Topic: DRUGS - on April 19, 2009 at 2:17:00 PM CEST
Dope day
This year, hundreds of 4/20 events are scheduled for Monday, April 20th. The biggest one is in Boulder on the Colorado University campus. I'll be speaking at the National Marijuana Forum sponsored by NORML@CU on Apr. 19 and smoking out with the masses on 4/20.
celebstoner.com 4/20: National Pot Smokers DayThousands Expected At Pot RallyHappy 420! Marijuana Advocates Point to Signs of Change - NYTimes.com Police plan special DUI enforcement for so-called '420' holiday What 420 Means: The True Story Behind Stoners' Favorite Number
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 19, 2009 at 2:15:00 PM CEST
White House tries to combat drug demand with rehab
As President Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon talk tough about cracking down on the deadly drug war, the United States is changing tactics in the battle against illegal narcotics at home.
The man Obama picked to be the new "drug czar," Gil Kerlikowske, has made it clear that the United States is going to do a better job of treating addicts to try to reduce the demand for narcotics.
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 19, 2009 at 2:12:00 PM CEST
He Has Ridden -- Celebrating Bicycle Day 66
Today is the 66th Bicycle Day, April 19, 2009 so I thought it would be appropriate to excerpt from article I wrote 16 years ago about this annual event celebrated by "psychelicists."
“Bicycle Day....what’s that?” you might be asking. Well on April 16, 1943, it will be fifty years ago that LSD was discovered. And three days after his amazing, chance discovery, on a spring day in 1943, Albert Hofmann took the first planned LSD session and soon found himself frozen in time on a bicycle ride from the Sandoz building in Basel, Switzerland to his home in the suburb called Rittimatte.
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Topic: TESLA - on April 19, 2009 at 2:01:00 PM CEST
Modern Thinker
This is my interpretation of Rodin's classic sculpture, the "Thinker".
I wanted to convey the concept of the modern electrical age with the barrage of electrical interference in our lives. So much is happening and demanding our attention that it is difficult to "think".
I decided upon a real life posture like the thinker with a lot of electrical activity around me with sparks onto my body.
In doing this I wanted to do something new that also challenged the boundaries and that is new to the internet. I decided to use my established techniques of long exposures and a moving rod trailing sparks with an "eye of Sauron" effect. The aim was to have a semicircle of sparks over my body while in the "thinker" pose.
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Topic: Terror - on April 19, 2009 at 1:53:00 PM CEST
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Was Waterboarded 183 Times in One Month
I've put this detail in a series of posts, but it really deserves a full post. According to the May 30, 2005 Bradbury memo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in March 2003 and Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in August 2002.
On page 37 of the OLC memo, in a passage discussing the differences between SERE techniques and the torture used with detainees, the memo explains:
The CIA used the waterboard "at least 83 times during August 2002" in the interrogation of Zubaydah. IG Report at 90, and 183 times during March 2003 in the interrogation of KSM, see id. at 91.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 19, 2009 at 12:45:00 PM CEST
Is Google the next Pirate Bay?
Now that an initial guilty verdict has been handed down in the Pirate Bay case, there's a lot of talk going on about Google being "the next Pirate Bay." In an interview with Forbes, Harvard professor Ben Edelman states "Google now can and does do what the Pirate Bay has always done."
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Topic: PHOTO - on April 19, 2009 at 12:35:00 PM CEST
10 Top Photography Composition Rules
The only rule in photography is that there are no rules. However, there are many composition guidelines which can be applied in almost any situation, to enhance the impact of a scene. Below are ten of the most popular and most widely respected composition 'rules'.
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Topic: PHOTO - on April 19, 2009 at 12:34:00 PM CEST
40 Amazing Online Photography Magazines
Whatever country we live in, we’re probably all familiar with the well-known photography magazines available in our newsagents and bookstores. The UK has Practical Photography, France has Photo, the Italians have Zoom and the Americans have American Photo. What you may not know is that there are many more photography magazines that are only available online. And some of them are good, very good.
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