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Los Angeles, you are on TOP of Wacko Nation tonight, as looney Phil Spector is declared a mistrial.  If I had a Wacko rating system right now, I'd give this a WWWWW - 5 stars worth of wacko.

On This Day in History!

September 26, 1966 - General Motors introduced the first Chevy Camero in an attemp to compete with the Ford Mustang.

Find Out How General Motors and the United Automobile Workers Union Are Celebrating

Buckminster Fuller, Photo from Buckminster Fuller Institute

It was announced today that Standford has purchased a large interview archive from New Dimensions, and plans to digitize content to make it available online.  New Dimensions is a non-profit organization who has spent the last few decades interviewing and broadcasting session with the world's more innovative thinkers.  The collection that Stanford bought includes interviews with Buckminster Fuller, Timothy Leary, Deepok Chopra, Maya Angelou, and tons of others.

READ ABOUT IT HERE

If you don't know about New Dimensions, and all of their wonderful podcasts and Internet Radio options, you should. So here you go. Go forth, and become enlightened!

New Dimensions Podcast Subscriptions
New Dimensions Internet Radio
Buy New Dimensions MP3s for $1.99
New Dimensiona Audio Club

Last week, the New York Times Online boldly abandoned it's subsciption model, and is now offering all of the site content without the need to login. This opened up the site's archives, and all other columnist based content to the entire web viewing audience.  Analysts are now closely watching the actions of Rupert Murdoch to determine if the Wall Street Journal will follow in the Times footsteps once the Journal is officially under his control.

Signs point to Yes!

I guess the newspaper organizations have finally woken up and smelled the coffee Google and AOL have been brewing for the past decade.  Free the content, and the advertisers will take care of the rest.

On This Day in History!  WITCHES!

Martha Corey was accused of being a witch during the 1692 Salem, MA With Trials. Marth Corey, also known as Mary Corey was hanged on September 22, 1692. Her husband, Giles Corey was later also executed by pressing after being accused of witchcraft and for defending his late wife's honor.  OUCH!

>> Read About Martha's Trial at EyeWitnessHistory.com

>> Read About Giles Corey on Wikipedia.org

>> Read More About the Witch Trials on National Geographic