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Oh dear god, I’m Lenny Kravitz. Thanks, so much, Luke.

Today’s slightly unusual search request is ‘jobs at fray.org’, which I only wish existed. Fray.org being, for those of you who are new to this stuff, Derek Powazek‘s IRL parallel to fray.com.

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In case you are wondering where Metafilter is:

The network host for Pyra’s offices, FirstWorld/Sirius has cancelled the connection. They’re no longer in the business of selling T-1 lines. Ev didn’t read the e-mail they sent him about it. (Don’t these companies send letters?)

Also hosted on that server are: blogspot, newsblogger, megnut, evhead, onfocus.

From the second page of a Suck article, come visualise with me: “Imagine, for a moment, that you’re not crazy, that you can set attainable goals and achieve them instead of languishing for years, unfulfilled. Let’s pretend, for just a minute, that you are not completely fucked and that you can seek intimacy from other normal, healthy individuals without alienating them or freaking them out… Oh, your concentration is breaking up. Maybe we tried to do too much in one day…”

And I quote: “Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! Are you gay (or cute enough to try out for the team)? Are you a blogger (or thinking of starting one)? Do you live in London (or anywhere near by)? If so, come and join us upstairs at Compton’s on Wednesday 30th May from 8pm onwards for London’s 1st Gay Bloggers Meet.”

Quote from an unlaunched project: “Creativity and inspiration are the enemies of truth, but without them truth couldn’t exist. They are the things that shape truth, that it emerges from, just as quickly as it finds itself smothered by them.”

The nicest thing that’s happened to me recently on the web. I’m featured site over at the perils of leisure. Again more impetus to try and think of something interesting to write about rather than all this tedious old self-promoting guff.

Scientific News of the Day: [Nanotech Looms Large for Meds] Nanotech gets one stage closer (in fact is being used in a sense) with the develoment of nano-emulsions and cancer-targetting nano-structures. How far are we from assemblers?

Article of the day: “Straight women, begone! You are ruining sex for gay guys with your need for dinner first.“: So a while back I asked a guy out for a drink. You know, normally I wouldn’t bother. But I had decided that there was something preferable about maintaining an interaction from at least twenty-four hours before first sexual contact to at least forty-eight hours after it. You know – as a change of pace, or something. But now I see the horror of it all. I have had explained to me how I am being drawn into the conspiracy to rob gay men of what they do best – cheap, horny, regular sex.

Actually there is something true in all of this. There is a freedom about sex between men that you don’t find in other places – and an honesty. And this is something that really needs to be preserved. The increased socialisation of gay sex is something that needs to be approached in a fairly circumspect fashion. We shouldn’t be losing the freedoms of a free and easy sexual culture simply because we fight for the rights to have our other relationships respected.

So I’m going to stick with what I perceive to be the core of the article: “A guy doesn’t ask a woman out because he might be attracted to her. He asks her out because he paws the ground every time she walks by. And the ground’s sick of it. Here’s why it’s important to have sex before you get to know someone. First of all because getting to know someone often ruins your physical attraction to the person.” And I think that cuts right to the heart of the issue.

Startling fact of the day: There is almost nothing decent on the web with information on phone sex. Nothing at all. What’s that about?