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A President Like My Father By Caroline Kennedy -- New York Times

Link for this Post: A President Like My Father By Caroline Kennedy -- New York Times Caroline Kennedy's op-ed in the Sunday New York Times is heartfultly stated. She says: OVER the years, I’ve been deeply moved by the people...

Obama up by 13 points in New Hampshire Primary According to Just Released USA Gallup Poll

Link for this Post; Obama up by 13 points, McCain up by 4 in USAT/Gallup Poll in N.H. USA Today By: Mark Memmott and Jill Lawrence Here is an excerpt from the report from USA today Sen. Barack Obama has...

Obama: A Man Who Will Restore America’s Image in the World - in The Moderate Voice

Link for this Post: Obama: A Man Who Will Restore America’s Image in the World i by William Kern in the Moderate Voice Obama: 'A Man Who Will Restore America's Image in the World' full article referred to by first...

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...

Huffington Post - Barack Obama, RFK, and Blackwater

Link for this Post: Joseph A. Palermo: Barack Obama, RFK, and Blackwater - Politics on The Huffington Post. Here is an excerpt from Joeseph A. Palermo's article: Forty years ago, in 1968, when Robert F. Kennedy started his campaign for...

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...

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...

It Was Forty Years Ago Today! Updated

Links for this Post Updated: 'Sgt. Pepper' at 40 Summer of Love saw release of Beatles' landmark album By Jim Harrington, InsideBayArea.Com "A Day in the Life: Sgt. Pepper Turns 40" by Jon Wiener, Nation "Musical Album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely...

Updated with News Video: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs to Make Historic Joint Appearance At the Fifth Annual 'D: All Things Digital' Conference

Link for this Post: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs to Make Historic Joint Appearance At the Fifth Annual 'D: All Things Digital Conference. I first saw Steve Jobs speak at a conference in Santa Cruz back in the early 1980s,...

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...

Search for torrents with G_________ Torrents

I'm sharing in LifeHacker's commercially acceptable hacker naughtiness with this link to a torrent search engine which used the above logo. After a day on Lifehacker, they had removed the logo however. As Lifehacker points out, the name for G______Torrents...

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...

"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...

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 :...

BBC NEWS Business Warner to start movie downloads using Bit Torrent technology

Link for this post BBC NEWS Business Warner to start movie downloads. The same torrent technology that current streams movies to millions around the world is going to be used by Warner Brothers to deliver movies to even more millions...

Welcome to Hive7 -- The Web Goes 3D with Ajax

Welcome to Hive7 Hive 7, An Ajaxian Virtual World by Om Malik Thanks to Om Malik's column, I found my way to Hive7 tonight. I even brought back a picture. Here is a bit from Om's bit on Hive 7:...

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,...

I thought Googe Earth Was Cool! Wow Google Mars

Link for this post: Google Mars If Google Mars weren't a well rendered topographic map of what we know so far about our neighboring red planet, it could make a good art project. The colors and textures are awesome. By...

Hungry Media Companies Find a Meager Menu of Web Sites to Buy - New York Times

Link for this post: Hungry Media Companies Find a Meager Menu of Web Sites to Buy - New York Times. Blogging is changing the media equation. The best writers have discovered that as Bob Dylan put it, they don't "have...

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...

Mashable* » The Rise of the Memetrackers

Link for this post Mashable* » The Rise of the Memetrackers. The blog "Mashable: Peter Cashmore on the Web" has a post about Memeorandum and three of its "competitors" which the author classifies with the evolicative title "memetrackers." The domain...

That's Brilliant -- the state of genius on Samsung's DigitAll Magazine

Link for this post: "That's Brilliant!" by Scott Lyle Cohen in Samsung's DigitAll Magazine, Here is the blurb that begins this piece. "Who’s brilliant and why? DigitAll went to five of the smartest people we know—Clifford Pickover, Esther Dyson, Jean-Paul...

Web Content Creation: Ten Approaches For Small Online Publishers by Robin Good'

Link for this post: Web Content Creation: Ten Approaches For Small Online Publishers. I had not taken a look at Robin Good's excellent blogs for a bit. I just returned from a visit with a recommendation for one of his...

The Blog Power Elite -- New York Magazine

Link for this post: Blogs to Riches - The Haves and Have-Nots of the Blogging Boom -- New York Magazine. I got into blogging about two and a half years ago. Despite a lot of energy poured into posting frequently,...

I'm an Amazon Connect Author!

Links for this post: Bruce Eisner's Profile on Amazon.Com's Author Connect Bruce Eisner's Author Blog on Amazon . My publisher Ronin invited me to be part of the Amazon Connect author program. Its a bit like Friendster or MySpace, you...

Tim Leary, Starfleet Commander, by Charles Carreon at American Buddha Online Library

Link: Tim Leary, Starfleet Commander, by Charles Carreon at American Buddha Online Library. I have written about the "open source" American Buddha library with relationship to Timothy Leary in a previous post. This post is about a short piece by...

International Symposium on LSD Celebrating the 100th Birthday of Albert Hofmann Begins in Basel Switzerland

Links for this post: LSD.Info I just returned from the opening session of the International Symposium "LSD: Problem Child and Wonder Drug" honoring Albert Hofmann's Birthday. The opening ceremonies were attended by almost 2000 people, I met up with my...

Updated: An Email from Douglas Ruskoff: His New Book, 'Get Back in the Box' Now Avaialble

Updated: I got an email from Douglass Ruskoff tonight. His new book, Get Back in the Box is out and you can get yourself a good Holiday read at Amazon by going to this link . Here is the rest...

"Meditation builds up the brain": New Scientist

Link for this post: "Meditation builds up the brain" by Alison Motluk from NewScientist.com news service Psychology has known for a long time that the practice of meditation alters brain functions as measured by brain waves as well as a...

The Soul of Google

Link for this post: "What Lurks in Its Soul?" by David A. Vise in the Washington Post The Washington Post has an interesting take on Google, here is a short excerpt: The soul of the Google machine is a passion...

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...

Al Gore on The Threat to American Democracy

Link: Al Gore on The Threat to American Democracy. Al Gore's trascript of a talk by Al Gore on "The Threat to American Democracy" is wide-ranging essay exploring the scope of our current American cultural insanity, which comes via BuzzFlash.Com...

Generate Custom Ringtones (For Free) And Download Them Into Your Cell Phone -- WolframTones: An Experiment in a New Kind of Music

Link for this Post For those of you who are familiar with Steven Wolfram, WolframTones: An Experiment in a New Kind of Music will probably be no surprise. Just another project by a man who has succeeded at many and...

The Farm, Intentional Community and Memories of a Monday Night Class

The picture above is a composite I made from the website of The Farm. Few intentional communities from the sixties counterculture's "communal" experiments survive until the present day. The Farm.in Summerland, Tennessee is a notable exception. My first real girlfriend...

Cary Grant's Thoughts About LSD

Chapter Fourteen - Cary Grant Autobiography on the Ultimate Grant Pages tells the story of how he benefited from therapy with a then unknown experimental drug -- LSD. Here is an excerpt: "Now, I believe in caring for my health;...

Interview with The Magacian's Daughter: Rosemary Leary with Mavricks of the Mind

Wise and beautiful Rosemary Leary, I got to know her mostly in her last three years on earth, when her secret life fleeing from the FBI for years to escape being busted for role in the 1971 escape from Prison...

When I Die, I Want To Go Up To That Google in the Sky

In Wired this morning, I read the piece "Immortality Through Google" which is a little less far-out than it sounds. The article is mainly about artists designing their own burial urns and a kind of "artistic" website called "The Ego...

50 Strategies to Make Yourself Work

I have been procrastinating at real writing the last couple of years. I blog religiously but seem to be an atheist when it comes to serious prose. So I am posting this for myself but if you get something out...

Winter Solstice Promises the "Return of the Young Light'

In Las Vegas Nevada where I live , today is the Winter Solstice. Here is an expert from "Solstice Time Tues., Dec. 21, 2004, marks the solstice—the beginning of winter in the Northern Hemisphere and summer in the Southern Hemisphere"...

Early Exit Polls Show Landslide for Kerry Were Off the Mark -- with Current Trends Showing a Bush Victory

Updated:Early exit polls reportedly Kerry winning the Whitehouse were widely off the mark. Results of the actual voting as of this update indicate that the actual votes differed from these polls taken by voters leaving the polls by varied margins,...

Pollster Zogby Predicts "Undecided voters will break for Kerry, giving him the election"

"Bush, Kerry Remain Deadlocked 5 Days Before Election," a story published yesterday on Bloomberg.Com talks about difficulties for incumbent George W. Bush in US Presidential election to be held on Tuesday. Here is an excerpt: "Right now, things are so...

The Politics of Social Networking

"The Politics of Social Networking-Democratic-ally Speaking" by Judith Meskill tells us about a new web technology that can amplify the old fashoned phone tree. She says: Have you heard about NovemberCalling.com? It’s like a giant phone tree, chain letter, post...

You Shop As You Vote -- Walmart Vs. Costco -- Costco's Winning

Shop the Vote Wal-Mart = Bush. Costco = Kerry. Costco's Winning By Daniel Gross is an insightful political piece. I had a chance to see John Kerry speak yesterday here in Las Vegas at the UNLV's basketball stadium packed with...