Because sugar is a requirement in all technical endeavour.

Cory Doctorow with his trusty laptop companion during an evening BOF.

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Danny O'Brien, Ada, and Quinn Norton at the Maker Fair

Alan Taylor, Independent Developer

Erik Benson, Chief Janitorial Officer, The Robot Co-op

Cal Henderson, Lead Developer, Ludicorp

Bob looking out the window at the Manchester Grand Hyatt

Merlin Mann and Cory Doctorow

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The EFF posse. The cleverest, hippest lawyers you'd ever hope to meet.

Tim O'Reilly working on his laptop.

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Clay

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From Etech 2004...not everyone was enchanted with the idea of killer combat robots. It all depended on where you saw yourself in the video with the army, manned with killer robots, outside, and the dissidents inside.

A view of the audience during the keynote: Rules for Remixing.

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This photograph was taken during the 2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California at the Westin Horton Plaza Hotel.

big and shiny and 10 years old

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The Real Time City Andrea Vaccari (Senseable City Lab, MIT)

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In the grim future of domestic cleaning there is only war.

Brendan Eich, giving his High Order Bit presentation: The App is the API: Building and Surviving Remixable Applications

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See the blog post for more info: Make Fest

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Peter Norvig, Ph.D. from Google in his High Order Bit presentation.

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Daniel Keller

Inside the vintage 50's era car complete with 21st century add-ons.

Tutorial: Hack Sci-Fi Features into Your Car

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Attandees at the Facebook Party, an evening event at the 2008 Graphing Social Patterns Conference in San Diego.

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Meg Hourihan

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An attendee looks under the chairs to find a Nokia sticker to win a prize after Nokia's Jon Bostrom's presentation.

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Rael Dornfest and Tim O'Reilly at the Press Conference.

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EFF Pioneer Awards at ETech 2008.

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Danny Hillis during his High Order Bit presentation: Remixing Technology at Applied Minds

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Etech drinking

Zaheda Bhorat

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Manchester Hyatt hallway outside of the elizabeth ballroom -- inflatable furniture

Yahoo!'s Gary William Flake in his High Order Bit presentation: From the Labs: Yahoo! Research Labs

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