Over 5,000 Google Doodles exist today, but it all goes back to Burning Man.| SFGATE
A death at Burning Man on Saturday night is being investigated as a homicide after a man was found in a pool of blood at a camp in Black Rock City, during the ritual burning of the Man.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
The support structure of “Black Cloud”, a 100ft-tall assemblage of 45 interconnected forms, was broken in half by the hurricane-force winds that swept across the Black Rock Desert| The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
After a tragedy in 1996, John Law disavowed the festival he helped launch.| SFGATE
Rep. Kiley Responds to gerrymandering proposal; El Dorado County resident tests positive for plague; more. This week’s news, briefly.| Moonshine Ink
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A recommended setup for a craft cocktail bar without running water Having taken up making them at home as a pandemic hobby, I was disappointed at the quality of cocktails available at Burning Man the last couple of years. So in the spirit of radical self-reliance I started putting some thought to how I might be able to achieve something better within the constraints of the playa, notably the lack of running water. I speculated a bit about how I might run a glass rinser (for the mixing tins) w...| Frabjous Dei
I took up making cocktails at home as a pandemic hobby. I love making cocktails for my friends (and they seem to like it!) but I never had the aspiration to be an actual barman doing it down to a price and up to a pace. Smacks of hard work. But maybe it’d be fun to do it for a bigger bunch of friends? Like, 70,000 of them? There are logistical issues. Making cocktails uses a lot of ice and produces a lot of waste water. You kind of need a sink. But what if I can’t have a sink and running ...| Frabjous Dei
The average New Yorker hardly pays attention to what vehicles pass on the road. Traffic is considered just another hazard in the life of a metropolitan| Bushwick Daily
The Technocolour Dreamcoat 3.0 beta After ten years of faithful service, the Technocolour Dreamcoat 2.0 finally kicked the bucket. The silicone potting over the LED strips hardens over time and when the strip bends, the hardened silicone grips the LED chips and lifts them off the copper substrate. I replaced one glitchy strip and then identified the same problem in the neighbouring one, at which point I worked out was going on and realised it was futile. So it was time to think about a redesi...| Frabjous Dei