August 2009

Ask @bing to create grants for nonprofit advertising on their site (DRAFT)

Update, September 1: Microsoft responded.  More here.

Draft!  Work in progress!  Feedback welcome!

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Meetings, diversity, and opportunity (DRAFT)

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Notes from underground: five years later (Space Tribe at Geomagnetic.tv’s Psyonesis)

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As the sample Olli Wisdom started his set with phrased it, “To infinity – and beyond!”  [At the set’s climax] a song built around the guitar part from Dire Straits “Money for Nothing” (with a minor change in the only lyric: “I want my LSD”) had the whole crowd playing air guitar.

“You gotta be able to ask yourself … hey man, is this a dream?”

When Olli played a song with a sample “Let’s all travel at the speed of light!”, it seemed remarkably plausible.

— January 10, 2004; posted on e-luminatus

Wow, that was a long time ago.

Listening to that night’s (((thump))) on my iPod takes me back to the frame of mind I was in, just starting out on an amazing journey from a technologist at Microsoft Research to a writer/strategist/activist workingon Qworky, Computers Freedom and Privacy, diversity.

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