What are you gonna do, play with your prick for another 30 years? ... George Carlin
How Sticky Is Membership on Facebook? Just Try Breaking Free - New York Times
Topic: Health and Wellness
10:26 am EST, Feb 13, 2008
“I thought it was kind of strange that they save your information without telling you in a really clear way,” said Magnus Wallin, a 26-year-old patent examiner in Stockholm who founded a Facebook group, “How to permanently delete your facebook account.” The group has almost 4,300 members and is steadily growing.
This larger sized picture frame (which you can add your own picture to) may be hung on a wall in a room of your choice. You can then dial the number of the GSM bug built into the rear of the frame - the call will connect silently after two rings and you will be able to hear whats going on in the room...from anywhere in the world!
The sound quality is truly excellent.
Battery life on standby is two weeks, this will be shortened depending on how long and how often you dial in.
Supplied complete with SIM card. Please note that frame sizes may vary slightly from that shown.
Israel Mulls Viagra-Style Drugs to Keep Pilots Up (Updated) | Danger Room from Wired.com
Topic: Technology
1:57 pm EST, Feb 11, 2008
For decades, the armed forces around the globe have tried all sorts of ways to keep its soldiers and pilots awake. During World War II, American, German, Japanese, and British troops were all issued rations of amphetamines. In the early days of the Afghanistan war, these "go pills" were blamed for a particularly ugly "friendly fire" incident. A newer drug, modafinil, is now being pushed in the U.S. military as a safer alternative.
DARPA, the Pentagon's way-out research arm, is funding scientific studies into more exotic answers to combat the effects of sleeplessness. Columbia University psychologists, working under a DARPA grant, are keeping people awake for 48 hours straight -- and then zapping their brains with focused magnetic waves, to keep their cognitive capacities intact. The researchers recently published a study showing that the transcranial magnetic stimulation was able to "improve the working memory performance" of the sleep-deprived. Lexicon Genetics has found genetic targets in mice that seem to make sleep itself more restorative, enhancing learning and memory. And Wisconsin professor Giulio Tononi is breeding a strain of fruit flies that gets by on just a third the normal amount of sleep.
Somehow, i dont imagine the long term effects of this would be very good
Leprosy outbreak causes concerns in Northwest Arkansas
Topic: Health and Wellness
1:46 pm EST, Feb 8, 2008
SPRINGDALE - The medical community is warning the public: a leprosy outbreak in Springdale could blossom into an epidemic, if something isn't done soon.
They will all turn to salt if clinton gets elected
Scientology - Critic Blog of the "Church" of Scientology: Message from Scientology to Anonymous
Topic: Games
12:46 pm EST, Feb 8, 2008
Dear Anonymous, we are The Regime.
Your attacks on Scientology have not gone unnoticed, we have the money, resources and tools to put an end to your SP behaviour and so called hacking activities. You have soiled the good name of LRH and now it is you that have *our* attention.
We are hackers of the higest degree, and we fight the good fight not just for now but for eternity. The next trillions of years are at stake, so you have been declared fair game.
We have your IP addresses, your docs and your secret plans. We own your 711chan, your IRC and we are taking care of your raid forums.
Call off your attacks on our religion immediately or 4chan, ytmd, Something Awful and your other bases will be brought to ruin.
In 1997, BBC science programme Horizon broadcast a legendary edition on the use of psychedelic drugs in medicine. Luckily, it's been uploaded to Google Video and you can now watch the whole thing online.
It came at an interesting time in psychedelic drug research - when the authorities were still touchy (they'd only raided Shulgin's licensed lab three years earlier) but were just starting to allow some stirrings of research since they'd shut it down almost completely in the 1960s.
The programme looks at the history of psychedelic drug research when it was still easily possible, focusing on Osmond and Hoffer's early work on using LSD in treating addiction and facilitating psychotherapy.
It's also got loads of great historical footage from the early research but also talks to the new generation of researchers looking at compounds such as ayahuasca and ibogaine, who are now the senior figures in this growing area.
Unfortunately, the video is a bit grainy in places but it's quite watchable and it's got a great soundtrack. The producers used Future Sound of London, Massive Attack and a number of tracks from the Ninja Tune label to give the programme a trippy feel.
