 ‘I think DNA is ultimately trying to create a world where the imagination is externalized, where the mind and the external world become synchronized as one, so that basically whatever we can imagine can become a reality. Literally.” Consciousness: What is it? Are your thoughts and emotions nothing more than neural static? […]
While President Vlad Putin tries to wrest control of the internet,  young internet-savvy activists are showing up post-Soviet bureaucrats by providing flood relief in Krymsk, Russia. As the New York Times reported on Saturday: “The catastrophic flooding of the city of Krymsk has unfolded in an unusually public way over the last week, largely thanks […]
While here in the US, we are barely hearing a peep about it in our mainstream news, in Europe, the LIBOR scandal is being understood as the greatest financial scam perpetrated thus far in the kleptocratic 21st Century. LIBOR shows that a handful of banks have used their power — which is supposed to be limited […]
Years ago, I began dating a young woman I was crazy about. I desperately wanted to prove my worth to her as a lover, but it wasn’t helping my cause that I was hopelessly wet behind the ears where lovemaking was concerned. So I figured I’d give myself a leg up by reading a book […]
Long time R.U. Sirius friend and collaborator David Cassel has a new game for the Kindle. Let him tell it… We’ve actually fussed over this game’s big concept, on and off, for over six years, so this really feels like a dream that’s finally come true. After more than a year (of preparing it for […]
An excerpt from the Kindle release of Acidexia by Rachel Haywire. Order here. Part One: Raising the Roof with our Meta-Angst I’m not trying to make you smile, and if you’re looking for emoticons you might as well abort this program. At fifteen, the entire world thinks you’re a newbie. You walk into your local message […]
It’s small, and according to its makers, it could be even smaller, and yet, it’s probably going to be one of the biggest “disruptive technologies†for the computer this year. It’s called the “Leapâ€, and it will change nearly everything about how you interact with your computer. In a 2010 article for H+ I talked about […]
“The rising popularity of MDMA and other designer psychedelics. The developing scene around intelligence drugs and nutrients. The psychedelic roots of Apple computers. The psychedelic garage rock phenomena that was mostly focused in L.A. Even recent releases by Prince and Talking Heads…” Yet another excerpt from the upcoming book, Use Your Hallucinations: Mondo 2000 […]
One scribe’s misadventures with Ambien, the world’s freakiest sleep medication.  Drawings and paintings copyrighted Damon Orion, based on his Ambien Visions. Use prohibited without permission. All my life. Right from the word go. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been doing exactly what I’m doing right now — lying on my […]
The first time I was ever in San Francisco it blew my mind. It was a city of freethinkers and artists who were “on the level†and “got it.†Sometimes it’s hard for me to accept that I was born in South Florida. The isolation and alienation was so severe that I literally believed […]
