r-echos http://r-echos.net is an experimental online magazine dedicated to republication Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:23:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 R-echoshttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with Pageflakes Fontself is online! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/R-echos/~3/lZzlBP9M6hg/ http://r-echos.net/2010/03/17/fontself-is-online/#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:59:25 +0000 j http://r-echos.net/?p=14528 Fontself. Related Posts Crazy type Thomas Broome original manual for Die Neue Haas Grotesk TextFields – TF002 How to get a letter to mean more than it reads

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An inquiry as to whether birds would eat bread in the shape of their own. In this case, Chicago pigeons would not.

today and tomorrow – Page 8

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]]> http://r-echos.net/2010/03/14/dayton-castleman-bread-bird/feed/ 0 http://r-echos.net/2010/03/14/dayton-castleman-bread-bird/ French village went insane after CIA spiked its bread with LSD http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/R-echos/~3/l-G3UD4Cizk/ http://r-echos.net/2010/03/13/french-village-went-insane-after-cia-spiked-its-bread-with-lsd/#comments Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:39:59 +0000 Cory Doctorow tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/46c9a4b6a96b0fac For 50 years, residents of the French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit have tried to understand the "cursed bread" incident, a moment of terrifying mass insanity and hallucinations that left at least five dead and dozens in asylums. Now the mystery is solv... For 50 years, residents of the French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit have tried to understand the “cursed bread” incident, a moment of terrifying mass insanity and hallucinations that left at least five dead and dozens in asylums. Now the mystery is solved: the CIA secretly spiked the bread from the bakery with enormous quantities of LSD as part of its cold war mind-control experiments, at least according to recently uncovered documents. The allegation originates with H P Albarelli Jr., an investigative journalist who uncovered the documents while researching his forthcoming book, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments.


One man tried to drown himself, screaming that his belly was being eaten by snakes. An 11-year-old tried to strangle his grandmother. Another man shouted: “I am a plane”, before jumping out of a second-floor window, breaking his legs. He then got up and carried on for 50 yards. Another saw his heart escaping through his feet and begged a doctor to put it back. Many were taken to the local asylum in strait jackets…

Scientists at Fort Detrick told him that agents had sprayed LSD into the air and also contaminated “local foot products”.

Mr Albarelli said the real “smoking gun” was a White House document sent to members of the Rockefeller Commission formed in 1975 to investigate CIA abuses. It contained the names of a number of French nationals who had been secretly employed by the CIA and made direct reference to the “Pont St. Esprit incident.” In its quest to research LSD as an offensive weapon, Mr Albarelli claims, the US army also drugged over 5,700 unwitting American servicemen between 1953 and 1965.

French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment

(Thanks, Steve and everyone else who suggested this!)

(Image: Shaw’s French Bread, a Creative Commons Attribution photo from Adam Pieniazek’s photostream)






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Police will have powers to enter private homes and seize posters, and will be able to stop people carrying non-sponsor items to sporting events.

“I think there will be lots of people doing things completely innocently who are going to be caught by this, and some people will be prosecuted, while others will be so angry about it that they will start complaining about civil liberties issues,” Chadwick said.

“I think what it will potentially do is to prompt a debate about the commercial nature of the Games. Do big sponsors have too much influence over the Games?”

Eyes turn to “value for money” London 2012
(Thanks, Bobby!)

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In Milan next month Venetian designer Luca Nichetto will present a chair painted to look like the surface is already wearing away. (more…)

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Rachel Comey at Creatures of Comfort.

I want these pieces so badly I can hardly see straight. At least I am in good company on the jacket.

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And yes, this entire thing was predicted by David Byrne in 1988 in the song “(Nothing But) Flowers” on the final Talking Heads album Naked.


Operating on a scale never before attempted in this country, the city would demolish houses in some of the most desolate sections of Detroit and move residents into stronger neighborhoods. Roughly a quarter of the 139-square-mile city could go from urban to semi-rural.

Near downtown, fruit trees and vegetable farms would replace neighborhoods that are an eerie landscape of empty buildings and vacant lots. Suburban commuters heading into the city center might pass through what looks like the countryside to get there. Surviving neighborhoods in the birthplace of the auto industry would become pockets in expanses of green.

Detroit looks at downsizing to save city

(Thanks, Rigel!)

(Image: Garden grows, a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike image from Payton Chung’s photostream)






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