm)
The film you will see tonight completely changed the exhibition of sexually-oriented films in San Francisco. It was the first film containing hardcore sex to be shown publicly here. From this point forward interest dwindled in softcore sexploitation, and dozens of theaters jumped on the hardcore bandwagon (including the Roxie in the Mission).

It’s worth noting that this is an artifact, and not fine art. lt was made by a 34-year-old Alex de Renzy, at the world’s first sex trade show in Copenhagen. Because the film is constructed as a documentary, de Renzy was able to include hardcore material being presented at the convention. He could then argue that the footage was justified within the context of a documentary about censorship and pornography, but was not pornography itself.

He began showing it at his own theater, The Screening Room, at 220 Jones Street, where he had been presenting softcore pictures since 1967 (most of which he made himself). The film cost de Renzy $15,000 to make. It sold $25,000 worth of tickets in its first week, and is said to have gone on to gross over 2 million. The Screening Room was raided dozens of times by the police, but de Renzy was never successfully convicted of anything.

He went on to become a hugely successful pornographer, directing several films which are considered classics of the genre, including Pretty Peaches, Babyface and Femmes de Sade. He introduced at least three actresses who went on to become icons of adult cinema; Desiree Cousteau, Annette Haven and Aunt Peg (Juliet Anderson) – who was a longtime volunteer here at YBCA until her death last year.

After these “golden age” classics, in his later years de Renzy churned out well over one hundred shot-on-video, anal sex oriented quickies under the pseudonym Rex Borsky. He died in June of 2001.

“Smut Capital of America: San Francisco’s Sex Cinema Revolution” film series continues through August 25. Visit www.YBCA.org for film descriptions and program details.
Program notes by Joel Shepard, YBCA Film/Video Curator

You missed this movie in this YBCA series but there are several more to see! The series ends this month so click and see some culturally relevant and historically important smut this month!

There are a few more films coming up as part of the series. Go see them.

If the “Check Engine” light in your car has come on and you find out what the trouble code is, you can use this website to find out what the code means:

http://www.canobd2.com

They also have THE database of car recalls. Check and see if your car has any recalls!

If you are intrigued at what is happening in this picture, you should go to  Inferno: A Fire Circus at the Crucible tonight at 7pm!

I worked with  Tara and Ralph in Flameworking to build this rather fun carnival attraction! They did the most work with the moving board, the case, the decorations, bells and signage. I snazzed it up with electronics: each hole triggers an effect!

It is running at The Crucible’s “Inferno: A Fire Circus” Thursday thru tonight!

Eoin Ryan is the force behind the comic strip Space Avalanche. Each one takes a while to  digest and that’s part of the fun. Follow his strip!

This one is no exception. If it takes you less than 30 seconds to get it, then milk isn’t coming out your nose!

As his site requests, I bought him a well deserved beer.

I love this partially because this upcoming Crucible event will be cool, partially because of the awesome graphic:

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Help us set Twitter on fire about Inferno: A Fire Circus for a chance to win a pair of tickets to the show!

Each day this week (July 11-15, 2011) we will look to see who has tweeted about Inferno using the hashtag  #firecircus and randomly choose a winner. The more you tweet, the better chance we have of seeing you. And while on Twitter, make sure you follow us to keep up with all our fiery antics.