Hallucinogenic Weapons: The Other Chemical Warfare by RU Sirius

Jacob's Ladder film!
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Hallucinogenic Weapons: The Other Chemical Warfare
By RU Sirius
January 10th, 2007

There were many acid tests happening in the 1950s and 1960s. Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters dosed sometimes-unsuspecting proto-hippies. The CIA was dosing unsuspecting mainstreamers. Leary dosed fully cognizant artists, therapists and students. But meanwhile, over at Edgewood Arsenal Proving Grounds in Maryland, psychiatrist James S. Ketchum was testing LSD, BZ and other psychedelic and deliriant compounds on fully informed volunteers for the U.S. military

Barlow! EFF! Kapor! Gilmore, doctorow at USC this Tue., 14 Nov., 7 PM

via Boing Boing blog>
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/08/giants_of_cyberliber.html

study your driving directions well!
http://www.usc.edu/about/visit/upc/driving_directions/



Fulbright Chair Speaker Series: Mitch Kapor, John Perry Barlow, and John Gilmore

Tuesday, Nov 14, 2006
7:00PM



Join Cory Doctorow, the U.S. - Canada Fulbright Chair in Public Diplomacy, in welcoming Mitch Kapor, John Perry Barlow, and John Gilmore, the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, each a living legend many times over. Kapor founded Lotus and created the popular market for spreadsheets. He now runs the Open Source Applications Forum; Gilmore founded the first dial-up ISP, wrote the world's most widely used compiler, and funds legal campaigns from marijuana law reform to Constitutional challenges to Transport Security Agency regulations; and Barlow is the mad poet who wrote the Grateful Dead's best-loved lyrics and followed that up by penning seminal philosophical documents about the Internet, including the notorious Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace. The three of them have not shared a stage in a decade -- until now.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006
7:00 pm
Annenberg, Room 207

more on Das Netz, The Net,

http://www.t-h-e-n-e-t.com/start_flash.htm

Entangled in the Matrix Net

DOROTHY WOODEND

Globe and Mail Update

VANCOUVER — I'm having a Matrix moment. You know the feeling: a vague sinking sensation when reality seems as if it is being simulated inside an enormous computer. A neo-Neo moment.

This week, Google bought YouTube for $1.65-billion. YouTube, in case you've been dead or under a large rock, is the website where you can view videos that people have uploaded to the Internet. Only a little more than a year old, it has the largest library of videos available on the Web. Most of them are pretty silly, but in among the shots of people getting hit in the crotch, and croc hunter Steve Irwin being fatally barbed by a stingray, are some other more curious offerings