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Finally, something for those guys who say they only read Playboy for the articles: a chance to prove it.
Playboy Enterprises Inc. launched a website Tuesday that it swears will be safe to browse while at work, eliminating the need for men to throw themselves over their computer screen when the boss walks by.
TheSmokingJacket.com will contain none of the nudity that makes Playboy.com NSFW — not suitable for work. Instead, it’ll rely on humor to reach Playboy’s target audience, men 25 to 34 years old, when they are most likely to be in front of a computer screen.
“A lot of our audience logs on (to Playboy.com) after work and we saw that we were missing a golden opportunity to reach guys when they’re online the most: when they’re sitting at their desk, not working, sending e-mails to their friends,” said Jimmy Jellinek, Playboy’s editorial director.
The site, named after one of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner‘s favorite pieces of clothing (silkpajamas.com was taken), won’t include the long interviews or in-depth articles found in Playboy.
Among the original content visitors to the site will see is a list of signs that show a man has given up trying to attract women. They include wearing Velcro sneakers and pants with elastic waistbands — clothing Hef wouldn’t be caught dead wearing, if he thought of wearing anything but his trademark jammies.
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A dating website, Beautiful People, has banned over over 5000 members because they apparently gained too much weight over the holidays.
The website has about 500,000 members, all of whom have to go through a ridiculous sign up process. In order to be given access to the website they must be voted by other members on whether they are beautiful or not.
But the site has now changed the approval process by making members of the opposite sex only able to vote on each other, apparently a lot of women were voting other women out so they could cut down on the competition.
Robert Hintze, who founded the website, said “As a business, we mourn the loss of any member, but the fact remains that our members demand the high standard of beauty be upheld, Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the very concept for which BeautifulPeople.com was founded.”
Gred Hodge, the managing director of the website says, “We were getting a lot of complaints from members who were meeting with people who gained a lot of weight or who gained weight in their photo albums.”
It really shows the state of the world when a dating site kicks members off for gaining weight over the holidays, if I had been on that site and kicked off I would sue the hell out of them (I swear I’m not bitter… I didn’t even try to sign up and get denied!).
source: Beautiful People Dating Site Cleanses Itself of ‘Fatties’ [Lemon Drop]
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Last week, hackers broke into BillOreilly.com, stole personal details including passwords of the site’s members and made them public via various internet forums.
The hacking of Bill O’Reilly’s site was allegedly a response to the Fox host’s ‘scurrilous attacks’ of Wikileaks (a website that published Sarah Palin’s hacked information), other members of the press, and ‘Hacktivists’. It was their way of ‘thumbing their noses at the pundit’.
O’Reilly and his people are working with authorities to get to the bottom of the hack job.
The following statement was posted on the O’Reilly site:
“The FBI and Secret Service are close to indicting some of the perpetrators and we will keep you posted when the arrests are made. All premium members receive the full backing of our legal team and if anyone is hassled in the least, please inform us immediately. In the latest case, no proprietary information was obtained by hackers and we have safeguards in place to protect everyone who does business with us.
Rest assured that we are on this. Our defense of Sarah Palin has led some criminals to attempt to disrupt our enterprise. At this moment federal authorities and our attorneys are compiling information against these people. Again, if any person is bothered in any way – please let us know. We stand behind our products but, most importantly, we stand behind you. We’ll get the bad guys. Count on it.”
It was also mentioned that ‘hacktivists’ aren’t done terrorizing the Fox pundit and are planning another attack.
source: Bill O’Reilly’s web site hacked, attackers release personal details of users [zero day]
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Want to live like Gwyneth Paltrow?
The Academy Award winning actress has launched her own lifestyle Website, Goop by Gwyneth Paltrow.
Each of the sections, which include “Make,” “Go,” “Get,” “Do,” “Be,” and “See,” feature an essay written by Paltrow.
“My life is good because I am not passive about it. I want to nourish what is real, and I want to do it without wasting time. I love to travel, to cook, to eat, to take care of my body and mind, to work hard. I love being a mother who has to overcome my bad qualities to be a good mother. I love being in spaces that are clean and nice.”
Some of her top tips?
“Make your life good. Invest in what’s real. Cook a meal for someone you love. Pause before reacting. Clean out your space. Read something beautiful. Treat yourself to something. Go to a city you’ve never been to. Learn something new. Don’t be lazy. Workout and stick with it. GOOP. Make it great.”
source: Gwyneth Paltrow Launches Web Site [us]
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