Eric Scheske

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What Do You Get When You Cross . . .

. . . geeks with sex, art, and alleged civil liberties?

This is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. My (hopefully limited) sense for the morbid prompts me to mention it here:

Some crazy internet wackos shrink-wrapped a naked girl and covered her personal bits with geek stickers, then shipped her on a pallette to the Webzine afterparty last night.

And actually, that has nothing to do with sex. This young woman is staging a performance art dramatization of the unfairly restrictive effects of DRM on the global digital marketplace . . .

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