Posts tagged with ‘lsd’

Internet is the new LSD

March 3rd, 2009

Today I talked about my inspiration for blogging on the Web 2.0 Symposium in Budapest. I wanted to give the audience something to think about, instead of just give them an insight in my blogging mind. So I made a comparison between LSD and the Internet.

I came up with that comparison when I visited the exhibition Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era in The Whitney Museum of…

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Father of LSD Albert Hoffman on his final trip

May 1st, 2008

The LSD discoverer, Swiss professor Albert Hoffman, has died at the honorable age of 102. From 1938 he had been developing lysergic acid diethylamide – also known as lsd-25, acid, blotter acid, window pane, dots, tickets and mellow yellow – in his lab. During the fifties, outlaws like Timothy Leary picked it up and promoted it to a hugely popular drug in the infamous Sixties.

So why do I report…

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