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"Under the title "Holy Hydra", the Linz Youth Church "Grüner Anker" will once again open its sacred space for the two-day light and sound art festival for all age groups. It will take place on Thursday, 8 September (6.30 pm) and Friday, 9 September (7 pm). The aim is to make the space experienceable for people, regardless of their faith, as places of encounter and cultural exchange. Out of fascination for special places and a passion for techno, people will dance at the interface of club culture, religion and society. Sacred architecture is enchanted with spherical sounds and hard beats....

This is what I was warning about since the BBS days (social networking)...

The musician who wrote the famous techno tune that appears in the movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” got filthy rich by investing the cash he made from it into lucrative companies, according to a report Friday. Dieter Meier’s song “Oh Yeah” — which features the catch phrase in a quirky slow-mo baritone — made a $175 million fortune by pouring the song money into train and currency companies, he told the Wall Street Journal. The tune was first used in an iconic scene in which Ferris, played by Matthew Broderick, opens a garage and finds his pal’s dad’s shiny new...

A pair of dolphins may have died after being fed drugs by ravers after a second animal died. Police looking into the deaths in Connyland, Lipperswil, Switzerland, initially thought the deafening music from the rave may have killed dolphins Shadow and Chelmers. But zoo vets are awaiting toxicology test results to see if they were poisoned by narcotics thrown into their enclosure during the rave. Shadow was found soon after the event but Chelmers died two days later after a 'drawn out and painful' death. Connyland keeper Nadja Gasser told local media: 'The death was very drawn out and painful....

The scandal of Housewitz Free showers in gas chambers, skinny-Jew dress code, dancing to the music played by DJs dressed as Nazi soldiers - are just some of the features of an internet advertisement conceived by a 22-year-old Dutch student. The image of the non-existent site of Housewitz welcomes you with a huge sign Tanzen macht frei, dance will set you free, in the place where the Germans put out the slogan Arbeit macht frei, work will set you free, on the premises of the Auschwtiz camp. If that was not enough, the dance party was advertised for... the national...

In his new book, Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies—And What It Means to Be Human, (Random House, 2005), author Joel Garreau describes research so cutting edge it seems mind-boggling: • A telekinetic monkey at Duke University in North Carolina uses its mind to move a robotic arm 600 miles (a thousand kilometers) away in Cambridge, Massachusetts. • At a Pentagon R-and-D facility in Virginia, program managers aim to create the ultimate warriors—soldiers that can fight without sleeping, tell their bodies to stop bleeding, and regrow lost hands and limbs. Garreau notes that regular...

Ning Wen and his wife were arrested last fall at their home office in Manitowoc, Wis., for allegedly sending their native China $500,000 worth of computer parts that could enhance missile systems. As these naturalized citizens await trial, similar episodes in Mount Pleasant, N.J., and Palo Alto, Calif., point only to the tip of the iceberg, according to FBI officials keeping tabs on more than 3,000 companies in the U.S. suspected of collecting information for China. A hotbed of activity is Silicon Valley, where the number of Chinese espionage cases handled by the bureau increases 20% to 30% annually. Says...

The site is in German naturally because the celebrities are too afraid to show their anti war views in the states.Other anti-war 'stars' on the webiste include: Ex-Britney Spears fiancee/deflowerer Justin Timberlake Techo Musician/Eminiem punching bag MobyRapper/Hip Hop Mogul Jay Z (and significant other of Destinys Child frontwoman Beyonce Knowles) The Boy Band 'O-Town' who were formed VIA a television showA guitarist from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers (not Flea)And some dude from the group 'Audioslave'

Thursday August 15, 02:11 PM Ravers hike up mountain to outwit police MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - Thousands of techno revellers have outwitted French police by taking their rave, banned in France, up an Alpine mountain and cranking up their sound systems just over the border in Italy. After playing a game of cat-and-mouse with French police overnight, around 3,000 ravers began their "Teknival", planned to take place "somewhere in the south of France", at some 2,000 metres altitude on the Col de Larche mountain, officials said on Thursday. Wrapped up in warm clothes, the ravers set up their sound systems...