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Miracle Fruit: The Psychedelic Berry That (Legally) Rewires Your Senses

Uehira — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:15:40 +0000

Imagine drinking Tabasco sauce and thinking it tasted like a sugary glaze, or drinking a bitter beer that your taste buds are certain is chocolate.

The Rise and Fall of a Porn King Who Was Born In India

Uehira — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:54:07 +0000

Five years ago Greg Lasrado drove a $500,000 black Lamborghini Diablo, rubbed shoulders with high-powered people such as US president Bill Clinton, lived between multimillion-dollar penthouses and bought racehorses for fun. Today his sole asset is a rusty ute, he lives in his parents’ spare bedroom and spends most weekends helping his mum with the housework.

Facebook Takes $100 Million Loan

Uehira — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:50:09 +0000

Social-networking site Facebook has borrowed $100 million to help keep up with its explosive growth. Menlo Park, Calif.-based venture loan firm TriplePoint is helping the site finance the expansion of its server farms, and other infrastructure...

Spam Moves To Cellphones Business on The Huffington Post

Uehira — Sat, 10 May 2008 20:37:41 +0000

If you thought spam on your computer was a bother, brace yourself: spammers want to find you on your cellphone. Cellphones have become consumers’ most personal technological...

Rapist, shielded by his human rights, was free to live where he chose... and kill of girl of 14 the Daily Mail

Uehira — Sat, 10 May 2008 20:35:21 +0000

When convicted rapist Michael Clark was freed from prison, he refused to return to his home town of Scunthorpe because he claimed to fear for his safety.

Obama rises from political obscurity to verge of history

Uehira — Sat, 10 May 2008 20:05:59 +0000

The amazement was on their faces. Hundreds waited for Barack Obama on that evening in South Carolina, 15 weeks ago, to claim victory _ a surprising victory, surprisingly...

Teens Dig Up Skull of 11-Year-Old, Use it as a Bong

Uehira — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:12:43 +0000

Three teenagers were arrested after two of them told police they dug up a secluded grave north of Houston, removed the skull from the coffin and converted it into a marijuana...

14 Smoking Accessories that Nobody Should Own

Uehira — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:37:30 +0000

First up, we have this double-barrel cigarette holder. Makes perfect sense, right? You’ve got two lungs, gotta have two cigarettes. Of course if you used this I don’t think you’d have two lungs for very...

Dear Media: Please stop pretending Clinton has a chance

Uehira — Sat, 03 May 2008 20:59:11 +0000

“Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.”

3 Things We Learned From the Accidental U.S. Nuke Flyby

Uehira — Fri, 02 May 2008 20:58:10 +0000

One might think that the United States’ nuclear weapons—the cornerstone deterrent in the country’s arsenal—would be treated with the utmost precision.

This comfortable illusion was shaken on Aug. 31, 2007, when crews loaded six live nuclear warheads onto a B-52 bomber and flew from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, cruising over the nation’s heartland. Each warhead was 10 times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.