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] Bauhaus artists such as Kandinsky, Klee and Itten, as
] well as the surrealist film-maker Luis Bunuel and his
] friend Salvador Dali, were said to be the inspiration
] behind a series of secret cells and torture centres built
] in Barcelona and elsewhere, yesterday's El Pais newspaper
] reported.
]
] Most were the work of an enthusiastic French
] anarchist, Alphonse Laurencic, who invented a form of
] "psychotechnic" torture, according to the research of the
] historian Jose Milicua.

This is wild...

The Guardian | Surrealist art used as torture...

] When I was a kid adults used to bore me to tears with
] their tedious
] diatribes about how hard things were when they were
] growing up; what
] with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning
] uphill both ways
] through year 'round blizzards carrying their younger
] siblings on their
] backs to their one-room schoolhouse where they maintained
] a straight-A
] average despite their full-time after-school job at the
] local textile
] mill where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help
] keep their
] family from starving to death!
]
]
] And I remember promising myself that when I grew up there
] was no way in
] hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids
] about how hard
] I had it and how easy they've got it!
]
] But....
]
] Now that I've reached the ripe old age of twenty-nine, I
] can't help but
] look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it
] so fuckin'
] easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a
] goddamned Utopia!

1987 Reprezent!

"Wal-Mart's influence on the U.S. economy has reached levels not seen by a single company since the 19th-century rise of Standard Oil, economists and historians say. Even if you don't shop at Wal-Mart, the retail powerhouse increasingly is dictating your product choices -- and what you pay -- as its relentless price cutting helps keep inflation low."

Interesting article on just how huge Wal-Mart has become.

Wal-Mart's influence grows

"ENFIELD, Conn., Jan. 24 -- LEGO Company today announces one of only two existing scale replicas of the famous Stanley Cup is missing since the close of the annual Super Show that took place in Las Vegas earlier this week."

Just what is this world coming to?

LEGO Stanley Cup Stolen

I'm not joking. A obscure law called the No Electronic Theft (NET) Act that former U.S. President Bill Clinton signed in 1997 makes peer-to-peer (P2P) pirates liable for $250,000 in fines and subject to prison terms of up to three years. (You may want to read it, since you'll likely be hearing more about it soon.)"

Hey, you--the unindicted federal felon

Cool visuals no drugs needed.

Who needs acid?

"BESANCON, France (Reuters) - A man who erased his drink-driving record from a police computer and replaced it with a winking "smiley face" graphic ended up with a suspended licence and a fine when police failed to see the funny side."

Personally, I think it's pretty funny.

Police not amused at drunk driver's smiley

In each of the urinals, there is a little printed blue fly. It looks a lot like a real fly, but it's definitely iconic - you're not supposed to believe it's a real fly. It's printed near the drain, and slightly to the left."

Fly UI