Real poop behind 2G1C, US obscenity law, and 'net security.

December 02, 2007 by Your Name in Uncategorized

The Smoking Gun reveals the identify of the director of "2 Girls, 1 Cup," the internet's latest shock-meme. 2G1C's director is a Brazilian named Marco Fiorito. The 36-year-old from Sao Paulo describes himself as a "compulsive fetishist" and "an artist in the art of movie making." He started a porn production company with his wife in the mid-'90s, focusing at first on foot fetish films:

While Fiorito contends that his revolting films are not illegal in Brazil, some of his works have been branded obscene by U.S. prosecutors and led last year to the indictment of Danilo Croce, a Brazilian lawyer who lived in Florida and was listed on corporate documents as an officer of a company distributing Fiorito's films.
In his legal declaration, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Orlando, Fiorito contended that Croce, 43, had no role in his movie business, other than helping to process credit card transactions through a travel company the attorney owned. In June, Croce, who cooperated with investigators, copped a plea and was later sentenced to three years of unsupervised probation (since he was returning to Brazil) and ordered to forfeit $98,000.
In his declaration, Fiorito explained that had he known that selling his films in the U.S. was illegal, "I would have stopped because the money is not the main reason that I make these films." He then added, "I have already made fetish movies with scat/feces using chocolate instead of feces. Many actors make scat films but they don't agree to eat feces."

Link to court filings at The Smoking Gun (8 pages).

See also this essay by internet security expert Adam J. O'Donnell: Security Implications of "Two Chicks, One Cup": not a joke. Snip:

Websites have started sprouting up that claim to host the video, but actually host malware. If you attempt to search for either "Two Chicks(Girls), One Cup" or "Two Chicks(Girls), One Finger", you may end up at malware sites likes these. This is similar to the codec attacks recently described by Sunbelt Software. I am concerned that... I can't believe I am writing this... security vendors will be loathe to post warnings regarding malicious versions of the content because the content itself is so wretched.

Link.

(Image from andrewc; Thanks, Oxblood Ruffin, Jake Appelbaum, and Jota)

Previously on Boing Boing:

Two Girls 1 Cup: a grandmother reacts.

Film review: 2 Girls One Cup

(Via Boing Boing.)

Twitter Updates for 2007-12-01

December 01, 2007 by Your Name in Uncategorized

You put your right foot in, you put your right foot out, you put your right foot in and you... #

And you shake it all about. You do the HOKIE pokie and you turn yourself around & thats what its all about. #

Go Virginia Tech! #

Go Hokies! #

Hahahaha! Blocked FG! Hey BC welcome to beamerball! #

Touchdown! #

Touchdown! #

TOUCHDOWN #

INTERCEPTION AHAHAHAHAHA !!!! #

Another interception. Sorry Boston College but revenge is a sweet sweet thing. VIRGINIA TECH, 2007 ACC CHAMPIONS!!!! #

Twitter Updates for 2007-11-30

November 30, 2007 by Your Name in Uncategorized

@tammymunson Hello - was just adding some fellow DCers today to my followers. #

@davewiner watching too #

@etm565 Hi there fellow DCer. Was just adding some DCers to my list today. #

@rubenerd I hope everything goes well with you mom. #

off to bed - see you all on the flip side #

Off to the Metro! #

Wow - Metro was completely painless today - lightly filled train from Alexandria to C-town, C-town platform empty, empty train to FarragutN #

I have in my possession one orange scone + one grande iced skim peppermint mocha. mmmmmmmmmm #

@Tammymunson have a good flight! #

I think I'll keep this hat until the 26th. #

@davewiner teehee #

@giannii had one of those myself this morning #

All I want for Christmas is to be able to go through my rss feeds for one day & see no mention of Ron Paul. #

Consequently - does anyone know of good ways via Digg & Redit to setup your profile to filter out any Ron Paul stories? #

@Rubenerd I have about 200 RSS feeds I monitor daily - lots of tech & politics stuff - its hard to avoid it(I use google reader) #

Hmm - it looks like Evel Knievel has passed away. #

40$ to fill up my honda accord...good lawd! #

Listening to NPR in car. Hilary bomb guy had road flares strapped to chest. I totally called it. #

War on Paultards: Ron Paul stories polluting Digg & Reddit

November 30, 2007 by Your Name in Uncategorized

Am I the only one who is completely sick of having to see effing Ron Paul a dozen times a day appear in my RSS feeds due to the Ron Paul Bots™ spamming Reddit & Digg with their useless dribble. Seriously - this guy is batshiat insane on the level of Lyndon LaRouche. I'm surprised as to how his merry band of crazy followers gathered enough intelligence to learn how to use this 'internet' thing.

Let me state again - Ron Paul is a nutter. Here is a quote from The Stanford Daily:

Ron Paul’s views are a contradictory hodgepodge of conservative and libertarian positions. He opposed the Iraq War but supported Afghanistan. He’s strongly pro-life but vaguely pro-gay-marriage. It seems that he wants to withdraw from most international organizations, including the WTO and the U.N. Despite being “free trade,” he opposes NAFTA, CAFTA and every other free trade agreement the U.S. has signed. He is anti-tax, anti-government spending and wishes to return to the gold standard. Paul distrusts the Federal Reserve, blaming it for causing inflation. His view of the separation church and state is worrisome, arguing that a “rigid separation...has no basis.” What is most concerning is that he’s content to let genocide, wars of aggression, and human rights violations occur abroad with nothing more than a “moral statement” from the U.S.

Here is another gem, as quoted from Wonkette:

One of the main planks of Ron Paul’s Presidential platform is the long-awaited elimination of the income tax. Paul claims that he can eliminate the income tax, pull us out of all international activities (and eliminate some small pieces of the federal government like the Department of Education) and thereby save the world. Or something. Someone smarter than us runs the numbers after the jump.

Michael Dobbs at the Washington Post (hopefully for him, no relation to Lou) asked Ron Paul’s campaign to let him know how the miracle of income tax elimination could be accomplished without functionally crippling our government (not realizing, perhaps, that for many anti-tax advocates that that’s the point!). The individual income tax brings in $1.2 trillion (of the $2.6 trillion the government takes in overall). If he doesn’t plan on borrowing to make up the budget gap, which he says he doesn’t, then he has to find $1.2 trillion in savings. All the budget cuts Ron Paul proposes? Add up to $280 billion according to Dobbs’ (and the federal government’s) figures.

Yeeeeeaaaaaah......no.