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April 30, 2008 Hot Trends

Vacations are Trendly

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:07:11 PDT
The Trendliest explores the latest leisure trend of going on vacation...going on one themselves.

To Mash You Must Be This Hite

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:27 PDT
To Mash You Must Be This Hite 30-Apr-08 DJ Useo wrote a very flattering profile of me in a recent issue of his BartCopE ezine. Thanks for your support, Useo! Filed in News and Media | |

Foreclosures Affecting Rental Market, Too

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:38:02 PDT
Most of us know that foreclosures can be a problem for homeowners and their neighborhoods, but a new report released Wednesday details the pain now being felt by renters, as rents continue to increase and many find themselves caught in a foreclosure they had nothing to do with. “Today, investor-owned one- to four-family rental properties account for nearly 20 percent of all foreclosures,” said Nicolas P. Retsinas, director of the Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, which pro

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First Mr Gay UK winner charged with murder

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:45:24 PDT
Drunk who taunted a gay man to his death faces jail term A man who taunted a gay couple, one of whom died of a heart attack after the incident, faces jail. However, though certain to receive a custodial sentence, Robert Horn has been cleared of causing the death of Malcolm Bryan, who suffered the fatal heart attack during the confrontation in September 2006. Ronaldo in transvestite prostitute confusion International football star Ronaldo, who is currently signed with AC Milan footba

CWEB News - Breaking News, Celebrity, Business News and Video Broadcast

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:00:01 PDT
Las Vegas, Nev. (PRWEB) August 8, 2007 -- Cwebnews.com has just gone live with the newest news network on the web. Cwebnews.com offers current and breaking news for politics, international news, ...

OK, OK, I AM AWAY, SO I'LL BLOG!

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:47 PDT
Ok, so I said you wouldn't hear from me for a while, but ya just can't imagine how boring it get's in a hotel room while your away. Get this right? Last week, I was in the Hilton hotel, sorry, but what a rip off. £7.50 for a glass of wine? I mean WTF! That's $15 people, and we're talking Pinot Grigio here, not Moet! Internet access £15 for 24 hours, not a month, 24 HOURS! You even had to pay £3 a night parking. I was at the end of the freaking M4 in Newport Wales, not bloody Knightsbridge! T

Google News and Search: Rev. Wright Tops Every Major Issue?

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:30:40 PDT
In his press conference today, Obama said he was "distressed that this has caused such a distraction from what this campaign should be about, which is the American people. Their situation is getting worse." Google trends show that News volume and Search volume on Rev. Wright now exceeds Iraq, Health Care, and The Economy; 24/7 Wright news continues

Moving 2.0: 30+ services to help you re-locate

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:31:37 PDT
Sometimes I feel like people might think we talk the talk, but don't walk the walk when it comes to using some Web services. Believe me when I tell you we use this stuff every day, and over the last month nothing has been more useful to me than Craigslist. Why? I was moving, and I did 95% of it using a single service to find movers, boxes, people to buy and take away old furniture, and most importantly--a place to live. After having just finished, I know I could have done some things better, a

Beating Your Term Paper Writing Anxieties

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:52:57 PDT
Many undergraduates fear, if not worry about this one point in their college life wherein they get to write a term paper. Custom term paper suddenly becomes the new trend in online marketing


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Albert Hofmann the inventor of drug LSD has died aged 102

Register, UK

Discoverer of LSD dead at 102

Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann, who in 1943 accidentally discovered the hallucinogenic effects of Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), has died at the age of 102, Reuters reports.

Hoffman passed away at his home in Basel on 29 April as a result of a heart attack, according to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.

The chemist had in the late 1930s been working on possible medical applications of alkaloid derivatives of the fungus ergot and subsequently synthesised a number of such derivatives, including LSD. It wasn't until 1943, however, when a small amount accidentally leaked onto his hand that the compound's mind-blowing capability was revealed.

Hoffman recounted a "remarkable restlessness, combined with slight dizziness", elaborating: "At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant intoxication-like condition, characterised by an extremely stimulated imagination.

"In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight too unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colours. After some two hours this condition faded away."

The rest is history. While the CIA infamously experimented with the mind-control possibilities of LSD during the 1950s and 60s in its Project MK-ULTRA, it was Timothy Leary and his "turn on, tune in, drop out" mantra who popularised the substance among the hippy movement and brought it to the attention of the wider world.

Hoffman maintained the movement had "hijacked" the drug and insisted he'd produced it "as a medicine and not as a substance to be abused". He continued to defend its possible use "in analysis of how the mind works, hoping it could be used to recognise and treat illnesses like schizophrenia", long after it was banned in the 1960s. �

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