You may now run DaliClock on your iThing.

Mr. Justice Peter Charleton of Ireland's High Court has ruled that ISPs can and should disconnect their customers from the net on the strength of unsubstantiated accusations of copyright infringement.… Read the rest of the article: Ireland High Court gives entertainment giants the power to disconnect whole families from the net

Tavie sez, "You have to be impressed by this student film, 'After Today Live'. These kids made an incredibly detailed shot-by-shot remake of the Goofy Movie's opening song, 'After Today'… Read the rest of the article: Students remake Goofy Movie's title sequence

The Nepalese government is sending a team of 20 Sherpas to Everest's "death zone" to clean up the dead bodies of those who never made it back from their expeditions.… Read the rest of the article: Nepal to send Sherpas to "death zone" to rescue the dead

Gang Starr's Guru, who played a significant role in New York's underground rap scene in the 90s, has died of cancer-related complications. He was 43. via MTV News

A 35-year old British woman claims she acquired a Chinese accent after a bad migraine. She thinks she has something called Foreign Accent Syndrome, and claims she is annoyed by… Read the rest of the article: Woman suffers migraine, acquires Chinese accent

My pal Tara over at Dangerous Minds found this mashup of Velvet Underground's "Venus in Furs" and Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell doing "Ain't No Mountain High Enough." As someone… Read the rest of the article: Velvet Underground vs. Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell

Are you a breezy person who goes, "Yaka-wow!"? Maybe you already were, and just didn't know it. Alice Bell, science communication lecturer at Imperial College, London, explains: The main reason… Read the rest of the article: What's up on the Internet: Yaka-wow!

Geologic wonder and part-time smoke bomb, Eyjafjallajokull, was still burping out ash clouds today, though experts say the eruption is showing signs of slowing down. Our thoughts are with all… Read the rest of the article: Volcano science update: Two surprising reasons to go boom

It's a buddy-cop movie plot for the new millennium: Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens are teaming up to arrest the Pope when he comes to Britain in September. Dawkins, author… Read the rest of the article: Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens are planning to have the Pope arrested in the UK

Marie Myung-Ok Lee wrote a great piece for Slate about giving cannabis to her 9-year-old autistic son. Last summer, we reached the six-month mark in our cannabis experiment. We'd been… Read the rest of the article: Mother explains why she gives pot to her 9-year-old autistic son

After spending his youth happily playing computer and table-top role-playing games as pale-grey-skinned elves with long, straight, silver hair (usually over one eye), or "forcing African-coifed robot pilots into the… Read the rest of the article: Chimerical Avatars and Other Identity Experiments from Prof. Fox Harrell

In other free-form gaming developments, Farbs — the mind behind local favorite 'Game To Get', Captain Forever — has officially unveiled PlayPen, a community site that harnesses the scale and… Read the rest of the article: PlayPen: an open-ended adventure game made of Wiki

By Adam Savage Good evening. I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to read my speech from my new iPad. Yep. I'm not only a humanist, I'm also an… Read the rest of the article: Food for The Eagle – Adam Savage's speech to Harvard Humanism Society

Even though Jason Rohrer's mediated-multiplayer storytelling engine Sleep is Death — first featured here on Boing Boing — has only been in the hands of early buyers for just over… Read the rest of the article: SIDTube: Watch Sleep Is Death stories, play online

Amazing volcano pictures. Boston.com's Big Picture has them all.

Penguin Group Australia accidentally published copies of the Pasta Bible containing an unfortunate spell check error. A recipe calling for "salt and freshly ground black pepper" actually read "salt and… Read the rest of the article: Cookbook typo: "salt and freshly ground black people"

The most famous of carnivorous plants, the Venus flytrap, is surprisingly rare in the wild. The plant is only found on the 100-mile-long wet pine savannas on the edge of… Read the rest of the article: Venus flytraps in the wild, and in danger

Rocketry hobbyist John Coker created an 8-pack of rockets, designed and painted to mimic those crayon packs your folks used to buy you back in grade school. They were first… Read the rest of the article: Crayon rockets

Robotic mouth recites vowels, but doesn't seem too happy about it. (Via Robert Popper)