Topic: DRUGS - on March 17, 2009 at 12:15:00 PM CET
Besitz und Anbau von Cannabis zum Eigengebrauch entkriminalisieren
Die Bundestagsfraktion Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen hat am 12. Februar 2009 einen Antrag in den Bundestag eingebracht, der nicht weniger als die Entkriminalisierung des Besitzes und Anbaus von Cannabis für den eigenen Bedarf forderte.
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Topic: MUSIK - on March 17, 2009 at 12:05:00 PM CET
Streaming concerts, 10 albums of unreleased music for $77 Prince web subscribers...
Now Prince—the first marquee musician to flirt with the Web—wants to go on another virtual date. While he is partnering with Target to sell a new three-CD set for the recession-proof price of $11.98, Prince will also offer subscriptions to his new site, Lotusflow3r.com, for a not-so-recession-proof $77 per year.
Ultimately, the site, which is set to debut before the Target street date, will have to thrive apart from those first three albums. Clay says future plans for Lotus flow3r.com include a hybrid documentary-music video. But the deal-sealer, he concedes, is the potential for streaming live, VIP-only concerts from Prince’s Los Angeles mansion. “There could be a live chat going on with members watching a concert, and Prince could actually play requests,” Clay says. He also claims a colleague has organized 10 albums of old Prince music never released in any form.
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Topic: ART - on March 17, 2009 at 12:04:00 PM CET
March 17, 1948: William Gibson, Father of Cyberspace
William Gibson is born in Conway, South Carolina. He later blossoms into legend with the prize-winning fiction that gives the world the term cyberspace.
The death of his father and a move to rural Wytheville, Virginia, propelled Gibson at age 6 to withdraw into his books, especially science fiction. In the 2000 documentary No Maps for These Territories he called this his "native literary culture."
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