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A Permanent Utopia?
In NYMag, Nellie Bowles reports that BMOrg have their sights set on a permanent community, and once again will be bussing investors from First Camp out to the nearby Fly Ranch property. Burning Man’s...
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Art, Burning Man, and the Maker Movement
Shipwreck by Georgia Rose Collard-Watson There’s a new story over at Boing Boing from NK Guy, Burning Man: The Art of Maker Culture . NK recently published “The Art of Burning Man”, (adding to the...
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Rethink Waste, and Help Save a Promising Green Technology
John Perry Barlow, left, in a panel discussion with Larry Harvey at Black Rock City John Perry Barlow has been a fixture at Burning Man since 1994. That makes him a founder in my book. Recently he...
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Party Like It’s Star Wars [Updates]
Image: Sharara, via Facebook Star Wars. Desert camping. Talks on topics aligned with Leave No Trace and Self Reliance. A nod to the Davos World Economic Forum. Sharara, Arabic for “spark”, has it all…...
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Can Burning Man and Transhumanism Change the World?
Science fiction and dick jokes at the Burning Man Global Technology Leadership Conference. Nano-tech brain drugs that connect brains together. Jacking the internet directly into the back of your skull....
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Don’t Sneak In! 2016
We just received this tip-off from Anonymous Burner: from private gate FB group where people sneaking in to burning man are being discussed: Gate are really gunning for people trying to sneak in this...
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Burning Man’s First Technology Guru Fighting #fakenews
The blockchain offers a new world of possibility, not just for crypto-currency or providing disaster relief, but also for truth – something I am extremely interested in. It seems I’m not the only one....
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Burners.Me Now Synched To SteemIt and Sharpay
About a quarter of all sites on the World Wide Web run on WordPress, a phenomenal achievement from Billionaire 2 commas Burner Matt Mullenweg – although it is eclipsed by Burning Man chief technology...
View ArticleStewart Brand Livestream: 50 Years of Whole Earth Catalog
Live today at 6:30pm PST. Tune in via this page. Re-blogged from Reinvent.Net Fifty years ago the Whole Earth Catalog burst onto the cultural scene and helped set in motion waves of innovation that...
View ArticleSnapChat CEO’s “perpetually topless” GF is a Burner
This story has been doing the rounds of the Interwebz today, after Gawker ran yet another hit piece on LA-based SnapChat CEO (and Ivy League fratboy) Evan Spiegel, whose girlfriend has photos of her...
View ArticleBurning the Systems
Ticketfly is coming in, with a new ticketing system, selling vehicle passes as well as tickets. Burning Man’s bazaar marketplace has been taken down, to be revamped in some unknown way, presumably...
View ArticleElon Musk: “Burning Man IS Silicon Valley”
Mike Judge is one of this country’s comic greats. As well as Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill, he made the classic movie Idiocracy. Now he’s back with a terrific new show on HBO, a sardonic...
View ArticleBurner Kindles Fire
Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is surely one of the smartest people on the planet. He is also a Burner – one worth $30 billion, who made a lazy $128.5 million today. Burning Man obviously made a...
View ArticleThe Grand Burners.Me Ho-tell
This is the 1000th post on this blog, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to reflect a bit. The official Burning blog has 1,771 posts. Their first two are from September, 2001, and liken the...
View Article60% Veterans [Updates]
This is going to be one of those long posts with words and graphs and maths and stuff. Ain’t no place for haters here. You might want to keep browsing if you’re looking for happy frou frou stories. If...
View ArticleNew Way To Get Face Value or Free Tickets
Burner Map is a tool that lets you indicate where you’re camping, so that your Facebook and other friends can find you. So far 48, 476 people have used it (over several years). Now they have announced...
View ArticleTech Industry Invented Sex, Burning Man, and San Francisco
SF Weekly’s The Snitch has a “Fauxpinion” piece by Benjamin Wachs, a “literary chameleon”. Funnily enough, he wrote the same book as another chameleon, BMOrg’s Caveat Magister. Caveat is the author...
View ArticleDemonstrating How the Principles Mesh
Burning Man has always hosted a large number of nerds. As time goes on and technology becomes more pervasive and sophisticated, new capabilities are unlocked for the citizens of Black Rock City. Some...
View ArticleBurners.Me interview on KGO Radio
San Francisco’s KGO news radio interviewed me today about the anti-rich, anti-tech, and dare we say, anti-Burning Man sentiment that seems to be sweeping the media this week. I should have recorded the...
View ArticleLook Out for The Judge!
…Mike Judge, that is. If you haven’t seen his new show Silicon Valley check it out, it’s hilarious. The show brilliantly skewers Silicon Valley and the Bay Area hipster/tech culture, while also giving...
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