Mr. Topp and the Big Bad Blog

Yes, I am on vacation. But don’t let that stop you from finding out about the newest roleplaying blog on my reading list: Playing D&D With Porn Stars.

It’s a normal enough roleplaying blog, to be honest — the writer just happens to play with strippers and/or porn stars. I happen to play with history geeks. We seem to often encounter similar issues, which may or may not be disturbing. The blog includes both brilliant roleplaying ideas and (naturally) random porn stars dropping in to play. I will note that while my group comes up with all sorts of awesome, porn stars don’t tend to drop in. Yet.

The links, of course, are not entirely safe for work. Porn, and all. You understand.

(via Bastard)

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	You can now create your own toilet paper! Yippee!
There are lots of sports stats geeks out there on the Internet. There are lots of comics geeks, as well. But it takes a special soul to closely examine every single Charlie Brown comic strip in order to calculate the character’s baseball statistics.
	Amongst the group of things being banned in Australian pornography are porn stars with small breasts. Australian censors wants to make sure that all porn is big-titty porn.
Goodbye, lightbulb. Hello strange glowing walls.
	Some advice on judges about to come down hard against copyright violators: Try not to plagiarize somebody from the Internet in your decision.
E-mails from a technology entrepreneur.
	Prosecutors in the United States are trying to show that risque photos can ruin their lives — by ruining their lives. The practice of charging children with producing child pornography when they pose for photographs with their clothes on is currently being challenged in court.
Who writes bad sex scenes? Jonathan Littell, that’s who.

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The Big Bad Blog has been very safe for work of late. We really have no intention to be. But we have been so very safe for work that we feel that we should mention — at the top — that is a vagina tuxedo on this page.

If this isn’t safe for work, we don’t understand your workplace.

In any case, to kick things off properly this morning, we begin with some giraffe pornography.

(Photo by Ed Zipco. Tuxedo by Hilary Olson. More here.)

Everything that you wanted to know about sloths, but were afraid to ask.

The people over at Science Based Medicine have started calling the Complementary and Alternative Medicine industry Big Placebo. I cannot help but be amused by this. Today they take on the claim that modern medicine (aka “Big Pharma”) does not cure anything, but “merely” manages diseases.

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We live in a strange world, and as a result there are plenty of strange jobs out there. Over the past couple of weeks, I have seen a couple of these thanks to the blogosphere web-o-net thingy that I read on a daily basis. This has prompted me to search for more.

What started it all? The need for a Grateful Dead archivist. Yep — the University of California, Santa Cruz needs somebody to organise their Grateful Dead record collection. So, if you’re a retired hippie with OCD and would like to live in California, the perfect job has presented itself.

Shortly thereafter, I found out that McDonald’s is hiring. This isn’t strange, except the job is in Cuba. This is a little strange, but not as much as the fact that it’s to manage the Guantanamo Bay restaurant. If you don’t quite feel up to management, I’m sure they also need burger flippers and milkshake makers on a fairly regular basis. This could be the perfect job for you, if you always wanted to see Gitmo, but do not wish to join the military or become a terrorist.

A short search has now also revealed the position of “porn presenter” was recently advertised. However, in a recession it is unlikely that the job is still available nearly six months later. The job, presumably, is to introduce pornographic movies to an audience while being partially clothed.

If these are amusing you and you want more, I can also suggest that you visit businesspundit.com — it seems like they give a weekly listing of the five strangest jobs they can locate on the Internet. This week features an ad for a Best Man at a wedding. Pay is $200. Must look good in a tux.

Our personal favourite from the business pundit archives dates back to August — in which a business plan seeks a Teleportation Scientist. Recession or not, a good Teleportation Scientist is hard to find — particularly in New York. For the many Teleportation Scientists who read the Big Bad Blog: This one may still be open. Dust off that CV and teleport yourself over to New York, pronto.

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