Topic: DRUGS - on July 14, 2008 at 12:04:13 PM CEST
Royal Navy beschlagnahmt tonnenweise Drogen vor iranischer Küste
Drogenumschlagplatz Iran: Die britische Marine hat einem Zeitungsbericht zufolge Schiffe vor der iranischen Küste gestoppt, die tonnenweise Drogen transportierten. Die Erlöse sollten den Kampf der Taliban in Afghanistan finanzieren. Iran weist jede Verwicklung in den Schmuggel von sich.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 14, 2008 at 11:56:04 AM CEST
Rasta smoker wins appeal against pot conviction in Italy
If you're a Rastafarian in Italy, you might be able to possess more marijuana than the law allows everyone else.
Italy's highest criminal court has ruled that the fact Rastafarians consider marijuana use a religious sacrament should be taken into account if they are tried on trafficking charges.
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Topic: WEB - on July 14, 2008 at 11:53:23 AM CEST
The Pirate Bay Wants to Encrypt the Entire Internet
The team behind the popular torrent site The Pirate Bay has started to work on a new encryption technology that could potentially protect all Internet traffic from prying eyes. The project, which is still in its initial stages, goes by the name “Transparent end-to-end encryption for the Internets,” or IPETEE for short. It tackles encryption not on the application level, but on the network level, the aim being that all data exchanged on your PC would be encrypted, regardless of its nature — be it a web browser streaming video files or an instant messaging client. As Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij (a.k.a. Tiamo) told me, “Even applications that don’t supporting encryption will be encrypted where possible.”
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Topic: ART - on July 14, 2008 at 11:51:58 AM CEST
The Big Lebowski Edition
Inspired by Cinema Redux, I used Thumber to output this lovely fingerprint of my The Big Lebowski — which just so happens to be one of my all-time favorite movies.
There's a much larger version of this — around 7680 x 14976 and 25 MB — that I'm considering making a 24 x 36 poster out of. After getting linked on BoingBoing, I'm investigating getting this turned into a poster.
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Topic: ART - on July 14, 2008 at 11:44:16 AM CEST
Peace not war with Banksy original song Dave Shaw
"Peace not war"©Daveshaw 2008 Banksy with the art work for the video,brilliant as ever Lyrics follow Stop all the rain from falling Stop all the screams and the cries Open up your arms be excited Open up your heart and your mind Lower the wall be defenceless Be at peace and not war Ask someone "how ya doing" You choose who you are Save someone you know how to Save someone from the fall Let go your inhabitations Release the anger in yourself We've all been in hiding We've all seen the news Always easier to be ignoring Always the easy way out
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Topic: ART - on July 14, 2008 at 11:34:53 AM CEST
Paper 'outs artist Banksy'
Graffiti artist Banksy is a 34-year-old former public school pupil named Robin Gunningham, a newspaper says.
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Topic: ART - on July 14, 2008 at 11:29:37 AM CEST
Graffiti artist Banksy unmasked ... as a former public schoolboy from middle-class suburbia
He is perhaps the most famous, or infamous, artist alive. To some a genius, to others a vandal. Always controversial, he inspires admiration and provokes outrage in equal measure.
Since Banksy made his name with his trademark stencil-style 'guerrilla' art in public spaces - on walls in London, Brighton, Bristol and even on the West Bank barrier separating Israelis and Palestinians - his works have sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds.
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Topic: ART - on July 14, 2008 at 11:25:48 AM CEST
Brilliant 'UFO' Controlled Remotely by SMS
Clever, very clever. New York artist Peter Coffin teamed with London interactive architect Dominic Harris to launch a "UFO" of their own design earlier this month. The airborne mystery pod produced shock and awe among citizens of a small town last week when it hovered, lights aglow, in Gdansk, Poland.
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