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ECLIPSE ETERNAL - Ubermensch: Evolution Beyond The Species Release Show Announced
09.07.2008 21:15
bravewords.com
Toronto-based black metallers ECLIPSE ETERNAL have announced a release show on Friday, July 11th at The Annex Wreckroom in Toronto, ON. Tickets are $10 at...
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Rock Music
HELLACAUST Ink Deal With Bloodbucket Productions
09.07.2008 21:15
bravewords.com
Bloodbucket Productions has announced the signing of one of Canada's HELLACAUST. The re-issue of their debut album titled, Dark Age Descending, is once again available....
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Rock Music
KATAKLYSM Guitarist Jean-Francois Dagenais Responds To "Sell Out" Comments
09.07.2008 21:15
bravewords.com
A new audio interview with KATAKLYSM guitarist Jean-Francois Dagenais of Kataklysm is available on www.metal-rules.com where he responds to those who would say...
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Rock Music
Evening Reading
09.07.2008 21:14
shacknews.com
So while working on cleaning up a bunch of video stuff around here as we prep to finally unify the video system around here, we came across a worrisome bug that turned out to actually be Flash related. If you're using FireFox or Opera and notice videos stalling, Adobe is aware of it and it's actu...
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Computer Games
HOWTO make a giant cardboard Gandhi
09.07.2008 21:13
boingboing.net
Randi sez, "Perhaps you would be interested in a 17 foot tall Ghandi avatar made out of cardboard? An artist by the name of Joseph DeLappe made this for his Eyebeam spring residency. Should you want to make your own, the process is well documented on Instructables." After walking with Gandhi in Second Life for 240 miles I decided it would be interesting to extract my avatar from this online world and recreate him in monumental scale. This instructable takes you through the process of creating the 17' tall cardboard Gandhi using a variety of readily accessible (mostly free!) software tools, cardboard and a hot glue gun. The production of this sculpture took a total of 4 weeks, 6 days a week, 9-11 hour days with the assistance of an intern for two-three days of each week. Link (Thanks, Randy!)...
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Culture & Arts
Rube Goldberg cocktail-mixing machine
09.07.2008 21:13
boingboing.net
This Rube Goldberg machine makes sheer delight out of the process of mixing a Falling Water ( 30mls (1Oz) 42BELOW Feijoa Vodka, lemonade, long slice of seedless cucumber, ice) -- it comes from Joseph Herscher, the same genius who made the Cadbury Creme Egg smasher. Link (Thanks, Sacha!) See also: Rube Goldberg Cream Egg killer...
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Culture & Arts
Senate approves warrantless wiretapping and telco immunity, throws out the Fourth Amendment
09.07.2008 21:13
boingboing.net
Stephen sez, NY Times has reported that the Senate just approved a bill extending the warrantless wiretapping program AND giving the telcos immunity from prosecution for violating the law and the rights of their customers for compliance in earlier illegal warrantless wiretapping. And Barack Obama voted for it! Listen to your phone calls? Record your conversations? Yes we can, yes we can... That sound you hear? It's the Bill of Rights being torn in half. Talk about losing the war on terror. Who needs external forces threatening your way of life when your elected lawmakers are doing such a good job of it? Link (Thanks, Stephen.)...
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Culture & Arts
Moon has water
09.07.2008 21:13
boingboing.net
Today, researchers announced that they've found water molecules in moon matter retrieved by NASA Apollo missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The water was coaxed out of volcanic glass pebbles (like those seen here). From National Geographic: The researchers believe the water was ejected along with magma when "fire fountains" erupted more than three billion years ago from the moon's surface. The finding raises new questions about the long-standing "giant impact" theory, which holds that the moon was formed more than a billion years prior to that when a Mars-sized body slammed into Earth and sent debris into orbit. Researchers once believed the impact was hot enough and long enough to vaporize volatile elements, including the building blocks of water. The new study "puts some limits on how hot this planet was and how quickly the volatile elements condensed back into the solid," said study lead author Alberto Saal, a geologist at Brown University. Water on the moon (National Geographic)...
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Culture & Arts
Timothy Leary coloring book
09.07.2008 21:13
boingboing.net
The History of the Psychedelic Movement is a cartoon and coloring book published in 1967 by Timothy Leary, Art Kleps, and friends at their infamous Milbrook, New York estate. A rare copy is currently up for auction on eBay with a BuyItNow price of $750. From the item description: I purchased this from an officer that worked in the Poughkeepsie Township police department. He obtained it from the Dutchess county S.O. before they burned several hundred copies that had been confiscated from the Millbrook Estate raid. Very few copies of this book are in existance. Art Kleps himself didn't have a clean copy. I will also include and email of a correspondence between the cop and Art Kleps in 1996. Kleps also stated that the remainder of the inventory was lost in Vermont. Timothy Leary coloring book (eBay)...
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Culture & Arts
Barcelona agree fee for Alexander Hleb
09.07.2008 21:10
telegraph.co.uk
Barcelona are expected to announce the signing of Arsenal midfielder Alexander Hleb on a four-year contract.
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Football
File-sharing breach at investment firm highlights dangers of P2P networks -- again
09.07.2008 21:04
computerworld.com
An investment firm in Virginia, with Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer among its clients, is the latest company to suffer a data breach because of an employee's use of a file-sharing network.
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Hard & Soft
'Smart bomb' nanoparticles stop cancer's spread
09.07.2008 21:04
computerworld.com
A joint project undertaken by scientists, doctors and nanotech engineers at UCSD may have repurposed a previously ferocious chemo drug into one that operates more efficiently and with fewer nasty side effects.
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Hard & Soft
Tourism 'needs pre-Olympic boost'
09.07.2008 21:04
bbc.co.uk
The government must do more to promote Britain as a tourist destination ahead of the 2012 Olympics, MPs say.
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Culture & Arts
Tourism 'needs pre-Olympic boost'
09.07.2008 21:03
bbc.co.uk
The government must do more to promote Britain as a tourist destination ahead of the 2012 Olympics, MPs say.
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Tourism
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