Members of the professional adult-entertainment community remind you that when you download pirated quality commercial federally protected freedom of expression for your personal hygiene needs, you’re starving their kids and depriving the San Fernando Valley of desperately needed tax revenue. Please, don’t be naughty in your consumption of fine American-produced artistic depictions of the human condition, or they’ll have to come to your house and spank you.

Porn Stars Decry Piracy in New Video [Wired]

@jody_beth, 11:29 p.m. Monday:

Dear Arizona: If you don’t change your immigration policy, I will have to stop drinking your enjoyable brand of iced tea. RIP Arnold Palmer.

@travisjnichols, 3:04 p.m. Tuesday:

I think we should all also boycott Arizona Iced Tea because it is the drink of fascists.

Daily News, 4 a.m. Wednesday, quoting only the above tweets:

Opponents of immigration law call for boycott of Arizona Iced Tea – but it is brewed in New York!

JamieWearingFool, 7:45 a.m.:

The kneejerk haters need to do a little research before they reflexively call for boycotts. The uninformed pantywaists who haven’t the slightest clue about Arizona’s new law are running around calling for boycotts far and wide and have now called for a boycott of Arizona Iced Tea.

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Time was when you could read a Talibunny post and reasonably doubt she wrote it. But now her lawyer has upped the stakes, challenging us to believe that the following could be spoken by any human:

When I discussed this with Governor Palin, she had an interesting take: “My reaction upon reading the opinion in this matter was not what I expected. Though I’m always pleased with the results of these investigations that prove the false allegations wrong, and I appreciate the detailed reasoning set forth in this recent opinion, I was primarily disappointed that the State of Alaska, the Attorney General’s office, and others, still have to spend time and resources addressing the abusive onslaught of frivolous complaints directed against me — even after I left office.”

We don’t know about you, but we wouldn’t trust anyone who talked like that to cook our moose.

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Recent stories by Jason Chen, editor of “Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide,” published by Gawker Media. Wired describes Chen as a “reporter”.

• “MacBook Pro 15-inch Core i7 Benchmarked: It’s So Fast”
• “Microsoft Kin Hands-On Videos”
• “iPhone OS 4 Has Video Chat, Group Chat Code”
• “Best iPad Comic Reader: Comic Zeal vs. Comic Reader Mobi”
• “iPad Chatroulette Is the Way to Go”
• “iPad Test Notes: In the Bathroom”
• “iPad Super Tip: You Can Put Six Icons In Your App Tray”

Chen works from his home, which was searched by California’s interagency “Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team” Friday night, as part of a criminal investigation into Gizmodo’s purchase and promotion of a purportedly lost iPhone prototype.

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Style		Advice
	Pachuco Cafe Leather Huaraches	White feet only
	Men’s Dress Huaraches	White feet only
	Don Juan Huaraches	White feet only

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Wired, 4:17 p.m. Thursday:

Readers of Richard Clarke’s new book Cyberwar who want to jump to the steamy parts should start at page 64…

Chinese hackers take down the Pentagon’s classified and unclassified networks, trigger explosions at oil refineries, release chlorine gas from chemical plants, disable air traffic control, cause trains to crash into each other, delete all data — including offsite backups — held by the federal reserve and major banks, then plunge the country into darkness by taking down the power grid from coast-to-coast. Thousands die immediately. Cities run out of food, ATMs shut down, looters take to the streets.

Wired, three hours earlier:

On Thursday, Coles, an Australian supermarket chain, said 1,100 checkout terminals crashed… so it temporarily closed several stores in that country. An Intel spokesman in California acknowledged the problem at its headquarters was “significant.” Kentucky State Police lost use of their their entire IT infrastructure, and hospitals in Rhode Island postponed elective surgeries.

Russian mafia hackers? Chinese cyberterrorists? Skynet?

No, silly. Botched automated antivirus-software update. It’s easier to break in when you leave the door open.

Next time we hear a diatribe about debasing the currency, we may have to agree — this abomination is worth less than a hundred loonies.

U.S. Government Unveils New Design for the $100 Note [newmoney.gov]

Get Helvetica Off Our Money [via Daring Fireball]