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Posts Tagged ‘ nudity ’

Nixed nudity

  • August 24th, 2009
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • By Shawn K. Quinn

The Daily Beast reports on a change in policy in France, where the topless beaches made legendary there are about to be the sign of a bygone era, due to a shift in women’s swimsuit fashions back to covering up the upper body. The most telling quote in the entire article is: “Nothing is more ringard (tacky, [ READ MORE ]

Anatomically correct, politically incorrect

  • August 17th, 2009
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • By Shawn K. Quinn

I’m not too sure the outcome would be much better in my native Houston, Texas. Hope springs eternal. (And I realize the story is a bit dated, but I just now found it.) The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported and followed up on the case of a set of nude statues by artist Itzik Asher entitled Journey [ READ MORE ]

Yet more iPhone monkey business from Apple

  • June 27th, 2009
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • By Shawn K. Quinn

A Techcrunch article (which references this prior article as well slams Apple yet again for more iPhone App Store idiocy, this time centered around the Hottest Girls app. It completely confuses me what Apple is thinking here: add parental controls to the 3.0 version of the iPhone OS, then when an application adds nudity to take [ READ MORE ]

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