peacenik and privacy advocate.” Stewart Brand, “We Owe It All to the Hippies,” in Time magazine, Volume 145, No. 12, Spring 1995 (link).

dial Vatican City. Steve Wozniak and Gina Smith, iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It (W. W. Norton & Company, 2006), p. 115.

I looked like Jesus Christ.” Ibid., p. 81.

hanging around with them. Ibid., p. 83.

part by psychedelics.” Ram Dass, in Roger Walsh and Charles S. Grob, ed., Higher Wisdom: Eminent Elders Explore the Continuing Impact of Psychedelics (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005), p. 220.

talking paperclip’ came from. Cf. John Markoff, What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (New York: The Penguin Group, 2005), p. 250: “Today [Dan Ingalls’ method of moving blocks of information in computer memory] remains at the heart of both the Macintosh and Windows computing worlds. In the early 1970s, however, it was a radically new idea. Called BitBlt, it enabled graphical menu systems to ‘pop-up’ instantly on an Alto screen in response to a mouse click. As much as any single software innovation, BitBlt made the modern graphical computer interface possible.... Ingalls had dabbled in psychedelics and smoked pot to put himself in a more creative, introspective mood.... Years later ... when people would ask about the inventive ideas in Smalltalk [computer language], Ingalls would joke, ‘Well, where do you think these ideas came from?!’”

studied acid. Walsh and Grob, op. cit., p. 25: “James Fadiman graduated from Harvard and Stanford universities where he met and worked with Richard Alpert, who later became known as Ram Dass. It was Alpert who introduced Fadiman to psychedelics....”

affected by psychedelics.” James Fadiman, in Ibid., p. 33, 37.

most important things.” Markoff, op. cit., p. xix. Markoff’s book unfortunately “almost totally overlooks the MIT techno-Deadhead community of leftist hackers”—Edward Hasbrouck, “Life Outside the Mainframe,” in Peacework Magazine, August, 2005 (link).

recovery from alcohol addiction.” Charles S. Grob and Gary Bravo, in Walsh and Grob, op. cit., p. 9-10.

Bruce Hornsby. David Shenk and Steve Silberman, Skeleton Key, A Dictionary for Deadheads (New York: Main Street Books, 1994). See also “The Octane Kids!” (link).

Nancy Pelosi. CBS News Staff, “The Skinny: Follow The Money? Nah,” in CBS News, January 4, 2007 (link).

Al Franken. Ann Coulter, in Taylor Hill, “‘Deadheads Are What Liberals Claim to Be But Aren’t’: An Interview with Ann Coulter,” 2006 (link).

John Kerry. Brian Doherty, “John Perry Barlow 2.0: The Thomas Jefferson of cyberspace reinvents his body—and his politics,” in Reason magazine, August/September 2004 (link): “Kerry's a Deadhead.”

Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson, “SUVs, Canadians and the Grateful Dead,” October 14, 2005 (link).

Jerry Greenfield. “Company News; Ben & Jerry’s,” in New York Times, July 30, 1987 (link).

Board of Directors of the WELL. Richard Holeton, Composing Cyberspace: Identity, Community, and Knowledge in the Electronic Age (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997) (link), Chapter 4.

Acid Test-organizer. John Markoff, What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (New York: The Penguin Group, 2005), p. 153 (link): “Brand was also close to Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, and in 1966 he had helped organize the last of the Acid Tests, which served to launch the Grateful Dead.”