DYK: This image of “Les Horribles Cernettes” was the very first picture published on the Worldwide Web

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As you know, we recently launched our Today’s Best series, which features a photo of an attractive woman at the beginning of every post. Someone whose opinion I respect greatly told me she thought it objectified women and did not reflect favorably on me as a person and a blogger.

As I said, I respect her opinion, so I changed the title of the section from the flippant “Eye Candy” to the more respectful “Today’s Best Beauty”, and I plan to always include only tasteful photos in that section. That seems like a reasonable compromise to me.

Plus, what I don’t she realizes is that the very first image ever published on the Worldwide Web “objectified” women.

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What We Can All Learn from Greg Oden and His Nude Photos

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(shaking my head…)

There is no NBA player I am rooting for to have great professional success than Greg Oden.

He was a high school phenom from my own home state of Indiana, he led Ohio State on a scintillating NCAA Tournament run during his one year in school, and he has presented an affable, gregarious personality in public that has won him over fans across the country.

But someone needs to talk to Greg about this little thing called the Internet, and why he should view it as an absolute deterrent from doing things like sending chicks nude photos of himself.

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