Excuse us for a second while we try to stop laughing.

Ok, it starts with this story from MSNBC:

Free EA software release spawns “sporn”

It’s a double-edged sword, this user-generated content thing

It’s a simple equation that marketers can’t seem to grasp: The Internet plus free modeling tools equals giant dancing penises.

So it goes for Creature Creator, the free trial tool Electronic Arts released on Tuesday to herald the marketing blitz for the September shipment of its long-awaited Spore game. It’s the latest creation from legendary game designer Will Wright. You know, the guy behind the iconic Sims series. Gamers couldn’t wait to get their mitts on the free software which they downloaded by the thousands.

With the Creature Creator, you can make your own creatures, get them to dance around, and of course, upload them to YouTube.

You can also make Spore porn, or sporn - fantastical creations of a less imaginary, more anatomical nature.

It’s a double-edged sword, this user-generated content. On the one hand, it’s laudable to create a community around a game… On the other hand, not everyone’s well-behaved on the Internet. And if EA didn’t know that, they found that out right quick with the Creature Creator.

“Well, I guess we know what every half-wit will be posting pictures of from now on,” lamented one commenter on game site Rock, Paper, Shotgun.

Yes. Half-wits like us!

The following is Not Safe For Work:

And of course - you knew somebody would do it - the Goatse creature.

You people are twisted!

source: AP

George Carlin, the dean of counterculture comedians whose biting insights on life and language were immortalized in his “Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV” routine, died of heart failure Sunday. He was 71.

YouTube: George Carlin’s “Stuff”

Carlin’s jokes constantly breached the accepted boundaries of comedy and language, particularly with his routine on the “Seven Words” - all of which are taboo on broadcast TV and radio to this day. When he uttered all seven at a show in Milwaukee in 1972, he was arrested on charges of disturbing the peace, freed on $150 bail and exonerated when a Wisconsin judge dismissed the case, saying it was indecent but citing free speech and the lack of any disturbance.

When the words were later played on a New York radio station, they resulted in a 1978 Supreme Court ruling upholding the government’s authority to sanction stations for broadcasting offensive language during hours when children might be listening. “So my name is a footnote in American legal history, which I’m perversely kind of proud of,” he told The Associated Press earlier this year.

Carlin was a television staple through the decades, serving as host of the “Saturday Night Live” debut in 1975 and appearing some 130 times on “The Tonight Show.” He produced 23 comedy albums, 14 HBO specials, three books, a couple of TV shows and appeared in several movies, from his own comedy specials to the “Bill and Ted” movies.

Carlin started his career on the traditional nightclub circuit in a coat and tie, pairing with Jack Burns. Then they met Lenny Bruce, who influenced Carlin.

Carlin’s first wife, Brenda, died in 1997. He is survived by wife Sally Wade; daughter Kelly Carlin McCall; son-in-law Bob McCall; brother Patrick Carlin; and sister-in-law Marlene Carlin.

July 22, 1972 - Police officers lead comedian George Carlin off the Summerfest grounds in Milwaukee, Wis. after using allegedly profane language during his act at Summerfest. (AP Photo)

“The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it’s all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition,” Carlin told the AP in a 2004 interview. “There’s an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed. Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body. … It’s reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have.”

Yes, a montage of teen tart shots from everyone’s favorite wannabe-role model Miley Cyrus. Just what we all need to start our Friday with.

Disney execs, as always, could not be reached for comment, nor could her father Billy Ray.

Milly D’Abbraccio now. (Some “then” shots follow.)

ROME (Reuters) - She had no desire to be just another smiling face in Italian politics. So when porn star Milly D’Abbraccio designed her campaign posters, it was obvious she was going to show off her bottom.

Targeting her male fan base, the veteran of Italy’s adult entertainment industry has plastered images of her derriere all around the Eternal City in a bid to win a seat in Rome’s city hall.

If elected, D’Abbraccio wants to create a red light area with strip clubs, erotic discos and sex shops called “Love City” just kilometers away from the Vatican.

“It would be something cute, clean — nothing to do with prostitution,” said the actress whose films include “The Kiss of the Cobra” and “Paolina Borghese, Imperial Nymphomaniac.”

D’Abbraccio, in her 40s, isn’t the first adult entertainer to dip her painted toenails into Italian politics. Ilona Staller, known as “Cicciolina,” sat in parliament in the 1980s and was famous for her impromptu stripteases.

“It was simpler then,” D’Abbraccio said. Public nudity isn’t the guaranteed attention-grabber it once was, she noted.

D’Abbraccio hopes to capitalize on increasing disenchantment with Italian politics. The recession-prone nation votes on Sunday and Monday in elections to pick a prime minister as well as lawmakers, mayors and city councilors.

“People don’t want to see these politicians’ faces anymore,” she told Reuters in an interview from her Rome apartment.

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Carla Bruni, 1993
gelatin silver print

A 1993 nude photo of French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s wife and first lady, Carla Bruni, is being sold at a Christie’s New York auction. The picture is expected to be sold for around $3,000.

An aide for Bruni said:

Carla is very angry, not to say deeply upset, that a commercial organization has chosen to release this print at such an important time. Her priority is to establish herself on the world stage as a first lady France can be proud of.