Topic: ART - on July 14, 2016 at 4:59:00 PM CEST
David Bowie's personal art collection to be unveiled and auctioned off in £10 million sale
David Bowie's private art collection will go on show for the first time in an exhibition next week, before being auctioned off in a sale expected to reach in excess of £10 million. The musician was famously elusive, keeping even his battle with cancer a secret until his death in January, days after he had released his final album, Blackstar, on his 69th birthday. But when he did give interviews, he spoke about his passion for art, saying it was the "only thing [he] bought addictively".
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Topic: DOPE HEAD - on July 14, 2016 at 4:46:00 PM CEST
Marijuana Man makes thousands a month by getting high and doing nothing
It can be hard to deal with the fact that Marijuana Man is a real person. Somewhere in the coniferous forests of British Columbia, there’s a compound covered in Bob Marley posters, tiki masks, and more concentrated weed paraphernalia and idolatry than any other place in the world. Every week, the guy who lives among this stuff offers video dispatches about absolutely nothing at all. You watch Marijuana Man—in a head-to-toe camouflage onesie— smoke and listen to The Cars.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on July 14, 2016 at 4:44:00 PM CEST
Sebastian Kurz
Good luck to new Chancellor @PHammondMP - it's been a privilege to work with you. Looking forward to coop with @BorisJohnson.
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Topic: POLITIK - on July 14, 2016 at 4:43:00 PM CEST
Boris Johnson: How Britain's new foreign secretary has insulted the world
In case you have just emerged from a desert island or a long sleep: the UK has a new prime minister, Theresa May, who in turn has appointed a new foreign secretary. The man who will be representing Britain's interests abroad is Boris Johnson. Yes, that Boris Johnson, the tousle-haired, barrel-bellied engineer of the UK's exit from the EU. It's an appointment that's been treated with some shock around the world - not least because he has been less than diplomatic about other countries and their leaders before. Some of his positions, often outlined in his newspaper columns, also risk clashing with his own government's official stance.
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Topic: ART - on July 14, 2016 at 4:09:00 PM CEST
100 Jahre Dada: Hugo Balls dadaistisches Manifest
100 Jahre nach Hugo Balls dadaistischem Manifest ist der Dadaismus in Zeiten von „Post-Truth-Politics“, dem Irrsinn um Donald Trump, Emoji, LULZ und den kalten Ideologie-Online-Kriegen so aktuell wie nie. Das Internet stellt, genau wie der Dadaismus, „die gesamte bisherige [Gesellschaft] in Frage, indem [es] ihre [angeblich gefestigten Wahrheiten] durch [Netzwerkeffekte und Memetik] zu reinen Unsinnsansammlungen machte“
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Topic: ART - on July 14, 2016 at 4:07:00 PM CEST
100 years of Dada: today is the centenary of Hugo Ball's Dada Manifesto
Dada is a new tendency in art. One can tell this from the fact that until now nobody knew anything about it, and tomorrow everyone in Zurich will be talking about it. Dada comes from the dictionary. it is terribly simple. In French it means “hobby horse.” In German it means “good-by,” “Get off my back,” “Be seeing you sometime.” In Romanian: “Yes, indeed, you are right, that’s it. But of course, yes, definitely, right.” And so forth.
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Topic: Religion - on July 14, 2016 at 4:05:00 PM CEST
Creationist Ken Ham offers public schools a massive discount to bring kids to his Ark museum
Attention, public schools! Do you want to make your students significantly more ignorant for a rock-bottom price? Well, you’re in luck: Creationist Ken Ham is offering public schools a big discount if they bring their kids to his new Ark Encounter museum on a field trip.
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Topic: ART - on July 14, 2016 at 4:04:00 PM CEST
91-Jährige löste Kreuzworträtsel in Museum: Es war ein Kunstwerk
Im Neuen Museum Nürnberg – Werk des Künstlers Arthur Köpcke ist mit 80.000 Euro versichert
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on July 14, 2016 at 4:02:00 PM CEST
Bub klemmte sich Kopf in Kinderklobrille ein
Einen ungewöhnlichen Einsatz hatte die Grazer Berufsfeuerwehr am Dienstag: Ein Dreijähriger hatte sich seinen Kopf in einer Kinderklobrille eingeklemmt.
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 14, 2016 at 4:00:00 PM CEST
Stream 15 Hours of the John Peel Sessions: 255 Tracks by Syd Barrett, David Bowie, Siouxsie and the Banshees & Other Artists
For fans of what came to be called “alternative music,” the discovery of new artists and bands felt like a genuine adventure before the internet irrevocably changed music consumption. A few official venues acted as guides—magazines like Trouser Press and NME, shows like 120 Minutes, MTV’s late-night showcase of post-punk, new wave, industrial, etc. Word of mouth, local zines, college radio, mixtape gifts, and the purloined contents of older brothers and sisters’ record collections went a long way. Many of us had access to independent record stores that stocked all sorts of underground oddities, often run by obsessive know-it-alls like High Fidelity’s Rob Gordon.
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Topic: Conspiracy theory - on July 14, 2016 at 3:58:00 PM CEST
Why NASA's video feed cut away from that 'UFO'
Is NASA hiding clear video evidence of a UFO descending to Earth? To paraphrase what a spokesperson from the space agency told me when I asked: "Uh, no." NASA increasingly has eyes all over the solar system, whether it's on Mars, above our heads in orbit or, as of this week, around Jupiter. So perhaps it shouldn't be that surprising that every few months word circulates around the internet that one of NASA's eyes has captured a UFO or evidence of alien life. The latest such alleged sighting comes courtesy of NASA's High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment aboard the International Space Station.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 14, 2016 at 3:57:00 PM CEST
FBI Agent: Decrypting Data ‘Fundamentally Alters’ Evidence
An FBI agent has brought up an interesting question about the nature of digital evidence: Does decrypting encrypted data “fundamentally alter” it, therefore contaminating it as forensic evidence? According to a hearing transcript filed last week, FBI Special Agent Daniel Alfin suggested just that. The hearing was related to the agency's investigation into dark web child pornography site Playpen. In February 2015, the FBI briefly assumed control of Playpen and delivered its users a network investigative technique (NIT)—or a piece of malware—in an attempt to identify the site's visitors.
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