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The case against Hillary Clinton. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine

Link for this Post: The case against Hillary Clinton. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine The tile of the article "The Case Against Hillary Clinton Why on earth would we choose to put the Clinton family drama at the...

Build A Hacked Macintosh Running Leopard from Off-The-Shelf Parts for Under $800

Link this Post: Hack Attack: Build a Hackintosh Mac for Under $800. File this in the 'it finally had to happen" category but someone managed to build a "Macintosh" or ""Hackintosh"" as Adam Pash is a senior editor for Lifehacker...

Connect Your Brain to the Game Using an Emotiv Systems EEG Neurofeedback Cap -- YouTube Video

Links for this Post: YouTube Video "Stonehenge Demo' embedded below Connecting Your Brain to the Game Using an EEG cap, a startup hopes to change the way people interact with video games by Kate Greene in the MIT Technology Review...

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Looks to Robotics and Artificial Intelligence -- eWeek

Link for this Post: Apple Co-Founder Looks to Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. By Michael Vizard in eWeek The less publicly prominent of the Apple co-founders, Steve Wozniak or "The Woz" as he is known to his friends takes a look...

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...

Where are they now? Interview with “Switcher Girl” Ellen Feiss

Link for this post : Macenstein Where are they now? Interview with “Switcher Girl” Ellen Feiss. A couple of years ago, I posted The Never-Before-Seen Unreleased Second Ellen Feiss Apple Commercial about the "switcher" girl. That post was one of...

Pew Research: 'Web 2.0' Crowd A Small Minority

Links for this Post: Pew Research: 'Web 2.0' Crowd A Small Minority: by Greg Sterling, .Search Engine Land America: The Growing Digital Divide by Duncan Riley- TechCrunch A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users (the original report) by John...

Wetware Hacking -- Brain-Wave Machine

Wetware Hacking Wetware Hacking is on a website called Hack Canada. Here is what Hack Canada has to say about Wetware hacking: "The modern man of wisdom melds the old with the new, the alchemical with the electronic ... blending...

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...

What Ever Happened to Viritual Reality: RU Sirius in 10 Zen Monkies

What Ever Happened to Viritual Reality: RU Sirius in 10 Zen Monkies The Eighties and Nineties were a tech trip the same way that the Sixties and some of the Seventies were a head trip. Both fueled by counterculture grandmaster...

Google & Cisco Planning Digital Billboards & Subliminal Advertising

Links for this Post: LiveScience.com - "The Next Really Big Thing: Digital Billboards" By Bill Christensen. technovelgy.com: Subliminal Billboards technovelgy.com: Digital Billboards Worth Billions According to these stories, the old fashioned American billboards we are used to may be replaced...

Wired Gadget Lab: Hitachi: Commercial Mind-Machine Interface by 2011

Link for this Post: Wired Gadget Lab: Hitachi: Commercial Mind-Machine Interface by 2011. By Mind Machine Interface, the article is not talking about "mind machines" that evoke changed consciousness. It should actually read mind-machine interface in which you control machines...

Mindball is Pong on Steroids!

Links for this Post: Slate Magazine: "Bowling With Brain Waves Mindball, the new game where you move a ball with your mind" By Daniel Engber MindBall Tournament Video on YouTube The Mindball Challenge on The New Scientist Blog Regis &...

Is Life All Just a Dream? - Times Online -- Updated with Videos

Updated with New Information and Videos: One of our readers emailed me to tell me that the article I had cited was from November 2004 and that the BBC videos are online at the following links: Three Videos in the...

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...

The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

Link for this Post: The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence This link (which came by way of the PatternHunter blog: is to a new (at least to me) research center with a fascinating focus: Here is a bit from the...

Futurists Predicts That By 2020 We Will Become a Society of Virtual Reality Addicts

Link for this Post: "Experts believe the future will be like Sci-Fi movies" by Ryan Paul in arstechnica Among other predictions found in this article is the prediction By 2020 We Will Become a Society of Virtual Reality Addicts "By...

A Search Engine That's Becoming an Inventor - New York Times

Link: gpt yjod [pdy A Search Engine That's Becoming an Inventor - New York Times. Here is an excerpt from "A Search Engine That's Becoming an Inventor" by Saul Hansell and John Markoff" Google, in fact, has decided it will...

Seed: The Future of Fusion

Link for this Post:: Seed: The Future of Fusion by Britt Peterson Seed Magazine features a hopeful article about the possibility and potential of fusion generated energy.The subhead of the articles title reads: "After years as a purely experimental science,...

Google Seeks More Power New York Times Technology

"Hiding in Plain Sight, Google Seeks More Power" by John Markoff and Saul Hansell in the New York Times Technology section Google is building a giant computing center in Oregon. Here is a couple of excerpts from this article :...

No Tolls on The Internet -- Washington Post

Link for this Post: "No Tolls on The Internet" by Lawrence Lessig and Robert W. McCartney -- Washington Post The vote for Network Neutrality is soon and this piece comes as a reminder to what's at stake.

Australian Government Developing Direct Brain Computer Hookup Video Games --theage.Com

Link for this post: The latest computer plug-in: your brain - National - theage.com.au. In the article The latest computer plug-in: your brain, Leo Shanahan writes: THE new PlayStation or X-box may not need a joystick, with the Federal Government...

The Observer -- 2050 - and immortality is within our grasp

Link for this post: The Observer "2050 - and immortality is within our grasp". This may be a year old story but since its the first time I read it, I thought I'd share it with you. In this piece,...

Yahoo Launches Yahoo! Go TV Beta -- Free Software Download

Link for this post: Yahoo Launches Yahoo! Go TV Beta I bought a Westinghouse LVM-37W1 37" TV Monti-or last week and moved my second computer into my study where I set it up and hooked it to the TV. The...

Wired News: Japan Rides the Brain Craze

Links: for this post: Wired News: Japan Rides the Brain Craze. On the Mindware Forum: Brain Age for the Nintendo DS: Incredible 'Brain-Training' Craze in Japan Moves Across Ocean Like us baby boomers in the US, the Japanese are sensing...

LiveScience.com - Brain Cells Fused with Computer Chip ... And Can Communicate!

Link for this post: LiveScience.com - Brain Cells Fused with Computer Chip. Brain Cells Fused with Computer Chip By Ker Than reports: The line between living organisms and machines has just become a whole lot blurrier. European researchers have developed...

Newsweek Cover Story:Putting the 'We' in Web"

Link for this post: Putting the Web In the Web Special Newsweek Issue Why is everyone so happy in Silicon Valley again? A new wave of start-ups are cashing in on the next stage of the Internet. And this time,...

Inventions and Ideas from Science Fiction Books and Movies at Technovelgy.com

Link: Inventions and Ideas from Science Fiction Books and Movies at Technovelgy.com. The site has an FAQ that explains its name: What does "technovelgy" mean and how do you pronounce it? Okay, here's the deal. First of all, it's pronounced...

The Rise of Big Google -- TechCrunch "Google Drive: What we know so far"

Link for this post: TechCrunch Google Drive: What we know so far. I've been following the Google story from time to time here on Vision Things. Previous posts have includes such memorable favorites such as When I Die, I Want...

Will Apple do Windows Better?

Link for this post: PC Magazine: "Will Apple Adopt Windows?" by John C. Dvorak Apparently the PC Mag article has Apple fanatics going wild. Hack claims Apple to ditch own OS for Windows -- Worldwide protests" By Nick Farrell: in...

Consumer Electronics Show Vegas

Link for the post: Consumer Electronics Show 2006, Las Vegas I am adverse to websites with Flash intros, so the above link is to the sitemap of the Consumer Electronics Show 2006, Las Vegas. I have several friends coming in...

The Day You Discard Your Body by Marshall Brain

Link for this post; The Day You Discard Your Body While hanging out on Digg (see previous post), I came across some links to the work of Marshall Brain. He has written web books with terse, punchy chapters and a...

Laughing Buddha: Techno-Shamanism And The Democratization Of Bliss by Michael Hutchison on the Mind Machine Page

Link: The Laughing Buddha. "Laughing Buddha: Techno-Shamanism And The Democratization Of Bliss" by Michael Hutchison is an interesting read, part of a collection of the Mind Machine Page with has not been kept up well but still houses a collection...

Wild Divine Project Publishes Part Two of Their Hit Biofeedback Game: "Wisdom Quest"

I'm a fan of Wild Divine Project. The long awaited Part two of their hit Biofeedback Adventure Game Journey to Wild Divine, titled "Wisdom Quest" is now out. You can get more information on this new software as well as...

O'Reilly: What Is Web 2.0

Link for this post O'Reilly: What Is Web 2.0. I found Tim O'Reilly's piece about Web.2.0 on today's populicio.us "Last 24 Hour New Links" Populicio.us is my favorite place to get hot links these days. I'm pulling a tasty nugget...

Retro Thing The Independent Guide to Vintage Tech

Link for this post Retro Thing. As readers know, while I consider myself futique, the reality is that I am quite retro. Recently I posted "Back to the Retro Future" and "More Retro: Engadget 1985." "Retro Thing"is a blog along...

The End of Death? Conscious Life in Global Cyberspace by Michael Purdy in J. of Conscious Evolution

"The End of Death? Conscious Life in Global Cyberspace" By Michael Purdy is an interesting article in the first issue of The Journal of Conscious Evolution.(just when you started questioning evolution I give you a new intellectual rush). This piece...

Odeo Serves Up and Syncs Free Podcasts ... and Tags Too!

Odeo is a useful resource for the latest and greatest buzz enabled artifact, the podcast. In fact they have combined the podcast with the other current hot blog buzz topic; tags. Odeo does tags. I learned about Odeo and the...

Business Week: The Mind Is Immortal

Business Week in their collection of 21 Ideas fro the 21st Century lists "Your Mind is Immortal." Here is an excerpt: 'So you'd like to live forever? By the year 2050, you might actually get your wish--providing you are willing...

GoogleOS? YahooOS? MozillaOS? WebOS? (kottke.org)

Interesting speculations, some half formed in: GoogleOS? YahooOS? MozillaOS? WebOS? (kottke.org). The core of Jason Kottke's idea here is that a desktop web server might be at the heart of the next "killer app." I write that as my Google...

More Retro: Engadget 1985

A bit more technoretro can be found at Engadget 1985 - Engadget - I remember all those artifacts. Hey, I might even be one of those artifacts.

Busting the Metaphor: The Brain is Not a Computer

In Busting the Metaphor: The Brain is Not a Computer, Karl Schroeder writes: "The brain is a computer, the mind is software." That's been the ruling metaphor of cognitive science, neurology and AI studies for decades. The software of thought...

Updated: My Apple is a Lemon -- How My 23" Cinema Display Turns White Into Pink

Updated: Below is the saga of how I got a sick Apple 23" Display. Here is the latest: I got tired of waiting for Century 23, the Apple Authorized shop that I had hauled my monitor to, so that it...