Source:Valleywag
Vint Cerf, Google’s Internet evangelist, really did invent the Internet. So we suppose it’s okay for him to coast a little. But as with anyone with the word “evangelist” on his business card, we can’t help but wonder what, exactly he does. A profile in the Times of London does little to clarify matters. Apparently Cerf worries about the security of Web browsers and operating systems — never mind that Google doesn’t make browsers or operating systems. Cerf got his job by emailing Google CEO Eric Schmidt and asking if he needed any help. Schmidt replied, “Yes.” We’re thinking Schmidt might be wondering now if he should have been more specific — and if Cerf could be contributing to Google’s little payroll problem.
Source:Valleywag
Jason Calacanis in the first Read/WriteTalk interview with Sean Ammirati: “I always look at entrepreneurs as samurai. It’s a lonely pursuit at times and basically your life is to fight. And you get done with one fight. You clean the blood off your sword. You put it away. You walk 10 miles to another village. And then you got to clean up that village. A couple of people got to lose their arms. And then you clean the blood off your sword. You have a cup of tea and some rice. And then you walk to the next village. That’s the metaphor I work under which is it’s a war and you have to just be stoic. And you have to fight hard.” What would executives do without the well-worn samurai metaphor to rationalize their coldblooded, mercenary behavior? [Read/WriteTalk]
Source:Valleywag
BLACK ROCK CITY — The entire point of Burning Man is, I’ll remind the uninitiated, is to gather together in the desert to torch a giant wooden statue called, yes, The Man. But that’s supposed to happen this weekend. It’s 3 in the morning on Tuesday, and The Man is ON FIRE!! HOLY FUCKING MOTHER OF FUCK! More as it happens!
Update: The fine Black Rock City Fire Department — a volunteer organization, of course — has put the blaze out. You never saw so may hippies so conflicted.
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