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 Squares Sound the Alarm on ‘Digital Drugs’Posted on Jul 14, 2010
The YouTubes are filling up with videos of teenagers engaging in the disturbing use of recreational drugs—in the form of digital music files. Buzzkill. We’re not sure which is more embarrassing—getting “high” from an audio recording or worrying about it. Wired has the story. Channel 9 has the overreaction: And the Internet has the goofballs: So what’s double rainbow guy listening to? Advertisement Previous item: Girl Raised From Birth by Wolf Blitzer Next item: 'Left, Right & Center': Goldman Deal; Midterm Elections; BP Well Capped New and Improved CommentsWe are launching a major overhaul of our comments section. In addition to more robust spam filtering and moderation, new features include the ability to rate other comments, sort how they are displayed and respond directly via e-mail or in a thread. Unfortunately, commenters will lose their existing Truthdig identities. It's a pain, we know, but on the plus side you will now be able to log in with a plethora of options, including Google, Twitter, Facebook and Disqus accounts. Before launching this system we spent months in discussion with our top commenters. We listened to the feedback and we hope you like what we've come up with. Please direct any problems or concerns to us via our contact page. |
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By mindful, July 16, 2010 at 11:56 am Link to this comment
One of the stupidest states, Okie-Duma
Report thisBy peterjkraus, July 16, 2010 at 5:41 am Link to this comment
Ah, yes, Oklahoma! Home of “Climate Change is a
scam”-Senator Imhofe and “don’t air the indecent
Schindler List” M.D. and Senator Coburn, longtime
home of “put yore haid on tha ray-dee-oh” faith
healer and owner of a “university” Oral Roberts—
and proud home of a tax payer supported narc agency
that has the balls (and the stupidity) to
promulgate a bullshit sonic drug theory like the
one described.
I’m more and more convinced that secession is a
Report thisgood and necessary thing for a number of states to
consider.
By ronman, July 15, 2010 at 9:49 am Link to this comment
Wait. Isn’t this an Onion story? No? Wow, I’m totally, like, um. Speechless.
Report thisBy faith, July 15, 2010 at 9:47 am Link to this comment
Anybody ever sat by a mountain stream at Yosemite or Sequoia while listening to
Report thisJohn Denver’s “Rocky Mountain High”? Or, heard the Baptist Ebeneezer Church
choir (Georgia) belt out an old gospel hymn? Or, Yanni’s “Keys to the imagination”?
People have been getting “high” on music for years !
By Dar McWheeler, July 15, 2010 at 9:07 am Link to this comment
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“My new CD is great, once you get past the drugings.”
I’m a composer and producer here in Canada. Since the 80’s I’ve been producing those entirely bogus “hypno” recordings and following the research on this subject.
From my personal experience I can say, yes, you can definately get a kind of brain-isn’t-working-correctly buzz from listening to this stuff. My research eventually led me to conclude that the whole “hemi-sync” hypothesis is bad for you.
Your brain is *supposed* to have two, independantly working hemispheres running at slightly different “clock speeds”. Syncing them only serves to interfere with the proper working of your brain. Not so great, really.
But as for the whole youtube videos nonsense, purely a reaction to being on camera/placebo/ego thing. It actually takes 20+ minutes for anything signifigant to happen. And by signifigant I mean, feels like you’ve been listening to sine waves in the headphones with your eyes closed for 20 minutes. That’ll make anyone feel goofy.
Just a thought.
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