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• Kid's mirror affirmation
• Memoir of Lando Calrissian's toady Lobot
• Typhoid adware hijacks LAN, inserts ads into uninfected computers' browsers
• Best Philippine Speculative Fiction 2009: online anthology
• Ireland's largest ISP begins disconnecting users who are accused of piracy
• Alberta principal vetos kilt at graduation
• Mr. Coke, Drug Lord
• Digital trash can made out of paper
• Mark Twain's autobiography to be finally published, 100 years after his death
• Cardboard homebrew irising mechanism
• How to avoid Chinese censors
• Igor Stravinsky, arrested for "tampering" with the Star Spangled Banner, 1940
• Nevada bans chicken suits from polling places
• Mechanical irising peephole mechanism

Kid's mirror affirmation Posted: 24 May 2010 02:40 AM PDT In this YouTube clip, "Jessica," an adorable kid, wakes up full of beans and spends 49 glorious seconds enumerating all the awesomeness in her life before the bathroom mirror. If this doesn't make you happy, you are dead inside (especially as she opens her rant with "Look, I can be a SHARK!"). Jessica's "Daily Affirmation" (Thanks, Fipi Lele!) The Day My Kid Went Punk, ABC After-School Special Child sorts out concept of gay marriage: "Husbands and Husbands ... Kid on Drugs

Memoir of Lando Calrissian's toady Lobot Posted: 24 May 2010 02:37 AM PDT "I, Lobot:" being a fictional memoir of a day in the life of Lobot, the Star Wars spear-carrier with the wraparound head-computer who toadies for Lando Calrissian. 6:30 a.m: Wake up, unplug head from charger. 6:45 a.m: Yoga, Tai Chi, and Rhythmic Gymnastics. 7:15 a.m: Hop in the shower and shave face, shave head, brush teeth, and buff headset. 7:45 a.m: Download Mr. Calrissian's itinerary, new episodes of Lost, and the newest album by Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes. I, Lobot: A Day In The Life of Lando Calrissian's Assistant Star Wars Loteria tribute Star Wars sneakers by Adidas Han Solo in Carbonite desk

Typhoid adware hijacks LAN, inserts ads into uninfected computers' browsers Posted: 24 May 2010 02:33 AM PDT Security researchers at the University of Calgary have identified a new malware they call "Typhoid." Typhoid impersonates the wireless router on your local network, effecting a man-in-the-middle attack that allows it to insert ads into the browsing sessions of all the other, uninfected users on the LAN. Typically, adware authors install their software on as many machines as possible. But Typhoid adware comes from another person's computer and convinces other laptops to communicate with it and not the legitimate access point. Then the Typhoid adware automatically inserts advertisements in videos and web pages on the other computers. Meanwhile, the carrier sips her latté in peace -- she sees no advertisements and doesn't know she is infected ¬- just like symptomless Typhoid Mary. Danger in the Internet Cafe? New Computer Security Threat for Wireless Networks: Typhoid Adware Typhoid Adware Repo Man with LARPers: "Unhand Thine Prius!" (ridiculous video ... Verified by Visa: British banks phish their own customers - Boing ... Infoporn: VeriSign NetDiscovery "Lawful Interception Service ... HOWTO Use TOR to protect yourself from censorship and snooping ...

Best Philippine Speculative Fiction 2009: online anthology Posted: 24 May 2010 02:26 AM PDT Charles Tan sez, "I'm editor of The Philippine Speculative Fiction Sampler. I've just released The Best of Philippine Speculative Fiction 2009, an online anthology that reprints sixteen stories written by Filipino authors. Contributors include Dean Francis Alfar, Yvette Tan, Kenneth Yu, and Gabriella Lee. In addition to the stories being available online, readers can also download ePub and PDFs of the anthology at the download page." Best of Philippine Speculative Fiction 2009 Science fiction and fantasy from the Philippines Science fiction from outside the English-speaking world

Ireland's largest ISP begins disconnecting users who are accused of piracy Posted: 24 May 2010 02:21 AM PDT Eircom, Ireland's largest ISP, has decided to snuffle up to the entertainment industry's hindquarters and become the first European ISP to actively practice "3 strikes": if you are accused (without proof) of three acts of copyright infringement, they will take away Internet access from your entire household for a year. Ireland is the first country in the world where a system of "graduated response" is being put in place. Under the pilot scheme, Eircom customers who illegally share copyrighted music will get three warnings before having their broadband service cut off for a year. The Irish Recorded Music Association (Irma), whose members include EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner, reached an out-of-court settlement with Eircom in February 2009 under which the telecoms company agreed to introduce such a system for its 750,000 broadband users. Eircom to cut broadband over illegal downloads (Thanks, David!) Irish ISP will disconnect Internet users after three ... Ireland High Court gives entertainment giants the power to ... Dublin city council cancels free citywide WiFi: "Illegal under ...

Alberta principal vetos kilt at graduation Posted: 24 May 2010 02:15 AM PDT Hamish Jacobs is a graduating high-school student in Alberta, Canada. In deference to his Scottish heritage, he proposed to wear a kilt to the graduation ceremony, but the principal has rejected this proposal as being "inappropriate." Evidently, principal Mark Beazer is unfamiliar with the formal attire of other nations, and people in Scotland are up in arms over the issue. Me, I say that school graduations should have the same dress-codes as science fiction conventions: "Wear anything you like, but remember, 'no costume is NO COSTUME.'" Provided you wear at least a modest cache-sexe or equivalent garment, you're clothed, and if you want to come as a superhero, a medieval blacksmith, a steampunk inventor, a tuxedoed gent, or a tentacled horror, that's great too. Just remember: it's not a skirt. The last man what called it a skirt got kilt. The issue has stirred up a whirlwind of debate, with Mr. Jacobs's story recounted in the Scottish Sunday Mail and on a Facebook page, launched by a family friend, that has attracted nearly 1,900 comments. One compares Mr. Jacobs's plight to that of an Ottawa high school student who had to fight to bring a gay partner to his Catholic prom. Another howls: "This is PUBLIC school not a MORMON one." Another pledges to write human-rights authorities - Mr. Jacobs himself has told the school he believes his Charter rights are being violated in what his Facebook page calls an "unforgivable sin." Another suggests: "u should threaten them to go to the media. That will scare them coz they wont want the bad publicity." No kilt at graduation, school tells Alberta teen (Thanks, Mom!) (Image: Tennant Kilt, a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (2.0) image from tineyho's photostream) Utility kilts! So, say Utilikilt's irreverent "license agreement" Testicle talc Celebrate Explicit Legal Pants Day (except in Mississippi schools ...

Mr. Coke, Drug Lord Posted: 23 May 2010 05:17 PM PDT Parts of Jamaica are under a state of emergency as cops go after the world's most aptly-named drug lord. [BBC]

Digital trash can made out of paper Posted: 23 May 2010 05:02 PM PDT I don't read Spanish, unfortunately, but apparently you can download, print, and make your own paper digital trash can at the designer's web site. via Designboom

Mark Twain's autobiography to be finally published, 100 years after his death Posted: 23 May 2010 02:54 PM PDT Goodblood sez, "Just before he died, Mark Twain stipulated that his autobiography should only be published 100 years after he died, and that's now. Exciting!" ZOMG. Want to read right now! The creator of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and some of the most frequently misquoted catchphrases in the English language left behind 5,000 unedited pages of memoirs when he died in 1910, together with handwritten notes saying that he did not want them to hit bookshops for at least a century. That milestone has now been reached, and in November the University of California, Berkeley, where the manuscript is in a vault, will release the first volume of Mark Twain's autobiography. The eventual trilogy will run to half a million words, and shed new light on the quintessentially American novelist... "He had doubts about God, and in the autobiography, he questions the imperial mission of the US in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. He's also critical of [Theodore] Roosevelt, and takes the view that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel. Twain also disliked sending Christian missionaries to Africa. He said they had enough business to be getting on with at home: with lynching going on in the South, he thought they should try to convert the heathens down there." In other sections of the autobiography, Twain makes cruel observations about his supposed friends, acquaintances and one of his landladies. After keeping us waiting for a century, Mark Twain will finally reveal all (Thanks, GoodBlood!) (Image: Mark Twain picture from Appleton's Journal July 4, 1874, Wikimedia Commons) Letter from Mark Twain to a snake oil peddler: "You, sir, are the ... New book of previously unpublished Mark Twain essays How Disneyland's Mark Twain riverboat sank

Cardboard homebrew irising mechanism Posted: 23 May 2010 02:48 PM PDT More scenes from a book-tour: Boing Boing reader Jason Baker saw this morning's post on the homebrew irising peephole mechanism, so he banged up this awesome facsimile out of cardboard and hot glue and fishing line and pushpins and brought it to today's signing at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC (thanks to all the awesome folks who turned out!). Tomorrow, I head to NYC: Books of Wonder (May 26, 6PM); Brooklyn's Powerhouse Books (May 27, 7:30); and McNally Jackson (May 28, 7PM). The tour wraps in Toronto on June 4 with an event at the Merril Collection at 7PM. ( Full tour schedule) Reminder: There's plenty of libraries and schools and such that are hoping you'll donate a copy of For the Win to them! Mechanical irising peephole mechanism

How to avoid Chinese censors Posted: 23 May 2010 09:35 AM PDT An image by Tenzing Gaychey (བསྟེན་འཇི༹ན་ དགེ་ཆེ་), a Toronto-based graphic designer originally from Kathmandu, Nepal (thanks, Kalaya'an Mendoza).

Igor Stravinsky, arrested for "tampering" with the Star Spangled Banner, 1940 Posted: 23 May 2010 06:11 AM PDT Neil Gaiman sez, "In 1940 Igor Stravinsky re-orchestrated 'The Star Spangled Banner' for the Boston Symphony. Someone alerted the Boston police, who arrived at Symphony Hall, confiscated the instrumental parts to the Stravinsky orchestration and arrested Stravinsky for 'tampering with public property.'" Stravinsky mugshot (Thanks, Neil!) Tettix's Rites, free electronic album "remodeling" Stravinsky ... Mugshots of people arrested while wearing unfortunate ironic t ... Mugshot of Phil Spector Without His Spectacular Wig Flickr mugshot gallery Halloween mugshot mask: U.S. Senator Larry Craig Funny mugshot of flexible faced man Mugshot of man arrested for inhaling spray paint ... Mohawk mugshot

Nevada bans chicken suits from polling places Posted: 23 May 2010 09:39 AM PDT Nevada has banned people in chicken suits from polling places. The Republican candidate, Sue Lowden, suggested that people who are too poor for medical care could offer chickens to their doctors in lieu of payment. State election officials on Friday added chicken suits to the list of banned items after weeks of ridicule directed at Republican Senate candidate Sue Lowden. The millionaire casino executive and former beauty queen recently suggested that people barter with doctors for medical care, like when "our grandparents would bring a chicken to the doctor." Democrats responded by setting up a website, "Chickens for Checkups," and by sending volunteers in chicken suits to her campaign events. Chicken costumes banned at Nev. polling places (via JWZ) (Image: chicken wing day at work!, a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (2.0) image from slopjop's photostream) Chicken-suited street musician plays "What is Love" on Melodica ... Do not mess with chemistry professors Giant space-chicken movie progressing nicely politics,nevada,chicken,healthcare,

Mechanical irising peephole mechanism Posted: 23 May 2010 05:56 AM PDT San Diego artist Christopher Schaie created this irising peephole mechanism. It's to go in on a door with a dome on the other side. He milled the pieces with a ShopBot CNC, and has posted the DXF files. OMGWANT. More mechanical wooden silliness (via Make)

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