Topic: DRUGS - on June 1, 2009 at 2:09:00 PM CEST
The CIA’s 5 Most Mind Blowing Experiments With LSD
LSD has long been a staple of overweight, furry men with ponytails who list their occupation as ‘Earth Shaman’ on tax forms. The CIA is more typically known for their starched suits than their mind exploring orgies. So if we told you that the CIA was trippin’ balls before Hunter S. Thompson even knew that balls existed, you’d probably call us liars. Well, prepare to have your mind, like, blown man. Here are the five strangest things you didn’t know about the CIA, and how LSD really came to be.
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Topic: WERBUNG - on June 1, 2009 at 2:04:00 PM CEST
13 More Extremely Effective Guerrilla Marketing Stunts
Here we have 13 more great examples of Guerrilla Marketing that people couldn’t help but notice. Guerrilla ads continue to surpass traditional ads by leaps and bounds in their effectiveness, and they’re showing that the genre has the staying power to keep catching eyes for years if not decades to come.
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Topic: ART - on June 1, 2009 at 2:01:00 PM CEST
100 Extraordinary Examples of Paper Art
Paper art can be traced back to Japan, where it originated over a thousand years ago.
From complex paper cutting to book carving, this is an ever expanding area of design that is hardly talked about.
These intricate paper designs grace museums and exhibitions throughout the world and is becoming yet another exciting medium of expression for many designers.
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Topic: STRANGE - on June 1, 2009 at 1:59:00 PM CEST
Bulls explode after power lines collapse
Seven bulls 'exploded' and caught fire after powerlines fell on a Dairy Flat farm, north of Auckland, New Zealand on Tuesday.
Dave Taylor, who leases the 60.7 hectare Wilks Rd farm, says he lost a $2000 friesian breeding bull and six other meat bulls of the same breed worth about $500 each. "I got a call from my dad, who was driving along the motorway, to say cows were exploding. I found seven dead and on fire in the paddock," he says.
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Topic: NATURE - on June 1, 2009 at 1:55:00 PM CEST
The cloud with no name: Meteorologists campaign to classify unique 'Asperatus' clouds seen across the world
Whipped into fantastical shapes, these clouds hang over the darkening landscape like the harbingers of a mighty storm.
But despite their stunning and frequent appearances, the formations have yet to be officially recognised with a name.
They have been seen all over Britain in different forms - from Snowdonia to the Scottish Highlands - and in other parts of the world such as New Zealand, but usually break up without producing a storm.
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Topic: War and Peace - on June 1, 2009 at 1:53:00 PM CEST
Iraqi boy meets girl . . . bombs house
It goes like this: Boy meets girl. They exchange glances and text messages, the limit of respectable courting here. Then boy asks girl’s father for her hand. Dad turns him down. Boy goes to girl’s house and plants a bomb out front.
The authorities call it a “love I.E.D.,” or improvised explosive device, and it is not just an isolated case. Capt. Nabil Abdul Hussein of the Iraqi national police said that six had exploded in the Dora neighborhood of Baghdad alone in the past year.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on June 1, 2009 at 1:48:00 PM CEST
Norwegian government considers prosecuting Scientology
The Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services is considering prosecuting and banning some Scientology practices, in particular the use of the Scientology personality test to sell courses. State Secretary Rigmor Aasrud said that the activities in question might be prosecuted as fraud or as violations of existing healthcare regulations. A Norwegian Member of Parliment (MP) whose daughter killed herself after taking such a test, supports the idea of prosecuting illegal practices rather than trying to ban the movement as a whole.
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