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Under the Influence -- YouTube Exerpt from Forthcoming Documentary About Drugs

Link for this Post: YouTube Video above Back in October 2007, I sat down for a wide ranging interview with a young filmmaker named Colby Dennis from Nobuddy Productions. He and his crew were in the process of interviewing for...

Future Organic Technology -- The Visionary Art of Paul Laffoley

Link for this Post: Intro to Paul Laffoley and Future Organic Technology A couple of days ago, I found a site called Miquel.Com "Your Favorite Source of Random Information." Actually the information is not a "random" as advertised but along...

The Psychedelic Conspiracy

Links for this Post: The Aquarian Conspiracy Sex Drugs and Rock 'N Roll by Lyndon LaRusche; (first published in The Aquarian Conspiracy: Fact or Fiction on Bible Believers Psychedelic Alchemy on the Occult of Personality Blog Unlike my now departed...

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...

Adam Cheyer and the Intelligent Software Assistant

Links for this Post: TR10: Intelligent Software Assistant Adam Cheyer is leading the design of powerful software that acts as a personal aide" By Erica Naone in the Technology Review Published by MIT Adam Cheyer Home Page Information overload is...

Recession Over by the End by 2009 -- Another Opinon Based on NY Fed Model

Link for this Post: NY Fed's Model Predicts End of Recession in 2009 by Mark J. Perry on his Carpe Diem blog In my last post, I wrote about the opinion of "Dr. Doom" Nouriel Roubini that the current ecomomic...

Gaia - The future of politics -- YouTube Video

Gaia - The future of politics (embedded below) I've been digging through my email bin trying to reach the bottom. It is getting closer or so I believe. I found a video sent to me late last year via this...

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...

Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow -- Bill Clinton on Why America Needs President Barack Obama

Link for this post: The embedded YouTube of former President Bill Clinton addressing the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorodo. The last two or three weeks of the summer have been nasty experience. Living in the swing state of...

Future Internet: Duncan Campbell examines the technology that will one day bring about the “thinking Web”.

Link for this Post: Future Internet - Internet - NetGuide I liked the picture that is featured at the top of this article by Duncan Cambell on the future of the Internet so I republished it at the top of...

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...

Create Instant Mindmaps From Wikipedia with WikiMindMap

Links for this Post: Bruce Eisner Wikipedia WikiMindMap WikiMindMap home page (make your own WikiMindMaps) Here's a site that combines a couple of cool technologies, wiks and in this case specifically Wikipedia plus mind maps .You can generates a mind...

Findings - Futurist Ray Kurzweil Sees a Revolution Fueled by Information Technology - NYTimes.com

Link for this Post: Findings - Futurist Ray Kurzweil Sees a Revolution Fueled by Information Technology - NYTimes.com. Here is a bit from the beginning of this piece. Do you have trouble sticking to a diet? Have patience. Within 10...

LSD Inventor Albert Hofmann Leaves Lasting Albeit Controversial Legacy - CBC Sunday News Online Video

Links for this Post: Psychedelic Pioneer Albert Hofmann Video on Canadian Broadcasting Company Sunday News Watch Video with Windows Media (click here) I taped a short statement here in Vegas whch was included as part of a collage of people...

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...

Rush Limbaugh urges listeners to vote for Clinton

Rush Limbaugh urges listeners to vote for Clinton CNN Poltical Ticker "I want Hillary to stay in this…this is too good a soap opera," Limbaugh told fellow conservative talk-show host Laura Ingraham on Fox News Friday. He reiterated the comments...

The Grand Old White Party Confronts Obama - New York Times

Link for this post: The Grand Old White Party Confronts Obama - by Frank Rich in the New York Times. This op-ed in today's New York Times draws some amusing caricatures of the two white candidates left in this year's...

New York Times Reports Advisers Ready To Take "Potentially Incendiary Steps To Build Up Mrs. Clinton’s Count"

Links for This Post: Obama’s Lead in Delegates Shifts Focus of Campaign By Adam Nagourney - New York Times Out for Themselves by Ezra Klein - American Prospect Ezra Klein pulled this quote from today's New York Times article: With...

Psychedelic Healing in by David Jay Brown in Scientific American

Link for this Post: Click and download this PDF file Psychedelic healing?- Scientific American Mind This Scientific American Mind Edition article on new scientific research on psychedelic compounds by my old friend David Jay Brown is made available by the...

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...

Futures Market and Book Makers Both see Barak Obama Win in New Hampshire

Link for this Post: Futures markets see McCain, Obama wins If the futures markets are as good a predictors of events in New Hampshire as they were in Iowa, the winners of he New Hampshire will be Barak Obama on...

I Upgraded to Englightenment 2.0 -- Beyond Belief

Link for this Post: Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0 It looks like some people are thinking the same thoughts I am. The above link is to a conference focusing on the recent trends in our society away from science and reason...

Stacy Parker Aab: Obama, Clinton and the "Vision Thing" - Politics on The Huffington Post

Link: Stacy Parker Aab: Obama, Clinton and the "Vision Thing" - Politics on The Huffington Post. Regular readers of Vision Thing know that I'm a big fan of Barak Obama. For months now, people such as myself have been trying...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Shock Doctrine A Short Film by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein -- YouTube Video

Links for this Post: The Shock Doctrine A Short Film by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein -- YouTube Video Ebbed in this post below The Shock Doctrine Book and Film Home Page The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism...

Top 10 Video Search Engines

Link: Top 10 Video Search Engines on Read/WriteWeb A lot of people think that Google is the only way to search for video because it is so good at searching for websites. What people do not know is that Google...

Updated: NewsVine Launches ElectionVine: Widget Based Election Polling -- Vote NOW!

Link to this Post: NewsVine Launches ElectionVine: Widget Based Election Polling Duncan Riley on TechCrunch Update: I updated this post to remind you about what the black rectangle on the column of Vision Thing is for . . . and...

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...

RAI Film Festival Conference Beyond Text: Synaesthetic & Sensory Manchester UK June 27-July 2

Link sfor this Post: RAI Film Festival Conference Beyond Text: Synaesthetic & Sensory Manchester UK June 27-July 2. Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology According to the website announcing this event: In his recent book The Corporeal Image: Film, Ethnography, and...

Is The Internet is a Denial of Service Attack on Your Brain?

Links for this Post: "The Internet is a Denial of Service Attack on Your Brain": Stupid Human Programming Blog Internet Addiction Test Hello, my name is Bruce and I'm an Internet addict. I read the story about the Internet being...

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...

Giganews Premium Usenet Launches Giganews Accelerator Beta -- FREE Windows Software Download!

Links for this Post: Giganews Premium Usenet Newsgroup Service 3 Day FREE Trial Giganews Accelerator Beta Free Windows Software Download The Usenet is one of the last and vast largely untamed frontiers of the Internet. Google was one of the...

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...

Pandora's Box Closing

Links for this Post Pandora To Shut Out Non-U.S. Users Thursday Evening by Michael Arrington on Techcrunch Closing Pandora’s Box: The End of Internet Radio? - 10 Zen Monkies Webzine -- RU Sirius Interview with Tim Westergen from SaveNetRadio.org Back...

Who's Really Participating in Web 2.0 TIME

Link for this Post: Who's Really Participating in Web 2.0 By Bill Tancer in TIME. TIME Magazine made "YOU" -- i.e. the content creators who put write blogs, post pictures and videos on the web -- Person of the Year...

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...

Spinning a New Island Web

Link for this Post: The New Island Web: A Work in Progress As regular readers know, I'm a writer by trade rather than a web design or coder. However since I have had several sites that have been on the...

John Lennon: The US VS John Lennon -- Full Movie Google Video

Links for this Post: The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006) on the IMDb I had been wanting to see this documentary since hearing that it was listed in a Venice Film Festival. I found the entire video via a link...

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...

RU Sirius's New Book, True Mutations Features Interviews with Leading Cyberculture Idea Makers

Links for this Post: Available on Amazon: True Mutations (Paperback) by R.U. Sirius (Author), Ken Coffman (Editor), Ryder Carroll (Illustrator) Boing Boing: R.U. Sirius True Mutations book I got an email yesterday from Ken Coffman, aka R.U. Sirius that his...

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...

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...

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...

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...