Albert Hofmann, Inventor of LSD, Embarks on Final Trip: Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann, inventor of LSD, died yesterday at the age of 102, just 10 days after the 55th anniversary of his notorious bicycle trip while tripping on “acid”. Hofmann, who suffered a heart attack at home in Basel, Switzerland, was the first person to [...]
Archive of entries posted on April 2008
160,000
(from the depressing milestone dept.) Since January 16, 2006, over 160,000 attempts to post comment spam to this site have been logged. That’s 10,000 spam comments since February 2, 2008 and more than 63 times the number of legitimate comments posted to this web site since June, 2001.
Friday Random Ten: 2008-04-25
| Name | Artist | Album | Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | VIII. Losing Time – Grand Finale | Dream Theater | Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (Disc 2) | Metal |
| 2. | Scrutinizer Postlude | Frank Zappa | Joe’s Garage (Disc 1) | Alternative & Punk |
| 3. | The Big Heat | Stan Ridgway | The Big Heat | Rock |
| 4. | Till There Was You | The Beatles | Anthology 1 [Disc 2] | Rock |
| 5. | Pull Me Under | Dream Theater | Images And Words | Metal |
| 6. | Dazed and Confused | Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin I | Rock |
| 7. | The Calling | Yes | Yes | Rock |
| 8. | The Gates Of Delirium (Studio Run-Through) | Yes | Relayer | Rock |
| 9. | Twisted | Stan Ridgway | The Big Heat | Rock |
| 10. | Quadrant 4 | Billy Cobham | Spectrum | Jazz |
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2500 Comments
Another pointless milestone has been reached: 2,500 non-spam comments have been posted to this web site.
Friday Random Ten: 2008-04-18
| Name | Artist | Album | Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | VII. About To Crash (Reprise) | Dream Theater | Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (Disc 2) | Metal |
| 2. | Zapateado | Terry Bozzio | Solo Drum Music (Disc 1) | World |
| 3. | Twist And Shout | The Beatles | Anthology 1 [Disc 2] | Rock |
| 4. | The Passage Of The Marshes | London Philharmonic Orchestra & London Voices | The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers | Soundtrack |
| 5. | Sat In Your Lap | Kate Bush | The Whole Story | Alternative & Punk |
| 6. | City Of Love | Yes | 90125 | Rock |
| 7. | Turn Of The Century | Yes | Going For The One | Rock |
| 8. | There’s A Doctor | The Who | Tommy | Rock |
| 9. | Fragolino | Billy Cobham | The Traveler | Jazz |
| 10. | Cinnamon Girl | Neil Young & Crazy Horse | Greatest Hits | Rock |
Mr. Richard Ohene
Another bank scam gets past the spam filter. From: Richard Ohene <richardohene107@yahoo.com> Reply-To: richardohene21@yahoo.com Date: 14 Apr 2008 22:00:10 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Bsest Regards Apparently, Mr. Ohene’s bank can’t afford a spell checker… Greetings to you, I humbly seek your services in a confidential matter regarding some funds, Five Million Eight Hundred and Fifty Thousand [...]
Michael Medved: Idiot
(via Fundies Say the Darndest Things!) Americans Are Right To Resist An Atheist As President: Just as the Queen plays a formal role as head of the Church of England, the President functions as head of the “Church of America” – that informal, tolerant but profoundly important civic religion that dominates all our national holidays [...]
Friday Random Ten: 2008-04-11
| Name | Artist | Album | Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | VI. Solitary Shell | Dream Theater | Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (Disc 2) | Metal |
| 2. | I Wanna Be Your Man | The Beatles | Anthology 1 [Disc 2] | Rock |
| 3. | Goodnight Kiss | Dream Theater | Live At Budokan [Disc 3] | Metal |
| 4. | Brain Damage | Pink Floyd | Dark Side Of The Moon | Rock |
| 5. | I Am Waiting | Yes | Talk | Rock |
| 6. | Endless Dream: Endless Dream | Yes | Talk | Rock |
| 7. | Ya Gotta Try | Marvin ‘Smitty’ Smith | Burning For Buddy: A Tribute To The Music Of Buddy Rich | Jazz |
| 8. | New Millennium | Dream Theater | Live At Budokan [Disc 2] | Metal |
| 9. | The Ascent Of Man, Parts I-VI | Thomas Dolby | The Gate To The Mind’s Eye | Alternative & Punk |
| 10. | Paddy´s Lamentation | Linda Thompson | Gangs Of New York | Soundtrack |
Rep. Monique Davis: “Get out of here, atheists!”
(via email) The governor of Illinois has been playing some games with state money, shuffling a million dollars to benefit a Baptist church, and an atheist dared to testify to the legislature against this. The response from one legislator was unsurprising: she shrieked at the atheist to get out. Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago) interrupted atheist [...]
