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Robert Anton Wilson's Prometheus Rising FREE eBook Download

Link for this Post: Robert Anton Wilson's Prometheus Rising. Robert Anton Wilson passed on last year but his ideas live on in large number of books, essays and interviews. Prometheus Risingwas one of his most influential books during his life...

You Can't Make This Up - Mark Halperin on the Presidential Race in Time Magazine

Link for This Post: You Can't Make This Up -- Time Magazine Saturday May 3, 2008 by Mark Halperin The last couple of months of the long grueling polical race has gotten me a bit down. This short little piece...

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...

Are 7% of the best science books about drugs? -- Blogging Heads

Links for this Post: Are 7% of the best science books about drugs? -- Blogging Heads The Stevens Seventy Greatest Science Books Combining video blogging with traditional posts, this amusing exchange between 'blogging heads" is worth a view. The list...

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...

You Need to get Irrelgion

Link for this Post: Irreelgion.Org "Your Last Stop Before Eternal Enlightenment" Ever since the fundamentalist movement which hit the planet sometime in the Seventies, the acts and ideas of fundamentalists of various religions and creeds have become increasingly absurd Now...

Are Psychedelics Google’s Biggest Trade Secret?

Link for this Post: Reality Sandwich Google and the Myceliation of Consciousness. I'm not sure if this article is irrefutable proof of the idea that psychedelics are Google’s biggest trade secret but the author RoseRose has a gift for blarney...

Incarcerex the Cure for Political Impotency YouTube Video

Link for this post Embedded Youtube Video Incarcerex: It's Time for a New Bottom Line by the Drug Policy Foundation This video came my way via the Entheogenic Reformation blog

Ghosts of Tim Leary and Hunter Thompson by Joe Bageant

Link for this Post:Death By Digitalized Celebrity: Ghosts of Tim Leary and Hunter Thompson" by Joe Bageant. Note: the image to the left is from Joe's post. I have to thank my friend Will Penna for sending me this amusing...

Get a First Life

Link for this post:: Get a First Life Have you been spending too much time in virtual commerece at Second Life. I know more that one of you fits that descGet a First Life has a message for you. Site...

Get a New Brain for Cheap at the Brain Warehouse -- Video

Link for this Post: Brain Warehouse: Watch Brain TV I found this amusing UK anti-drug site by way of the Mind Hacks blogs. Here is an excerpt of what they say about this site: The UK government have launched a...

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/"

Have A Computer Write Your Essay

Link for this Post: Have A Computer Write Your Essay at EssayGenerator.Com Yes it's true! All you need to do is put your subject into the blue box on EssayGenerator.Com and it spits out an essay of better quality than...

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...

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...

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...

A Cracked Guide to Futuristic Super Drugs

Link for this post: A Cracked Guide to Futuristic Super Drugs at Cracked.Com When I was a kid back in the last century, I read a lot of comic books (age 5-8). A year or so later, I was reading...

Jack Shafer on Slate.Com: What's the Story, Morning Glory?

Note: Photo above is by Linda Davidson of the Washington Post Links for this post: What's the Story, Morning Glory? The Washington Post takes another bad drug trip. By Jack Shafer on Slate A '60s Buzz Recycled: Teens Rediscover Morning...

I'm The Decider (Koo-Koo-Ka-Choo)

Link for this post: I'm The Decider. This morning while watching CNN, there was feature on the amused public reaction around the use by George W. Bush of the term, "I'm the decider" while talking about his Defense Secretary's status....

We're All a Bunch of Dancing Monkeys

Link for this post:Dancing Monkeys by Ernest Cline When I was younger, I thought the humans were pretty impressive creatures and capable of knowing a lot of things. I devoured book, studied philosophy and had learned discussions. As I gained...

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...

The Ballad Of The Skeletons Music by Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass & Paul McCartney -- Free Download Updated

Updated: Video of Allen Ginsberg performing the Ballad of the Skeltons at AllenGinsberg.Org Links for this post: The Ballad Of The Skeletons Music by Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass & Paul McCartney -- Free Download at the Lorto Martin Time is...

Welcome to Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia that anyone can edit

Link for this post: Welcome to Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Wikipedia has a humous alter-ego called Uncyclopedia. Here is some of what Uncyclopedia offers up about itself: About: Unicyclopedia is the official encyclopedia of Unicycles. It...

The Eclectic Boing Boing: Geek porn: a call to arms

Link for this post: "Geek Porn" a call to arms" on Boing Boing The Boing Boing and Vision Thing blogs share something in common, we are categorized in Technorati as "eclectic" which I suppose is another way of saying diverse...

Updated: Sacred Elixirs Confernce to Be Held in San Jose California October 22 to 23 (Timothy Leary's Birthday)

"Sacred Elixirs" looks like a lot of fun! More formally the event is called "Sacred Elixirs: A conference on he role of drug plants in the history of religion," to be held at The Mongomery Theater, San Jose, CA on...

Can You Medijate? Trippy Flash Art

Link: Medijate Medijate or more formally "Medijate Organic Green Spirit Digital Art" by Larry Carlson is some Flash Animated Art worth a visit. Very impressive and psychedelic.

Ning: For Any Social Software -- Build Your Own Take

Link: Ning | Home: Front Page. Ning is, "free online service (or, as we like to call it, a Playground) for building and using social applications. Social apps are web applications that enable anyone to match, transact, and communicate with...

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...

Strange New Products

Link for this post: "Strange New Products" Strange New Products is a fun site and unlike similar humorous sites, it is live and growing. In fact you can subscribe to it, here is its Atom Feed. This is what this...

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...

The Iraqization of the United States: New Orleans Disaster A Failure of Leadership - New York Times

New Orleans disaster was a A Failure of Leadership - New York Times -- Op-Ed by Bob Herbert An excerpt: "Bush to New Orleans: Drop Dead" Neither the death of the chief justice nor the frantic efforts of panicked White...

Back to the Retro Future

With an interesting mix of nostalgia and futique, Retro Future is a fun site worth a visit. Here is a some excerpts from the site's FAQ: What is Retrofuture? The Retrofuture is a concept based on a simple question: what...

The Universal Church Of Cosmic Uncertainty -- The Blog

The Universal Church of Cosmic Uncertainty (UCCU) comes via that fine weblog, Ivory Lab. Actually those two blogs belong in the same sentence as they are both literary, albeit with different sensibilities. The UCCU describes itself as: "A potentially painful...

Are You Usual or Unusual?

I just took this web test called "Are You Usual or Unusual." I turned out to be "Usual" but it took me by surprise. I'd like people to try this and tell me what they think.

MinJungKim.com - Braindump v 5.0 Lifecycle of Bloggers

. MinJungKim.com - Braindump v 5.0 Lifecycle of Bloggers is a clever piece about the typical stages of evolution that a web log enthusiast may go through. Here is how the blog's author, Korean born Min Jung Kim: Lifecycle of...

Seeing Green on Saint Paddy's Day With Timothy Leary

Updated:As today is Saint Patrick's Day, I thought I'd spark a little bit of the old Irish green by remembering that Irishman who "kissed the Blarney Stone" Timothy Leary. Here are a few good links to things Leary: A good...

Brainboost Helps You Question Everything

Brainoost is an engine of a different color. According to its FAQ, How is Brainboost different from existing engines like Google? Brainboost is an answer engine whereas Google is a Search engine. What that means is that Brainboost actually finds...

The Never-Before-Seen Unreleased Second Ellen Feiss Apple Commercial

I've been a fan of Ellen Feiss since her famous Apple Switch commercial a couple of years ago. I may have even bought my big expensive double-CPU G5 which still plays second fiddle to my much cheaper PC because of...

The typoGenerator: It's not what you think!

The above was done with the typoGenerator. No that is not a typo ... and although some readers of this blog have suggested I am a typo generator, I did not do it all by myself. I had the help...

Paul Krassner on the 1994 Pentagon Program to Develop Aphrodisiac "Sex Bombs"

Paul Krassner, the "Zen Bastard" of Alternative Journalism writes on "Sex Bombs." in the New York Press newspaperr. Here an expert from the beginning of the article: Declassified documents reveal that the Pentagon spent six years and $11 million to...

Really Leary? Why Not!

My friend Will Penna sent me a link this morning a to Really Leary. Just seeing the Leary name put a smile on my face over seven years after his passing. According to the play, we have a second act...

The Spirit of Eisner

Through the years, I have sometimes been confused with comic strip artist great Will Eisner Actually "Eisner" is not my real last name although "Bruce" is my real first name. I took the name "Bruce Eisner": back in 1971 after...

Sexy Desktop Pictures For Your Mac

As you know if you have been reading my blog, Macs are the latest in never ending parade of sex symbols by which our culture gives significance to artifacts of our technology. So I know you will be eager to...

Go With the Flow Near the San Fransisco Bay

Claremont Graduate University Professor of Psychology Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi wrote the Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. I have not been able to pronounce his name until tonight when I found out that you say it something like "chick-sent-me-high." Actually I...

There Is News A Brewin' at Deoxy.org

While checking my feeds late in the evening, I found my way to one of the earliest counterculture sites on the web, the famous Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension at deoxy.org. I've always loved this neon psychedelic dmt and I am pleased to...

The MetroSexual Tarot: "Where a queer eye for a straight guy collides with the ocult."

MetroSexual Tarot is a work-in-progress by Thomas Scoville and Hughes Hall. It comes by way of the Golden House-Sparrow Awards on Hedweb.

Nation's Poor Wins Another Election for Nation's Rich -- The Onion Reports

Nation's Poor Wins Another Election for Nation's Rich -- The Onion Reports. WASHINGTON, DC—The economically disadvantaged segment of the U.S. population provided the decisive factor in another presidential election last Tuesday, handing control of the government to the rich and...