Topic: DRUGS - on September 8, 2008 at 10:34:00 AM CEST
Hippies [2007]
This TV documentary on the History Channel has many flaws, the greatest of which is allowing overarching, borderline ridiculous right-wing condemnations of hippie culture to remain unchallenged, but still it fascinates as a glimpse at the drug-fueled, youth-driven counterculture of the late 1960s. Too much time, unfortunately, is wasted on sensationalist, irrelevant side-stories and not enough is spent on the substantive contributions of the hippie aesthetic to the culture at large. There are also a few glaring historical accuracies; for example, one could easily conclude from the film that the Vietnam War ended after 1969 -- which would certainly come as a surprise to the soldiers who served there from 1970-1973. But at least the film, at its end, correctly, if only briefly, touches upon some of the many lasting contributions of the hippie ethos to the culture at large; these include the consciousness movement, the environmental movement, and the computer/technological revolution which led to the democratization of information by the Internet.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 8, 2008 at 10:29:00 AM CEST
I Was There and You Weren't
Now in its 17th year, the annual Seattle Hempfest has become the world's most popular protest against the drug war.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 8, 2008 at 10:27:00 AM CEST
California greed weed
We may have taken a foot forward, but greed has ripped us back into the arenas with the pharmaceutical companies. Do we take it back to the underground? It is well known the streets are cheaper. Again the problem arises, along with many others, such as; finding medical grade “Medi-juana” in a clean, safe, comfortable environment with kind and knowledgeable people there to assist, and not intimidate a patient with hard sell, high priced, rush in, rush out mentality. They are selling “Greed Weed” in the name of compassion!
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 8, 2008 at 10:26:00 AM CEST
Mexicans protest crime at soccer match
Tens of thousands of Mexican soccer fans dressed in white at an international game in the Azteca Stadium on Saturday to protest rising crime and a brutal drug war that has killed more than 2,700 people this year.
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Topic: WEB - on September 8, 2008 at 10:22:00 AM CEST
Louis Vuitton VS Fake for Real
The Fake for Real Memory Game – consisting of 60 cards that playfully visualize the classical theme of fake and real in our society – has temporarily been taken offline due to legal issues with a luxury leather luggage brand Louis Vuitton.
The Fake for Real memory game is sold in a stylish box, decorated with a pattern resembling the internationally renowned Louis Vuitton pattern, which was ironically mimicked using right-free ‘webdings’ fonts from MS Word.
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Topic: NASA - on September 8, 2008 at 10:12:00 AM CEST
NASA Chief Vents On Shuttle Program's End
In a leaked memo, NASA Administrator Mike Griffin discusses 'the jihad' to prematurely terminate the Shuttle and what that means for the International Space Station. One implication: there may come a long interval when only our Russian Allies are aboard the Space Station. Add that bit of irony to your new cold war kit and then wonder why Griffin discusses why we wouldn't sabotage the Space Station, and how and why the memo got leaked in the first place.
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Topic: PHOTO - on September 8, 2008 at 10:10:00 AM CEST
Make Your Own Time-Lapse Photography System
Movies were born when Auguste and Louis Lumiere (and ultimately Thomas Edison) projected a series of still photos in rapid succession, causing the viewer to perceive motion where there was none.
Matching the projector's speed with the speed of the camera made the motion lifelike. Undercranking (running the camera slowly) and overcranking (running the camera faster than the projector) caused a film to appear faster or slower than reality. It wasn't long after the invention of motion pictures that camera operators and directors intentionally ran the camera faster or slower than normal to create special effects.
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Topic: WEB - on September 8, 2008 at 10:06:00 AM CEST
Live from the North Pole!
Web Cam 3 is a fish eye view showing sky and cloud cover. Each reading by the radiometer triggers Web Cam 3 to take a photograph. Images are taken every 2 hours, allowing visual verification and comparison between sky conditions and radiometer measurements.
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Topic: STRANGE - on September 8, 2008 at 10:02:00 AM CEST
Wer hat den Größten? - PENIS-MUSEUM IN ISLAND
Hunderte abgeschnittene Tierpenisse, konserviert im Einmachglas: Ein Isländer stellt die Errungenschaften seiner skurrilen Sammelwut in einem Phallus-Museum aus. Auf das beste Stück eines Homo sapiens wartet er allerdings noch.
Vier Männer haben dem Isländer Sigurdur Hjartarson ihren Penis geschenkt. Noch leben die Spender, aber sie haben testamentarisch verfügt, dass ihr bestes Stück nach ihrem Tod in einem Einmachglas konserviert werden soll. Zum Beweis hat der 66-jährige Hjartarson die Dokumente eingerahmt und an die Wand gehängt. Neben dem Testament prangt jeweils ein Foto: Der deutsche Spender aus Kassel hat seinen Penis abfotografiert, der amerikanische Spender posiert nackt auf einem Barhocker, die anderen beiden Männer, ein Isländer und ein Engländer, hingegen haben die Hüllen noch nicht fallen lassen.
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