Topic: DRUGS - on April 3, 2009 at 11:44:00 AM CEST
Why Legalizing Marijuana Makes Sense
For the past several years, I've been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on the path of righteousness, marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam, need to find an appropriately high-minded approach to life's exit ramp. In this case, I mean the high-minded part literally. And so, a deal: give us drugs, after a certain age — say, 80 — all drugs, any drugs we want. In return, we will give you our driver's licenses. (I mean, can you imagine how terrifying a nation of decrepit, solipsistic 90-year-old boomers behind the wheel would be?) We'll let you proceed with your lives — much of which will be spent paying for our retirement, in any case — without having to hear us complain about our every ache and reflux. We'll be too busy exploring altered states of consciousness. I even have a slogan for the campaign: "Tune in, turn on, drop dead."
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 3, 2009 at 11:39:00 AM CEST
'114-year-old man' found with 6.5 tonnes of marijuana
Nigeria's anti-narcotics agency confiscated 6.5 tonnes of marijuana on Tuesday - from the home of a man who claimed he was 114 years old.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said it had found 254 sacks of cannabis at the home of Sulaiman Adebayo in Ogun state, north of the commercial capital Lagos.
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Topic: MUSIK - on April 2, 2009 at 12:17:00 PM CEST
Some of the most controversial album covers
It's amazing how times change. What would be considered absolutely unacceptable 40 years ago is the norm now. Sometimes I wonder what people will find completely acceptable 40 years from now. Yikes! In any case, just for fun, here are 30 or so album covers that were either banned, changed to appease an overly prudish
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 2, 2009 at 12:14:00 PM CEST
National Bong Association
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 2, 2009 at 12:10:00 PM CEST
endlich: Sat 1 berichtet über Blei im Gras in Bayern
Sat 1 greift als erstes großes Medium die neuen Bleifälle in Bayern auf. Endlich wird das Schweigen um die Vergiftungsgefahr gebrochen.
Der Drogenbeauftragten Sabine Bätzing sind die DHV-Angaben indes zu vage.
Ich konnte gar nicht glauben, dass die Medien das Thema ignorieren. Der DHV hat bereits am 20.02.09 per Pressemitteilung bekannt gegeben, dass in Bayern Blei im Gras aufgetaucht ist. Außer Hanfmedien und Beratungsorganisationen hat bisher niemand das Thema aufgegriffen. Ich habe zusätzlich bei der Abendzeitung angerufen, wurde von Redakteuer zu Redakteur weitergeleitet, berichtet hat die Zeitung nicht. Dabei waren die Medien letztes Jahr nach der Blei-Epidemie in Leipzig alarmiert! Es handelt sich um ein hochemotionales Thema, es ist wichtig, die Konsumenten zu warnen. Warum rührt sich niemand? Weil es "nur" um Kiffer geht? Weil die Streckmittel ein Problem des Schwarzmarktes und damit ein Problem des Cannabisverbotes sind?
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Topic: FUN - on April 2, 2009 at 12:07:00 PM CEST
Wild Jewel Crochet Love Goddess Rainbow Sparkle Jumper
This Crochet Jumper/Coat is SENSATIONAL..you will not find anything else like it. Its a free form crochet ORIGINAL. Its made like a jumper in that it does not open in the front,you slip it on over your head.It has a beautiful frilled collar and falls asymetrically.You can see by the pictures it really flares out around the hips.
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 2, 2009 at 12:05:00 PM CEST
Mastodon's Brent Hinds: 'Acid is the Best Drug in the World'...
Many bands claim to be psychedelic rock, but Mastodon actually lobbies for the title. From an article in the April 16, 2009, issue of Rolling Stone:
The Mastodon brain trust of Hinds and Dailor get their weird lyrical ideas the old fashioned way: “It comes from us doing too much acid,” Hinds says. “Acid is the best drug in the world. It did the most amazing things for my creative psyche, and it still is doing things for me.”
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Topic: PHOTO - on March 30, 2009 at 2:45:00 PM CEST
Weird, Confusing and Irritating Photography
We daily come across with so many photos some of them are good while some are not happening. Some photos are so ordinary that you hardly keep them in mind while some of the photos are simply outstanding and awesome pieces of photography that you reminisce them again and again, and just wonder how photographer has taken such a beautiful picture. You always summon up these photos to muster some clue that how these photos have been taken.
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Topic: Photoshop - on March 30, 2009 at 1:34:00 PM CEST
Vintage Ads
In this contest your challenge is to take modern products and display them in a vintage light, through advertisements. You can also reverse the challenge and take vintage products and display them in a modern way.
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Topic: FUN - on March 30, 2009 at 1:31:00 PM CEST
Wine Glass Light Bulb
The Glassbulb Light by OOOMS is a lamp shaped like a wineglass. This atmospheric lamp is the perfect lighting for those long romantic evenings accompanied by a nice Bordeaux. The LED’s inside will shine for over 30.000 hours, so that’s around 10 years of romance at night!
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Topic: MUSIK - on March 29, 2009 at 1:33:00 PM CEST
Actual Album Cover Parodies
Some albums are not just iconic, but their cover artwork is as well. Plenty of groups have released album covers with homages to more famous album covers. Sources for parody covers tend to be parody albums based on a performer (like Weird Al spoofing Nirvana), tribute albums, and sometimes the rip off is unintentional (designers with a limited design vocabulary). In some cases like the Clash's "London Calling", the copy becomes copied over time to the point where I'm sure some people aren't even aware of the original anymore.
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Topic: FUN - on March 29, 2009 at 1:28:00 PM CEST
fly-goodbye: how do you spell 'overkill?'
Just in, this new über-flykiller which employs a vacuum and internal tube adhesion — sort of like an automatic Jabba the Hutt — to suck flies in when you pull the trigger.
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