Topic: DRUGS - on October 27, 2007 at 9:17:00 PM CEST
Dutch turn out to protest at magic mushroom ban
Carrying banners reading “When will they ban bread?” and “Boss of your own brain”, more than 100 people, some wearing hats resembling the bright red cap of the popular fly agaric variety, protested to keep hallucinogenic mushrooms legal.
After several incidents involving tourists - in March, a French teenager jumped to her death from a bridge after taking mushrooms - the Dutch Government plans to ban them.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 27, 2007 at 9:09:00 PM CEST
Demo gegen Verbot von "Magic Mushrooms" in Amsterdam
In Amsterdam haben heute mehr als 100 Demonstranten gegen ein drohendes Verbot von rauscherzeugenden Pilzen protestiert. Mit Slogans wie "Wann werden sie Brot verbieten?" und "Mein Gehirn gehört mir!" machten die teilweise als überlebensgroße Pilze verkleideten Niederländer ihrem Ärger Luft.
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Topic: FUN - on October 27, 2007 at 12:42:00 PM CEST
Funny Street Signs
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Topic: WEB - on October 27, 2007 at 12:31:00 PM CEST
Operation Firefox: Infiltrate society and spread Firefox, one sticker at a time
Operation Firefox is currently recruiting agents to place huge 3.5-feet Firefox Fathead stickers where the world will see them. Are you up to the challenge?
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 27, 2007 at 12:23:00 PM CEST
LSD and Dying on the eye of the cyclone Blog
Modern pharmacology’s ability to synthesize psychoactive drugs has made the psychedelic experience-one that can encourage memories to arise as well as induce and mimic an ecstatic, mystical state-a common and widespread phenomenon for many Americans, and especially for the baby boom generation. Now, some are beginning to regard these drug experiences as a way to prepare for the shift in consciousness that may occur in dying.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 27, 2007 at 12:21:00 PM CEST
Electric guitar worth €2,500,000 - Damn it’s Cocaine!
Yes, you read it right. This electric guitar is worth €2,500,000 (US $3,598,002) because it’s made of pure cocaine. A 30-something guy flew from Costa Rica to Fiumicino airport in Rome with a guitar (a black Squier Strat, with the label still on the scratch plate) and 10 thermos flasks in his luggage.
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Topic: MUSIK - on October 27, 2007 at 12:16:00 PM CEST
The Home Video Prince Doesn't Want You to See
A bouncing YouTube baby has be-bopped his way right into the legal cross-hairs of the pop star Prince, sparking a lawsuit that could test the boundaries of U.S. copyright law.
Holden Lenz, 18 months old, is the pajama-clad star of a 29-second home movie shot by his mother in the family's rural Pennsylvania kitchen and posted last February on the popular video site YouTube.
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Topic: MAKE - on October 27, 2007 at 12:11:00 PM CEST
Show Us Your Geeky Jack-o'-Lanterns
It's the weekend before Halloween, and geeks all across the land are sharpening their knives and getting ready to gouge orange gourds. Pumpkin masterpieces range from Battlestar Galactica cool (a Cylon Jack-O-Lantern, complete with the bouncing red "eye") to delicately nuanced Mac O'Lanterns of geek titans Steve Jobs and Steve Ballmer.
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Topic: WEB - on October 27, 2007 at 12:08:00 PM CEST
Turn Thunderbird into the Ultimate Gmail IMAP Client
Gmail's IMAP support roll-out this week had nerds all atwitter about the possibility of synchronized email access across devices, computers, and clients. IMAP is far superior to regular old POP for fetching your messages and maintaining your folder list whether you're on your iPhone, office or home computer. If IMAP's got you curious but you're not sure what desktop application to use with Gmail, consider the extensible, fast, cross-platform and free Mozilla Thunderbird, our beloved Firefox's little sibling. Here's how to get the full Gmail experience in Thunderbird with IMAP.
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Topic: WEB - on October 27, 2007 at 12:03:00 PM CEST
The Pirate Bay To Bring Back OiNK
The Pirate Bay is currently working on an OiNK replacement in an attempt to bring the hundreds of thousands of music albums back online that disappeared during the raid. The replacement will be released within a week and on the BOiNK.cd domain.
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Topic: WEB - on October 27, 2007 at 12:00:00 PM CEST
Oink Users Recall Defunct Song-Swap Site's Strange, Stringent Rules
When authorities shut down Oink.cd on Oct. 23, former users of the private BitTorrent tracker lamented the loss of one of the world's largest and most meticulously maintained online music repositories.
But Oink was also one of the strangest file-sharing services around, with rules both practical and puerile. Like a persnickety record store clerk, Oink's operators banned low-quality sound files, enforced strict usage rules and mandated that all users' avatars be "cute" -- even taking pains to define exactly what made an avatar appropriately cuddly.
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