Topic: ART - on March 12, 2007 at 3:13:00 PM CET
HUM BOM! - Allen Ginsberg
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 12, 2007 at 2:37:00 PM CET
Psychedelic Hendrix drawings go on display
Psychedelic drawings by rock legend Jimi Hendrix which have been unseen for 30 years are going on show at a music shop.
The two drawings of swirling, colourful shapes were created while the guitar hero was on tour, and could fetch £10,000 each.
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Topic: ROBOT - on March 12, 2007 at 1:20:00 PM CET
3rd RCS Brave Robot Competition
The 3rd RCS BRAVE Robot competition was held today in Kawasaki, and we had the opportunity to watch and record the action. Today's photo set from the competition has been uploaded and is viewable now. Over the next couple of days we'll process the video clips, review our notes, write up a report and post them as soon as possible here on Robots Dreams. We're sure you'll be just as amazed and delighted as we were.
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Topic: TOYS - on March 12, 2007 at 12:54:00 PM CET
led candles react to wind just like the real deal
These minimal LED lights are designed to act like a real candle by flickering in the wind, and automatically turning off when you blow on them.
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Topic: STRANGE - on March 12, 2007 at 12:51:00 PM CET
Home becomes an 'island' in building row
As far as planning disputes go, it is a far cry from letters of complaint to the council over an unsightly conservatory.
After a row with developers, this family's home has been left perched 12m (40ft) up on its own concrete island.
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Topic: DOPE HEAD - on March 12, 2007 at 12:43:00 PM CET
Blues Brothers Revived
Shocking video you saw first on NBC Augusta. A man drives his SUV through the Augusta Mall like he was driving on the street!
That driver is in jail tonight charged with several serious crimes, including DUI.
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 12, 2007 at 11:43:00 AM CET
The magic ingredient: Hash brownies, dope stir-fry... Cooking with the cannabis granny
She's just been busted for the second time, but Patricia Tabram's unusual (and illegal) cottage industry goes on. Ian Herbert joins her in the kitchen for a masterclass in class C culinary delights
with Patricia Tabram
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on March 12, 2007 at 11:38:00 AM CET
Pi fans to meet March 14 (3.14, get it?)
This is a story about love. About inscrutable complexity and remarkable simplicity, about the promise of forever. It is about obsession and devotion, and grand gestures and 4,000-word love letters.
It is about a curious group of people with an almost religious zeal for a mind-numbing string of numbers. Actually one number, made up of a chain that is known — so far — to be more than one trillion digits long.
They are the acolytes of the church of pi.
Daniel Tammet first came to worldwide attention in March 2004 on international Pi Day (3/14, of course) when he recited, from memory, Pi to 22,514 decimal places.
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Topic: FUN - on March 12, 2007 at 10:32:00 AM CET
This video will make you hallucinate.
You get a much more interesting effect if you look at the back of your hand after staring at the screen. Just looking at a wall or something doesn't make the distortion nearly as apparent.
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Topic: MUSIK - on March 12, 2007 at 10:27:00 AM CET
Singer James Brown's body placed in crypt at daughter's home
More than two months after he died, soul singer James Brown's body was placed in a crypt Saturday at the home of one of his daughters, though it likely will not be his final resting place.
Brown's body had been kept in a secret location during disputes over his estate.
He died Dec. 25 at age 73.
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 12, 2007 at 10:25:00 AM CET
Propaganda Art
prop·a·gan·da
- The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause.
- Material disseminated by the advocates or opponents of a doctrine or cause: wartime propaganda
art
The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 12, 2007 at 10:15:00 AM CET
6 major blows to the Bush Administration in the last 24 hours
During a 24-hour news cycle last week there were these major stories:
Six of the eight recently fired United States Attorneys told Congressional committees that they believed they lost their jobs because they wouldn't play partisan politics in their handling of high profile political corruption cases. Some also claimed they'd been threatened by the Justice Department not to go public with their complaints.
Nine American servicemen were killed in action Iraq.
More than 100 Iraqi Shiites making a religious pilgrimage were killed by suicide bombers. At least 200 were injured.
Seriously wounded soldiers told Congress about the neglect, bad housing and bureaucratic nightmares they suffered as outpatients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington while two top army generals accepted responsibility and apologized to the soldiers and their families.
According to a new USA Today/Gallup Poll, six in 10 Americans want Congress to set a time table to withdraw all American troops from Iraq by the end of 2008.
And, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney and a national security aide to President George W. Bush, was found guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice in the case of the leak of the identity of a CIA operative in the summer of 2003.
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