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Timothy Leary Narrates Jim Morisons Trip in in the 1991 Oliver Stone Movie

Link for this Post: The Doors Movie on [Blu-ray] Oliver Stone's movie about my generation made a a full generation ago (1991) is on HBO in HD. As I turn it on, Morison played by Val Kilmer is in front...

I'm "XRanked" on Live.Com Search -- Link broken

Broken Link: X-Rank is based on a search algorithm of change in the volume of searches for various persons, ideas, places and things of interest to the public. I'm listed among 567 most-searched for bloggers on Live Search (and we...

What Type Is My Blog? Find Out With Typealyzer!

Links for this Post: Typealyzer Blog Personality Analysis 'What Am I Like?' personality test Are you a regular Vision Thing reader and have been wondering about what I am really like? With Typealyzer you can find out almost instantly. Typealyzer...

Heal The Planet, Live Forever, and Travel The Stars by Paul Hughes --- Updated Link

Link for this Post Heal The Planet, Live Forever, and Travel The Stars My friend and fellow psychedelic blogger Paul Hughes, founder of the pioneering FutureHi weblog has written another of his extensive essays. This one is about us humans...

The New Timothy Leary Archives Website -- Plus YouTube Video Interview with Webmaster of Leary.Com

Link for this Post: The New Timothy Leary Archives Website My long-time friend Dennis Berry along with an assemblage of Timothy Leary's friends including Joi Ito, Ken Gofmann (RU Sirius), Joey Cavella and Chris Graves (the later two featured in...

Let's Party Like Its 1999!

Barack H. Obama becomes the 44th President of the United States Links for this Post: BarackObama.Com Cable Network News I have not posted in several weeks. I've been having problems with the computer network in my home and decided to...

OBAMA Anatomy of a World Leader by Visionary Artist Alex Grey

Link for this Post:Obama Anatomy of a World Leader -- the making of a portrait by psychedelic artist extraordinaire Alex Grey My long-time friend Will Penna sent me a link to a portion of artist Alex Grey's site which is...

Spaced Out Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties--- Book and Blog

Links for this Post: Spaced Out: Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties by by Alastair Gordon. The Spaced Out Blog Spaced Out Media: A Short Film about the Spaced Out book While talking with a friend about Ramon Sender, who...

We Can Be Together': American Countercultural Music, Film and the trappings of the mainstream

Link for this Post:We Can Be Together': American Countercultural Music, Film and the trappings of the mainstream Mike Leader on the Wild Tyme Blog Here is an excerpt from Mike Leader's insighful essay: The counterculture of the 1960s featured important...

John you like to pretend like the War started in 2007 -- Obama in Presidential Debate YouTube Video

Link for this Post: Obama to McCain: "You We're Wrong" YouTube Video also embedded below This first debate was a strange one, but so is this election. Because its hard to express complex ideas in soundbytes (and because comlex ideas...

David Letterman Reacts to John McCain Suspending Campaign

David Letterman On McCain’s Campaign Suspension And The Political And Cultural Conventional Wisdom by Joe Gandelman on the Moderate Voice David Letterman Reacts to John McCain Suspending Campaign on YouTube also embedded below I've been scanning the blogs and news...

Ideas, notes, findings and musings of EROCx1 from the other side of the Eschaton.

Link for this Post:Ideas, notes, findings and musings of EROCx1. From the other side of the Eschaton. Its been over six years since I moved to Las Vegas. I spent most of my adult life my Natural Bridges home near...

Who Shall Speak for Us

Links for this Post: Raise the Rafters -- What Barack Obama Needs to Prove in His Democratic National Convention Speech New York Magazine, the Summer 2008 issue Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters July 12, 2007, The Atlantic Arianna...

FutureHi Founder Paul Hughes New Site on the Web

Link: Paul Hughes' Site on the Web. Paul Huges who started the lively FutureHi blog back in 2003, which was a MUST READ for those of us interested in psychedelics, altered states of consciousness and the future of humans, our...

The Hivemind Aesthetic, Instopix and Other Art

Links for this Post The Hivemind Aesthetic. Luke Stanley on Stumble Upon Luke Stanley's Blog Instapix I stumbled upon a young fellow from England a couple of years ago, who is working on a semantically sensitive software program that adds...

Space Squid: Earth's Worst Sci-Fi And Humor 'Zine

Links for this Post: Space Squid: Earth's Worst Sci-Fi And Humor 'Zine Space Squid's Squidcast Squids have become a popular archetype of the web recently, with Squidoo and now with Space Squid. I suppose I'm a sucker for a fun...

Google's Orkut: A World of Ambition -- Business Week

Link for this Post: Google's Orkut: A World of Ambition Seizing on Orkut's momentum in Asia and Latin America, Google moves to revamp its social networking site and take aim at Facebook and MySpace by Olga Kharif When Google first...

Joi Ito's Web: "My Timothy Leary"

Link: Joi Ito's Web: My Timothy Leary. The picture to the left is from Joi Ito's website. For thos who don't know who Joi Ito is, his Wikipedia entry is instructive. I met Joi in the early Nineties at Timothy...

Getting Dug and Stumbled Upon

Links for this Post Stumbled Upon Why We Get High Why We Get High by Bruce Eisner on Bruce Eisner's Writings blog We We Get High on Digg Most of you know Digg and Stumbled Upon -- two social network...

Give Net Neutrality a Chance on Business Week Online

Link for this Post: Give Net Neutrality a Chance by S. Derek Turner in Business Week Online Here is an excerpt from this excellent article: Eliminating net neutrality would turn the open system of the Internet on its head. With...

Powerset’s search technology scoop, may scare Google -- Venture Beat and ZDNet

Updated Links for this Post: Powerset: The natural language search mashup platform by Dan Farber -- ZDNet Powerset’s search technology scoop, may scare Google By Matt Marshall on VentureBeat Here is an excerpt from the beginning of the Venture Beat...

Prometeus - The Media Revolution on YouTube

Link for this post: YouTube Inbed: Prometheus - The Media Revolution This video is a bit like Epic 215 about Googlezon but takes things a bit further and introduces "the prosumer." That's you hopefully.

WordPress vs. Movable Type: Open Source Blogging Software Showdown on Publishing 2.0

Link:for this Post: WordPress vs. Movable Type: Open Source Blogging Software Showdown. I use Typepad so the launch of an open source version of Movable Type, the software that powers us Typepad blogs is exciting. Scott Karp says that with...

The 9rules Web Community Where Quality Loves Company

Links for this Post: 9rules - Quality Loves Company.. To Some, Growing Means Dying Wisedump Blog by 9Rules CEO "So what is the 9 Rules" you ask? Well for starters the description on the website's metatags reads: 9rules is the...

Looking Through My Squidoo Lenses

Updated: The Bruce Eisner Vision Thing Group on Squidoo Links for this Psst: My Lenses on Squidoo Psychedelic Mind-Changers Everything About Ecstasy Squidoo (on Wikipedia) is a social website whose focus (no pun intended) is making lenses. Its taken some...

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us -- YouTube Video

Links for this post: Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us YouTube Video below InfoWorld: "Tech tops the pop charts" by By David L. Margulius I first heard about this video in the InfoWorld article "Tech tops the pop...

Get Paid for Posting on New Online Social Network Helium

Link for this Post: Get Paid for Posting on New Online Social Network Helium According to the folks at the newest social software network on the block Helium, they can best be described as "About, Yahoo Answers. Wikipedia all rolled...

Grab a Vision Thing Widget

If you have been wanting a Bruce Eisner Widget of your very own, I made one for you tonight. This by way of my hosts Typepad and the WidgetBox. Thanks to both! What the the widgets good for? You can...

Mobilized Online, Thousands Gather to Hear Barack Obama - washingtonpost.com + YouTube Video

Linka for this Post: Mobilized Online, Thousands Gather to Hear Obama - in the Washington Post by Zachary A. Goldfarb. YouTube Video: OBAMA: Calls on Students to "Bend the Arc of History" This Washington Post story is about the first...

2006 Web Technology Trends

Link for the Post:: 2006 Web Technology Trends.on Read/Write Web I must admit I did not keep up on web 2.0 and other tech trends as passionately this year as I did in 2005. Web 2.0 fatigue or technology burnout...

Boing Boing's Mark Frauenfelder Paintings Featured at the Retrorama Exhibit, Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle Nov 10th

Links for this Post: Mark Fraeunfelder's Paintings at Retrorama Exhibit Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle WA Note: Click on image on the rigth to see full size. I've known Mark Fraunfelder since the late 1980's, when Boing Boing was a...

Digital Utopia: A New Breed Of Technologists Envisions A Democratic World Improved By The Internet -- SF Chronicle

Link for this Post: "DIGITAL UTOPIA A new breed of technologists envisions a democratic world improved by the Internet" by Dan Fost, SF Chronicle Here's a bit from the beginning of a cool web 2.0 essay by Dan Fost of...

Full List of Online Web Video Hosting Sites -- The Tech Zonre

Link for this post : Full List of Online Web Video Hosting Sites -- The Tech Zonr Here is how Rayman introduces this comprehensive listing of video hosting sites. . With the proliferation of web video sites I thought it...

Forbes.com Is Sex Necessary? -

Link: Is Sex Necessary? - Forbes.com. Yesterday I posted about the hot new aphrodisiac heading for market. Today we look at sex from a different perspective. Forbes.Com asks "Is Sex Necessary/" Well the bottom line of the article is that...

Daniel Pinchbeck and the New Psychedelic Elite -- Updated with Full Rolling Stone Article

Updated Links: Article "Daniel Pinchbeck and the New Psychedelic Elite" full aticle from Rolling Stone "Rolling Stone: Douglas Rushkoff & Richard Metzger On Daniel Pinchbeck" Boing Boing posted about the Pichbeck article on September 12th here Links for this Post:...

Transmitting Web 2.0 -- OriginalSignal.Com

Link for this Post: Original Signal.Com Transmits Web 2.0 OriginalSignal.Com is a hot-feed aggregator along the same lines as Popurls.com which I posted about in March.. TechCrunch, Don Hinchcliffe, Bokardo, Mashable, Read/WriteWeb, Solution Watch, GigaOM, Micro Persuasion, BuzzShout and half-a-dozen...

Brain Waves: God Net' Not 'God Spot' Says Latest Neurotheological Experiment

Link for this Post: "God Net' Not 'God Spot' Says Latest Neurotheological Experiment" by Zack Lynch on his Brain Waves blog While scanning blogs this afternoon, my eye was caught by the image of a Ronin Publishers cover of a...

Douglas Engelbart's HyperScope 1.0 Launched

Links for this Post: Douglas Engelbart's HyperScope 1.0 Launched. You can read a HyperScope-version of Doug Engelbart's classic 1962 paper, "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework." By way of Read/Write Web comes this story of a visionary who technology find...

Back from the Burn

Links for this Post Are "Best Of" News Stories About Burning Man "20th Burning Man more unique than ever" United Press International "Burning Man festival leads to cool idea" San Fransisco Chronicle "Burning Man Art Festival Draws 30,000 Into Nevada...

Daily Kos's Markos Moulitsas Zúniga on HBO TV Show Real Time with Bill Maher

Links for this Post: Bill Maher The Official Site The Daily Kos HBO Show: Real Time with Bill Maher Markos Moulitsas Zúniga.of the Daily Kos was brought in by Satellite and the subject of a humor interview and interesting conversation...

Transform Your Blog or Website into Web 2.0 ... Almost Instantly!

Link for this Post: Transform Your Blog or Website into Web 2.0 ... Almost Instantly! The phrase "Web 2.0" has become the sexiest term in the Geek vocabulary these days. With a nod to the magical thinking which all of...

Design Changes to Vision Thing -- Please Read -- Updated!

Latest Update: This is a new format in which I have trimmed all of the posts, putting their excess words and images into a post extension. This allows me to feature twice as many posts on the opening index page....

Dead 2.0 "Anti-Hypes" Web 2.0

Link for this Post: Dead 2.0 Anti-hyping Web 2.0 since 2006! I found this site as one of the fastest rising sites on the web by way of of Alexa Movers and Shakers (which change every so often so by...

BradBlog on Democracy in Crisis: Interview with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Plus Coverage of Lew Dobbs Electronic Voting Scandal Crusade

Links for this Post: "Democracy in Crisis - An Exclusive BRAD BLOG Interview with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr." "CNN's Lou Dobbs: This Congress, This Administration, I Cannot Fathom What They Are Thinking" At the beginning of June, I posted "Was...

This is Your Brain .... This Is Your Brain Online, How Video Games, Multitasking And Blogging Are Shaping The GenTech Brain - CBS News

Links for this Post This Is Your Brain Online, How Video Games, Multitasking And Blogging Are Shaping The GenTech Brain - CBS News. Also part of the feature Video plus story -- " iTeen: 24/7 With A Wired High Schooler"...

If Your looking for Somting to have Faith In, There's Always Church Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster

Link for this Post: Church Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster Evolution has finally been put in its place by a new faith that his risen on the web. Here is how the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster describes its...

"Top 10 Google Applications" on CNET

Link: for this Post:: Top 10 Google Appss - CNET Today's tech news featured a BusinessWeek "look at the glass as half empty" article about Google called "So Much Fanfare, So Few Hits." However, if you take a look at...

Business 2.0: "Feedburner Brands the Feed" -- The Return of "Push Technology"

Link for this Post: "Redefining the RSS Feed" John Heilemann, Business 2.0 Magazine. Those of you who subscribe to my RSS Feed know that I have used Feedburner as my feeding station for almost a year now. Recently, Typepad's developers...

As Online Ads Grow, Eyeballs Are Valuable Again on the Web -- New York Times

Link for this post: "As Online Ads Grow, Eyeballs Are Valuable Again on the Web" by Bob Tedeschi, New York Times. I've had two websites since 1995 and I've noticed that traffic is defiantly increasing on both sites.. My site...

The Wiki for Finding Web Service & Mapping the Web 2.0 World

Links for this post: The Wiki for Finding Web Service and Open APIs Map of the Web 2.0 World On JSpot the Wiki creator, by chance i found a Wiki about seb 2.0.