• Barcampers spread the gospel of their unconference ("It's not religion, it's faith") in a slick mini-documentary. [Freevlog.org]
• Gnomedex conference founder Chris Pirillo sells keywords on his chest. How long did it take him to airbrush that photo? [Rent My Chest]
• More harrowing tales of inconvenience as California faces the result of its gluttony another blackout. [ZDNet]
• Please, it's only news when a hacker conference finishes without the FBI dragging away one or two speakers. [Washington Post via Boing Boing]
• The back-dated stock options scandal rocking the Valley may not be as fun as watching the Google boys fill their plane with hammocks, but it is important. So here's someone else to explain who's charging, who's charged, and whether it's more appropriate to call anarchocapitalist execs "criminals" or "dicks". [Spot-On]
• Blogger Om Malik prints an excerpt from that hot new "Silicon-Valley-biotech-changes-the-world" book, which I really mean to read after one more episode of Battlestar Galactica. [GigaOM]

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