Topic: DRUGS - on May 3, 2008 at 11:26:00 AM CEST
Steve Hager out - again - as editor of 'High Times'
High Times editor-in-chief Steve Hager has been placed on leave. He was told to vacate his office for the next two monthsSteve Hager as the magazine's parent company Trans High Corp. decides how to proceed. It's the fourth time Hager has been dispatched from the EIC post.
Reasons for the change range from overspending to disagreements with publisher Mary McEvoy to general staff discontent with Hager's editorial practices and judgement.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 3, 2008 at 10:20:00 AM CEST
9X Media Multi-Panel LCD Displays, Almost Infinite!
We have earlier told you about some monstrous multi-panel displays including Zenview series, Athens multi-panel LCD displays, Siemens and Radius 320 Seamless LCD Display. But, still if you need to expand your vision then 9XMedia offers you to spread your horizons as much as you can think of with their multi-screen display systems that are expandable and customizable.
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Topic: STRANGE - on May 3, 2008 at 10:18:00 AM CEST
Dinosaur dung sells at NYC auction for nearly $1,000 - old shit
A pile of dinosaur dung 130 million years old sold at a New York auction Wednesday for nearly $1,000.
The prehistoric deposit fetched $960, said a spokeswoman for Bonhams New York. Its pre-auction estimate was $450.
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Topic: ART - on May 3, 2008 at 10:13:00 AM CEST
Clever I am Banksy t-shirt
I'M BANKSY t-shirts are printed on premium quality garments with the nicest of fits. £20.00 +PP
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Topic: ART - on May 3, 2008 at 10:08:00 AM CEST
The amazing pictures of an artist dangling horizontally out of a skyscraper
Dangling horizontally out of a skyscraper, this hovering figure looks set to fall to his doom.
But this 'jumper' hasn't just lost it all on a game of chance - this is performance art with a difference.
Chinese artist Li Wei has produced an unsettling series of self-portraits involving his face reflected in mirrors in public places, and photographs of himself crashing into walls and sidewalks.
His work is a mixture of performance art and photography that creates illusions of a sometimes dangerous reality.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 3, 2008 at 10:06:00 AM CEST
Open source software is murder
Radio Reg In Russia, they say the only way to untold software riches is to partner with Microsoft. Or at least that's what Microsoft's Russian operatives are telling people these days.
Open Season intrepid correspondent Matt Asay just returned from the land of Mayakovsky and Emma Goldman - a beer spills in Silicon Valley for these giants - where he found a Microsoft big-wig spreading some ill will toward open source software. No big shocker to be sure. But apparently this guy is an especially ardent Microsoft zealot after a few doses of vodka.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 3, 2008 at 10:05:00 AM CEST
Recording Industry Funds Charity To Run Its Latest Brainwashing Program
We've already seen the entertainment industry put together propaganda curriculums for kids about "intellectual property" that are so tilted and one-sided that the kids roll their eyes and challenge many of the statements. But that's not stopping the industry.
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