Mr. Hoffman, thank you for The Beatles. RIP.

70's back? w00t!

No mashup yet? Come on talented people, lets remix this thing! :)

Some guy announced this today: http://www.tsacomplaints.com/

@1: "Silverlight should really be on the end of the green line somewhere."

Yes, maybe it should be somewhere in the green line, for the sadness of everyone who cares to web standards, compatibility, bloatless sites...

Good to see Python in this line!

Ceci n'est pas une peau de vache.

I am not the best one to talk about Brazilian carnival, as I am far from being a samba fan, but anyway: as people already said, every carnival in Rio and São Paulo, each "samba school" (wich sounds ridicule when translated, because an "escola de samba" does not resemble a dance school much, AFAIK) choose a theme to base their parade, with enourmous and hystericly colourful floats with lots of semi-nude models to retract that theme in quite abstract ways. It is usually seen as an opportunity to educate people.
Similar themes like slavery and indian genocide are not so much delicate subjects here like the Holocaust, and this float seems very macabre if compared to anything else I have seen in carnival so far. Putting people dancing on the top of it surely will offend lots of people. I am against censorship and self-censorship and I am not advocating it, but without doubt this is f*cking horrible.

@12, Takuan
"what is the spirit of Carnival? What is the purpose of the samba? Has there ever been a samba school float depicting the Conquest and the butchery wrought on the Indians by the coming of the Spanish and the church?"

Changing Spanish to Portuguese (if you are talking about Brazils' colonization), then yes, probrably.

Note the word Enemy. Goldstein, you bastard!

I'm no great fan of christian mithology, so I wasn't aware that Antioch was on the bible. But the joke was fun anyway.

Make me remember this SciFi from Richard Stallman, "The Right to Read":
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

Agree with passionchamp(#4). They are still lying, this time the old %-of-downloads == %-of-money. Even if *all* this students could afford paying the dvds, it doesnt mean *all* of then would think it is worth paying for the disc. If you consider that some people who like the movie they download go watch it again with a crowd...

The Ubuntu version number is not a real number. hte number before the dot is the year (5 == 2005, 6 == 2006, 7 == 2007) and the number after the dot is the month (10 == october, 4 == april). Must version numbers arent real numbers, like the Linux kernel version and GNOME desktop version numbers.

Great game, great news!

Can't wait to see the SimCity hacks that emerge now

And I can wait to see the hacks from the more talented childs with their OLPCs:
http://www.python.org/doc/essays/everybody.html

The "MicropolisCore" project includes the latest Micropolis (SimCity) source code, cleaned up and recast into C++ classes, integrated into Python,

Take a week to learn Python and hack it yourself :)

"The kids ARE NOT ON THE NO FLY LIST!"

No one is on the list. Just names.

@15: (almost) everybody has a choice. I'm not saying every single Nazi soldier was a genocide monster, but what about IBM?

@16: Probably not, as it surely was made in China :P

The MPAA needs its top blown off; an open, and accessible, layout of the guidelines and rules they use to determine what is and is not acceptable for each of the ratings. (No, the bible does not count.) This cloak and dagger schtick is getting old.
Or no rating at all. Let the parents do their work.

@5 (ACA_RIO): Acerola brings me nice memories of my childhood (but never tried it with banana, and I'm not inclined to try... quite strange combination). We had some trees of this. But the Açaí thing... Here in SP it is not too common, and I dont know many people who really like it.
For those who are not familiar with brazilian fruits, açai is reguarded (scientificly, not only folkloricly AFAIK) as an "energetic" and very caloric fruit.

@5 (ACA_RIO): Acerola brings me nice memories of my childhood (but never tried it with banana, and I'm not inclined to try... quite strange combination). We had some trees of this. But the Açaí thing... Here in SP it is not too common, and I dont know many people who really like it.
For those who are not familiar with brazilian fruits, açai is reguarded (scientificly, not only folkloricly AFAIK) as an "energetic" and very caloric fruit.

Hmmmm... rat-a-licious...

@ #1 (SleighBoy): Freedom to limit other people freedom makes no sense.
For everyone else reading this: BSD licence permits re-licencing under closed-source ("proprietary") licences. GPL has a restriction that re-licencing is allowed only to a compatible licence. Some say BSD licences are "more Free" because of that.

I hope that a YAML/JSON version is created. XML is not for humans.

Doug Morris == Denholm Reynholm, on the beginning of the first IT Crowd episode.

I for one welcome our new moth-guided Mega-Mecha overloards.

"How often do you type a semi-colon?"

What kind of question is that? Obviously, Alec is not a programmer.
Maybe he is not a C/C++/Java, Pascal or Lisp (;comment) programmer, but he may still be a Python programmer, for example. BTW, Bram Cohen, Bittorrent hero, uses Dvorak and Python.
I have procrastinated enough. It is time for Dvorak!

"Woman cremates dead son who wasn't dead son"
Wow, wasn't dead son, not wasn't dead son... I though that she creamated alive son!

wil9000: Bruce Schneier is a know cryptography and security expert, creator of the term "security theater" and vocal critic of "security throught obscurity". He recently interviewed the head of TSA and asked some hard questions. Yes, the homeland security guys almost surely keeps their eyes on Schneier since much long ago.
BTW, Schneier rocks: http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/

Isn't it an imperative programing language, not a functional programing language?
I think Cory was talking about the usefullness of the language, not about the Functional Paradigm :)

This is not the first time LOLCat inpired PL to feature at BoingBoing:
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/29/lolcode-lolcats-meet.html
http://lolcode.com/

I prefer the Python implementation:
http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2007/06/01/lolpython.html

#15 Kyle: Don't know about "vast, vast, vast majority of computer users", but the vast majority of the earth population are not computer users. Just like my fathers, 2 years before. Now they are happy Ubuntu users.

#5 Ted: Cory, come off it. You're just getting better drag and drop support and multiple monitor support, you've waited all this time for PDFs to print..

PDF got *better* printing support, but you could print PDFs on Linux since the early 90s. And by better drag and drop dont mean also that this feature was created now. It is just used more. But if youdont try, you will just keep guessing and trolling.

#12 She's a girl, right?
My last partner labeled a Turkey map as "china" and "russia", probably 'cause there were a litle Turkey flag on the top, wich is red. *This* is a sucker.

LOL: Read the email with the crazy-medieval-castle-guard-frenchman accent from Monty Python and the Holy Grail :)

Wow, the french are using Python even on pee-pipes! I'm sure Java never gone that far. Now that is what I call a portable piece of software. Yet another use case for http://www.python.org/about/success/ ...

Wait, you mean the snake, not the Programming Language - I often forget about this bizarre "real" world...

He's put together the "alpha version" of his lecture on the subject and uploaded it to the net for public review and commentary

I think this space should be useful to discuss it, but people keep talking about that other story. Stop the Off-topic, please.

BTW, I'm from Brazil, and this subject is of my interrest. Brazil's corruption cases are quite famous, you probably know...

When it is translated into Pig Latin then, and only then, will I be impressed.
Your wish is an order:
http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/dialectp.cgi?dialect=piglatin&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcraphound.com%2Fdown%2FCory_Doctorow_-_Down_and_Out_in_the_Magic_Kingdom.htm

"Another pointless science experiment. Well done people."

No trully scientific experiment is pointless. Rmemenber, even the Darwin awards winners have made their contribution to evolution :P

Is executing people for their political beliefs considered funny to you, Mark?

I cant, obviously, speak for Mark, but I think it is called "black humor", and is how some people manage to make some aspects of life more bearable without losing sanity.

LOL, the irony. Seems like all that the asstunnels archived is a new modality of remixing.

The german cannibal/anti piracy warning was the best best so far this season. LOL with this clips, thanks BB!

Schneier: "Definitely stupid police overreaction."
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/09/woman_arrested.html

Looks like Monty Python.

"Just curious... Can anyone who is protesting her treatment state exactly what a bomb is supposed to look like, even it were worn on the outside of some idiot "martyr's" shirt?"

A bomb is supposed to be hidden, or at least without blining LEDs.

What about "Linuxers"? I know many (/me included) atheists who use GNU/Linux.

Can someone tell what is the subject of this messages, so I can create a a filter on Gmail to automatically delete it?

Each line could have the comment count, like:

# Welcome to the new Boing Boing! (Mark) - 484 Comments!

What about it?

The "Wikipedia 1.0" DVD should be put in a "Voyager 3", with a note: "sorry for the lame disc we sent earlier".

The "see here for a thorough bashing" has, indeed, a link in the original article:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007_08_19_fosblogarchive.html#365179758119288416

I need to visit the US one day.
"Pleasure or Business?"
"Burning Man."

Oh my FSM, now I can say "I Love boingboing" on BoingBoing!
Also, nice design, and cool new blog (welcome Joel!). Thanks!