IBM and the sexually explicit communities

“IBM introduced a ban on users that came following newspaper reports that thousands of users were joining sexually explicit communities such as “Dubai Sex”. Personally-identifiable information that you submit to IBM for the purpose of receiving products or services will be handled in accordance with our privacy policies. It’s not a dildo you know.”

The girl with kaleidoscope eyes

“Picture yourself on a train in a station, with plasticine porters with looking glass ties and suddenly someone is there at the turnstile, The girl with kaleidoscope eyes. The market had crowds of people thronging the space between the stalls watching her.”

How to make a quality “appealing” operating system

“I know that sex, sex terms, and sexy celebrities always fill search top tens for general search engine sites such as Google, MSN, and Yahoo but addressing these is the right way to develop an appealing operating system. If not instead, it
creates a gaming-console monster that has all the elegance and appeal of a coffee enema.”

The doctors of the Gulf Stream

“The tepid moisture of the Gulf Stream makes his clothes feel damp and his hair stick together into curls that straggle over his forehead. Some sorts of truth are truer than others. The men he met in the stream turned out not to be cooks but doctors, standing beside him who instead of a soup-bowl were holding a gauze-covered white enameled dish containing a hypodermic syringe.”

The fluorescent red plastic bong and the priests

“He drew a line connecting two structures. The inhabitant was seated cross-legged on the bed, smoking a fluorescent red plastic bong and staring into a color-bar test pattern on a 21-inch TV. Sevanna eyed the inhabitant sideways, then casually undid another lace of her blouse. Her and the other priests stopped eating and ran around the inhabitant for hours on end to burn their fat”