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The mysterious end of Yuri Gagarin
How did Yuri die? The mysterious death of a space-age hero The first man in space gave his name to countless Russian streets and schools. But his death in 1968 fuelled just as many conspiracy theories – and now a …
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Microsoft at Area 51?
According to the The Register, Microsoft’s online mapping site Virtual Earth blanks out the not-so-secret airbase Area 51. An attempt to view it with Google Maps, however, produces this crystal clear image. Does Microsoft know something that we shouldn’t? I …
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Counter Productions on SAJ2
A great write up of SAJ2 in the August 2005 Counter Productions catalogue: “The essential publication of the year. A very substantial second issue of this superior, intelligent and effortlessly cool serial. It includes articles by Mike Jay (psychedelic temples …
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Behold: Raagnagrok!
[click for larger image] Raagnagrok is Otto Amon and Solomon Kirchner. Raagnagrok is MicroKorg synth vs electric sitar. Raagnagok is the sound of the Kali Yuga. An exotic soundtrack to your own personal apocalypse. Download our new 22 minute EP, …
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PUBLISH AND BE DAMNED
Strange Attractor Journal’s Alison Hutchinson and Mark Pilkington will have a stall at: PUBLISH AND BE DAMNED: ONE-DAY SELF-PUBLISHING FAIR SUNDAY 31 JULY 2005, 2-7pm The Crypt, St James Church Clerkenwell, Clerkenwell Close, London EC1R 0EA The second Publish and …
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Monday: End of an era
Via Transform Drug Policy Foundation Drug Charity condemns law change giving fresh magic mushrooms the same legal status as heroin and cocaine. On July 18th fresh magic mushrooms will move from being completely legal to possess, sell and consume, to …
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Destiny Manifest
A new exhibition by Catharyne Ward and Eric Wright Destiny Manifest is a body of work inspired by a 7500 mile journey that traced the wagon roads of pioneer America. This journey was precipitated by a long-standing interest in the …
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Trinity
‘TRINITY’ “la Jornada del Muerto” An exhibition by Walter Cotten and Michael Sanders. At The Horse Hospital : Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1HX The Atomic Age dawned at 5:29:45am on July 16, 1945, at Trinity Site in New Mexico, U.S.A. …
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Greenpeace: Mr & Mrs Smith
Via Dave Walsh Nice viral ad from Greenpeace. Requires Quicktime.
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Android Dick
An android-portrait of Philip K Dick In an unparalleled technical collaboration, a team of artists, writers, engineers, literary scholars, and freethinkers are creating a lifelike, android portrait of one of America’s well-known science-fiction writers Philip K Dick. The robot will …
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SAJ2 reviewed in Time Out this week!
Strange Attractor Journal Two Time Out (London), June 29-July 6 2005 Reviewed by Gareth Evans In the necessarily obsessive, hermetic, lo/no budget world of small press magazines, tone is everything. The often miraculous perseverance of unsalaried collectives, of garret individuals …
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Psychotropic Carousel: North
OUR SOUTHERN GIG HAS BEEN CANCELLED – SORRY ABOUT THAT! North: 8th July, 8pm. The Klinker, The Sussex Arms, Culford Rd, N1 Featuring The Man From Uranus (tapes, synths, theremin), Mark Pilkington (synth, voice, box’o’tricks), Alistair Strachan (trumpet, eyebrows) Ninki …
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