Leary is pleased, and laughing about that one. In space-time, as we know it, Timothy Leary is dead. He voluntarily entered irreversible deanimation at 12:44 a.m., Friday May 31st, ending his battle with prostate cancer at the age of 75. Headlines everywhere announced: "Timothy Leary Took His Final Trip Early This Morning . . ."

But in cyberspace, Leary lives. In a virtual cybermemorial.

Five months before he died, Leary launched his own Home Page on the Net. The website is, at the moment, a partially immersible, virtual reality version of Leary's house in Beverly Hills, California. Although not an exact replica, leary.com seems to be the first Home Page designed as an actual home environment. It offered visitors a tour of various rooms in what was, since 1979, home to the High Priest of the Drug Culture, and the chance to monitor Leary's he alth and mental status, as well as daily, neuroactive drug intake.

Part museum. Part library. Part humor. Part p.r. Part entertainment. The website is pure Leary.

Quite literally, it became the first cybermemorial overnight. But then, that had been the plan.

"Tim wanted to create someplace where his legacy would be seeded, from which anybody who wanted to come around and take a bit of that pollen could come and get some," explains friend John Perry Barlow, vice-president of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. (EFF). "It is a memorial and it's a whole point of view. Within his archives, there is an incredible wealth of experience and understanding about what I think will eventually reveal itself to be one of the mo st important times in human history."

While most of the "rooms" at leary.com are still under construction, you can wander through the Living Room, a fairly impressive recreation of the real thing; the Library Room -- which, eventually will house all of Leary's books, articles, and interviews ; the Art Room -- where you can download photographs of Leary from childhood to his final years. The Cyber Room and Video Room are presently empty, but will eventually give leary.com visitors the chance to watch Leary in action.

"Tim wanted to put a home on the Internet, because all of this is about home technology and homeware," says webmaster Christopher Graves. "He planned to put a certain amount of his life and archives on the Internet, and make it available to people worldwi de, but he wanted it to be friendly and inviting and warm and so he thought -- Where better than home?'"

Leary also put out a newsletter -- The Global Village Voice -- immediately accessible via its own icon at the site. It is here that Leary posted weekly updates of his health summaries, including his "Daily Input of Neuro-Active Drugs," both legal and ille gal. (If you don't know what a "Leary Biscuit" is, there is even a hotlink that takes you to an illustrated recipe.)