Wednesday, 21. January 2009

Original Banksy "Balloon Girl"


You´re bidding on an original artwork of world-famous street artist Banksy which was sprayed on a wall on Mona Road, Kingston, Jamaica, by the artist during a visit to the island in the year 2004. It is roughly 60 inches by 55 inches and about 7 inches thick. It weighs approximately 2000 pounds. Done by the artist in 2004 on Mona road in Kingston, Jamaica.


The Afflicted Yard: The Rock from Rickards Bros. on Vimeo.

ebay.com

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The country's new robots.txt file


Here's a small and nerdy measure of the huge change in the executive branch of the US government today. Here's the robots.txt file from whitehouse.gov yesterday:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /query.html
Disallow: /omb/search
Disallow: /omb/query.html
Disallow: /expectmore/search
Disallow: /expectmore/query.html
Disallow: /results/search
Disallow: /results/query.html
Disallow: /earmarks/search
Disallow: /earmarks/query.html
Disallow: /help
Disallow: /360pics/text
Disallow: /911/911day/text
Disallow: /911/heroes/text

And it goes on like that for almost 2400 lines!

Here's the new Obamafied robots.txt file:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /includes/

kottke.org

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2009 Inaugural Celebration. Washington D.C. National Mall


This half-meter resolution image of the United States Capitol, Washington D.C. was collected by the GeoEye-1 satellite on Jan. 20, 2009 to commemorate the Inauguration of President Barack Obama. The image, taken through high, whispy white clouds, shows the masses of people attending the Inaugural Celebration.

Satellite image of inauguration

geoeye.com

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11 tons of hashish found in Sevilla


Police have found 11 tons of hashish hidden in two garages in the Avenida de la Innovación in Sevilla. It’s the largest amount of drugs to be found in the city for the past decade, one of the largest found in Spain, and is valued at 16 million €.

typicallyspanish.com

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Modedroge Spice wird per Eilverordnung verboten


Aus für Spice: Die bislang frei verkäufliche Kräutermischung wird verboten. Grund ist das hohe Suchtpotential - nach Angaben des BKA wirkt die Droge stärker und unberechenbarer als Marihuana und Haschisch. Die Eilverordnung soll am Donnerstag in Kraft treten.

spiegel.de welt.de zeit.de diepresse.com apotheke-adhoc.de orf.at old shit

4:20 statt Spice

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