maps

[david_mancuso]

...maps, links, assorted goodies & etc's through out the thread as u scroll along the way :)

enjoy!

d.....................



http://www.graphicmaps.com/geoquiz/thelist.htm

http://www.flashearth.com/

http://newassignment.net/blog/mark_johnson/dec2006/05/using_google_ear

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/09/google-adds-the-geographic-web-to-earth/

Find your name history - http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/Fact.aspx?fid=7&ln=

Near realtime satellite imagery http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/

Google Maps for Space - http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archive/2007/04/wikisky_google_earthlike_view.html?CMP=OTC-7G2N43923558

New to some: Google Street View
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=new+york+new+york&ie=UTF8&ll=40.714997,-74.006653&spn=0.741123,1.277161&z=10&iwloc=addr&om=1&layer=c

http://www.howstuffworks.com/google-earth.htm


http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134186/article.html

[djklas]

Someone told me that if you go on google maps to a major city like San Francisco that you can actually get down to street level and then look around in a 3D view to see all the stores and everything on the street, as if you were standing in the middle of the intersection... I haven't checked it out yet.

[david_mancuso]

Greetings djklas :)

Enjoy the links!

d.

[david_mancuso]

Links

The following links include many of the best sources of information concerning psychedelic substances, their characteristics, the experiences they make available, their history, reviews of the scientific literature, published books and articles, potential applications in a variety of important areas, and prospects for future research. Others have been added on account of the information they provide, aesthetic quality, or the curiosity they spark.




http://www.hofmann.org/links/index.html

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http://www.lsd.info/symposium/links

http://www.timothyleary.us/

[david_mancuso]

http://www.homepagedaily.com/Pages/article-marijuana-and-music.aspx

Marijuana and Music

One of the more remarkable effects noticed in the state of consciousness brought on by marijuana use is a greatly enhanced appreciation of music. Peter Webster argues that cannabis has many positive uses in the artistic and scientific fields.

Peter Webster has reviewed for the International Journal of Drug Policy and is also the host of the Psychedelic Library. Noting the merits of practice with both music and the use of cannabis, he examines the cognitive mechanisms underlying the origins of jazz, while introducing us to the past times of Louis Armstrong and Mezz Mezzrow. We learn of the marijuana-using jazz musician round up of 1947 by the Bureau of Narcotics, both humorous and disturbing. In this cogent discourse on the origins of improvisation in jazz, he proposes that practiced, purposeful use of cannabis may provide a form of training in creative thinking that can be applied across many artistic and scientific fields.

[david_mancuso]

What follows is a verbatim transcript of part of an address by Robert Keil, Ph.D. at an Albert Hofmann Foundation seminar on Dec. 6, 1997.



"Psychedelic Chemistry and Urban Myth"
by Robert Keil, Ph.D.

What's in that piece of paper?

As an organic chemist, I often get asked questions about psychedelics and related compounds. Often these questions are simple ones about the nature of molecules, often times they reflect a deep philosophical difference between the questioner and myself, a "hard" scientist. The most obvious example of this is in the debate over the purity in LSD samples. Everyone has an opinion about the strength of LSD: that it is weaker than in the '70s, that some LSD creates certain mental states, that some LSD is probably adulterated with speed. What can analytical science tell us about these questions? Unfortunately, not as much as you might like!

Before we explore this, let's look at the chemistry and packaging of typical "street" LSD and think about what else it could contain. I'm going to be considering mostly LSD-impregnated blotter paper, which seems to be the most common form. Other forms are far more amenable to being adulterated with other drugs. The typical active dose of LSD is about 100 mcg [micrograms]. Just how much is that? Well, if you take a grain of salt, that's typically 500 mcg. LSD is truly amazing in its potency. But how much of something else could be in there, lurking on the paper? Well, a typical piece of thick paper might weigh about 10-50 mg. By testing this amount of chemical that the paper can absorb (e.g. by using caffeine as a model), you might be able to get up to, say, 5 mg on a typical piece of blotter paper. You can prove this to yourself with some paper, caffeine (No-Doz), and a good balance.

So we've established that a piece of blotter can hold about 5 mg of total compound (any more and the excess falls off the sheet.) Can't that 5 mg be something like speed, or ecstasy (MDMA)? Simply put, no. Neither speed nor MDMA is going to have much effect at that dosage. Amphetamine might have some "kick," but this is below the dosage usually used. What about strychnine? This question probably came from a listing in the Merck Index (a standard reference text) that indicates as one of the symptoms of strychnine poisoning heightened visual acuity. You will also note that strychnine is extremely bitter and can be tasted in concentrations of 1 part in 700,000. It would seem unlikely that enough strychnine could be present to cause physical effects, yet not have any bitter taste when rolled over the tongue. Although it is hard to find the lethal dose of strychnine from the literature, it appears to be over [recording blurred].

OK, so maybe there is no poison or amphetamine on blotter, but what about the purity of the actual LSD? Perhaps there is a potent isomer that colors the experience? Here is where things get tricky. LSD is a difficult molecule to produce. You need to start with a complex natural product called ergotamine, and perform several manipulations on it. The final product is sensitive to light and oxygen and there are several by-products that can be made along the way. Perhaps, the theory goes, these trace by-products act to catalyze or potentiate the LSD effects in some way, even though they are present in very small amounts. For the chemist, this theory is nearly impossible to disprove.

Hofmann and many workers have looked at many of the isomers, by-products, and close chemical cousins of LSD, and LSD is by far the most potent of them all. None of these "minors" have anywhere near the strength of LSD itself. So can we exclude their effects? No, because of a dirty secret of chemists. Practically speaking, it is nearly impossible to make truly pure compounds. Even simple compounds such as aspirin and Prozac contain very small amounts of impurities. In fact, there are analytical chemists whose job it is to look at generic copies of their company's drugs and see if they are made using the original procedures. Even the most purified drug will contain very, very small amounts of characteristic impurities that give away a compound's origin.

So no matter how pure LSD is made, with the best starting materials and techniques, a skeptic could always say, "But wait, maybe there is still some impurity left that catalyses the experience in some way. Maybe it's just in such small amounts that you can't see it, but it's there." There can be no way to disprove this statement. The best a chemist can say is that it is extremely unlikely, given what we know about neurochemistry and the way other drugs behave. But I can't say it cannot happen.

Which brings me to the "Jaegermeister effect." Jaegermeister is a brown liquor from Germany that's become popular in the last few years, especially among college students. Invariably, if you bring up the subject of Jaegermeister, you'll hear someone claim that the high from Jaegermeister is different from that of other drinks (often it's claimed that it contains morphine, opium, shoe polish ...) It's easy for a "rational" scientist to discount these claims and chalk it up to a placebo effect. This attitude frankly disturbs me, because it discounts the human factor in what after all is a discussion about consciousness. If someone claims to have a certain feeling, can anyone really say that the claim is invalid?

Both sides in this discussion seem to be missing each other's crucial point. The "rational" scientist ignores the input of subjects and focuses only on the molecules. The "humanist" claims that the experience is paramount. Of critical importance is to remember that the psychedelic experience is influenced by mind-set, physical setting, and dosage taken. Over and over, the psychedelic literature has stressed the variability of the experience, when the compounds were legal and dosages were known. In today's climate of prohibition, a fourth variable, identity of the psychedelic agent is added.

Generally, statements about psychedelics are made from one person's viewpoint, yet that person will try to generalize the statement, saying, for example, that a particular drug is qualitatively different now than it was a decade ago. How can you test this statement? By finding someone who has undergone no personal growth or change in his mind for years? (Besides, Pat Buchanan probably wouldn't volunteer!) I find it odd that very often we find it easier to say that a drug is different than to say that we have changed internally.

The opposite problem bedevils modern neuroscience. The ability to clone and measure receptors has led to the seductive idea that all moods and mental states can be traced to the states of the synapses. Yet the variability of response to mood-altering drugs implies that this cannot be so simple. Even such well-understood drugs as Prozac can have widely different effects on different people -- read "Listening to Prozac." When a vastly more complex drug like LSD enters the body, merely knowing how it binds to which subset of receptors is not going to answer the question, "What happened to me, to my mind and consciousness?"

The inability of research to properly study the mind with these substances for legal reasons perpetuates this problem. "Recreational" users are unable to verify what they are taking, and scientists are unable to ask how people react to these compounds. Perhaps in the future we can look forward to a blending of these viewpoints, to a science that allows for human experience and a public that attributes changes in mental states to many subtle, sometimes non-material factors.

[david_mancuso]

It's OK to use marijuana as food seasoning, Indonesian official says

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/06/indonesian-vp-w.html

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Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla says marijuana shouldn't be legalized, but it's OK to use the weed to spice up your food.

"There is no way (we can legalize marijuana)," he told reporters yesterday, according to The Jakarta Post. "It's alright to use it as a food seasoning, but it should not be fully legalized."

Under the country's tough drug laws, those convicted of growing marijuana face up to 10 years in prison. Despite this, locals say many people use marijuana when they're cooking.

"Marijuana is available in any Acehnese kitchen just like coriander," Ratna Dwikora, the owner of an restaurant in Jakarta, tells the Kompas newspaper, according to Reuters. "Marijuana is a widely-accepted cooking spice there," she tells the paper.

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I'm curious why the Vice President thinks there's "no way" they can legalize marijuana. I mean, it just takes the stroke of a pen.

...Pass me the pepper-grinder full of hash, would you? :)

[david_mancuso]

pic...

http://www.maps.org/images/amaringo_hombre_serpiente_large.jpg

[Bongo Rock]

Good stuff.....:thumbsup:

[david_mancuso]

Good stuff.....:thumbsup:


Thank you Bongo Rock :)

[sammyrock]

Can you see my house David??? It's the one with a few Kilos showin out the back.

[DJ Timmy Richardson]

Great Stuff

[Tony Mundaca]

i love geography.... thank you!!!!!

[david_mancuso]

http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/june2004hastings-mammatus.html

Spectacular Mammatus Clouds over Hastings, Nebraska

[david_mancuso]

Can you see my house David??? It's the one with a few Kilos showin out the back.

:)

[david_mancuso]

Great Stuff


Cheers!

:)

[DJ Johnny Key]

Hmm.... let me stir up some discussion...

Interesting, most people have seen the movie "The Matrix" and were entertained, but were unable to comprehend the underlying message:

Take the blue pill and forget about the Matrix and go back to his drug induced life.

Take the red pill, and see the world as it really is.

With Americans taking the blue pill, The Republicans control the Matrix.

[david_mancuso]

Hmm.... let me stir up some discussion...

Interesting, most people have seen the movie "The Matrix" and were entertained, but were unable to comprehend the underlying message:

Take the blue pill and forget about the Matrix and go back to his drug induced life.

Take the red pill, and see the world as it really is.

With Americans taking the blue pill, The Republicans control the Matrix.


Greetings DJ Johnny Key :)


White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Recall Alice
When she was just small

When men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know

When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said:
"FEED your head

[david_mancuso]

Quotes:

"The discovery of the psychedelic properties of LSD was a milestone in the history of consciousness. Albert Hofmann¹s personal story of that discovery and its consequences is one of my favorite books."

- Andrew Weil, M.D., author of From Chocolate to Morphine, The Natural Mind, and Eight Weeks to Optimum Health.

"Aldous wrote about LSD that 'it is a gratuitous grace neither necessary nor sufficient for salvation.' However, it provides the opportunity to discover and make creative use of the infinite possibilities of the human mind. Probably The Doors of Perception might not have been written were it not for Albert's 'Problem Child.' Thank you, Albert."

- Laura Huxley, widow of Aldous Huxley and author of This Timeless Moment.

"The current revival of the psychedelic aesthetic in art, design, fashion, music and film is testament to the revolutionary power of LSD. Its complex nature and true impact, however, remains unrecognized and this book provides both a personal history as well as rigorous analysis of this enduring phenomenon."

- Christoph Grunenberg, Director of Tate Liverpool and curator and editor of Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era.

"It is our good fortune that Dr. Albert Hofmann, a nature mystic and Nobel-prize-worthy scientist, made such an amazing discovery."

- Martin A. Lee, co-author of Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond.

[david_mancuso]

Eye Candy :)

http://www.banksy.co.uk/indoors/index.html

-click to the left bottom "next" for a series of pics...

also:

http://www.seze.net/lsd/

Love's Secret Domain
contemporary psychedelic art Love's Secret Domain

Love's Secret Domain Featured Artists:

Aziz + Cucher
Miriam Brumer
Heung-Heung Chin
Lorenzo de Los Angeles
Ali M. Demirel
Seze Devres
Scott Draves
Julie Evans
Debra Hampton
Robert Horansky
Deniz Kurtel
David Last
Cotter Luppi
Curtis Mitchell
Jeff Perrott
J.G. Thirlwell
Jason Voegele
Robyn Voshardt + Sven Humphrey

3rd WARD 195 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn NY
Opening Reception: June 8th 7 - 10pm
On View: June 8 - 24, 2007
Gallery Hours: Monday - Saturday: 8am to midnight Sunday: noon to midnight

Press Release
Love's Secret Domain is a show on contemporary psychedelic art opening June 8th at Brooklyn's 3 rd Ward Gallery. Curated by Seze Devres and Tracey Norman, Love's Secret Domain presents the work of 18 artists all working in diverse disciplines but finding a common ground in the exploration of heightened states of mind and the boundaries of the visual. It is art inspired by drugs, yes, but it is art that uses that inspiration as its relevant point of reference rather than its definition.

Art and drugs having a close relationship is nothing new. The Symbolists glorified their opium-induced visions; Walter Benjamin made explicit the corollary between Surrealism and hashish; the Situationist drift owes as much to binges of ether and alcohol as it does to Marxist theory; and the party culture that surrounded Warhol and the Factory is an obvious confluence of art, celebrity, decadence, and drugs. Continually then, both art and drugs find common ground in the aspiration to a transcendent, ecstatic state. But whereas drugs are by definition bodily in their influence and thus individual in their effect, art explores the same terrain aesthetically, visually, and potentially universally. Its transcendence is one of the sacred become communal. Psychedelic art explores the science of the possibilities of the inner world, the Renaissance discovery of perspective is not simply bested by hallucinogenic visions; those visions are its logical inheritor.

Love's Secret Domain showcases a wide-body of psychedelic art: Julie Evans' mystical spirograph paintings, Miriam Brumer's amorphic dreamscapes, Lorenzo de Los Angeles and Cotter Luppi's intricate pencil drawings, Debra Hampton's mixed-media drawings of explosive feminine forms, and Heung-Heung Chin's kaleidoscopic and rhapsodic animal-world dominion. There are hallucinatory pieces that illustrate the wide spectrum of the subconscious as seen in the video work of the dynamic duos Robyn Voshardt & Sven Humphrey and Aziz & Cucher, a minimal techno music video for Ambivalent by Ali M. Demirel (broadcasted in low fi You Tube format), the magical Electric Sheep animations of Scott Draves, and the light installations of Deniz Kurtel. Also on view are the vibratory geometric color burst paintings of Jeff Perrott and Jason Voegele, a chemical drip camera-less photo by Curtis Mitchell, Seze Devres' ketamine photograms, and David Last's large-scale drawing that attempts to visualize sound. In addition, the exhibition will include a blotter paper print by electronic and industrial music luminary J.G. Thirlwell.

More Exhibition Notes:

Love's Secret Domain borrows its title from an album by the music group Coil released in 1991. Love's Secret Domain the album was a meeting of experimental music techniques and London's Acid-house techno scene. While certainly not the only combination of these two distinct worlds, it remains one of the greatest, a pastiche of tape cut-ups, occultist musings, Blake poetry, and Rave culture's pursuit of rhythm as orgiastic liberation. Additionally, one of Coil's members, Peter Christopherson, was himself a member of Hipgnosis -- the pioneering design firm responsible
for the psychedelic album art of Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and others.

If as per Adorno, art's vision embraces the world technology unveils -- Cubism's portraits not so much abstractions as prescient visions of the ariel bombardment of World War II's cities -- then the psychedelic aesthetic can be seen as a new technology and its art as a new vision: the world moved interior as humanity charts all its potential terrain.

Op Art might seem to be psychedelic art's obvious historic forbearer, but really Op Art sees its justification in beguilement and mesmerism rather than transcendence. It is the analogous artistic exploration of the technological residue of the first widely broadcast color television images -- the vibratory visual noise that happens when an incompatible shirt pattern is filmed on video and re-transmitted.

It is likewise a counterpoint to Nam Jun Paik's Fluxus video work: Op Art is image as total dominating reality. Not image at play at all; image at work. In contrast, Psychedelic art is inner-image made manifest and thus in competition with dominant reality. The mind beating technology rather than the mind subservient to it. -- C. Peirce, 2007


cheers!

[david_mancuso]

:) I quoted part of the article, but I suggest reading from the link because it has illustrations.

http://headsmagazine.typepad.com/articles/2007/03/10_pot_pusher_p.html

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From: Heads Magazine
Subject: Know your dealer:

North America’s stubbornly ridiculous marijuana laws have created a very unique line of work for those willing to seriously break them. With legalization in the indiscernibly distant future and the demand for cannabis steadily growing, so do the opportunities for those in the frequently long chain that brings pot from grower to smoker.

While some dealers see themselves as freedom fighters delivering mind-expanding herb to people suffering under an oppressive regime, others would push crack to preschoolers if there were a market for it. Most, however, simply find themselves in a position to make relatively easy money by taking a few risks.

Love them or hate them, they’ll be around till North America pulls its head out of its ass and makes them unnecessary, so you may as well get to know them. Whether you are a large or small-scale dealer, or simply an inquisitive connoisseur hoping to learn more about these opportunists who connect you with the chronic you love, this guide will help you make informed decisions about the people you choose to buy from.

After extensive fieldwork and the compilation and interpretation of a great deal of data, the author has narrowed the broad spectrum of pot dealers into ten “Types.” Below is a listing of their identifying characteristics including physical appearance, pros and cons of dealing with them, any warnings that may apply, the name they generally refer to their product as, and any catchphrases that may help you spot the type of dealer taking bong hits on your couch.

MysticType: The Lagging Mystic

Characteristics: This is the guy you met at Burning Man or Reggae on the River who you run into occasionally at the coffee shop or natural food store. Most of your hippie friends have assured you he’s a kind soul, but while he’s exploring the nature of the cosmos with a mellow sister he just met, you’re sitting at home getting hassled by customers you said you’d hook up three hours ago. The Lagging Mystic will teach you that patience is a virtue.

Appearance: Most Mystics under forty have dreadlocks and Rasta-themed clothing, whereas mystics over forty wear sandals and tie-dye. Hemp clothing is mandatory for both.

Pros: Always has the best outdoor organic at reasonable prices.

Cons: Lacks a linear conception of time, does not believe in urgency and has no phone.

Warning: Requires an open mind, schedule, and the ability to listen to long, dragging accounts of his most recent spiritual awakening or communion with the most high.

Calls his weed: Medicine, Herb, Sacrament.

Catchphrase: “This strain of herb, brethren, has been blessed by shaman, Jerry, and the Most High.”

Lord_2 Type: Lord of the Schwag

Characteristics: This guy might be a Mexican gangster, an old hippie who complains that “pot is just too strong these days,” or anyone more concerned with profit than reputation. His weed is often vacuum-sealed and squeezed into rock-hard chunks from its journey out of British Columbia or Mexico. It may have been grown with chemicals and pesticides labeled “for use on ornamental plants only.” It also may have suffered frostbite, premature harvest, or a little too much time crated up in some mafia goon’s basement, giving it that aroma you normally associate with your grandma’s rest home.

Appearance: The Schwag Lord takes many forms.

Pros: If you have the right type of clientele, you can make a lot of money with this guy.

Cons: Your friends will make fun of you.

Warning: Smoking mold causes lung infections.

Calls his weed: Product, B-grade, Work.

Catchphrase: “Don’t be fooled by the look, taste and smell—it’s fuckin’ stony.”

Ripoff Type: The Rip-Off Artist

cont'd....

http://headsmagazine.typepad.com/articles/2007/03/10_pot_pusher_p.html

[david_mancuso]

Siren Music Festival

http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/siren/

[david_mancuso]

DJ Cat

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=643519&fr=yvmtf

:)

[david_mancuso]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C0UOGqGw_M

[andrea]

Hmm.... let me stir up some discussion...

Interesting, most people have seen the movie "The Matrix" and were entertained, but were unable to comprehend the underlying message:

Take the blue pill and forget about the Matrix and go back to his drug induced life.

Take the red pill, and see the world as it really is.

With Americans taking the blue pill, The Republicans control the Matrix.


Hi david: I remember White Rabbit and also remember seeing a very tall White Rabbit in the yard next to me. This large/tall White Rabbit would sit outside of my kitchen window at night and stare in. When I tell others about this experience, I get that look. I know you know.

[david_mancuso]

Hi david: I remember White Rabbit and also remember seeing a very tall White Rabbit in the yard next to me. This large/tall White Rabbit would sit outside of my kitchen window at night and stare in. When I tell others about this experience, I get that look. I know you know.

:)