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{XBiz – Sex.com Sold to Escom LLC For $14M} – “SAN FRANCISCO – The infamous and controversial domain Sex.com has officially been sold to Boston-based Escom LLC for a reported $14 million, XBiz has learned.”

See also : The Prisoner of Sex.com

Kremen won the house in a lawsuit over the domain name Sex.com. In November 2000, at the end of a three-year legal battle, a federal judge ruled that Stephen Cohen had stolen the domain by forging a letter from Kremen’s company to Network Solutions. Cohen was ordered to return Sex.com to Kremen and pay him $65 million in damages. (Cohen appealed, and in June of this year, the US Supreme Court declined to hear his case.) In the meantime, Cohen had fled the country, so all Kremen got as compensation was this California mansion and a derelict house on the US-Mexico border. Even so, Kremen figured he’d found his winning lottery ticket. Under Cohen, Sex.com had been taking in $500,000 a month selling banner ads to other online porn sites.

This is one of the longest and strangest stories of domain theft and just one of the earliest internet stories I remember. At least he’s getting $14mil out of the deal.

{Texe Marr’s Codex Magica} – “This is the most powerful book Texe has ever written. Codex Magica is the definitive volume documenting the occult empire running our planet today. Texe Marrs has spent years writing this book, more time than he’s spent on any of his other publications. This is his masterpiece.”

This seems like an interesting read on the Illuminati both past and present. I’ve been getting more interested in learning about these secret societies, mainly since we all know that deep down, they’re true. We know that the powerful get together and talk about the future of the planet, but we don’t really know what happens. We don’t know if this is “satanic” or christian or pagan or Zoroastrianism or whatever. People place so much onto the occult and it’s influence, when it’s probably just a bunch of rich white men drinking in the woods instead of actual occultist.

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{‘Nudity invalidates marriage’ – Unusual Tales – Specials – smh.com.au} -”According to the religious edict issued by Rashad Hassan Khalil, a former dean of Al-Azhar University’s faculty of Sharia (or Islamic law), “being completely naked during the act of coitus annuls the marriage”.”

I would actually ponder if Rashad Hassan Khalil has an erectile disfunction. That could be the only way, someone would suggest not being naked during sex….either that or he has a latex fetish.

In the past, I’ve wrote pieces for World AIDS Day. Most talk about statements made in youth or that it never hit close to home for me. I could write a long post about this, but it wouldn’t even come close to express my feelings. In the past year/year.5, I’ve met many people who have been effected with this horrible illness.

They’re strong, they’re fighters, they’re still here.

{PodDater.com}

I think everyone thought that the iPod Video would just be revolutionary on the TV/Movie scale. It’s people like the poddater people who take it to another level. Sending videos of singles to an iPod, now that’s brilliant. With how things like this happen, they probably won’t be the mega-millionaires but they will be the ones in the history books.

[ Wired News: No Porn for You, Video IPod! ] – I actually talked to some friends of mine about something like this over a lunch meeting. I probably said this earlier, but whomever comes up with the first site that offers a downloadable porn catalog, will become a millionaire within a year. Or actually, now that I’m thinking about it, whomever comes up with an efficient workflow or provides the actual tools, will. Aside from the Suicide Girls, I wonder when video “pod”casts will start being the norm on those “behind the wall” adult sites?