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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Link for this Post: The Personality Forge AI- Artificial Intelligence Chat Bots. The sign at the door to Personality Forge says "Welcome to the Future." According to this site, its a future filled with Artifical Intelligence (AI) Chatbots. Here is...
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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...
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Links for this post: Swami - The what's new engine. TechCrunch: Web Swami Provides Online Guidance This post comes by way of TechCrunch who says this about A swami is a Hindu religious teacher. Swami is a customizable search engine...
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Links for this Post Counterculture and the Tech Revolution By RU Sirius on 10 Zen Monkeys RU Sirius Interviews Fred Turner on Neofiles (MP3 Download) RU Sirius former editor of Mondo 2000 has a review of Fred Turner’s From Counterculture...
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Link for this Post: Pandora by the Music Genome Project Creates Custom "Radio Stations" Based on Choice of Artist According to the creators of this cool web app: Ever since we started the Music Genome Project, our friends would ask:...
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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...
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