Come visit the Long Now table this weekend at Maker Faire in San Mateo!

We’ll be in the Expo Hall at booth #294.

Saturday May 3rd, 10-6
Sunday May 4th, 11-6
San Mateo Fairgrounds

Long Now had a table at Maker Faire last year and we had a blast!

This is a huge event put on by O’Reilly Media Inc., who also created Make Zine and Craft Zine, with everything from steam powered robots, a craft pavilion, outdoor entertainment and food, to propane cannons mounted on vintage fire trucks. It’s family friendly too with a whole area just for kids.

Long Now will be there both days, and we’ll be demonstrating the new Walking Bearing Prototype and selling our brand new “Prototypes” T-Shirts!

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Long Now was invited to be part of the art exhibit “Self Storage” which transforms a storage unit in San Francisco into a library of Ephemera open to the public under the care of a librarian and indexed for consultation and handling.

Curatorial Industries opening reception for “Self-Storage“Friday, April 18, 2008 from 7-10PM The Hardware Store Gallery, 3824 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110The project titled Self-Storage was inspired by the historical precedent of the Dymaxion Chronofile, a system that Buckminster Fuller devised to chronicle his life.This unusual collection of boxes, their contents contributed by a roster of international and local artists and archivists, will be available for consultation beginning April 18 and ending May 18, 2008. “Self-Storage” is located in a publicly accessible facility at 300 Treat Avenue in San Francisco and its regular hours of operation will be Wednesday to Sunday from 12 to 4PM and by appointment.The newly assembled collection includes a handsome central service point for checking out boxes for in-situ use and for obtaining library memberships. A dedicated computer station and a card catalogue indexing all print, non-print, 3D, audiovisual, and other unclassified objects, will be made available for public use.

A lively array of public programming during the months of April and May will be announced on the official website.

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- Craig Venter’s Long Now Seminar will be airing tomorrow, Thursday April 17th at 8pm in the usual KQED lecture slot (eg. Commonwealth and City Arts and Lectures) in the Bay Area

- Long Now was also featured in the nationally syndicated NPR Soundprint piece by Barbara Boegaev and Queena Kim in “Escape From Time” (click link to listen on line), also it may be re-airing on Sat the 19th on KQED.

- Stewart gave a short talk at the Bay Area Yuri’s Night celebration and Long Now was there with a table about the Rosetta Disk launched in space, and the Solar Synchronizer. (Thanks to Danielle, Austin, Laura, Kurt, James W and Mikl for working the long hours) - Scott Beale of Laughing Squid recorded a bit of Stewart’s talk

- Long Now will also be showing at the Maker Faire on the weekend of May 3-4

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Yuri’s Night Bay AreaSaturday, April 12th, 020082pm - 2amat Nasa Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
www.ynba.org
Yuri’s Night is a celebration of space exploration, and the first human in space Yuri Gagarin. With a theme this year of Radical Technology for a Sustainable Future and events happening in 49 countries, we’re excited that Long Now is one of the presenters!Stewart Brand will be giving a short talk on the first image of earth from space. We’ll be bringing the Solar Synchronizer and showcasing some new visuals for the Rosetta Disk. An early prototype of the Rosetta Disk is on the European Space Agency’s Rosetta Mission - you can see where the Mission is in our Solar System here.

It should be a great event with art installations, science booths, lectures and great lineup of music - stop by our booth #51 if you’ll be attending - tickets are still available through the Yuri’s Night website.

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The latest Seminars About Long-term Thinking are now available as audio downloads or podcasts and in hi-res video for Long Now members.

*Craig Venter on “Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention”

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Clay Shirky and Brian Eno recently spoke on The Power of Networks in London.  You can listen to the complete audio from a link here, and some video snippets here.

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The latest Seminars About Long-term Thinking are now available as audio downloads or podcasts and in hi-res video for Long Now members.

*Craig Venter on “Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention” - podcast now available
*Nassim Nicholas Taleb on “The Future Has Always Been Crazier Than We Thought”

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While we at Long Now are generally very earnest and diligent about our efforts in long-term thinking, we just can’t let a movie of this “quality” go by and not do SOMETHING… So on 3/11/02008 AD the staff and friends of Long Now will be attending this landmark piece of multi-milliennial retrospect. A few of us will wear gray Long Now baseball hats so that we can be found.

When? Tuesday, March 11th for the 8:00pm showing of
10,000 BC
at the Century San Francisco Centre (Bloomingdales mall)
835 Market Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103

Reviews and comments can be found at Rotten Tomatoes.

PS: Don’t come if you are expecting a quiet movie going experience :)

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I just got an update from David Rumsey that there will be a special event at the map museum in Second Life Thursday March 6th at noon PST.

MIT Tech Review is reporting that Long Now board member and mapping maven David Rumsey is launching his historical map collection in Second Life this week.

A new installation inside Second Life is bringing alive one of the world’s largest collections of antique maps. Called the David Rumsey Maps Island (registration required), the Second Life site is San Francisco map collector David Rumsey’s latest high-technology plan to share his collection with as large an audience as possible. (See “From Lewis and Clark to Landsat.”)

Rumsey has also given a talk in our Seminar series, and some of his collection is in the featured layers on Google Earth where you can see historical maps overlaid on modern geography.

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The latest Seminars About Long-term Thinking are now available as audio downloads or podcasts and in hi-res video for Long Now members.

Craig Venter on “Joining 3.5 Billion years of Microbial Invention” - audio up now, video coming soon

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