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The Time Is Nigh: NOW Watch is Always Right

The Time Is Nigh: NOW Watch is Always Right:

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Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, but this watch is even more accurate: It’s always right, because when someone asks you what time it is, just show them its face prominently displaying the word “NOW.” But wait a minute, this is a fake watch. Damn. But you can’t argue with its correctitude. For your humorless friends, just tell them it’s a special precision timepiece supporting the National Organization for Women.

Addy, our British Gizmodian wordsmith/babe, says it stands for Nobs Out, Wankers. Either way, it’s on sale for $49.95. Seems like a lot to pay just to lampoon your clock-watching friends. [Elevate Films, via This Next]

Court: Feds can read e-mail, IP addresses without warrant

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Court: Feds can read e-mail, IP addresses without warrant:
Data mining at the FBI: digging for terrorists, insurance scammers, and identity thieves
House approves warrantless wiretapping
Senate Judiciary Committee approves Big Brother bills
MIT Project aims human buffer overflow at Secret Service
A few weeks back, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco issued an important ruling about Internet privacy—or lack thereof. Reaction to the case has been mixed; some commentators see it as a logical extension of existing telecommunications policy, while others view it with the same sort of enthusiasm generally reserved for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Given the importance the case has already taken on, let’s take a look back at the decision and at some recent reaction to it.

The court’s ruling was essentially a simple one. The government is currently allowed to deploy “pen registers”—devices that can record ev

Giant Marijuana Farm Found 200 Yards From DEA Office

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MyFox Dallas | Giant Marijuana Farm Found 200 Yards From DEA Office:

DALLAS — Drug Enforcement Administration officials discovered a large number of marijuana plants growing in a wooded area near the Trinity River in Dallas Thursday afternoon.

The secret pot farm was practically right under their noses. In fact, if you could walk in a straight line from the riverbank through the marshy underbrush and tangled wilderness, you’d walk just

For the unrepentant patriarch of LSD, long, strange trip winds back to Bay Area

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For the unrepentant patriarch of LSD, long, strange trip winds back to Bay Area:
The small, barefoot man in black T-shirt and blue jeans barely rates a second glance from the other Starbucks patrons in downtown San Rafael, although he is one of the men who virtually made the ’60s. Because Augustus Owsley Stanley III has spent his life avoiding photographs, few people would know what he looks like.
The name Owsley became a noun that appears in the Oxford dictionary as English street slang for good acid. It is the most famous brand name in LSD history. Probably the first private individual to manufacture the psychedelic, “Owsley” is a folk hero of the counterculture, celebrated in songs by the Grateful Dead and Steely Dan.
For more than 20 years, Stanley — a

Notorious LSD Chemist Owsley Stanley Gives Rare Interview

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Notorious LSD Chemist Owsley Stanley Gives Rare Interview:
Owsley Stanley (born Augustus Owsley Stanley III), notorious LSD chemist and the original Grateful Dead sound engineer (he helped kick start the live recording of their shows), is currently visiting the Bay Area from Queensland, Australia, where hes been living off the grid for over 20 years making gold enamel sculptures.

Tim Leary wristwatch

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Tim Leary wristwatch:
David Pescovitz:

This is only the second time I’ve seen one of these vintage Timothy Leary wristwatches on eBay. (The first time, I bought the timepiece for myself. I only wear it on very special occasions.) Instead of the minutes, it has various drug names: Speed, Coke, Dexy, LSD, Hash, Horse, etc. i dig that the Ups are at 12 o’clock and Downs are at 6 o’clock. Current bid is $20.50.
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foliage – handsoap

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Hand Soap5 Medium
oliage – handsoap:
this is actual soap.
shaped like little hands!
each ‘hand’ is hand made.
wash your hands with hands.
the soaps range from 1/2” to 2”.
it’s goat’s milk glycerin & has a light scent.
really quite lovely!
comes in a pretty bag… all ready for gifting to a friend with dirty paws!

New York City to get London-style “surveillance veil”

New York City to get London-style “surveillance veil”:

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It looks like New York City will soon be seeing a slew of new ever-watchful eyes, as The New York Times reports that the city is set to get a London-style “surveillance veil” that would eventually consist of thousands of cameras monitoring vehicles and individuals alike. Dubbed the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative, the system will initially include more than 100 cameras that are expected to be in place by the end of this year, each of which will be able to read license plates and send out alerts is suspect vehicles are detected. That appears to just be the tip of the iceberg, however, with some 3,000 public and privately-owned cameras set to be put into service by the end of 2008, along with a series of pivoting gates that’ll be installed at critical intersections, giving authorities the ability to block off traffic at the push of a button. From there it’ll apparently grow even further, with the entire operation expected to be up and running by 2010. No word on head-mounted cams as of yet though.

 

A lulu of a loo – CNN.com

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A lulu of a loo – CNN.com:
BEIJING, China (AP) — They’re flush with pride in Chongqing, where a recently opened porcelain palace features an Egyptian facade, soothing music and more than 1,000 toilets spread out over 30,000 square feet.

Some of the 1,000 stalls are open air overlooking the street in Chonging, China.

Officials in the southwestern Chinese city plan to ask Guinness World Records to have the free four-story public bathroom listed as the world’s largest, state-run China Central Television reported Friday.

“We are spreading toilet culture. People can listen to

10 Thrifty Ways to Deal with Mosquitoes

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10 Thrifty Ways to Deal with Mosquitoes:
For those of you outside of CA-MC

by KAREN on June 24th, 2007
I am a mosquito magnet. If there is one around, it will find me. This past week while I was at camp, many mosquitos found me. I’ve done a little research and found some inexpensive ways that you can fight off mosquitoes.

1. Keep your lawn mowed and bushes trimmed. This eliminates having a nice place for mosquitoes to rest.

2. Keep spare tires and other items that collect water stored in a sheltered area. This cuts down on the amount of rain these items can collect. Empty standing water from buckets, boats, planters, wheelbarrows, etc.

3. Make sure roof gutters drain properly to prevent standing water…

Resolute Wal-Mart shopper attempts to self-checkout $5 plasma – Engadget

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Resolute Wal-Mart shopper attempts to self-checkout $5 plasma – Engadget:
While we’ve certainly seen more dramatic heists before, this particular run-in with the law melds cleverness and ignorance in perfect harmony. After conjuring up grandiose thoughts of subversion, a less-than-reasonable fellow managed to snag a 42-inch Sanyo plasma, replace the $984 pricetag with a slightly less burdensome $4.88 sticker, and carry it to the front where he utilized a self-checkout register to all but steal a brand new PDP. Presumably grinning from ear to ear just basking in the glory of his brilliance, we imagine the mood went south quite quickly after store officers approached the man and demanded a receipt. Of course, he attempted to sweet talk his way out of the predicament, bu

The Downside of Getting High on Cough Syrup

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The Downside of Getting High on Cough Syrup
By Aaron Rowe June 27, 2007 | 2:59:42 PMCategories: Drugs & Alcohol
A recent article in the Journal of Emergency Medicine tells the story of a 20-year-old kid from Portland, Oregon that extracted the active ingredient, dextromethorphan, from some cough syrup and tried to get high with it. Thanks to the doctors that treated him, their patient did not earn a Darwin Award.

Case reports written by doctors are often far more exciting than an episode of House or any other hospital drama. They tend to include a lot of fun facts.

As a bonus for their readers, the authors included two recipes for the drug that nearly killed their patient. Those recipes came from the infamous Vaults of Erowid website. It is an encyclopedia of sometimes detailed and usually dangerous instructions for making drugs with improvised methods that would make MacGyver cringe.