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	Cybersocket Picks

By Brian Baltin

Charlie the Copywriter
www.charlie-the-copywriter.co.uk

Let us introduce ingenious UK gent Charlie Trumpess, whose services you may well need if you're stressing about whether the amount of geek tech jargon on your site is sounding like gibberish to your lay customers. With clients from British Airways to Woolworths to Coca-Cola's campaign for Western Balkans management (along with many more tech Web-site companies), we think you can't go wrong.

Fusicology
www.fusicology.com

Fusicology is an essential e-weekly for all things soul, jazz, Latin, Brazilian, Afro-beat, and hip-hop based in L.A., NYC, and Chicago. The Chi page is brand new, but the others have been long-revered by promoters, DJs and sonic connoisseurs as the last word in supporting brilliant soulful music. And if you're not in those three cities, you might still consider signing up to check out plenty of radiant flyer design from some of the best club culture designers in the country.

Gay Travel News
www.gaytravelnews.com

GTN offers an essential e-newsletter for any travelers specifically seeking LGBT flights and accommodations, and their Web site offers invaluable resources: links to gay travel agents and tour and cruise operators, international tourism sites (Australia, Spain, Tahiti, Curacao, and a peculiar emphasis on all of Scandinavia), and helpful original features.

Random Acts of Reality
randomreality.blogware.com

This brilliantly bitchy blog happens to be written by an EMT for the London Ambulance Service. Observe: "This Blog was previously known as 'Why I Hate Humanity' but the antipsychotic medication seems to have kicked in." And it's subtitled "Trying to Kill as Few People as Possible." We happened on it while doing a search for sites on autoerotic fatalities, and came upon a story of his teenage visit to the museum at the Royal London Hospital, which included the torso of a man who'd slipped while quite literally riding a broom handle. Despite the dark subject matter, the author's vitriolic wit renders much of it pretty damn funny.

Uniformstud
www.uniformstud.com

Who hasn't once seen a hot CHP officer and dreamed about pulling his uniform down and diving on his sweaty hole? Clearly we have, but either way, Uniform Stud's sweaty cops, firemen, soldiers will get you tingling (as we are for CHP Officer Ricco Santos). If you aren't sold, check the blurb for their Uniform Men on Parade: "If he's wearing a badge, he wants your dick!" Hallelujah!