TECH BUZZ: Out Magazine asks if the gay men’s hookup site - which reportedly rakes in $30 million yearly - has destroyed gay culture. It would be interesting to hear what John McCain had to say about the situation, considering that he gladly accepted the maximum amount for an individual donation from the “liberal Republican” owner of Manhunt.

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The Best Links:

1. Out Asks, “Has Manhunt Destroyed Gay Culture?”
2. “While You Cannot Credit Manhunt for Making Men Pigs, They Have Altogether Reinvented Gay Culture”
3. “Whatever the Answers Are, They Must Consider the Development and Well-Being of the WHOLE Person, Not Only Sexual and Romantic.”
4. Manhunt (Yyyeah, NSFW, But You Didn’t Need Me to Tell You That)
5. McCain May Not Think They’re Fit to Raise Kids, But if the Gays Are Willing to Fork Over Cash, What’s the Harm?
6. “Log In, Get Off, Get Betrayed.”

BUSINESS BUZZ: Another Gawker blogger gets fired; web media workers get another chilling vision of the future. The pay-per-pageview model is coming for your soul.

The Best Links:

1. A Pageviewocracy, At Best
2. She Was About to Resign, Anyway
3. Pageviews Just Ain’t Up to Snuff
4. Ironically, She Reported Heavily on the Viacom Freelancer’s Movement to Improve Their Job Security
5. Housekeeping - How Quaint!

TECH BUZZ: A treadmill for your workstation. Time to cancel that gym membership! Set up a feed tube and a catheter, and you’d never need to leave your desk again.

The Best Links:

1. A “Mobile Office”! Get It?!
2. The TrekDesk - A More Affordable Option
3. No, It’s Not a Joke
4. One Blogger’s Experience with the Walkstation
5. Another Way to Get More Exercise is to Spend Less Time on the Computer

TV BUZZ: People filming their own reactions to recent shocking viral videos - 2 Girls 1 Cup and BME Pain Olympics - are more fascinating than the videos themselves. We haven’t seen any of the source videos in question, but judging from these reactions, we really don’t want to, and the various underlying soundtracks you can hear in the background (piano, death metal) are therefore even more disturbing. This is like the adult version of those kids in pain videos.

The Best Links:

1. First People Watch Scat Porn, Then They Post A Video About It
2. 2 Girls, 1 Cup, 1 Grandma, 1 Reaction
3. I Fear What I Am About to See
4. Gagging/Puking To “2 Girls 1 Cup”
5. “OH MY GOD! DON’T LOOK!”
6. Watch The Waving Hands
7. Double Duty: 2 Girls 1 Cup PLUS BME Pain Olympics
8. 2 Girls 1 Finger Is Apparently Worse
9. “Why am I still watching this?”
10. Perez Hilton Is More Disgusting Than The Original
11. John Mayer Shares His Own Cup