Scott's : Current News: Apr 30, 2008

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April 30, 2008 Hot Trends

CORRECTING and REPLACING New Dale Pollak Blog Focuses on Used-Car Industry Trends (Centre Daily Times)

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:39:41 PDT
First graph, first sentence of release should read: Author, former new-car dealer and high-tech entrepreneur Dale Pollak has launched a blog (www.dalepollak.com) to discuss used-car sales trends (sted Author, former new-car dealer and high-tech entrepreneur Dale Pollak has launched a blog (www.dale.pollak.com) to discuss used-car sales trends.)

10 Rules of Style: Hermès' VÁRONIQUE NICHANIAN

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:55:16 PDT
10 Rules of Style: VÁRONIQUE NICHANIANThe menswear designer at Hermès waxes on the myth of French style, avoiding trends, and why you can never have too much cashmere.

2008 Dodge Challenger review;MotorTrend, will it surive?

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:03:51 PDT
Is it too late for retro throw back cars?

Two worlds collide as the New Yorker tackles "The Hills"

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:12:39 PDT
“The Hills,” an MTV show that began in 2006, and whose third season picked up again last month, is the apotheosis of this trend: it’s a spinoff of “Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County,” which was inspired by “The O.C.,” which was a successor to the camp dramas “Beverly Hills 90210” and “Melrose Place.” “Laguna Beach” was about a group of affluent

Daily Show "Unsung Hero" the guy who finds all those clips

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:38:05 PDT
The behind the Daily Show that finds all those contradicting statements by polititians. The Daily Show regularly unearths telling footage ignored or overlooked by the real news guys.Or, to be specific, Adam Chodikoff does

Bush blasts reporter, explains war on terror

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:35:17 PDT
This news is a little bit old, but it’s worth posting for: Showing that Martha Raddatz is a moron with an agenda and no respect for the office of the president or the rules that everyone else follows at any presidential news conference Bush’s eloquent — yes, eloquent — explanation of why we’re fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan For the life of me, I can’t figure out why the Bush administration doesn’t repeat this 10 times a day. Yes, there are things Bush has done that I don’t like, but he’s de

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Albert Hofmann the inventor of drug LSD has died aged 102

Register, UK

Discoverer of LSD dead at 102

Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann, who in 1943 accidentally discovered the hallucinogenic effects of Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), has died at the age of 102, Reuters reports.

Hoffman passed away at his home in Basel on 29 April as a result of a heart attack, according to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.

The chemist had in the late 1930s been working on possible medical applications of alkaloid derivatives of the fungus ergot and subsequently synthesised a number of such derivatives, including LSD. It wasn't until 1943, however, when a small amount accidentally leaked onto his hand that the compound's mind-blowing capability was revealed.

Hoffman recounted a "remarkable restlessness, combined with slight dizziness", elaborating: "At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant intoxication-like condition, characterised by an extremely stimulated imagination.

"In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight too unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colours. After some two hours this condition faded away."

The rest is history. While the CIA infamously experimented with the mind-control possibilities of LSD during the 1950s and 60s in its Project MK-ULTRA, it was Timothy Leary and his "turn on, tune in, drop out" mantra who popularised the substance among the hippy movement and brought it to the attention of the wider world.

Hoffman maintained the movement had "hijacked" the drug and insisted he'd produced it "as a medicine and not as a substance to be abused". He continued to defend its possible use "in analysis of how the mind works, hoping it could be used to recognise and treat illnesses like schizophrenia", long after it was banned in the 1960s. �