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Thursday, February 24, 2005
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I didn't have great hopes for Jerry Brown's blog. A lot of times a politician or other public figure will start up a blog, post to once or twice, and let it go. Or the posts will actually be written by a speechwriter or press person. But this Brown post on Hunter S. Thompson gives me hope. I like the way Brown writes from his own experience, and includes a small detail from history (yanking the notary public commission of a Nixon lawyer), and the quotations from some recent Thompson works. The links to definitions of legal terms are pure Jerry Brown, too, and show that Brown was doing more than writing to garner votes. Maybe Jerry will be able to make something of his blog.
2:55:52 PM 
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Russian scientists who invented hangover cure make pill that keeps you drunk: "The makers of RU-21, the 'miracle' hangover cure reputedly developed for Soviet spies, have developed a product to keep you drunk.
Spirit Sciences, which is based in California but has research facilities in Russia employing scientists who once worked on secret programmes for the Kremlin, have christened the new product RU-21 Red.
If you take a tablet you need less alcohol to stay drunk, they claim. Emil Chiabery, a co-founder of the company, told The Telegraph from his offices in Los Angeles: 'I never drink and there's no personal story. But RU-21 Red prolongs drunkenness and enhances intoxication.''"
(Via Attu sees all.)
1:39:53 PM
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Stills from Star Wars, Episode 3 are here. Note there are are spoilers, so if you don't want it spoiled, don't look.
But for real, disturbing, challenging, paranoid science fiction, this has much, much more potential: the file of Dick's A Scanner Darkly.
1:38:32 PM
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