Saturday, 14. July 2007

READ A BOOK! READ A BOOK!


The Animated Video for Read a Book as seen on BET.

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Terrorist organization logos


Terrorist groups, like any organization, need brand identities. With so many groups claiming credit for terrorist acts, and so many videotapes being put out featuring men in ski masks, it’s hard to keep track of which group committed what violent act. So terrorist organizations have logos. It recently occurred to me that someone had to actually design those logos. But how did they decide who gets to do it? Did the job go to whichever terrorist had a copy of Adobe Illustrator?

ironicsans.com

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Trey Parker Does Alan Watts


Flash animations done to the lectures of Alan Watts. I think it works if you can not think South Park...

freshminds.com

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Food From The Matrix


This is a excellent documentary dealing with many controversial issues such as MSG (Monosodium Glutimate) Aspartame, Fluoride and SSRIs. ... Alle » Based upon a interview between Dr Russell Blaylock (a board certified neurosurgeon) and Jeff Rense, it shows how MSG is extremely bad for the body, not to mention the chronic toxicity in our bodies from Fluoride. It takes a snapshot look at Cho Seung Hui, and his possible link to SSRIs, as well as Eric Harris in the Columbine Shooting...

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Community Building Through Food Hacking [video]


Marc Powell is an anarchist, hacker chef who opens his kitchen up to strangers and friends every Thursday to cook up some amazing hacked food creations. Attending a food hacking supper club is a mind-expanding experience that teaches folks not to be afraid of experimenting with your cuisine. You can't cook wrong if you have the right friends to help you out! During this particular five course meal, we had, among many things, the most amazing savory mushroom soup, fava bean souffle, candied bacon wrapped scallops and a citrus meringue your grandma would have been proud of.

podtech.net podtech.net 2

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Magic Wheel - The Swiss Do It Again


There’s something about Swiss designers and weird transportation, something good. First we had the Bikeboard and now it’s the Magic Wheel - a unicycle / skatebaord kind of hybrid.

Magic Wheel

geekalerts.com

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75-Year-Old Woman Has Fastest Net Access


A 75 year old woman from Karlstad in central Sweden has been thrust into the IT history books - with the world's fastest internet connection.

Sigbritt Löthberg's home has been supplied with a blistering 40 Gigabits per second connection, many thousands of times faster than the average residential link and the first time ever that a home user has experienced such a high speed.

thelocal.se

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Pushing tourism in a drug stronghold


Sinaloa, the northern Mexican state that spawned the country's most fearsome drug cartel, hopes to lure tourists to rustic cabins in a rugged area infamous for opium fields and violent kingpins.

Generations of farmers have grown opium and marijuana in the hilly and remote Badiraguato region, a stronghold for powerful drug gangs and the birthplace of Mexico's top capo and most-wanted man, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

reuters.com

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How Cops Can Tell When You Are High on Ketamine


Can someone balance on one leg when they are high on the anesthetic ketamine? This was the central question of a research paper written by government researchers in Hong Kong.

To find an answer, a team of social workers and scientists stood outside of two different nightclubs and asked 62 people to perform a series of sobriety tests in the parking lot or a nearby playground.

wired.com

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Help EFF figure out what's in the FBI's secret docs


Last week, I blogged about how the Electronic Frontier Foundation had prised 1,000+ pages' worth of FBI docs loose with a Freedom of Information Act request. These docs document the FBI's abuse of power after the PATRIOT Act. Now, 1,000+ pages is a LOT of material, and EFF needs your help.

eff.org

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Cory Doctorow, on BoingBoing and the EFF [mp3]


Cory Doctorow is a popular science fiction author and co-editor of the high-profile blog, BoingBoing. His novels are given away for free on the Internet as Creative Commons-licensed downloads. They can be freely shared, and in some cases, remixed or translated and sold in developing countries. Perhaps surprisingly, this has led to good sales in the real world.

He is former Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a technology advocacy nonprofit that works to upload liberty in technology law, policy and standards.

podtech.net [mp3]

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Profile of famed LSD chemist Owsley


The San Francisco Chronicle managed to get an interview with the elusive Augustus Owsley Stanley III, a DIY chemist who produced legendary tabs of high quality LSD in the 1960s.

Owlsey's acid was even purer than the LSD made by Sandoz in Switzerland, the company that invented LSD and supplied it to the US Government as a tool of psychological warfare. Owsley's LSD was so pure that you could shake a beaker of it and it would glow -- its crystals were piezoluminescent.

sfgate.com laughingsquid.com

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