420 Meaning: The True Story Of How April 20 Became ‘Weed Day’
Warren Haynes, the Allman Brothers Band guitarist, routinely plays with the surviving members of the Grateful Dead, now touring as The Dead. He's just finished a Dead show in Washington, D.C. and gets a pop quiz from the Huffington Post.
Where does 420 come from?
He pauses and thinks, hands on his side. "I don't know the real origin. I know myths and rumors," he says. "I'm really confused about the first time I heard it. It was like a police code for smoking in progress or something. What's the real story?"
Depending on who you ask, or their state of inebriation, there are as many varieties of answers as strains of medical bud in California. It's the number of active chemicals in marijuana. It's teatime in Holland. It has something to do with Hitler's birthday. It's those numbers in that Bob Dylan song multiplied.
The origin of the term 420, celebrated around the world by pot smokers every April 20th, has long been obscured by the clouded memories of the folks who made it a phenomenon.
The Huffington Post chased the term back to its roots and was able to find it in a lost patch of cannabis in a Point Reyes, California forest. Just as interesting as its origin, it turns out, is how it spread.
KickStarter and the good it does
Lately a friend of mine used this to finance a trip to the US for a Roller Derby Magazine she created (LeadJammerMag) and by gum she did well, she managed to raise WAY over what she was asking for and next week will be winging her way over to the States 
I'm sure not everyone has that much of an overwhelming success with it but you can't help but be impressed with it all.
This isn't anything new, it has been around for a while, since 2008 in fact (known previously as KickStartr) but has had some press of late in the gaming world. If you click to 'continue reading' there is an interesting article about 6 Indie Games that were made possible by the wonderful 'community funding' model.
Ondra Slez BMX
Ondra Slez from Robert Roszbeck on Vimeo.
I seem to be watching loads of BMX vids lately, which is weird cos everyone knows I am a supersweet, talented MTB rider. No matter, this ones lovely.
The Battle To Get What You Pay For From EA
Long pile of text ahoy, John you should defo pretty this up :p
[J: Do it yo self you lazy bum x]
[D: Never x]
So, John, Alex and I nerded out at the end of October and went to the midnight opening for the release of Battlefield 3, as we had enjoyed Bad Company 2 so much.
Upon the 3 of us installing the game and going to put the online pass and preorder Physical Warfare codes me and Alex ran into a problem, the Online Pass worked fine, but the Physical Warfare code came up as "already redeemed".