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Imagine you introduce a robot at Vice City’s nightclub and he starts playing Miami Horror tracks. That’s exactly how Codebreaker sound. Although they come from unappealing Milwaukee they have managed to get infected by all the disco shit. Follow Me – Codebreaker ***************************************

While we wait for Crystal Castles new album (which may be a remixes album) you can listen to these prehistoric CC tracks. Black Fag – Crystal Castles Insection – Crystal Castles Tue – Crystal Castles ******************************

MGMT’s psychedelia + Fleet Foxes‘ folk + Devendra Banhart’s…weirdness = GANGLIANS Lost Words – Ganglians Hair – Ganglians Watch-out for these guys. Also listen in their myspace to their track “Valiant Brave“. ************************************

Matematická olympiáda, o které jsem se zde také nedávno zmiňoval, není jediná soutěž, kde jsem zatím v letošním roce zanechal svojí stopu. 18. dubna jsem se totiž pokoušel uspět na krajském programátorském klání ve vyšších programovacích jazycích v Českých Budějovicích. A jak jsem nakonec dopadl? Nejlépe, jak jsem mohl...:)

Slezeme z vysokých hor - konkrétně z prachatického Libína, na kterém jsme byli s minulou fotohádankou, a podíváme se za historickými památkami. Dnes zabrousíme opět mimo náš maličký stát, avšak hranice našeho starého kontinentu ani tentokrát nepřekročíme.

Že nevíte, co to ten speed painting je? Jak název napovídá, je to "rychlé kreslení". Autor speed painting díla kreslí obrázek a při tom si přes nějaký speciální program natáčí dění v grafickém programu. Hotový klip pak vypustí do světa několikrát zrychlený. A jelikož grafici vytvářející tyto malby nejsou žádní amatéři, jejich díla stojí opravdu za to.

If a dog is a man's best friend, then Jack, an 11 year-old Labrador Retriever, is a stoner's. A few days ago Jack was having a nice walk with his owner around a park when a scent aroused his sense of smell.

In fact, the scent was so strong that he ran away from his owner and into a stash of dried, harvested marijuana, of which he managed to swallow quite a bit. The owner, Jen Waddell, then decided to head home before they got into more trouble.

Jack's Girlfriend

As you can imagine, the dog was just stoned out of his mind, with glossy eyes and trouble walking, I'm sure it will have been a spectacle to anyone who has seen a stoner before. His happiness would not last long, however, as he was later given some medication by a vet to vomit all of the marijuana he had taken.

Waddell would go on to jokingly ask the police that they could use the dog if they paid the $1500 in medical expenses.

Very smart Waddell, seeing as it is a bit suspicious that your dog stumbled into a stash in the first place, sure it wasn't your own?

What do a drought, a couple of frogs, and a wedding have to do with each other? A marriage ceremony between two frogs to end the drought, that's what. The Northeastern Assam state of India has been suffering a great lack of rain, pushing them to find other ways of obtaining water.

Forget irrigation, canals, or a sewage system, in Northeastern India it's all about the God of Rain, Barun Devata. A marriage between two frogs is said to please the God, causing him to pour blessings of rain upon the believers. And you thought your Star Trek themed wedding was cool.
I for one, am outraged at the unfair treatment of animals. This is another example the cruelty that animals face worldwide. The frogs aren't given a chance to choose their spouses. Furthermore what if the frog already has a wife, she must be pretty mad. What if the the frog already had kids? They will grow up without knowing their father or mother. And if the frog wants a divorce, what happens then?
Perhaps that is why they're a having a drought. The God of Animal Protection is not happy with the treatment the frogs are receiving.
Needless to say I hope that the pair of frogs in the video have a happy marriage, that the Indian people receive their rainfall, and that this story has a happy ending.

Criminals as of lately are getting smarter with how they perform their crimes, from breaking into a bank through an air duct to ripping apart an ATM machine by pulling it off its hinges with a truck. As if that were bad enough, a city in a Tokyo district with a population of just over 500,000 faced 1,710 break-ins in 2002, setting some sort of crazy record.

Obviously this really pissed off the Japanese, so they dropped their sushi and samurai swords and got their heads together to figure out how to solve the problem. Obviously more cops wouldn't be terribly effective, nor would arming their citizens better. No. Their solution:

Flowers.

It looks so innocent, but don't let it fool you

The Japanese started "Operation Flower" about 3 years ago. I'm sure the not-scary name came along just to fool the bastard criminals trying to rob stuff. Interestingly, these flowers don't have tiny security cameras attached to them, nor do they have motion-sensing devices, and no, they don't explode, dammit!

The whole idea is actually pretty basic. See, they encourage inhabitants to place the flowers facing the street, because they figured out that if you can't see the criminals then you can't catch them. Downright genius, isn't it?

But hey guess what, it actually works. It brought down crime almost 80% since 2002. Now I really want to call bullsh*t on this, because seriously, do Japanese people really give that much of a damn about flowers to be tending to them for enough time to thwart any possible evildoer? I really want some feedback on that.

But for my American readers, remember the gun-control issue going around in the senate and stuff from time to time? Maybe we should just tell Obama to use a few billion dollars more on flowers. I can already envision a catch phrase for it:
"F3@r Flowers"If this ever happens, Wacky Issues invented it, I'll even add a trademark sign.

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