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Saturday, March 30th, 2013

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    5:56a
    Fake penis fails drug test

    http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/hwMvnqIzRQI/story01.htm

    http://boingboing.net/?p=222313

    Police in St Louis charged 34-year-old Sydney Levin with using an artificial penis, the Whizzinator, to complete a urine test. The Whizzinator's been helping idiots get busted—including its creators—since 2005.
    6:00a
    Mr Unpronounceable Adventures, spectacularly weird graphic novel in a Lovecraftian/Burroughsian vein

    http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/oVOnYUZFuZg/story01.htm

    http://boingboing.net/?p=222274


    Mr Unpronounceable Adventures is a book of comics by Australian New Zealand surrealist artist Tim Molloy in a Lovecraftian vein. But that only scratches the surface here. Molloy is incredibly fucking weird, and not always in a funny-ha-ha way (though there's plenty of that). The story loops around and around, almost making sense, almost following a narrative, returning to themes, to iconic panels, full of menace and hectic hilarity. It's really good. It's really strange.

    Here's what the publisher says about it:


    Welcome to The City Of The Ever Open Eye. A dreamworld metropolis of surreal wonder and dark nightmare. Nestled between the scorched wastes of The Endless Plain and the rolling expanse of The Hundred Year Ocean stands The City, eternal and yet ever changing. Through its labyrinthine alleys and dusty plazas stumbles Mr Unpronounceable.

    Seeker of secrets. Homeless necromancer. Madman.

    Join our hero as he lurches, sweating and delirious, from one horrifically comedic nightmare to the next. Collected here for the first time are the complete adventures of Mr Unpronounceable, freshly squeezed from the feverish pen of psychedelic artist, Tim Molloy. So grab your Shrivelled Homunculus, ingest that alien hallucinogen, and delve into the feverish brain of Mr Unpronounceable.

    The squirming secrets of the aching void await you!


    There's a lot of Naked Lunch in here. There's a lot of puckered orifices. There's a lot of grotesque genitals and breasts. Reading it sometimes hurt my head. But in a good way.

    Mr Unpronounceable Adventures [publisher's site, best for Australian buyers]

    Mr Unpronounceable Adventures [Book Depository, cheaper shipping outside of Australia]

    6:03a
    UFO memo the FBI's most viewed

    http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/QqTPupofYIg/story01.htm

    http://boingboing.net/?p=222319

    An unconfirmed report of a UFO over New Mexico is the most popular item in the FBI's online reading room, the agency reports. Russell Contreras with the AP:

    Vaguely written, the memo describes a story told by an unnamed third party who claims an Air Force investigator reported that three flying saucers were recovered in New Mexico, though the memo doesn't say exactly where in the state. The FBI indexed the report for its files but did not investigate further; the name of an "infomant" reporting some of the information is blacked out in the memo.
    7:50a
    Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours," depicted in crayon

    http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Vllh92TngIc/story01.htm

    http://boingboing.net/?p=222327

    Boing Boing reader @ayleph tweeted at us: "Fleetwood Mac's Rumors album cover, depicted in crayon. Found at Sonic Boom in Ballard." [that's Seattle, WA]. Click pic to grande-fy.

    7:55a
    8:09a
    North Korean leader Kim Jong-Eun is a Mac Guy

    http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/LqGKMOp6oEI/story01.htm

    http://boingboing.net/?p=222336

    As Anthony DeRosa of Reuters points out, Li'l Kim appears to be using Apple computer products in the most recent round of state propaganda photo campaign. Stop laughing, says The Atlantic.
    9:13a
    South Korea lives in the future (of brutal copyright enforcement)

    http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/I8m7MAPfbOI/story01.htm

    http://boingboing.net/?p=222293

    The US-Korean Free Trade Agreement came with a raft of draconian enforcement rules that Korea -- then known as a world leader in network use and literacy -- would have to adopt. Korea has since become a living lab of the impact of letting US entertainment giants design your Internet policy -- and the example that industry lobbyists point to when they discuss their goals.

    One of the laws that Korea adopted early was the infamous "three strikes" rule, where repeated, unsubstantiated accusations of copyright infringement leads to whole families being punished through restriction of, or disconnection from their Internet connections. Now the Korean National Human Rights Commission has examined the fallout from the country's three strikes rules, and called for its repeal due to high costs to wider Korean society.

    Here's the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Danny O'Brien with more:

    The entertainment industry has repeatedly pointed to South Korea as a model for a controlled Internet that should be adopted everywhere else. In the wake of South Korea's implementation, graduated response laws have been passed in France and the United Kingdom, and ISPs in the United States have voluntarily accepted a similar scheme.

    But back in Korea, the entertainment industry's experiment in Internet enforcement has been a failure. Instead of tackling a few "heavy uploaders" involved in large scale infringement, the law has spiraled out of control. It has now distributed nearly half a million takedown notices, and led to the closing down of 408 Korean Internet users' web accounts, most of which were online storage services. An investigation led by the Korean politician Choi Jae-Cheon showed that half of those suspended were involved in infringement of material that would cost less than 90 U.S. cents. And while the bill's backers claimed it would reduce piracy, detected infringement has only increased as more and more users are subject to suspensions, deletion, and blocked content.

    This Wednesday, Korea's National Human Rights Commission recommended that the three strikes law be re-examined, given its unclear benefits, and its potential violation of the human rights to receive and impart information and to participate in the cultural life of the community.

    Korea's three strikes rules are similar to the "Six Strikes" rules that America's leading ISPs have voluntarily adopted and just put into effect. If you want to see the future of American Internet policy, and its fallout, look at Korea.

    Korean Lawmakers and Human Rights Experts Challenge Three Strikes Law

    12:21p
    Embarrassingly obvious undercover cops take to Twitter looking for house shows
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    <p class='ljsyndicationlink'><a href='http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/BjOnT4upUic/story01.htm'>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/BjOnT4upUic/story01.htm</a></p><p class='ljsyndicationlink'><a href='http://boingboing.net/?p=222296'>http://boingboing.net/?p=222296</a></p><p> <img src="http://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/tumblr_mk8nx8pHr31ryqafno1_500.jpg" class="bordered"><br /> Internet-savvy indie musicians organize "house shows," which are pretty much what they sound like: a fan lets the band use her or his house for a performance, and other fans come by and hear it. The shows aren't legal, but they're pretty fun*. <p> Boston cops have taken to Twitter, posing as punk kids, trying to get bands to tip off the location of their house shows. As Slate's Luke O'Neil points out, though, they're <em>really bad</em> at it, totally tone-deaf. It's created something of an Internet sport of "spot the undercover," which is almost as much fun as the house parties. <blockquote> <p> “Too bad you were not here this weekend,” “Joe Sly” wrote. “Patty's day is a mad house I am still pissing green beer.&#160; The cops do break balls something wicked here. What's the address for Saturday Night, love DIY concerts.” He might as well have written “<a href="https://twitter.com/notpolice/status/306163189865934849"">Just got an 8 ball of beer and I’m ready to party</a>.”</p> <p>Is it possible that Joe Sly is a real Boston punk? Sure, though if so he’s the first Boston punk in history to brag about drinking lame St. Patrick’s Day green beer. As one of the many amused music fans <a href="http://lifes-halt.tumblr.com/post/46288017095/its-finally-happening-undercover-boston-cops">who scoffed at the screencap</a> as it was <a href="http://www.bostonmayhem.com/post/46297252138/sooo-who-else-remembers-the-undercover-cop-from">shared around on Tumblr</a> <a href="http://chelseadirck.tumblr.com/post/46312488975/bostonmayhem-meanxgirl-lifes-halt-its">pointed out, </a>“he/she said concerts ... concerts.” Anyone who's ever been to a concert like this knows that it's not called a <em>concert</em>. It’s a <em>show</em>.</p> <p>The Massachusetts band Do No Harm <a href="https://twitter.com/donoharmband/status/317331002383028224">also tweeted about receiving an email</a> from Joe this month. “whats the 411 for the show saturday?” he asked, apparently using some sort of slang-filter translator from the turn of the century.</p> </blockquote> <p> Of course, there may be <em>really good</em> undercovers trolling Twitter for house parties that we don't know about because of their perfect ninja stealth. If only disproving a negative was possible! <p> <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2013/03/boston_police_catfishing_indie_rockers_cops_pose_as_punks_on_the_internet.single.html">Boston Punk Zombies Are Watching You!</a> [Slate/Luke O'Neil] <hr /> <p> * Though I have some sympathy with neighbors who don't like the late night noise -- when <a href="http://www.easyflat.eu.com/">an illegal, unlicensed hotel</a> moved in next door to me and started drilling into my bedroom wall all night, and jackhammering against the wall for 8 hours straight on Christmas, it made me totally bananas. <img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/35208/f/653965/s/2a2aaab4/mf.gif' border='0'/><div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/viral/sendEmail.cfm?lang=en&title=Embarrassingly+obvious+undercover+cops+take+to+Twitter+looking+for+house+shows&link=http%3A%2F%2Fboingboing.net%2F2013%2F03%2F30%2Fembarrassingly-obvious-underco.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Embarrassingly+obvious+undercover+cops+take+to+Twitter+looking+for+house+shows&link=http%3A%2F%2Fboingboing.net%2F2013%2F03%2F30%2Fembarrassingly-obvious-underco.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/BjOnT4upUic" height="1" width="1"/>
    2:54p
    New Bob Basset mask with added angularity

    http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/M2rIsKDv_R8/story01.htm

    http://boingboing.net/?p=222302


    A new piece from Ukrainian steampunk leather mask-maker Bob Basset. I like the angular forms here -- there's something a bit Roman in it, to my eye at least.

    DW new. Steampunk Art Leather Mask

    6:08p
    Assyrian Dalek, ca. 865 BCE

    http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/MUDBoXjU0x4/story01.htm

    http://boingboing.net/?p=222342


    From Wikipedia: "English: A large wheeled Assyrian battering ram with an observation turret attacks the collapsing walls of a besieged city, while archers on both sides exchange fire. From the North-West Palace at Nimrud, about 865-860 BC; now in the British Museum."

    File:Assyrian battering ram.jpg (Thanks, Justin!)

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