Raise your hand if you've ever surfed "adult sites" on the 'net. Get your hand up, you know you do. We all do. And I'm betting a lot of you could be categorized as regular users... someone's gotta be looking at a lot of it, it's a multi-billion dollar biz that pulls in more cash than many small nations.

The hardest thing (insert dick joke here) is keeping your hobby hidden. From girlfriends, wives, especially kids... anyone who would be shocked and appalled to stumble across your secret stash. And then delete it.

Most guys i know make up their own security systems. They'll have a password protected folder (which just raises suspicion), or will name a folder something ridiculous like "Spread Sheets_2004" so she doesn't go wandering in there. And hope for the best.

About a year ago a couple of guys wondered why, with adult content so popular online, was there no software out there created to meet the needs of the porn surfer. So they created it. And called it HeatSeek.

HeatSeek is a free download that's made up of four key elements: ...There's more

Right around every Halloween there's a huge music festival held out in the Las Vegas desert. It's called Vegoose and it's a weekend of not just music, but has interactive attractions and art and local Vegas performers as well.

This year there's an eclectic mix of performers, including Queens of the Stone Age, Cypress Hill, Public Enemy, Thievery Corporation, Rage Against the Machine and others.

Halloween weekend. Out in the Las Vegas dessert. With thousands of costumed music fans. Drinking. For two days straight. That beats the hell out of your office costume party.

And I've got a way for you to go... free.

Vegoose is holding a sweepstakes and the grand prize is 2 tickets to the festival, plus an 80 GIG iPod, Guitar Hero II, and music from the Vegoose artists. You can only sign up to win on select sites. And you're on one right now. Just click here to enter. And then it's out of my hands. Whether you win or not is up to the rock gods. (And the people from Vegoose.)

Rules and all that other legal stuff are on their site. Good luck and see you in Vegas.

You may not be able buy a lap dance at the Bing anymore, but you can buy one of the 12-foot stripper poles that rose from the club's main stage.

The Associated Press and MSN.com reported this morning that the owners of Satin Dolls, the real strip club that stood in for the Bada Bing on HBO's "The Sopranos", is going to auction off the poles (no word on whether or not they'll clean them first), along with other pieces of the club, on eBay.

According to the MSN.com story, "other items going on sale later this week include a pool table, a disco ball and the fluorescent purple men's room sign often seen in the background as mob boss Tony Soprano conducted business."

If stripper poles and disco balls aren't your thing, you might want to grab a piece of useful memorabilia for your own home "club": the 10 or so barstools and L-shaped slab of bar where Tony's crew hung out, drank and held "discussions". (Insert cartoonish wiseguy imitation here.)

Also up for bid, bricks from Satriale's Pork Store, which, no surprise, is being demolished to make way for condos. Which will be called "The Soprano". (And no, I did not make that up.)

Read the full story here.