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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2008/11/mushrooms-in-sp/
(accidental mushrooms)

http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/2139421
(deliberately grown mushrooms)

Sorry for my poor google-fu, but the information is somewhat scant on the topic. The original PDF appears to be gone (someone with better skills than me might find it) but they did grow Mushrooms on the SpaceLab D2, and they grew fine.

However, from the embedded video in this post, it felt like I'm in a 3D VLSI design tool. Maybe in the future we'll be literally designing devices one block at a time. Either that or the Nazcas have been playing Minecraft all this while....

That is only part of it. There is a lot of money to be made by producers since you can make incredible amounts of it. The DEA used to estimate that less than a dozen people were producing lsd to supply to the entire US. That isn't because its unprofitable, its the skill level and products needed to do it. However, once its made, its so potent that you can store millions of doses in a soda bottle. I have heard rumor that one of the larger producers makes large multi-year batches and then disassembles their lab, repeating a whole setup, production, and teardown process every few years.

However, since its so profitable and requires such high technical ability, when there is a single bust, it can be a big one, and disrupt supply. There was a huge bust almost 10 years ago now, and the supply hasn't been the same since.

I think this was the bust.... and OMG what a crazy story....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Pickard

That is the guy who was arrested.... the background shows how weird and shady it was. The Informant "Skinner" had moved the lab while he was out of town, let the DEA in, and then set him up.... well... this is a different story about this Mr Skinner....

http://www.dallasdancemusic.com/awareness-politics/73509-teen-kidnapped-tortured.html

And this, even more fascinating, thread about other things he has been involved in (started by someone looking for him)

http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/8996655

That all apple owners are faggots.

"You can't encrypt IP Addresses, or the to: in email. You can try to send it through proxies, but if they have all the traffic info, or even just a large part of it, they still can analyze what kinds of web sites you visit and who you send and receive email from."

Tor*->SSL login -> email sent through this session, encrypted too with gpg or whatever -> SSL logout

(*Tor: Assuming tor is configured properly and doesn't leak any information)

Let us assume the above is performed by a user, and an exit node IP is stamped within the e-mail headers, what then? Good luck picking through all of the SSL traffic on tor exit nodes.

End the war on hallucinogens: http://www.shroomery.org/

I imagine you're being facetious, but actually, growing edible mushrooms in an urban environment makes a lot of sense

Growing magical mushrooms in an urban environment makes even more sense.

On a more serious note, if you want to compost and you live in an apartment you could try vermiculture. It's dead easy, relatively clean, and lots of fun. I highly recommend the trinity ranch store and their tips & tricks to get started.

It seems like it would be rather easy to simulate the functionality of MNG in today's browsers. You'd just need one large PNG containing all the frames, and a Javascript timer to cycle through the "frames" by changing the offset. In fact I'm so convinced it would be easy, I whipped up a proof of concept right here. Of course, the same technique would work with other image formats like JPEG. Why would you want to animate PNGs and JPEGs with a Javascript hack? Hey, I'm an idea guy. ;) But true color, higher compression, and alpha transparency are possible benefits which come to mind.

I've already been an augmented reality tourist.

Sounds strange, outlandish, fantasy... not really.

In the real world, the article mentions the Monsanto Case against Percy Schmeiser. Their seed ended up on his land through no fault of his, yet they claim they have a right to be paid license fees or to force him to spend his time and money removing corn derived from their migrating seed.

It's not just scary that the courts will side with them on this and let them steamroll over innocent parties, but that they cannot control the spread of their lab-grown genes. One of the "fictional" premises of White Death is that even without an evil plot, a GMO could escape its farm environment and reproduce in the wild, gradually replacing the formerly dominant species on a genetic level. The problem is that this GMO has defects and liabilities that are unknown, and while it might last long enough to marginalize the genes of the wild organism it's replacing, something could come along and wipe out the newly dominant GMO en masse, leaving stocks of that animal or plant decimated worldwide.

Frightening.

As for the best way to experience the music, I have some suggestions.

It's true, though. I've met aliens.