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Kalifornische Cannabis-Uni startet Seminare

anselm — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:53:34 GMT

Den Studenten der "Oaksterdam University" winkt ein Marihuana-Diplom. Sie lernen, das Bäumchen zu pflegen und zu düngen - und richtiges Verhalten bei Razzien. Denn die Drogenbekämpfer lassen sich von den Argumenten der kalifornischen Hochschule nicht einnebeln.

spiegel.de . Kiffen mit Zertifikat in Kalifornien

20 Most Incredible Light Phenomena

anselm — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:07:28 GMT

Crepuscular Rays

When darkly clouded regions or permeable obstacles such as tree branches filter the sun’s beam, rays of sunlight appear as straight columns radiating from a single point in the sky. The phenomenon, often used in horror movies, is most commonly seen at dawn or dusk and can even be witnessed under the ocean as the sun shines through sheets of cracked ice. This beautiful scene was captured at the Arches National Park in Utah.

environmentalgraffiti.com

Baby photo helps jail fraudster

anselm — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:00:12 GMT

A fraudster has been jailed for five years after a photo of his baby surrounded by piles of money was used by police as evidence against him.

Adu Bunu, 34, was convicted at Hull Crown Court over a £40,000 scheme which saw more than 2,000 bank cards cloned

bbc.co.uk

How Americans Die

anselm — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:53:04 GMT

haha.nu

Golden Girls star Getty dies, 84

anselm — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:49:17 GMT

Actress Estelle Getty, best known as sarcastic Sicilian octogenarian Sophia Petrillo in US sitcom The Golden Girls, had died at the age of 84.

The star, who had advanced dementia, died on Tuesday morning at her Hollywood Boulevard home.

bbc.co.uk . bestweekever.tv

Funny signs

anselm — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:59:49 GMT

justelite.net

Summer of Love 2008

anselm — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:16:19 GMT

01 Step Together // Phil RetroSpector
Happy Mondays VS the Beatles
02 Pinball Wizard in the Drivers Seat // Apollo Zero
Dogtooth VS Who VS Cook's County
03 Black Acieed // dj lobsterdust
Ram Jam VS D-Mob
04 What's That Sound? // World Famous Audio Hacker
Buffalo Springfield VS 808 State VS Deee-Lite VS Prince VS Duran Duran
05 Here Comes The Sunscreem // Bobby Martini
Sunscreem VS the Beatles
06 Land Of Oz (Summer of Love Mix) // Flying White Dots
Manuel Gottsching VS Latino VS Grace Jones VS Pink Floyd VS The Orb VS Opus 3 VS Bjork VS Masters At Work VS The KLF
07 diamond pressure // Simon Iddol

whastudios.com

Loveparade 2008 DJ-Sets

anselm — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:21:29 GMT

Die Website ist ziemlich ätzend, wegen Flash-Layer-Ads und wenn man auf ein Set klickt, landet man auf einer separaten Künstlerseite, wo man sich das Set nochmal raussuchen muss. Aber in diesem Fall mach ich da eben eine Ausnahme, weil: Da gibt’s dreihundertfuffzich DJ-Sets von der Loveparade, inklusive Underworld, Richie Hawtin, Westbam, Paul van Dyk, DJ Hell, Moby, Carl Craig und noch viele mehr.

ump3.de
ump3 - 2
doku.cc

Sweet Dreams

anselm — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:16:43 GMT

Funki Porcini, the musician whose album is graced by this fantastic image, has but one page at his label's website.

boingboing.net

Holy Grail of rock 'n roll found — Jimi Hendrix's first burnt guitar

anselm — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:12:54 GMT

Long back story short: Hendrix set his 1965 Fender Stratocaster ablaze during a 1967 concert at the Finsbury Astoria in London. It was discovered last year stored in the home of a friend, former press agent Tony Garland.

Hendrix squirted lighter fluid on his ax before torching it.

The charred guitar is expected to bring at least $1 million when it goes on the block as part of a rock memorabilia auction conducted by the Fame Bureau at the Idea Generation Gallery in London on September 4, 2008.

Adeona A Free, Open Source System for Helping Track and Recover Lost and Stolen Laptops

anselm — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:19:04 GMT

Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service. This means that you can install Adeona on your laptop and go — there's no need to rely on a single third party. What's more, Adeona addresses a critical privacy goal different from existing commercial offerings. It is privacy-preserving. This means that no one besides the owner (or an agent of the owner's choosing) can use Adeona to track a laptop. Unlike other systems, users of Adeona can rest assured that no one can abuse the system in order to track where they use their laptop.

Adeona is designed to use the Open Source OpenDHT distributed storage service to store location updates sent by a small software client installed on an owner's laptop. The client continually monitors the current location of the laptop, gathering information (such as IP addresses and local network topology) that can be used to identify its current location. The client then uses strong cryptographic mechanisms to not only encrypt the location data, but also ensure that the ciphertexts stored within OpenDHT are anonymous and unlinkable. At the same time, it is easy for an owner to retrieve location information.

adeona.cs.washington.edu

Spanische Polizei "verliert" 100 Kilo Kokain

anselm — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:09:46 GMT

Der spanischen Polizei sind mehr als hundert Kilogramm Kokain abhanden gekommen. Wie ein Sprecher der Polizeigewerkschaft am Freitag bestätigte, wurden die beschlagnahmten Drogen aus einer Polizeistation im südspanischen Sevilla gestohlen und durch Talkumpulver ersetzt.

krone.at

Photograph of jumping shark behind surfers

anselm — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:08:10 GMT

Kem McNair snapped this amazing shot of a spinner shark jumping out of the water behind surfers at New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

cnn.com . via

Cern lab goes 'colder than space'

anselm — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:04:18 GMT

A vast physics experiment built in a tunnel below the French-Swiss border is fast becoming one of the coolest places in the Universe.

The Large Hadron Collider is entering the final stages of being lowered to a temperature of 1.9 Kelvin (-271C; -456F) - colder than deep space.

The LHC has thousands of magnets which will be maintained in this frigid condition using liquid helium.

bbc.co.uk

The Chinese Are Still Worlds Ahead of Us In Kick-Ass Fireworks Race

anselm — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:58:10 GMT

The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing are less than a month away! The folks over in China, ever trying to make sure the games run smoothly, ran a quick rehearsal for the opening night ceremonies on August 11.

bestweekever.tv

Women's brains are different from men's – and here's scientific proof

anselm — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:55:18 GMT

Men and women show differences in behaviour because their brains are physically distinct organs, new research suggests. Male and female brains appear to be constructed from markedly different genetic blueprints.

The differences in the circuitry that wires them up and the chemicals that transmit messages inside them are so great as to point to the conclusion that there is not just one kind of human brain, but two, according to recent neurological studies.

independent.co.uk

James-Brown-Trödel für fast eine Million Dollar versteigert

anselm — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:39:08 GMT

Mit alten Sachen viel Geld machen: Fans und Sammler haben in New York fast 900.000 Dollar für Erinnerungsstücke des verstorbenen Soulsängers James Brown ausgegeben. Ein Diabetes-Armband wechselte für 32.500 Dollar den Besitzer.

spiegel.de

10 Facts You Didn't Know About Houdini

anselm — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:36:28 GMT

Harry Houdini is likely the greatest and most well-known magician of all time. While his tricks are not mind-shattering by today's standsards like they were during the early days of vaudeville, he was the master showman of his field. He knew how to promote himself and his efforts are still studied by innumerable magicians of today.

stampsofdistinction.com

Der Internet-Überwachungsplan der Polizei

anselm — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:42:07 GMT

Nach Informationen, die ORF.at vorliegen, diskutiert das Innenministerium derzeit mit den Providern über Maßnahmen für eine österreichische "Branchenlösung" zur Internet-Überwachung. Dabei verlangen die Dienste unmittelbaren Zugriff auf die Netzwerke der Anbieter. Auch bei verschlüsselten Skype-Telefonaten kann die Polizei mittlerweile mitlauschen.WEB

Merkwürdig: Seit Tagen bekommt Ihr Rechner immer ein und dieselbe IP-Adresse im ADSL-Netz zugewiesen, obwohl in den Geschäftsbedingungen ihres Providers ausdrücklich von dynamisch vergebenen, also stets wechselnden IP-Adressen die Rede ist.

Wenn dann auch noch Ihr Notebook vom UMTS-Anbieter bei jeder Einwahl ebenso mit stets derselben IP-Adresse versehen wird, dann liegt dass nicht an plötzlich geänderten Geschäftsbedingungen. Mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit werden vielmehr Ihre Internet-Zugänge polizeilich überwacht.

futurezone.orf.at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_packet_inspection . Universeller Einsatz von Deep Packet Inspection . Ärger mit Deep-Packet-Inspection

Bridge (Netzwerk)

Buy the typewriter on which Douglas Adams wrote Hitchhiker's Guide for $25,257.94

anselm — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:24:10 GMT

There's something so appropriately surreal and disarming about seeing a literary cultural artifact like the autographed typewriter Douglas Adams used to write The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on a book reseller website and sitting right next to a huge red "Add to Basket" button. But there it is, the original Babelfish that translated Adams' own genius-madness into transmissionable form!

gadgets.boingboing.net

Light Your Fire With A Fat Roll Of Benjamins

anselm — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:22:41 GMT

I’m fairly comfortable with my position in life. That’s not to say that I wouldn’t mind having more money, but I’m not the kind of guy that needs to light a cigar or a fire with a roll of $100 bills. I’m more of the type that will buy cheap fire starters that look like a roll of $100 bills.

ohgizmo.com

B-2 Stealth Bomber Crash Scene Photos: Exclusive First Look

anselm — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:32:45 GMT

After taking you inside the Air Force’s investigation into the crash of a B-2 stealth bomber, PopularMechanics.com has obtained the first still photos of the February accident—and they’re pretty stunning. With last month’s technical report detailing the demise of the Spirit of Kansas came footage from security cameras at Andersen Air Force base in Guam.

popularmechanics.com

Chinese restaurant called TRANSLATE SERVER ERROR

anselm — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:24:54 GMT

I'm not sure what Chinese string this restaurateur fed to the translation software used to to generate the giant sign hanging over the entrance, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't: TRANSLATE SERVER ERROR.

adweek.blogs.com

Girls Sleeves Tiger Full Body Tattoo Shirt

anselm — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:20:44 GMT

The newest item from Sleeves, this full body tattoo shirt emulates traditional Japanese chest plates. Depicted amidst these Japanese images is the tiger which represents sincerity of the heart and the cherry blossom, reflecting the fleeting nature of youth and beauty.

bewild.com

UFO Porno: Video mit kopulierenden Aliens

anselm — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:16:42 GMT