METRO Thursday, October 29, 2009 D Ripper memoir in toy museum A LOST book claiming to be the memoirs of Jack the Ripper has been unearthed at a UK toy museum. The autobiography, written by one James Carnac, is in places very accurate and one of the first of its kind, experts said. The book, thought to have been written in the 1920s, is dedicated with admiration and respect to the retired members of the Metropolitan Police Force in spite of whose energy and efficiency I have lived to write this book. Jack: New book found in museum Jail death wish A WHITE supremacist convicted of murder has tried to convince jurors to send him to death row, because he says conditions are better there. Billy Joe Johnson, 46, is serving 45 years in a US jail for a 2004 killing. Miriam OCallaghan and artist Senan OBrien with his painting The Wishmaker launch a charity art sale in aid of Operation Smile Ireland. With works by more than 70 artists, the sale runs at the NCAD gallery runs until Saturday Picture: Bryan Brophy making a wish Mothers diets affects girls GIRLS whose mothers diet are almost twice as likely to have an eating disorder, a poll of more than 500 teenagers has revealed. Many girls say their mother has the biggest influence on their self-image and they feel damaged by the effects of their mothers dieting and views on food. The survey, carried out by teen magazine Sugar, found six per cent had an eating disorder, rising to one in ten among those whose mothers diet. Almost four out of ten girls said their mother had the biggest influence on how they perceived themselves. Two- thirds (66 per cent) said they had heard their mother complaining about her weight, despite 68 per cent describing their mothers body size as normal. By MIleS IrWIN Life begins at 40... for the internetTHE internet and all its offshoots, Face- book, Twitter andYouTube seem a recent invention in the modern world. Its hard to believe then that this week marks the 40th anniversary since the first transmis- sion of the internet was made. Today, four decades ago, the internet attempted to send its initial message but, as we can all guess, it promptly crashed. For modern users, little ap- pears to have changed. The system, known as Ar- panet, was designed in the technology halls of UCLA in America and in association with the US Department of Defence. The first message sent between host computers was supposed to say Logon. Unfortunately it crashed and could only send LO an eerie precur- sor to that ubiquitous comment LOL. The message was sent from Father of the Internet Leonard Kleinrocks lab at UCLA, using Interface Message Proces- sors, the backbone of the internet. Prof Kleinrock (pictured) said: We succeeded in transmitting the L and the O and then the system crashed. Hence, the first message on the internet was LO -- as in Lo and behold! We didnt plan it, but we couldnt have come up with a better message: short and prophetic. Celebrations are planned for the anniversary at UCLA En- gineering, with speakers from Google, Warner digital and the Huffington Post. Prof Klein- rock will be the chair. Prof Kleinrock said: I am not surprised the internet provides anyone the ability to connect from any location at any time with any device... I am surprised at how far the internet has penetrated our lives and society. The official birthday is disputed, with some scholars citing the September 2 1969 transmission of meaningless data between the UCLA and SRI computers perhaps an apt anniversary given some of the information found on web pages. index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html