The New Pornographers (video above) is just one of two dozen acts the winner of our haiku contest will see at San Francisco's Treasure Island Music Festival taking place October 18 and 19. Also performing are Massive Attack, Outkast, Alt-J, TV On The Radio, Janelle Mon'ae, Chet Fake, The Growlers and many more. Our friends at Noise Pop, co-promoters of the event, gifted us a pair of VIP 2-Day Tickets (a $590 value) to share with a lucky Boing Boing reader, and now we reveal the finalists! Last week, we launched our annual Treasure Island Music Festival Haiku contest. The three finalists below all win Boing Boing t-shirts. We'll announce the winner of the VIP passes on Tuesday, October 7. Congratulations to the Haiku masters below! Read the rest

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If it goes through, Comcast will control an unimaginable swath of American Internet access -- that's a hell of a lot of power to give the Worst Company in America. Read the rest

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I know them feels. Link to the full piece. [via]

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A copy of the Beatles' 1963 album Please Please Me, signed by all four Moptops sold for $36,655 on eBay.

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Sandler is a retired $job, but one day realizes... [Thanks, Jess!]

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An attorney representing several of the celebrities whose nude pictures were circulated online is threatening to sue Google for allegedly not doing enough to prevent the photos from spreading online.

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The former conservative GOP senator from Idaho illegally used his campaign funds to defend himself on charges of soliciting sex in a men's toilet in the Minneapolis airport. Read the rest

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"I can't quite place it," writes David Shiffman. Update: The original is at Jezebel: "This Science Museum Has Royally Pissed Off a Bunch of Girl Scouts"

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Nude selfies (nudies? nelfies?) are serious business. Read the rest

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Four people were quarantined in a Dallas apartment where sheets and other items used by the man were put in sealed plastic bags to prevent infection. Read the rest

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Robin Cooper (aka Robert Popper) calls a religious TV show to express his thanks to the Lord for the healing of his hamsters. The little squeaks at the end are the real coup de grace.

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A suddenly popular mobile tool is helping student demonstrators in Hong Kong route around network censorship. Read the rest

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Our guest for this episode of Gweek is Veronica Belmont, new media / TV host and writer. Read the rest

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On Sunday, the hallowed nonprofit Henry Miller Memorial Library in magical Big Sur, California will auction off large slabs of old-growth redwood sliced from a 200-foot, 500-year-old tree that fell on the site a couple years ago.

Here's library staff member Mike Scutari recounting the tree's topple:

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In today's New York Times, a fascinating profile of Joshua Wong, the 17-year-old student who has become a figurehead of the Hong Kong protests. Read the rest

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This Sunday, October 5th, Lost Weekend Video in San Francisco is the setting for another edition of Give Me Fiction, the prose reading series hosted by Ivan Hernandez.

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Psygnosis' legendarily beautiful (and annoying) 1989 Amiga platformer is now available for OSX, Windows, Ubuntu Linux, Ouya and Android, replete with David Whitaker's original soundtrack.

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Every Frame a Painting analyses the work of director David Fincher (Seven, The Social Network): "He cares about information." But what does he not do?

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