Too Many Tabs Open

When I start counting on Firefox's restore session feature to make sure I don't lose the 37 tabs I have up, it's time to do a link dump. In no particular order:

In Britain, free speech supporters are pushing back against a new law which criminalizes certain kinds of porn:

Section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 comes into force on 26 January and makes owning offending pictures a criminal offence punishable by up to three years' imprisonment. An image is deemed to be extreme if it "is grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character" and portrays in any way an act which threatens a person's life, or which results or appears likely to result in serious injury to someone's genitals or breasts.

The law was passed earlier this year following a mother's emotive campaign after her daughter was killed by a man who claimed he was addicted to violent porn.

Opponents have no problems with two provisions banning images of bestiality or necrophilia - both of which are already illegal to do - but fear that the other definitions are so vaguely worded that even images of consenting adults engaging in fictional violence will now be outlawed, giving Britain the toughest anti-porn laws in Europe.

In related news, one of the last acts of the Bush administration was to drop new regulations on the disclosure of adult performer's ages, known as "2257 rules". You'd think such a reasonable goal couldn't be twisted to nefarious ends, but you'd be wrong:

Needless to say, from a sexually progressive standpoint, these new rules are, if anything, worse than the original....and serve the basic purpose of essentially using paperwork to drive the porn industry out of existence.

Presumably, implementation of these new 2257 regs have been suspended along with all other pending rules by the Obama administration. One delicious side effect of the rules, though, would be to criminalize the movies produced by anti-porn activists, which often use adult movie clips without any 2257 notices. I had intended to dig into the substance of the regs, but time ... yeah.

Adult Friendfinder, the largest adult dating site, is finally going public. The company plans to raise up to $460 million in the offering. I have written about AFF trying to go public in the past.

Two trials involving the distribution of the precursor chemical needed to make meth, with wildly different sentences. You'd probably never guess the difference is based on class and race.

You probably heard of this already by now, but Politifact is keeping track on the hundreds of promises Obama made during the campaign. He said to hold his administration accountable. Politifact doesn't have the Obamameter widget up yet, though.

How to preserve your Obama memorabilia.

Philly Beer Week is March 6th - 15th. Ten days seems like a week if you're really drunk, so there's that.

Down to a manageable 10 tabs now.