Month: March 2008

South Park: Every South Park Ever Online for Free (Legally!): “Taking a page out of the Hulu playbook, but awesomer, the South Park guys are streaming every single South Park episode in full at their official site, South Park Studios. What they get right: Streams are fast and vid quality is solid; every episode, from first to most recent is available (with one exception); and newer ones are uncensored. Yep, you actually get to hear your favorite childrens scream ‘What the fuck is going on?’ in the Britney ep. Major point of suck: ads.

They’re mercifully short, but you get hit with about three per episode (marked by the little white lines in the timeline), though you have a limited ability to jump around the ep to sorta avoid them. Still, they’re less intrusive than the pop-ups that assault you at AllSP.com or the like. Which is probably a big part of why they’re doing this—the online audience for South Park is huge, with lots of sites streaming eps and major torrent traffic. So why not get a slice of that ad revenue?

Ads are going to be a part of any free TV online equation, unfortunately. So are rights issues—for some reason the Britney ep is already available, but the first episode of the current season won’t be up until April. WTF? But all in all, they get it as right as an official channel can for the time being, which looks startlingly like a glimpse at the future of TV. Update: Another reason living in Canada sucks: No access for Canadians. [South Park Studios]”

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Minnesota’s drug-addled Senate race

: “ It seems that Coleman, who favors harsh drug laws, has also done his share of drugs:

Norm Kent, a former classmate of U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman at Hofstra University, posted a letter on a marijuana website about Coleman’s marijuana use in the 1960s. Kent, whom Coleman defeated in a student government race at the university, recalled an instance when the New York-born Coleman stood atop a building during a protest and smoked marijuana.

And while this news is many months old, Kent expands on this statement in a short article in this month’s Radar magazine, claiming Coleman ‘smoked and tripped his way through college’ and that pot was the least of drugs he may have gotten into, including ‘Acid! LSD!’, according to Kent.

Coleman is, of course, keeping very quiet about this. In contrast Franken has been quite open about his drug use in the past:

‘There’d be cocaine around the show (SNL) and if it was [mid-week] at 3 in the morning and I wanted to finish something I was writing I’d do some.’

Cocaine at 3 am while trying to stay awake and write sketch comedy? Indefensible. Also, as a side note, Al Franken once suggested (on live radio) that in order to solve the world’s conflicts the entire UN should be shuttled to the international space station and forced to eat LSD while looking down at the Earth. Now that’s someone I could vote for.

From blog.andybarnett.com. Posted by jamesk.”

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Currently playing in iTunes: Kohlzug by Moebius

World Psychedelic Forum this week

Any DoseNation readers headed to the World Psychedelic Forum in Basel, Switzerland? If so, drop us a line and let us know what you think. The line up of speakers and topics certainly looks promising.

From www.psychedelic.info. Posted by Scotto.”

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Doctor Who on LSD

Back before the first season of the original Doctor Who aired on the BBC, the producers had some pretty crazy ideas about what direction to take the show, including this one which appeared in 44-year-old production meeting notes:

‘The metaphysical change which takes place over 500 years or so is a horrifying experience … in which he relives some of the unendurable moments of his long life.

‘It’s as if he has had the LSD drug and instead of experiencing the kicks, he has the hell and dank horror which can be its effect.’

Wait a minute… people are getting ‘kicks’ out of LSD? I thought ‘hell and dank horror’ was the whole point.

From www.news.com.au. Posted by Scotto.”

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Currently playing in iTunes: Track 06 by Tasaday

Ed Force One, The Iron Maiden Boeing 757: “

Ed Force One is a wonderful customized Boeing 757 owned by the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, which they use to transport the band, 60 member crew and 12 tons of equipment as they tour the world. It’s named after Iron Maiden’s infamous mummy mascot ‘Eddie’ and is piloted by Iron Maiden lead singer Bruce Dickinson.