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Software
Top Three IPhone Apps: Weed, Booze, And Partial Nudity
8:00AM Dan Nosowitz | Apple’s Puritanical app approval policy doesn’t let in any really inappropriate apps, but it’s clear that the people want to indulge their vices with their iPhones: The current top three most popular apps are focused on sex, drugs, and alcohol. More »
Music
Music, Mos, Marijuana Collide In Idiotic LP Smuggling Attempt
11:20AM Sean Fallon | Thanks to some moronic Jamaican and Canadian drug smugglers, the 1979 moustache patrol cracked down hard on LPs that had the rare distinction of being certified “pot.” More »
Gadgets
USS Enterprise Bong Follows My Prime Directive Precisely
6:20AM Adam Frucci | Some intrepid Trekkie/stoner decided to combine his two favourite things, creating this awesome USS Enterprise bong. The movie didn’t need any help being entertaining, but this certainly won’t hurt. [What-a-Bong Via io9] More »
Vehicles
Pot-Sniffing Helicopters Put the Illicit Dutch Agricultural Industry at Risk
3:00AM Dan Nosowitz | The unmanned mini-helicopter has been dubbed the “Canna Chopper,” and has been put to use sniffing out illegal grow operations in the Netherlands. Apparently only 10% of Dutch-grown pot is legal. Who knew? More »
Gadgets
Guy Gets Tracking Bracelet Attached to His Fake Leg by World’s Dumbest Cop
9:40AM Adam Frucci | A man who had a tracking bracelet attached to his ankle after getting busted for marijuana possession outwitted the cops in one simple way: he had a fake leg. Oh, cops. More »
Gadgets
Let’s Call it Like it is; the Porto Decanter is Most Definitely a Bong
9:00AM Jack Loftus | The Porto Decanter’s product description pretty much says it all. “Sure to spark conversation, these sophisticated, hand-blown serving pieces date back to 17th century Europe where they were known as Schnapps Pfeiffen,” it reads, lacking only the prerequisite “munchies” reference to all but confirm this $US40 decanter set is smoking paraphernalia waiting to happen. Even the glasses are dubious, stress on doobie, with the instructions asking wine drinkers to “cradle the bowl in your hand to warm the contents, then sip slowly through the pipe, which flows from the bottom of the glass so there is little chance for the liquids to oxidise, enhancing the flavour.” Bowls? Pipes? Porto Decanter, let us call a spade a spade. Thy name, like the BIC “flower pot” Mahoney profiled this month, is bong. [Uncommon Goods via Random Good Stuff] More »
Vehicles
Air New Zealand to Power a 747 with Weed
1:30AM Adam Frucci | OK, OK, so the weed in question is actually the jatropha plant, a weed indigenous to India and Africa. But still! Air New Zealand is planning to fill one of the four engines of a 747 with the weed and the remaining three engines with normal jet fuel to test the potential of using jatropha as a biofuel. More »
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