Something entirely unsuitable for a poll

[hirez]

http://politics.salon.com/2011/10/08/steve_jobs_and_drug_policy/

... Which is an interesting hypothesis. I'm not entirely convinced. mind.

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[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Further experimentation into the correlation between psychedelic drug use and tech genius is clearly needed.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Quite.

I can't really see that it breaks down into 'cheerful caners like Macs, abstainers, er, don't', even though I'd like to believe that.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

... And of course the other thing that came from Berkeley was BSD.

[smogo.livejournal.com]

I used to do loads of acid and I think most Apple products look shit, feel shit and are shit.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

There's that, too. Not everyone who gobbles acid ends up at festivals with a beard with twigs in and... Oh, wait..

Y'know worrimean, though.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

So what's your explanation for l'air du Stallman then?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Some people are just gits. I dunno; is the chap likely to be a Friend of Shulgin?

[steer.livejournal.com]

The LSD does explain why Apple think the most convenient way to find applications is a swirly wheel of baffling icons which somehow represent your program and which swim in and out of focus... rather than, say, I don't know, an ordered hierarchical menu.