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azspot:

For years prohibitionists, including our own Drug Enforcement Administration, have claimed — falsely — that the tolerant marijuana policies of the Netherlands have made that nation a nest of crime and drug abuse. They may have trouble wrapping their little brains around this:

The Dutch government is getting ready to close eight prisons because they don’t have enough criminals to fill them. Officials attribute the shortage of prisoners to a declining crime rate.

Just for fun, let’s compare the Netherlands to California. With a population of 16.6 million, the Dutch prison population is about 12,000. With its population of 36.7 million, California should have a bit more than double the Dutch prison population. California’s actual prison population is 171,000.

So, whose drug policies are keeping the streets safer?

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This shot from last week’s Mad Men was so painterly and awesome. Reminded me of “Birth of Venus.”

I got an 85%

diniscans:

Really? I just don’t know if I feel comfortable doing yoga with this guy. Even if I am in my home, and he’s on my computer…It just feels wrong.

I’m pretty sure this guy tried to teach me yoga on a hotel TV one time. He really gets around.

Sunshine Cigarette (by dalas verdugo)

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RIP my birdy friend. 2005-2010.

I saw these at the Panic office yesterday, but did not partake.

azspot:

An Israeli army officer who fired the entire magazine of his automatic rifle into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl and then said he would have done the same even if she had been three years old was acquitted on all charges by a military court yesterday. … 

The soldier, who has only been identified as “Captain R”, was charged with relatively minor offences for the killing of Iman al-Hams who was shot 17 times as she ventured near an Israeli army post near Rafah refugee camp in Gaza a year ago.

The manner of Iman’s killing, and the revelation of a tape recording in which the captain is warned that she was just a child who was “scared to death”, made the shooting one of the most controversial since the Palestinian intifada erupted five years ago even though hundreds of other children have also died.

… The military court cleared the soldier of illegal use of his weapon, conduct unbecoming an officer and perverting the course of justice by asking soldiers under his command to alter their accounts of the incident.  …

The army’s official account said that Iman was shot for crossing into a security zone carrying her schoolbag which soldiers feared might contain a bomb. It is still not known why the girl ventured into the area but witnesses described her as at least 100 yards from the military post which was in any case well protected.

A recording of radio exchanges between Capt R and his troops obtained by Israeli television revealed that from the beginning soldiers identified Iman as a child. In the recording, a soldier in a watchtower radioed a colleague in the army post’s operations room and describes Iman as “a little girl” who was “scared to death”. After soldiers first opened fire, she dropped her schoolbag which was then hit by several bullets establishing that it did not contain explosive. At that point she was no longer carrying the bag and, the tape revealed, was heading away from the army post when she was shot. ….

Palestinian witnesses said they saw the captain shoot Iman twice in the head, walk away, turn back and fire a stream of bullets into her body.

On the tape, Capt R then “clarifies” to the soldiers under his command why he killed Iman: “This is commander. Anything that’s mobile, that moves in the [security] zone, even if it’s a three-year-old, needs to be killed.”

At no point did the Israeli troops come under attack.

I’m sure you can find another report of the other side to this story. I’ll leave that up to you, though.

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andreaallen:

rocketboomdev:

In today’s age, we don’t judge books by their covers. We judge them by their thumbnails. We also judge videos, e-books, software, and people the same way. Engaging an audience demands engaging them visually, no matter the medium. Some of our peers in the online video community recently noted that Tumblr allows the display of thumbnails for YouTube embeds on their dashboard, but other popular video sites, such as Vimeo and Blip.tv, are currently left out from showcasing their user videos with a thumbnail image.

Rocketboom R&D, the development unit of the Rocketboom network, has created a simple solution: a browser add-on that allows Tumblr users to see any video’s known thumbnail in their Tumblr dashboard. There’s no platform favoritism; this enables nearly every other common video platform the ability for thumbnail display. The add-on was created using Mag.ma, our own video aggregation service, to do thumbnail lookups for numerous video platforms with our simple API methods. The results? Uniformity for Tumblr users and creative support for content creators.

Get your browser add-on for Firefox, Chrome, or Safari, and visit the Tumblr Video Thumbnails add-on page for information, installation help, and more. Special thanks to our friends at Vimeo, Blip.tv, and Wreck & Salvage for their testing and support.

YAYAYAYAYA!

Die Antwoord & Aphex Twin live @ LED Festival (via orangewarrior)

2010

Drawn by andy on iPad

Looks like someone had fun at the movie tonight.

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jstn:

peterbaker:

Short Sands, Oregon

The Oregon in my mind!

The Oregon in my life!

My friend Alan’s documentary about money is now available to watch in its entirety.

If you’ve never looked into what “money” really is, your mind will probably be a little blown.

Don’t ignore this film. The world revolves around money, so you should learn what that means.

Bohemian Grove Detailed Report 7 23 1982 NBC (via CoreOfCorruption)

clientsfromhell:

I had spent considerable time photographing a local actor for the part of Hamlet using gridded spots to create quite a beautiful moody and dramatic look. The ad runs in the paper with the image looking like it was taken with an on-camera flash. I quickly call the theater and am told by the PR person that “You could only see one half of his face, so I ran it through the “auto-levels” feature in Photoshop before sending it to the newspaper.”

poortaste:

thewhompwhomp:

These, my friends, are pictures of “The first legitimate therapeautic LSD shipment in over 35 years”. From MAPS.org

Actual LSD from Dr. Peter Gasser’s MAPS’ Sponsored Swiss LSD/End-of-Life Anxiety Study. Dr. Gasser with the first legitimate therapeautic LSD shipment in over 35 years! LSD in bottles for each of the 12 subjects in the study.

Dilbert comic strip for 08/26/2010

Haha, that last frame is the best thing he’s written in months.

azspot:

Nearly 60 years ago, a French town was hit by a sudden outbreak of hallucinations, which left five people dead and many seriously ill. For years it was blamed on bread contaminated with a psychedelic fungus - but that theory is now being challenged.

MK ULTRA 4EVER

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Addicted to wiggling

MayorSamAdams

The mayor does not shy away from fixing The Dandy Warhols’ parking tickets.

azspot:

The world could one day be an economically equal place, if the lower-income population have anything to do with it. In an interesting yet disheartening series of socioeconomic experiments, led by a team of UC Berkeley researchers, the findings are that those on the lower-income levels are more likely to give and be charitable than their higher paid counterparts.

My new bonsai friend.

cleveridiot:

Note At A Buddhist Monastery

yacht:

This is one of the more beautiful things I’ve seen in a long time. Thanks to Devour for daily video updates.

Unlimited Paid Vacation Time: The Ultimate Perk? - The Juggle - WSJ

Netflix always seems really well run.

Bonsai Picture Gallery

What?

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caseypugh:

So this just happened

Vimeo crew cannot be stopped.

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Every time I see something that I had to guard it makes me go a little crazy. This section wasn’t super horrible, though, because there were so many items that you could kind of pass the time. Plus you were right near the water fountain.

Eventually I had studied every object in detail, though.

What’s going on in my neighborhood? Packages stolen off my porch twice. Then my neighbor’s truck window got smashed. Now this? Kinda weird.

dubstepfriday:

dBridge (Exit Rec.) @ Audioriver Festival Poland >07.08.2010

download set

This dude right here was in one of my favorite dnb groups: Bad Company aka )EI3(. Sounds like he’s still got taste.

Did a pretty good job with the tomatoes this year

2020:

The End of Privacy: Entire City to Track People With Public Eye Scanners

If you’ve been convicted of a crime, in essence, this will act as a digital scarlet letter. If you’re a known shoplifter, for example, you won’t be able to go into a store without being flagged. Certainly for others, boarding a plane will be impossible.

You’re right, I don’t discuss politics any more with Jake, because it became obvious to me that neither of us was going to persuade the other one to change their views.

That’s not really a problem for me, we have plenty of other shared interests we can chat about.

I’d rather have a friend than win a political argument.

MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Don’t not watch it.