Strip notes:1259

The title of 1259, DDOS, is an abbreviation of Distributed Denial-Of-Service attack, an attempt to make a computer resource not available to its users. For more information, see w:Denial-of-service attack at wikipedia.

A preview of the strip is available at [1]. According to Fred, there are a total of 45 instances of characters drawn on this page (16 different characters).

The striped bowl is a reference to the anime series w:K-On!. During a concert, one of the performing girls, Mio Akiyama, falls down and reveals her underwear (blue and white striped panties) to the audience. During the airing of the anime, the scene was replaced by a striped rice bowl.