A Chinese teacher has found the cure for Internet addiction, and for just 30,000 RMB (roughly $4,380), he’ll make sure your youngster beats his or her LOLcat macro cravings. His remedy: studying Chinese classics. An Deyi runs a home school (or boot camp) that focuses on traditional Chinese learning. An’s method to help Internet junkies is to make them recite Chinese classics for a few hours every day, all while keeping a rigid healthy eating and exercising schedule

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Chinese Classics Will Save Your Children From Internet Addiction [Internet Anonymous]

Behind this monkey’s disheveled smile lies a discreet webcam. He clings on to a pencil holder, handy for that USB pencil sharpener you bought during the last Woot-Off, with a special message: “Happy every day.” With a resolution of 800×600 pixels, the webcam will serve your basic Skype needs, even though I’m sure that’s not this gadget’s most useful trait. I could use a little bit of “Happy every day!” in my life as long as it makes me forget about the other monkey who managed to leave the country with a $1 trillion deficit.

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Useless Monkey Webcam Smiles and Cheers You On [Cute]

Last night I noticed Firefox didn’t yet have “Gizmodo” in its dictionary. Curiosity led me to right-click over the red line to see what words it suggested I use instead. All four were awesome: Yes, Firefox thinks that, instead of typing the name of our beloved publication, I should instead choose from Gizzard, Quasimodo, Commodore and Sodomize.

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Firefox’s Spellchecker Has Four Words for "Gizmodo" [Funny Because It's True]

Believe it or not, there’s a site dedicated to deceive kids into thinking that Santa Claus exists: Send photo, pay $10 and they insert Santa. Can you guess what Santa is doing here?

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"Magic" Site Shows Kids Santa Is Really a Bad Photoshop Job [Caption Contest]

TechCrunch is confirming what I relayed to you last night , that Chrome is officially no longer a Google beta product. Its 15th release is free of that familiar Google “beta” badge, and though the install base isn’t what some had hoped for, Google itself is bragging that the app has accrued 10 million active users in 100 days

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Chrome Is Polished, Officially Beta Free [Google]

Thanks to the readers and their friends who made it out last night to our Funde Razor in SF. Thanks to you all, we raised a fantastic $2360 for Child’s Play! The guys over at Boing Boing Gadgets and Kotaku had even bigger takes in their respective cities. So awesome.

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Thanks For Attending Funde Razor SF! [Announcements]

Ask any unshowered person in a tie dye shirt and they’ll go on for hours about the benefits of hemp, nature’s wonder material that has nothing to do with weed. Now here’s a hempmote. Built from a Wiimote that was painstakingly sanded down to its core structure, the controller was then wrapped in hemp with a little help from glue to keep it in place

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The Hemp Wiimote: A Labor of Free Love [Nintendo]

It’s no secret that being an iPhone app developer is at times rough business, mostly due to Apple’s goofy authoritarianism . But judging by some recent soul-spilling by a few leading devs, things are getting rougher. Craig Hockenberry of Iconfactory, developers of Frenzic and Twitterific, started things off with a post lamenting the difficulties of rising above the iPhone app’s endless sea of 99-cent mediocrity (a sea I have spent plenty of often painful time wading through for our Week in iPhone Apps column). In his post, he worries about being damned to endlessly producing 99-cent so-called “ringtone” apps rather than well-designed and innovative apps that take more resources to develop.

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The Trouble With the iPhone Apps Business [Behind The Curtain]

Sick of all those fake instruments cluttering up your living room? Try Korean-made Funny Band, which takes a guitar and shoves drums on the back and a keyboard on the front for some insane reason.

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‘Funny Band’ Combines Keyboards, Drums and Guitar Into One Unusable Controller [Games]

The UK police have a dream that one day, even the most technologically illiterate in their ranks can pop a device into a computer that will automatically flag illegal activity on the hard drive. Charlie McMurdie, architect of the UK’s Police Central E-crime Unit (PCeU), said that it would be ideal if the device were as easy to use as a breathalyzer, making it possible for frontline officers to instantly extract data from the growing number of computers seized in raids.

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UK Police Want "Crime Breathalyzers" For PCs [E-crime]