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DJ Psycho Mike spins Mash ups in Chicago, runs the Psychotronic Film Society at http://www.psychotronic.info
writes and directs film and theatre including the play and movie BETTIE PAGE UNCENSORED.
He also collects wild links on the web!
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Oct 13, 2005
Surf W/ The New James Bond!
NEW TIKI PLACE OPENS IN CHICAGO 'BURBS, THE JENNA JAMESON GUITAR, THE WORLD'S STRANGEST HAT, ESQUIRE HAILS BUTTER: CHICAGO'S
BEST NEW RESTAURANT, OLDEST NOODLES FOUND IN CHINA, THE MAN WHO SAVED 1 BILLION LIVES- AND IS HATED FOR IT!
Then came the Bush version!
Interesting argument put forward about the life of Jesus and how it stands next to other religions tales throughout time.
Robert Plant has a new band, an acclaimed album and a bright future. And he's learned to live with the ghosts of Led Zeppelin.
He is public enemy number 1 to the Greens and anti- genetic engineered food crowd. Yet he is credited with saving in his lifetime, over 1 billion lives. How is it a man who saved over 1 billion people walks the earth- and you've never heard of him?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug A sad story of how one scientist can make a difference in the lives of people on this planet- yet because his work is controversial his name is unknown in schools, never mentioned in the press. The modern age, indeed.....
How demanding are rock musicians in the studio? This person reveals what it was like to work with Kate Bush and U2.
There is a new Tiki bar and restaurant opening in the burbs. Folks, this looks like it will be hot! Sign up ASAP for a VIP membership for the opening night party in November!
Is America in a period of cultural decay? "Among the conceits of our elite and media is the assumption that America, in the form that they wish to imagine it, is immortal. Part of this is the arrogance of the big, part comes from an admirable if naive faith in progress, part of it is pathological delusion. For a host of reasons, beginning with our own survival, it is long past time to permit the question to be raised: is America collapsing as a culture?"
Jackson, the top guitar maker, has made a limited edition model that features Jenna Jameson's likeness on the body. Not ok for work.
Esquire has published their list of the best new restaurants in America.
IS THIS THE NEW JAMES BOND?
Tabloid reports this week have said the role will go to Daniel Craig, a blue-eyed British actor who would be the first blond Bond.
Although he’s not well known in the United States, Craig, 37, has a busy British career that includes roles in the landmark 1990s TV drama Our Friends in the North; and films including The Mother, Enduring Love; and Layer Cake.
He played Paul Newman’s sinister son in Road to Perdition, was poet Ted Hughes opposite Gwyneth Paltrow’s Sylvia Plath in Sylvia; and appeared in this year’s thriller The Jacket; with Adrien Brody.
Craig is also the tabloids’ dream Bond. He once dated headline-grabbing model Kate Moss and has been linked to Sienna Miller, his Layer Cake co-star. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1-1823863,00.html
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
To perpetuate and preserve the game and history of our national pastime: baseball. The Old Timers Baseball Association! New and old baseball!
Posted at 11:49 pm by Psychomike
HOW BLOCKBUSTER DESTROYED ITSELF, ABSINTHE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDLE, LIZ PHAIR STILL ROCKS, PACMAN FEVER!
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We specialise in Czech Absinthes because the liquor laws of the Czech Republic do not limit thujone content levels of commercial absinthe...
Varied selection and packages for sale nearly worldwide (including, incidentally, a cannabis vodka). Also, related articles, tips and recipes.
Liz Phair, the rocker who first gained acclaim with her 1993 album Exile In Guyville has recently come under attack as a sell-out. Much criticized for working with The Matrix, the record engineers who write and produce music for teen pop singer Avril Lavigne, Phair has said that her decision to go more commercial on her self-titled album Liz Phair was partly motivated by her financial concerns as a single mother. New York Press' Tom Birner asked her about this recent change in style, her follow-up CD Somebody's Miracle—and much else—as Phair gets set for a gig here in town. 
Enjoy some of these classic '80s games: Pacman, Space Invaders, Frogger, Donkey Kong, Asteroids, Star Castle and more.
Please give the games a moment to load.
To download the games to play offline, visit the downloads page http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/games.shtml
Hungarian Jews were robbed of their valuables by the National Socialists, then the train carrying the goods to Germany was taken by the United States.
Which sold much of the loot and passed the rest around to officers.
After Hungarian Jews protested, we turned Hungary over to Stalin. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051011/ts_nm/usa_goldtrain_dc
A woman was there to help lay the foundation for Bob Dylan's music. And she still speaks fondly of him as well. Great article. Moving and compelling.
Blockbuster could have bought up its closest competitor for a song. It went with Enron instead. This could go down as the biggest business blunder of the last 25 years!
Posted at 02:39 am by Psychomike
Oct 12, 2005
HOT TOYS OF THE YEAR, ALL DAY HORROR MOVIE FESTIVAL, CHOOSING YOUR WIFE THE BIBLICAL WAY, BRIAN WILSON AND JAZZ!
A revolution in automobiles has just happened. Driverless cars. The future- is here. Now.
Police have honored a 4-year-old male toy poodle that can walk on its hind legs for promoting road safety, it has been learned.
The book of frogs and mice, from 1892!
The most interesting pieces of pop music trivia that you know (that are 100% false)
Posted at 07:37 am by Psychomike
Oct 11, 2005
Surf W/The Tattoo Convention
THE LONDON TATTOO CONVENTION, GENE SIMMONS OFFERS SEX ADVICE, SLAVERY IN NEW YORK, MODELS WITH CHICKENS, WHO WAS CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS?, ULCERS NOT CAUSED BY STRESS OR DIET: NOBEL PRIZE GIVEN FOR PROOF ULCERS ARE FROM GERMS!
I know many of you check this site at your jobs, so I held off on posting this one until today. Here is the true story of Christopher Columbus. It isn't what we were taught in school. http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Christopher_Columbus
The Nobel Prize has been given to two men who have destroyed the myths of ulcers.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16816505%255E28737,00.html
In what could lead to an explosion within the church and it's faithful- a document is about to be released accepting gays openly into the Priesthood.
I guess the church will do anything to avoid ordaining women!
http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/10/07/gay-priests1007.html
Robbie Williams launched an attack on the British media yesterday, accusing them of hypocrisy and "devouring" the model Kate Moss over her alleged drug-taking activities.
Williams, who himself has battled problems with alcohol and drugs, claimed that he had taken cocaine with some media figures who were now saying that Moss should not take drugs. He said that the media should put their knives away and "get off her f*cking back".
http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article318035.ece
"The British Library has made available 14 great books on its website. One of them is a 1508 notebook by Leonardo Da Vinci containing short treatises, notes and drawings of a wide range of subjects from mechanics to the moon. The site allows you to view the original manuscript written in Leonardo's own handwriting." http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
Models with chickens. Why? Beats me. Not ok for work. http://www.ranum.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=51
A man whose efforts to defend himself against double homicide charges have been called a "train wreck" tried one last time yesterday to convince a jury he did not kill his parents.
Phadnis claims he was kidnapped and tortured for three days by a gang of 400-pound Samoans who eventually killed his parents in front of him. At one point he tried to keep prosecutors from showing the jury a picture of one of his father's handguns by saying, "Your honor, that's not even the murder weapon," which implied that he had personal knowledge about the gun that was used in the killings. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002545246_neelesh07m.html
Gene Simmons from KISS offers relationship advice. http://www.gigwise.com/news.asp?ContentID=9154
The people of Belgium have been left reeling by the first adult-only episode of the Smurfs, in which the blue-skinned cartoon characters' village is annihilated by warplanes.
The short but chilling film is the work of Unicef, the United Nations Children's Fund, and is to be broadcast on national television next week as a campaign advertisement.
The short film pulls no punches. It opens with the Smurfs dancing, hand-in-hand, around a campfire and singing the Smurf song. Bluebirds flutter past and rabbits gambol around their familiar village of mushroom- shaped houses until, without warning, bombs begin to rain from the sky.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/08/wsmurf08.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/10/08/ixhome.html
The London Tattoo Convention!
http://www.thelondontattooconvention.com/artists.html
The best surf movie ever made, STEP INTO LIQUID is airing this month on the Sundance Channel. The times shown are Pacific time, so adjust accordingly (two hours later here in Chicago, etc) http://www.sundancechannel.com/popup/?ixFilmID=3092&PHPSESSID=b4d6d26a5df96059a803172e23b789e6
Deep in today's downtown, but well north of the era's houses, is a tiny cartoon of a gallows from which a man hangs. It is inscribed "Plot Negro Gibbeted." Not far off is a small bonfire labeled "Plot Negro's burnt here."
In 1741, these "Plot Negroes" were accused of trying to burn down the city (the subject of a new book, "New York Burning," by the historian Jill Lepore). After confessions were obtained and a plot outlined, 13 blacks were burned at the stake and 17 hanged.
New York's involvement with slavery has been well known by scholars, and recent histories of New York have been fully cognizant of the facts. But the popular imagination is something else, and the unearthing of part of the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan in 1991 may have been a turning point, with the remains of more than 400 people from the 17th and 18th centuries discovered at a construction site. Those remains made slavery all too vivid: with the bones came buttons and polished stones, evidence of malnutrition and signs of injuries. Scholarship has increased in the years since, and some of it is surveyed in the exhibition's companion book, edited by Ira Berlin and Leslie M. Harris. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/07/arts/design/07slav.html
Scientists have discovered that a 50- 50 combination of cranberry and oregano could cut the risk of food poisoning from infected seafood.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18825205.000
Google has opened a office to defend the internet. http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2143440/google-beefs-lobbying-efforts
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Slaves of Cherokee Indians want in to the tribe.
Stick Ross is thought to be the illegitimate grandson of Chief John Ross, who led the tribe along the Trail of Tears. Ross the younger was a respected Native American and a skilled diplomat who acted as a liaison between tribes and local townsfolk. "He knew sign language and spoke Cherokee and Seminole. He was a trapper and a farmer and a rancher," says Stick's great-grandson, Leslie Ross, a 56-year-old retired civil servant whose greatest joy is recounting the Stick trivia he learned from his family in Muskogee. "And he was sheriff at one time, too. He was pretty renowned in Tahlequah."
Stick may have died an exemplary citizen of the Cherokee Nation, but he was born into slavery. The Cherokee kept black slaves until 1866, when an emancipation treaty freed them from bondage and granted them full tribal citizenship. Known as the Freedmen, these men and women were embraced by the Cherokee as equals, and often married the offspring of their former masters. Like Stick, they identified with local cultures, spoke tribal languages, and took part in tribal religious rites.
And yet, three-quarters of a century after the death of Cherokee legend Stick Ross, there's no room for his great-grandson in the Cherokee Nation. Leslie Ross has been denied citizenship in the tribe on the grounds that he is not truly Indian. "They said I don't have any Indian blood. They say blacks have never had a part in the Cherokee Nation," says Ross, his usually calm voice swelling with anger. "The thing is, there wouldn't be a Cherokee Nation if it weren't for my great-grandfather. Jesus, he was more Indian than the Indians!" http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.09/seminoles_pr.html
Posted at 01:42 am by Psychomike
Oct 9, 2005
Surf W/ Zombies On Your Computer!
CATHOLIC CHURCH SAYS DON'T TAKE BIBLE LITERALLY, U.S FACES WORST HEALTH CARE CRISIS IN HISTORY: HOW TO PREPARE, MUSEUMS OF WASHINGTON, SEXUAL THEME PARK OPENS IN UK, WATCH ZOMBIE MOVIES ON YOUR COMPUTER!
The United States is facing the worst health care crisis in it's history. This is not a joke. Whole areas of cities could be shut down, schools closed for months, and that's just the beginning. Here is what you must do to prepare. And you must do it NOW. Let's all hope these events don't come to pass- but we have never been closer as a nation to the crisis we face today. Remember, the government has to protect everyone. You have only to protect your family. Here's what you need to do, before you are told to:
" A plan developed by the Bush administration to deal with any possible outbreak of pandemic flu shows that the United States is woefully unprepared for what could become the worst disaster in the nation's history.
A draft of the final plan, which has been years in the making and is expected to be released later this month, says a large outbreak that began in Asia would be likely, because of modern travel patterns, to reach the United States within "a few months or even weeks."
If such an outbreak occurred, hospitals would become overwhelmed, riots would engulf vaccination clinics, and even power and food would be in short supply, according to the plan, which was obtained by The New York Times."
THE hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church has published a teaching document instructing the faithful that some parts of the Bible are not actually true.
The Catholic bishops of England, Wales and Scotland are warning their five million worshippers, as well as any others drawn to the study of scripture, that they should not expect “total accuracy” from the Bible.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1811332,00.html
Peter "Lord Of The Rings" Jackson's 3-D game demo! Now's your chance to play this cool 3-D game.
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WENDY'S WORLD
Posted at 11:04 pm by Psychomike
Oct 7, 2005
Surf W/ Singing Dolphins!
ABANDONED CEMETARY, SECRET BRITISH SEX QUIZ REVEALED, DOLPHINS SING BATMAN, RARE COOL FOUND PHOTOS!
It had to happen. The Bling Bling Barbie is out. No, I'm not kidding.
Nick Cave has a western movie coming out- and it sounds great! Check out this review. Thanks to Bryan Wendorf with the Chicago Underground Film Festival for this!
It has been called the most loved opera of all time. CARMEN is sexy, hot and the Lyric Opera has turned the heat up several notches for this show. I loved it, and there is still time to order tickets for an experience you will never forget. http://www.lyricopera.org/productions.aspx?arrRef=20060
Welcome to www.carolinasoul.org, the online home for discographies of 45-rpm soul recordings made in the Carolinas in the 1960s through 1980s. The North/South Carolina discography is currently divided into two sections: (1) local NC/SC labels that issued at least one soul record, and (2) NC/SC soul artists on non-NC/SC and national labels. The local label section is sub-divided alphabetically by label name. In some cases, non-soul releases are listed and are indicated as such. Representative label scans are provided if available; to view them, click on the small record logos. Multiple scans are provided for labels that had more than one more design. http://www.carolinasoul.org/
Without a doubt my favourite sites on the internet are about abandoned places. There's just something about them, but I'm not sure what it is, that I find fascinating. This site is one of my favourites. http://www.unquiettomb.com/intro.html
Jay Ward, Boris Karloff, Ed Wood and Orson Welles. No those names aren't the punchline to a joke, but at this site you'll find audio's and visuals of the above and more. Including a live reading by the cast of Bullwinkle, a sales film for Karloff's Thriller, and Orson Welles yelling at a commercial director.
This is actually a great idea- it allows you to find what is being aired on the next episode of your favorite TV shows! http://www.next-episode.net/
The Kinsey Report of 1948 famously lifted the lid on American sexual behavior. But when a similar study was conducted in Britain the following year, the findings were so outrageous they were suppressed. Only now have they been revealed.
In these liberated times, when sex is almost a constant undercurrent of everyday life, it's hard to imagine how much of a taboo sex once was.
Yet when a group of young researchers set out to probe British sexual behavior in 1949 their findings were considered so outrageous they were instantly swept under the carpet; banished to the archives of a university.
Only now, more than 50 years on, have the results come to light, revealed in a new BBC program. The findings show that the prim and proper façade of post-war Britain hid some remarkable truths about sexual attitudes and experience.
Not safe for work. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4293978.stm
Scientists have taught dolphins to combine both rhythm and vocalisations to produce music, resulting in an extremely high-pitched, short version of the Batman theme song.
The findings, outlined in two studies, are the first time that nonhuman mammals have demonstrated they can recognise rhythms and reproduce them vocally.
http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1473208.htm
The drug buprenorphine appears effective in treating teens addicted to heroin and other opiates, researchers report.
The use of heroin among adolescents has more than doubled in the past 10 years, noted researchers from the University of Vermont. There's also been an increase in this age group of the illicit use of prescription opiates such as OxyContin and Vicodin. Opiates are the second most commonly used illicit drugs among teens, second only to marijuana.
Drug use to combat drug use. http://www.healthday.com/view.cfm?id=528308
A woman from Upstate New York dresses like Dr. Who and films her struggle to get her show broadcast on every public access channel of which she has any knowledge via badgering each cable company and invoking the First Amendment. The videos are a spinecracking combination of surrealism, muckraking, and mundanity. http://www.achatwithglendora.com/
A community for posting and sharing vintage photos of all types, whether it be landscapes, family portraits, pin-up beauties, famous photographers of yesteryear, gems found in flea markets, etc. If its vintage, we want to see it.
http://www.livejournal.com/community/vintagephoto/
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Really, really rare Beatle MP3's.
http://www.beatlespennylane.com/rare_hard_to_find_beatle_MP3's-tracks.htm Posted at 01:34 am by Psychomike
Oct 5, 2005
VIVA LAS VEGAS, FLINTSTONES WINSTON AD, SIX DRINKS THAT CHANGED HISTORY, IS IT TIME TO RE-EXAMINE WORLD WAR 2?, WAR OF THE WORLDS TOLD BY BUNNIES!
Tuesday October 11th is the big mashup party in Chicago. Doors open at 9pm, and the action starts immediately with an incredible Jimi Hendrix mashup- done long form. Come early and leave early, or come and stay late- here is what to expect:
A British writer writes up our adult playground Las Vegas. And does a good job of it, even if he only covers about 10% of it.
This weekend a major car event takes place outside Chicago with bands and very cool cars. Thanks to David Krys in Chicago for this.
Lenin's corpse is on display in the Kremlin, but there is a move afoot to finally bury him.
For decades, this writer wondered what he would do if he ever ran into the priest who’d abused him. Then, one day, he did...
Is it time to re-examine the second world war?
The rape of more than a million German women by Russians was a strictly guarded postwar taboo. Now the world knows, and knows much more
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Posted at 11:15 pm by Psychomike
Surf W/ John Woo Book Party!
THE SAVAGE BEATLES, THE RETURN OF WRESTLING, TEEN WOMEN LEAD SEX REVOLUTION, JOHN WOO CHICAGO BOOK PARTY, POPEILGADGETS,
ART OF JAMES BOND, MAKE YOUR OWN SAUSAGE!
Get your own beer making kit for under $30! Plus cool Tiki items!
The number 1 songs in heaven MP3 site: This is an Mp3 Blog specializing mostly in classic (ie: old) soul, funk and dance music. Files are only up for a very limited time and are here for the express purpose of getting you to go out and buy more CDs. Very cool site with free music.
Since the 1950's wrestling has fallen in and out of favor. Censorship problems with Spike TV blew the momentum RAW had built, so Monday night the question was could the switch to the USA network re-energize the show?
The bra and panties match revealed the censorship problem was over.
The return of Triple H, Mick Foley and Hulk Hogan showed the roots were still there.
The announcement of a future battle between Hulk Hogan and Stone Cold Steve Austin was the kind of card that will draw millions.
RAW is back. It isn't just re-energized. It's in overdrive. Best wrestling show I've seen in years.
Bill Bennett and the question of abortion: While 1 in 4 pregnancies end in abortion, a large number of those are teens and single women.
Who will postpone children until later in life, which is why abortion has had little effect on birth rates.
Iswar and Haripada Murmu, of Akshaypur in West Bengal, were accused of owning a ghost after one of their wives died.
Young women are leading the way in tearing down sexual taboos in North America, where teenagers are having more sex at a younger age than their parents and grandparents, a new survey showed.
Freewheeling young women in the United States and Canada first have intercourse at the age of 15, partake more in oral sex than previous generations and are far less prudish, according to a landmark new report by researchers at California's San Diego State University.
Between 1943 and 1999, the age of first intercourse dropped to 15 from 19 for females, while the percentage of sexually active young women rose to 47 percent from just 13 percent in 1943, according to the study that appears in the most recent issue of the Review of General Psychology. http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/04/051004054737.fzs4blx5.html
For many people their first introduction to the world of James Bond was via the paperback versions of Ian Fleming's novels that first appeared during the mid 1950's. Since then the Bond novels have seldom been out of print and have been reissued with many different covers, some featuring superb artwork that has rarely been seen since. The 1950's covers had painted artwork that evolved in to the simple graphic representations of the 1960's and the superb "Still-life" series from the UK that appeared in the 1970's. http://www.artofjamesbond.com/paperbacks.htm
An interactive look at the original manuscript of Alice's adventures in wonderland housed in the British library.
http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/alice/alice_broadband.htm
What: Book party for "John Woo: Interviews" and screening of "The Killer"
Where: Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State Street, Chicago
When: Friday, October 21
Free reception, cash bar and book signing from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Tickets for "The Killer," which begins at 8 p.m., are $9, $7 for students
Books can be purchased at the event for $20 and several contributors will be on-hand to sign their work.
Book details: "John Woo: Interviews" edited by the Chicago Tribune's Robert K. Elder
University Press of Mississippi
"John Woo: Interviews" is the first authoritative oral history of the director's life, films and legacy. Edited by journalist Robert K. Elder, the volume represents unprecedented access to the director in creating an encyclopedia of Woo's career and cinema from the 1970s to present. Published by the University Press of Mississippi, "John Woo: Interviews" tracks Woo early Hong Kong comedies and kung fu films to the later “bullet ballets” of "The Killer" and "Hard Boiled" and Hollywood blockbusters "Face/Off" and "Mission: Impossible 2." Through his conversations and research, Elder reveals Woo as a peaceful, deeply religious man who hates violence -- yet has become the master of its portrayal. http://www.robelder.com/
Hey it's near Halloween! You need some horror sounds- here are old time radio horror shows! http://www.themonsterclub.com/radiolibrary.htm On the lower left column you'll even find Vincent Price talking about making those shows....
The Savage Beatles! A visual and aural journey through the formative years - the 1950s through June 1963.
This is how they became The Beatles!
Lots of photos that i've never seen before, great site if your a Beatles fan. http://beatlesource.com/savage/notes.html
Making sausage at home is a rewarding and interesting craft. In complexity it is somewhere between making bread and making beer or wine. The reward comes in the flavors that can't be matched by the industrial sausage found in the supermarket and the knowledge of being in control of every ingredient that goes into the sausage. http://schmidling.netfirms.com/saus.htm
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Ron Popeil, gadget hawker extraordinaire, sold his company in August. This slide show is a trip down memory lane with some of the products he made famous
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/05/09/ronco/index_01.htm
Posted at 12:15 am by Psychomike
Oct 4, 2005
Surf W/Cleopatra, Crossdresser?!?
HOTTEST WAITRESSES, EVERYTHING FRACTAL, MYSTERY MEAT STEW, THE MAN BEHIND KINKO'S, WORLD'S BEST BEER MAKERS, CLEOPATRA: CROSSDRESSER!
Courtney Love talks about everything from White Stripes to her late husband's suicide attempts.
Who are the hottest waitresses in Chicago nightclubs?
Funny article covers subjects like: what if Freud had been a woman?
Fractal Infinities is a web site devoted to fractal imagery, games, coding, graphics, and algorithmic beauty in general. If you are looking for funky java applets, games, interesting graphics, or fractal generation tutorials, you've come to the right place. Enjoy!
Gaming revenues allowed the Oneida nation to build a $12 million elementary school shaped like a turtle. The turtle is a sacred animal and has significance in the Oneida creation myth. http://www.chieftain.com/metro/1128319844/3
Inside the sanctuary of the abbey of St. Sixtus of Westvleteren is a beer lover's dream and a businessman's nightmare.
Piety, not profit, is what these monks seek. The St. Sixtus monks break every rule in Business 101 except attention to quality. And therein may lie the secret of their success in brewing a beer that some rank among the world's best and that is so hard to get there's a black market for it.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2005-10-03-beer-usat_x.htm
The cells of early Christians have been found in the deserts of Egypt. http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/27/news/journal.php
Computer-generated portraits of Tutankhamun in an exhibit coming to Fort Lauderdale's Museum of Art in December have sparked criticism and protests by black activists who say they depict the boy king as white.
Researchers hired by the National Geographic Society, one of the exhibit's sponsors, say current forensic data and recent CT scans of his mummy were used to create the images.
African scholars and black activists dispute the portrayal and predict protests when the show moves here like those that have occurred in Los Angeles. The debate is similar to the question of whether Jesus was black. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-tut2505sep25,0,5185973.story?coll=orl-home-headlines
Cleopatra has for long been considered the epitome of beauty and she used her looks to seduce Julius Ceasar and Mark Antony for power. But a newly discovered stone slab depicts her as a man raising speculations about her being a crossdresser.
A relief image carved about 2050 years ago on an ancient Egyptian stone slab shows Cleopatra dressed as a man, recent analysis shows. http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=25725
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Among the greatest of the Ancient Olympic boxers – indeed one -of the greatest Olympic athletes –was Theagenes of Thasos. A boxer, pankratist (no-holds barred fighting) and runner, Theagenes captured the boxing title at the 75th Olympiad in 480 BC, and, four years later, he won the Pankration (no-holds-barred) title. Like all Olympic champions, Theagenes’ victories offered him immortality, and mythology was soon to follow..
http://www.eastsideboxing.com/news.php?p=4805&more=1
Posted at 02:08 am by Psychomike
Oct 2, 2005
Surf W/ Most Censored Chicago Story!
FIND THE RUBBER DUCKY, LAWYERS FIGHT LAWYER JOKES, THE MOST CENSORED STORY IN ILLINOIS, THE CRIME LIBRARY!
The story of bra burning feminists has been reported for decades. It isn't true. So who first started the rumor? Prepare for a shock!
There’s a reward out for a yellow rubber ducky — a bounty that Curt Ebbesmeyer hopes will further the science of ocean currents and spread the word about ocean trash. Footing the bill, so to speak, is the company that made the ducks — 29,000 of them .
Getting beers at a bar is about to made easier. Using science! Thanks to Dave Holle In Illinois for this. The Beer Mat!
A chilly bit of Scandinavia is coming to the heart of London's West End Saturday with the opening of Absolut Icebar, a bar made entirely out of ice right down to the art on the walls and the glasses for the drinks.
The story no publication in Chicago is covering:
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes corruption, today announced that on January 17, 2006,Jesse Lee Peterson, et al., v. Jesse Jackson, et al. (BC 266505) will go to trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court after a ruling last week by Judge George H. Wu. Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit against Jackson, his son Jonathan, and others on behalf of Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, who was the victim of a physical and verbal assault at an event hosted by Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. in December 2001. Rev. Peterson is an ordained minister, who has dedicated his life to working with underprivileged black youth and men in our society.
The Jacksons and the Rainbow/PUSH coalition, who had sought to have the case dismissed, will now face multiple civil charges, including: Assault, Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress and a California Civil Rights Claim. Jonathan Jackson also will face the additional charges of Battery and False Imprisonment.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/jacksontrial.shtml
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