MORE ACID DISCOVERIES
Spent the weekend writing about last week’s Jihadist nastiness and also the horrors of contemporary celebrity. The products will be ready for perusal in LA CityBeat on Thursday, but, in the meantime, after all that fury, I feel a little beat, although I’m gleefully anticipating the possible downfall of Karl Rove, and how the smug fat fuck may soon be toast, evicted from his Dark Tower, and perhaps even wind up doing time. (You think Georgie will stand by him if it’s a case of Rove’s ass or his?) While we wait, though, the following came through from kaymo...

Saw the thing on Crick and acid... have you seen "What the Dormouse Said" by John Markoff? Turns out the early pioneers of the personal computer revolution were mostly acid heads in the period 1955-75. Combination of trips and experiments that produced the breakthroughs that lead to the revolution in computer usage in the late 70s, and thus to the pcs and Macs on our desks today.

With all this good stuff being discovered on acid, I have to wonder what would have happened if someone had dosed Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project. We might have had a very different bomb.

The secret word is Microgram