Category: Music

FROM BAD TO VERSE FOR HILL – New York Post: “FROM BAD TO VERSE FOR HILL
AIRPORT’S GIRL POET STUNNED BY SNIPER TALE AS INSULTED FELLOW BOSNIANS RIP ‘LOW BLOW’ LIE”

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List of songs deemed inappropriate by Clear Channel following the September 11, 2001 attacks – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: “List of songs deemed inappropriate by Clear Channel following the September 11, 2001 attacks”

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(Via WFMU’s Beware of the Blog.)

R.E.M. Brings London Apple Store Up To Speed: “R.E.M. Brings London Apple Store Up To Speed”

Currently playing in iTunes: Mac OS Ken: 03.28.2008 by Ken Ray

MUTANT SOUNDS: TONE FLOAT-MUSIK VON TONE FLOAT, CD, 1997, USA

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: “‘I Was Sleep-Deprived’
25 Mar 2008 03:03 pm
That’s Clinton’s latest way of not being able to admit an error of memory or a lie. Was she also sleep-deprived in February when she made exactly the same claim? This this:
Occasionally, I am a human being like everybody else… For the first time in 12 or so years I misspoke.
Occasionally, I am a human being like everybody else. This is close to clinical delusions of grandeur. Does she really think that most of the time she is above being human? Do you know any human being who hasn’t misspoken in the last twelve years once? Or would ever claim such a thing? I sure couldn’t. And this from a candidate whose most famous campaign ad rests on her ability to make national security judgments at 3 am!”

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RE/Search Presents The First Annual Pranks Film Festival: “RE/Search Publications presents The First Annual Pranks Film Festival April 1st through 3rd at The Roxie Cinema in San Francisco. ‘Head Trip’, the Doggie Diner documentary by John Law and Flecher Fleudujon, screens at 7pm on April 3rd and at 9pm that same evening there will be a Todd Blair benefit featuring SRL videos. Here’s the full schedule of films and advance tickets are currently on sale.

The 1st Annual Pranks Film Festival is a three day celebration and tribute to the ‘Art of the Prank’ and those pranksters that have courage enough to pull them off.

The Festival will screen films about the masters like Alan Abel, John Law, The Cacophany Society and the Billboard Liberation Front and short docs from the newest infiltrators and prankster, like the Yes Men, Harmon Leon and Joey Skaggs. This is a festival that is both humorous and political.”

(Via Laughing Squid.)

YouTube – Ghost sighting: “”

Occult Experience documentary from 1985:

The Occult Experience, now on Google Video, is a terrific 1985 documentary featuring footage of such magickal folk as Anton LaVey, Selena Fox, Michael Aquino, and H.R. Giger.
Link (via Cabinet of Wonders)

(Via Boing Boing.)

Indian Blackberry network given 15 days to allow government snooping or shut down: “

Filed under: Cellphones

The last we’d heard, the Indian government had ruled out the threat of a Blackberry ban if RIM didn’t allow it to snoop on messages, but it looks like some overzealous bureaucrat is getting his way after all: the Department of Telecom has issued a 15-day deadline for RIM to either open up for the G-men or get shut down. RIM says it won’t comment on regulatory issues as a matter of policy, but it looks like the Indian government is playing hardball, with Telecom Minister A Raja saying that national security will not be sacrificed at any cost. Hmm, hear that? That’s the sound of over 400,000 Indian Blackberry users desperately grabbing at their devices to get another quick fix — something tells us this isn’t going to end well.

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Speak Up! Memphis : Man Sentenced for Killing Toddler Over Broken Xbox: “Man Sentenced for Killing Toddler Over Broken Xbox”

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Hypnotist thief on video: “Italian police released video of a thief who allegedly hypnotizes clerks at supermarket registers. From the BBC News:

In every case, the last thing staff reportedly remember is the thief leaning over and saying: ‘Look into my eyes’, before finding the till empty…

The cashier who was shown the video footage has no memory of the incident, according to Italian media, and only realised what had happened when she saw the money missing.

(Via Boing Boing.)

What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008?: ”

Tim Leary’s Mind Mirror:

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This classic DOS app was brought to our attention by Joonas, and to give you a basic idea of what it’s all about, here’s the summary from the download page:

The one and only computer simulation designed by Timothy Leary, one of the world’s leading psychologists, is an interesting program that lets you rate any person, then map the results and evaluate them. Part game, part tool, and part philosopher on a disk, Mind Mirror is a fun party game similar to Scruples! that will reveal some surprising conclusions about your family and acquaintances. The ‘Life Simulation’ mode is interesting, albeit giving you only a passive role.

True to Leary’s character, Mind Mirror is one of the most unique games/programs you’ll ever come across. While it doesn’t offer much adrenaline rush, its emphasis on real-life issues gives great insight — for both your life and the philosophy of Leary himself. Two thumbs up!

From www.the-underdogs.info. Posted by jamesk.”

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WebUrbanist » 5 Jail Hotels (Where You Pay to Be In Prison): From Comfortable Cells to Nightmarish Slammers: “5 Jail Hotels (Where You Pay to Be In Prison): From Comfortable Cells to Nightmarish Slammers”

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US Rep. Barney Frank Files Legislation To Decriminalize Marijuana: “US Rep. Barney Frank Files Legislation To Decriminalize Marijuana
3/23/2008 4:17:58 PM
**Edit To Article – If You would like to support this cause further, please take 5 minutes out of your day and e-mail your representative in congress at https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml. The form is quick and easy, I completed my e-mail in less than 5 minutes.
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BBC NEWS | Europe | Olympic torch lit despite protest: “Olympic torch lit despite protest

A protester briefly ran behind Beijing’s envoy as he spoke

Ceremony protest
The Olympic torch has been lit at a ceremony in Greece that was briefly disrupted by pro-Tibet activists.”

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Robert Crumb on Collecting « Observations of a Nearsighted Man: “Robert Crumb on Collecting 22mar08
The following quotes are taken from the book, ‘Vinyl Junkies: Adventures in Record Collecting’ by Brett Milano.”

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Wearable air bag

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In 2010, motorcycle gear manufacturer Dainese will release protective suits outfitted with airbags. It’s apparently taken them ten years to get the system right and they’ve just released a video demo. I wonder what the outtakes look like. Link to YouTube video, Link to Dainese site (Thanks, Vann Hall!)

(Via Boing Boing.)

An ‘Astounding Time’ for Planetary Discoveries – washingtonpost.com: “An ‘Astounding Time’ for Planetary Discoveries”

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Bag Embossed With Gun Shape by Vlieger & Vandam: “

A few weeks back at ETech, I was hanging out with Phillip Torrone who was sporting his ‘Guardian Angel’ bag by Vlieger & Vandam that is embossed with the shape of a gun. Here’s a photo of Violet Blue modeling Phil’s bag.

They also make bags embossed with knives and Dachshund shaped bags.

David Pescovitz noticed the bag as well and posted about it on Boing Boing.

photo by Scott Beale

(Via Laughing Squid.)

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.”

(Via DoseNation.)

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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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Firedoglake » Bush Hands Out Jobs. Overseas: “Bush Hands Out Jobs. Overseas”

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Currently playing in iTunes: Track 06 by Tasaday