Today at Boing Boing Gadgets, there was a a vintage typewriter turned noise machine; the Motorola Aura, a mobauble; and an amazing cell phone called "The King of Cigarettes."

Rob spotted a dollar store LED Lament Configuration; Microsoft's Arc Mouse; the Eye-Fi Compact Flash adapter; and a really quite mesmerizing Google Android fan rap.

There was acheap USB microscope; an unpleasant EULA from Sony; the iKit, a handheld computer like the old Sharp Zauruses; and jewelry made from old Sinclair/Timex computer keys.

John found a fork designed for spaghetti twirling; a portable memo-writing device that requires the attention of hackers; plus a cleaning "gak" for computer keyboards. He also spotted the startling LittleBigPlanet recall, apparently inspired by a single forum post.

Joel ogled the Hardcore Computer Reactor, which has its hot innards suspended in mineral oil. There was also a suede sleeve for your notebooks; a Red Jack O' Lantern of Death; a knife-cleansing knife block; 16:9 laptops from Gateway; and the Lockwasher Imperial HD 700. Rest in peace, Mac mini?

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There is an epic presidential election themed Yo Mamma Fight going down on Twitter right now. I follow Matt Haughey and Anil Dash, so I saw bits of it in their tweets and, thinking myself clever, tossed out a few and foolishly tried to keep up. But then Anil pointed to the super duper momma-lode, between Fernando Rizo and Lore Sjöberg. Realizing I was out of my league, I gave up and am blogging some of theirs instead:

# Yo mama so fat, she authorized a $700 billion bailout of Dairy Queen.

# yo mama so fat, she thinks the G8 is a Value Meal.

# Yo mama so fat, her other biography is called "The Audacity of Hardee's.

# Yo mama so fat, the only Supreme Court verdict she wants to overturn is HomeTown Buffet v. Yo Mama.

# Yo mama so fat, she thinks sub-prime is a steak cut.

# Yo mama so fat, McCain refers to her as "Those Ones."

# Your mama so fat, when they asked which menus she reads, she said "You know, all of 'em."

# Yo mama's so ugly, Obama said "You can put lipstick on a pig and it would look a lot like yo mama on dollar margarita night."

# you moms so fat ACORN registered her to vote *three* times.

# Yo moms so fat Russia can see her from *their* house.

# Yo mama such a ho, the tab for the federal bailout plan is "700 billion dollars, plus fifty cents to have sex with yo mama."

# your mama so stupid she tried to arrange the genres on her iPod to put Country First.

# yo mama so fat McCain gives patronizing air quotes when he talks about the "health of yo mama"

Well played, dudes. Matt suggests this time-stamped Twitter search link to get you started in the relevant part of @anildash's feed.

IT TRULY ISN'T. For I have no direct connection (and very little contact) with the army of brilliant obsessives who are illustrating the list of 700 Mole-Men that appears in my new book.

ANY MORE than I was connected to them when they illustrated the 700 HOBOES from my last book.

OR TO Boing Boing back when Mark Frauenfelder put them up to it.

IT IS ALL GENUINE, GRASS ROOTS madness. And I am delighted and awed and scared by it. It's sort of the same way I feel about grass and roots.

That is all.

Nathaniel sez, "Sonicwall, the web content filtering vendor, now blocks XKCD as "Adult/Mature". A STICK FIGURE COMIC is now too mature for the internet. Classic."

As of this week I can no longer see XKCD at my office, due to SonicWall, a content filter service my company subscribes to. It is not blocked as "Adult/Mature Content". As this is the same service some businesses that offer public wifi use (Panera Bread in particular), this may mean XKCD has been dropped from a lot of public places.

I don't blame you, guy. I blame SonicWall. They're most anal about the smallest things. Only recently has my office gotten access again to MySpace, which was also listed as "Adult/Mature". principiadiscordia.com was listed as "Occult"; now it's still blocked, but listed as "Other". My best guess is that what did it for XKCD was the sexual positions strip...as far as I can tell, these people have little brain and less sense of humor.

SonicWall now blocks XKCD (Thanks, Nathaniel!)

Mighty God King's photoshopped classic sf/f book-covers is one of the funniest such exercises I've ever seen -- so good I've added the site to my RSS feeds. MGK Versus His Adolescent Reading Habits (via Eat our Brains)

The folks at Saigon Market have posted terrific and very different music compilations by artists like Dustin "UPSO" Hostetler and David Horvitz, best known for traveling anywhere you want him to go, for a price. I like hearing what artists I like are listening to. Saigon Market podcasts

Previously on BB:
• Converse designed by UPSO
• New issue of UPSO's Faesthetic: UFOs!

A number of Boing Boing tv viewers asked for a higher-rez still of the Hodgman slashfic chartporn, a disturbing piece of fan-art which appears at the end of today's episode. And here you are: hi-rez image. Previously: (BBtv) John Hodgman: More Information Than You Require. This is not a book trailer, part 2.