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Welcome to the 10th SF MusicTech Summit!

The SF MusicTech Summit brings together visionaries in the music/technology space, along with the best and brightest developers, entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, journalists, musicians and organizations who work with them at the convergence of culture and commerce. We meet to discuss the...

I have this theory that anything can be crashed.

You see, I see patterns.

Einstein crashed the profession of physics from accounting (he came up with the rule of 72 (compounding interest)

Justin Timberlake crashed acting by doing a cameo as a janitor.

My dog Baxter crashed Silicon Valley board of director meetings.

I am crashing a near-defunct...

Save the date for the 2012 IA Summit—New Orleans awaits!

The Summit is the confluence of the best people and ideas in information architecture. Building on the conference’s 12-year history, we will be focusing on maturing the practice of user experience and information architecture amidst a constantly evolving ecosystem of devices and...

Barcamp Portland (http://barcampportland.org) is an unconference--a conference without set topics, until attendees create them. Every year we gather geeks of all stripes - hackers, artists, makers, bikers, farmers, and more: participants in local geek communities. The conference is entirely composed of attendee-generated sessions--bring your...

Barcamp Portland (http://barcampportland.org) is an unconference--a conference without set topics, until attendees create them. Every year we gather geeks of all stripes - hackers, artists, makers, bikers, farmers, and more: participants in local geek communities. The conference is entirely composed of attendee-generated sessions--bring your...

Zazzle Bay To Breakers 2012

http://zazzlebaytobreakers.com/

May 20 2012

Open Source Bridge is an open source developers conference, focused on bringing people from a range of technology backgrounds together to share their knowledge and explore what it means to be an open source citizen.

RSVP on the IndieWebCamp wiki. http://indiewebcamp.com/2012/Guest_List

Rather than posting content on many third-party silos of data, we should all begin owning our own data that we're creating when we create it. Publish short status updates first on your own domain, and then syndicate to Twitter. Publish photos on your own domain, then...

Yes, the time is upon us. Everyone knows pi day is March 14th, but any true nerd realizes pi is not 3.14, but rather an irrational constant which continues infinitely in decimal expansion. Starting at 9:26:53 (.589... sec) AM, the longest extended Pi Day of our lives will come into action. The date, at the AM and PM hours, will be " 3/14/15 at...

Using their trusty DeLorean time machine, Doc Brown, Marty McFly and Jennifer Parker arrive in Hill Valley in 2015 on October 21st at 4:29 pm to save Marty McFly Jr. from being set up for a crime by Griff Tannen.

This is not the only notable event of this day:

* The Chicago Cubs win the World Series later this evening in a match against Miami.
*...

OK, so I'm doing this just because I like the idea of having an event invitation float around on facebook for 7 years. However, seeing a total eclipse is apparently one of those must-do-at-least-once-in-your-life sorts of activities. Given that the Earth is mostly water and total eclipses are rare, you're very lucky if you don't...

The technological singularity is a theoretical future point which takes place during a period of accelerating change, at which everything goes completely insane. We're talking hyperintelligent machines, radical biological control, effective immortality, extreme mind-machine interfacing, space colonies, and nanobot-everything. It's going...

It's the end of the world as we know it! Will we feel fine? Come party like it's 12/31/1999!

For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

Note: Event time listed is roughly 27 hours early due to issues with the Facebook event calendar (it's not year 2038 ready!). Actual event takes place at...