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Toad Smoking

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:27:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: All the cool kids are doing it

New twist on getting high: toad smoking

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Law enforcement authorities have discovered that people are willing to go to great lengths to get high, including a troubling new method that features a frightened toad.

"Toad smoking," which is a substitute for "toad licking," is done by extracting venom from the Sonoran Desert toad of the Colorado River. The toad's venom -- which is secreted when the toad gets angry or scared -- contains a hallucinogen called bufotenine that can be dried and smoked to produce a buzz.

Clay County Prosecutor Daniel White said possessing the toad is not illegal, but using it to get high off its venom is.

Tags: toad, high, drugs

Web 2.0

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:24:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Web 2.0 video, its pretty cool and a lot of it already here

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: web 2.0, future

Apollo 11

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:13:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Apollo 11- The first time man walked on the moon

Clip Source: www.nasm.si.edu

Apollo 11 (AS-506)

Lunar Landing Mission

Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. The first steps by humans on another planetary body were taken by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 20, 1969. The astronauts also returned to Earth the first samples from another planetary body. Apollo 11 achieved its primary mission - to perform a manned lunar landing and return the mission safely to Earth - and paved the way for the Apollo lunar landing missions to follow.

Tags: apollo 11, nasa

Aurora Borealis

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:11:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Aurora Borealis from space

Clip Source: earthobservatory.nasa.gov

Tags: nasa, aurora borealis, aurora, earth

Earthrise

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:00:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Earthrise seen through the eyes of the first men on the moon.

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Tags: apollo 11, earth, moon

Intelligent Design

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:52:48 GMT

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Clip Source: www.economist.com

Intelligent design

Oct 18th 2007
From The Economist print edition

A theory of an intelligently guided invisible hand wins the Nobel prize

“WHAT on earth is mechanism design?” was the typical reaction to this year's Nobel prize in economics, announced on October 15th. In this era of “Freakonomics”, in which everyone is discovering their inner economist, economics has become unexpectedly sexy. So what possessed the Nobel committee to honour a subject that sounds so thoroughly dismal? Why didn't they follow the lead of the peace-prize judges, who know not to let technicalities about being true to the meaning of the award get in the way of good headlines?

Mechanism-design theory aims to give the invisible hand a helping hand, in particular by focusing on how to minimise the economic cost of “asymmetric information”

Tags: intelligent design, economics, freakonomics, nobel, mechanism-design

Man caught for trying to have sex with bike

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:32:21 GMT

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Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Bike sex man placed on probation

Robert Stewart, 51, admitted a sexually aggravated breach of the peace by conducting himself in a disorderly manner and simulating sex.

Cleaners caught Mr Stewart simulating sex with a bike

Tags: weird news, bike, sex, crime