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Other, strange, interesting or whatever does not fit into my other two favorite subjects.

Timothy Leary’s Neurocomics & Promethea by Alan Moore

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The Yellow Sign: Timothy Leary’s Neurocomics & Promethea by Alan Moore

One of my old roommates boasted a collection of Dr. Timothy Leary’s works that included nearly every single work in first printing that he had published, including a beat-up old copy of Start Your Own Religion, a well-thumbed What Does Wo/Man Want?, and a rather abused copy of The Politics of Ecstasy, but he didn’t have Dr. Leary’s comic book. It was at the end of the seventies that Neurocomics (1979) was released in a print run of 10,000. It’s not even listed on the wikipedia entry of his works, and seems overlooked by most Dr. Leary’s fans. So when I was pointed to the torrent of this lost work, I was ecstatic. Download Timothy Leary’s Neurocomics from Alterati’s torrent tracker to check it out.
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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.

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Hand Soap5 Medium
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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!

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.

Professional Porn Sales Down | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source

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Professional Porn Sales Down | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source:
Professional Porn Sales Down
Sales and rentals of adult DVDs are down 30 percent due to the rise in homemade Internet porn. What do you think?

Robin Petersen,
Database Adminsitrator
“These thrifty Internet porn enthusiasts are missing out on the lifelong friends you make at adult shops.”

Simon Stephens,
Florist
“That’s the problem with the porn biz. No matter how low your price is for having an entire billiard-ball set shoved up your ass, there’s always some punk waiting in the wings willing to do it for free.”

Taxpayers Lose, Halliburton Gains

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payers Lose, Halliburton Gains:
As the Iraq war that Vice President Dick Cheney created continues to shred American–and many more Iraqi–lives, further documentation has emerged proving that, even during failed wars, the merchants of death profit. No company has profited more from the carnage in Iraq than Halliburton, which Cheney headed before choosing himself as Bush’s running mate. One shudders at the blissful arrogance of this modern Daddy Warbucks, who sees no conflict of interest over the blood-soaked profits garnered by the once-bankrupt division of the company that left him rich.

This week’s evidence of the continuing corruption of Halliburton and its subsidiaries profiteering from contracts c

Stevens: Smoking pot akin to drinking during prohibition

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The Raw Story | Stevens: Smoking pot akin to drinking during prohibition:
In his dissent on a recent free-speech case, Justice John Paul Stevens wades into the war-on-drugs debate, comparing modern-day pot smokers with “otherwise law-abiding patrons of bootleggers and speakeasies,” during the prohibition era.

Stevens, who the Washington Post notes turned 87 on April 20, said the current climate surrounding the war on drugs “is reminiscent of the opinion that supported the nationwide ban on alcohol consumption when I was a student.”

The Supreme Court this week ruled against an Alaska student who displayed a “BONG HiTS 4 JESUS” sign at an event outside his high school, and Stevens wrote the dissent for the four justices who believed the student’s free-speech rights should be protected.

“Today the actions of literally millions of otherwise law-abiding users of marijuana, and of

Group shows FEMA anticipated Katrina’s destruction of New Orleans

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The Raw Story | Group shows FEMA anticipated Katrina’s destruction of New Orleans:
A major report published Wednesday by a Washington, DC-based watchdog shows that the Federal Emergency Management Agency anticipated the destruction that would result from a major hurricane striking New Orleans, yet failed to follow through on its own internal warnings.

“FEMA’s disaster planning was based on a set of predictions that proved to be remarkably accurate. In 2000-2001, FEMA looked at a population of New Orleans that was over 1.3 million people and predicted that when a catastrophic hurricane struck, the city would be flooded with 14-17 feet of water. One million people would evacuate and 250-350,000 people would be trapped in the city,” according to the report, The Best Laid Plans: The Story of How the Government Ignored Its Own Gulf Coast Hurricane Plans.

Here’s To The IPhone: iPhonetini, a Boozy Tribute to iPhone Day Zero

Here’s To The IPhone: iPhonetini, a Boozy Tribute to iPhone Day Zero:

iphonetini2-small.jpgIt’s still a little early for this, but by the time the iPhone rolls out at 6 p.m. it’ll be cocktail hour, and that means it’s time for the Appletini/iPhone edition, better known as the iPhonetini. Created specifically for this auspicious iPhone Day Zero occasion, it originates directly from the self-proclaimed “best home bar in the city of San Francisco.” It even includes a tiny bit of Goldschlager, a cinnamon liqueur that actually contains flecks of 24 karat gold. Somehow seems appropriate. Take the jump for the recipe.