Delightful Diversions

The Cold, Hard Data of Soda Ice

smackythefrog — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:54:22 +0000

Depending on whom you ask, either ice-fiends are suckers who pay for frozen water or ice-avoiders are cheapskates with a perverse attachment to warm fountain syrup….

Ten Futures: Where Science Fiction Could Become Real

smackythefrog — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:11:51 +0000

1. The Pragmatic Web, 2. Global Intelligence, 3. Extended Reality, 4. The Human Grid, 5. Smart Objects and more. Sounds like a good future to me.

LSD Could Heal Thousands as Therapeutic Tool

smackythefrog — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:15:10 +0000

Andrew Feldm
ár (the Canadian psychotherapist who was denied entrance to the United State last year when a US border guard Googled his name and found a research paper in which Feldmár described two acid trips he took 1967) has an essay in the Guardian about psychedelics as a useful took in psychotherapy.