Lady not having nine babies after all

"Reports that a woman in northern Mexico is pregnant with nine babies are a hoax, health authorities said on Friday." [Reuters]

Dogs eat dead owner to survive

A man who kept fifty dogs and who refused human company was found dead recently at his home near Ironton, Ohio. "He just wanted to be by himself all the time, just be with his dogs," said a neighbor. [Pet Pardons] Also: Will eating chocolate really kill your dog? [io9]

Last chance for Hackers on Planet Earth EFF-benefit tix

Aestetix sez, "For the past month, the Hackers On Planet Earth conference by 2600 Magazine has been raising money for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The internet would be a scary place without them around, so HOPE is donating 10% of the entire ticket sales for the month of April to the EFF. It's been a fantastic month, and yet it's almost over, so if you want to be part of this awesome effort, buy your ticket before Monday."

After Yelp referral leads to $2K moving company ripoff, thoughts on "genuine reviews"

Justin Vincent chose a moving company based on positive Yelp reviews. Things did not work out well. "I spent 40 days without any furniture and quite a few of my belongings have been misplaced – forever." Turns out negative reviews were there, but suppressed. Could smarter design have prevented this? (via @blam)

For the billionaire who has everything: a spaceship

Dylan Tweney has a good read over at VentureBeat on a trend of sorts among the ultra-rich: investing in space exploration startups. "The wonder isn’t that billionaires are doing this, the wonder is that it’s taken them so long."

SpaceX Falcon 9 engine test will be webcast live (woo, fire! woo, space!)

If you like space and/or rockets and/or awesome flames, you'll want to tune in to spacex.com on Monday, April 30 to watch "a static fire test of the Falcon 9 rocket’s nine powerful Merlin engines in preparation for the company’s upcoming launch." The test is scheduled to begin at 2:30 PM ET/ 11:30 AM PT, with the actual static fire targeted for 3:00 PM ET/ 12:00 PM PT. Actual launch to space is currently targeted for May 7.

Virgin America launches new "Virgin Produced" in-flight TV channel (right next to Boing Boing TV!)

As regular Boing Boing readers know, we produce an in-flight television channel which you can watch on board Virgin America planes. The airline today announced the imminent launch of another cool channel, "Virgin Produced," which includes content from some of our internet friends like Funny or Die, and excerpts from cool new films like Marley, the official Bob Marley documentary by Kevin Macdonald. The new channel is Channel 11. Boing Boing is conveniently located just one notch away, at Channel 10 on your in-flight "satellite TV" dial.

Bugs threaten infrastructure

Some computers are hard to patch, and so-called "forever day" hacks and bugs are theirs to suffer. The Millenium Bug gave us a false sense of security: this technology runs the country, and it might go wrong. [Dan Goodwin at Ars Technica]