Tech workers display counterculture streak w/ love of Burning Man arts festival

[mandy]

Silicon Valley's technologists may have taken on the trappings of corporate America over the years, but their counterculture streak will be alive and well in the Nevada desert this week.

Among the tens of thousands of attendees at the Burning Man art festival in Nevada's Black Rock desert will be programmers, Web designers and perhaps more than a few millionaire executives. In past years, Burning Man attendees have included Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Even Google CEO Eric Schmidt, more a Baby Boomer than a member of Burning Man's Generation X crowd, has attended the event.

Plenty of other big tech names, from Brian Behlendorf, the primary developer of the Apache Web server, to Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, have also gone to Burning Man over the years. And they say they've been there for one simple reason: The same sort of creativity and collaborative thinking they've applied to software and the Internet is on display in spades at the desert art festival...

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Photos: Burning Man Treasures: http://news.com.com/2300-1026_3-6109360-1.html?part=rss&tag=6109360&subj=news
Photos: A decade of Burning Man: http://news.com.com/2300-1026_3-6109174-1.html?part=rss&tag=6109174&subj=news

[Kristijntje]

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[stardust]

New Mexicans have their own annual Burning Man Fiesta in Santa Fe.  Usually takes place a few days after Labor Day  He's called  ZOZOBRA!

[xppman]

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[stardust]

I've never attended a Zozobra burning.  It's sorta like being sardined in Times Square on New Year's Eve. 

Old Man Gloom has burned every year since 1926 or so, and cleanses one's soul of all the evil, sorrow and gloom from the last year!    Doesn't seem to cleanse us of our illustrious governer, however...

Kinda hard to accomplish, tho, with all that tequila in one's veins....