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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
| 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!)   |
| 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. I, Lobot: A Day In The Life of Lando Calrissian's Assistant   |
| 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. Danger in the Internet Cafe? New Computer Security Threat for Wireless Networks: Typhoid Adware   |
| 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   |
| 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.Eircom to cut broadband over illegal downloads (Thanks, David!)   |
| 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. 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)   |
| 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! 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)   |
| 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!   |
| 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!)
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| 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. 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)   |
| 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. |
6:30 a.m: Wake up, unplug head from charger.
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. 
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." 
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. 
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. 
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