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Deep History of Drugs
Benjamin Breen at The Appendix has written this fascinating overview of the scientific discovery of illicit drugs. It’s concise, rather than comprehensive, but it makes for a good Sunday read. It skips...
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Geeks On Ice
Slashdot brings us a story about An Algorithm To End The Lines For Ice At Burning Man: Any gathering of 65,000 people in the desert is going to require some major infrastructure to maintain health and...
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Behind The Scenes At A Sound Camp
MC2 Audio has a story about what goes into the sound at Ooligan Alley. It’s heavy on technical details, which will be interesting to some readers. A team from the UK brought out a serious system,...
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AirBnB CEO on the Sharing Economy
McKinsey and Company is an ultra-high end management consulting firm. They help set the direction for the Fortune 500, and their advice in the past has included Burning Man as an example of “how to...
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2014: Year of the Silk Road 2.0
Earlier this year, we reported on the arrest of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who was nabbed in a public library in the Mission, a few blocks from BMHQ. We wondered if Burning Man’s “Caravansary”...
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What’s In My Baggie?
Be careful Burners. That Molly might be Bath Salts. “Molly is the moonshine of today”. As the documentary shows, what people think they’re taking, may not be what they’re really consuming at all. A...
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A Carnival of Smoke and Mirrors
The new theme has been announced. As per the rumor we leaked on November 16, it’s circus-related: This year’s theme is about mirrors and masks, mazes and merger. It will be a kind of magic show that...
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What’s In A Name?
Burning Man. What is it? A rave in the desert? An arts festival? A Temporary Autonomous Zone? An experiment in new ways of living together as a community, relying on each other to survive, without the...
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Gifting To Create a World of Plenty
It’s nice to be able to write a positive story about goodness. Free goodness coming to this community and the world, thanks to the generosity and innovation of Burners. One of the great things about...
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Gifting For Permanent Art
photo by Liz Hafalia, SF Chronicle At least we know there’s one BMP Director who gets it. Leo Villareal has been a Burner since 1994, and is the founder of Disorient. If there is a “spectrum of camps”...
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Decommodification, Decentralization and Direct Democracy
EndAllDisease has a lot of very interesting content, including this article about how Bitcoin is going to revolutionize all forms of electronic interaction. It is a societal change potentially as big...
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The Burner Behind the Holodeck
It’s no longer just Google, Elon Musk, politicians and the military that are looking to Burning Man for creative inspiration. It’s also Microsoft, too. The HoloLens, their latest immersive virtual...
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Can LSD Make You A Billionaire?
“Shitty Acid” by Brian Lewis Saunders Who wants to be a billionaire? Just eat acid. That’s all you gotta do. If you believe CNN, that is… Cult leader Lifestyle Guru Tim Ferriss shares his thoughts on...
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Burning Man Hacked!
image from WIRED The news of hackers exploiting a “back door” in BMOrg’s new ticketing system broke last week on Reddit. We covered it last Wednesday in Ticket Hell. Now, the story has been picked up...
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Google Employee Creating Burning Man Musical
A couple of weeks ago we brought you news of Burning Man: The Musical – a new Kickstarter project. It seems the idea is ramping up fast, with a big profile from the Reno Gazette-Journal. The man behind...
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Bass Versus Burn
Students Viet Tran (L) and Seth Robertson with their invention, a sound extinguisher, at the Fairfax Campus. Photo by Alexis Glenn/Creative Services/George Mason University Two students at George Mason...
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Horizontal Collusion and Other Alternative Universes
Are the algorithms working for us? Or against us? Automatic colluding bots are a much bigger problem in your life than you’re probably aware of. This episode of the Keiser Report offers a solution to...
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Did We Just Get Cyber Attacked? [Updates]
The last few days have been pretty hectic in the financial world. You may have heard some of this on mainstream media. Zero Hedge asked “Is This What The First World Cyber War Looks Like?” Alarmist? I...
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Google Earth Brings You Burning Man 3D
Google Earth For Pirates This is pretty cool. You’ll need to install Google Earth, and enable 3D buildings. Then open this KML file. Zoom in to ground level and hold down the arrow keys, you can walk...
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Burning Man Kicks Off Outside Lands Hackathon
Last weekend as part of the build up to the Outside Lands music festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, they threw a Hackathon at Weebly’s playful office in the Financial District. The idea was...
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