Greetings all!

We are pleased to announce the monthly “Five Minutes of Fame”, scheduled for this Thursday, April 15th, at 8pm at Noisebridge. Bring yourself, your friends, your pet alien, and ping pong balls to throw at the speakers.

All speakers have been notified, and the current schedule is as follows*:

Orpheus:
“Treatise on Caractacus’ Uniform” (Leo Tolstoy)
“Exactly Where You Don’t Want To Be: The First Two Weeks of My New Job” (Danny O’Brien)
“Why you should tear apart your Powerbook 165c” (Jake)
“Starting Thailand’s first Hackerspace” (Kirit Sælensminde)
“Iacienda Project” (Ozzy Satori)
“Time lapse to the max – an Android app” (Don French)

Eurydice:
“Drunk Spelling Bee” (davidfinedavidfinedavidfine)
“Home-made Kelly Clarkson ‘Breakaway’ Song using Computer-Generated Voice” (Bill Nye)
“Stealing Cookies for Fun and Profit” (Micah Lee)
“How sequential selection can produce cooperative communities without a Darwinian mechanism.” (Lee Worden)
“Machine-Generated Poetry” (Synthesize.us)
“For Soy, With Love and Gratitude” (Lulu Wong)

aestetix

*schedule is subject to change, although the date/time/location will remain
the same.

Greetings all!

We are pleased to announce the monthly “Five Minutes of Fame”, scheduled for
this Thursday, March 18th, at 8pm at Noisebridge. Bring yourself, your
friends, your pet alien, and ping pong balls to throw at the speakers.

This month, 5MoF will be hosting a bone marrow drive with “Be the Match
Marrow Registry” (http://bethematch.org) to raise awareness and help save
lives. In addition, we’ll have a swabbing station on-site running before,
during, and after the event. If you know anyone affected by this condition,
want to help, or just want to learn more, please drop by and offer your
support.

One of our own members, David Molnar, is directly affected by this. His
sister has an aggressive form acute leukemia. She and many others like her
need a bone marrow transplant for a shot at survival, but have no family
members that match their marrow tissue type. By joining the registry, you
might just be the person to save the life of his sister or someone like her.

All speakers have been notified, and the current schedule is as follows*:

Hiro:
“We’ll Always Have Paris” (aestetix)
“Open Primer and never be the same: OpenPrimer.org and forever live the
game” (Alex Peake)
“The Importance of Collective Autonomy” (Bedouin and Fey)
“Inchvesting Made Easy” (Larry Sheradon)
“Build a School with One Click – the New Education Infrastructure” (Bjorn
Herrmann)
“Public/Private Key’s Mathematical Basis” (Ian Atha)

Protagonist:
“Understanding Color and the CIE Chromaticity Chart” (Jonathan Foote)
“Community Organizing FOR GREAT JUSTICE!” (Maymay)
“Trope Analysis of Prototype Metaphysics” (Crutcher)
“How Brass Instruments work” (davidfinedavidfinedavidfine)
“The Myths and Facts about Marrow Donation” (Magda Silva and Jacob
Appelbaum)
Dedication Ceremony

I want to extend thanks to all the speakers, but especially all the people
who have been showing up and make this event a success. Without all of you,
it would not be able to happen.

aestetix

*schedule is subject to change, although the date/time/location will remain
the same.

Greetings all!
We are pleased to announce the monthly “Five Minutes of Fame”, scheduled for
this Thursday, February 18th, at 8pm at Noisebridge. Bring yourself, your
friends, your pet alien, and ping pong balls to throw at the speakers.

This is the one year anniversary of Five Minutes of Fame, and we’re handling
it the only way we know how: by throwing a party. So come for the awesome
talks and talented speakers, and stay for the fun and celebratory lulz!

All speakers have been notified, and the current schedule is as follows*:

Act 1:
“And Now For Something Completely Different.” (aestetix)
“A Bridge to the South: The Hacker Dojo” (David Weekly)
“What the US Banking System can Learn from Christmas Tree Lights” (Lulu
Wong)
“MobileDJ” (Cris Rys)
“The Geometry of Politics: A Data Analyst looks at the US Congress” (Mikael
Vejdemo-Johansson)
“Why Blocking Cookies Won’t Save You” (Sai)

Act 2:
“Open Source for Art and Music” (Jesse Zbikowski & Erik Swedberg)
“Introduction to the Bible” (Mikolaj Habryn)
“Behold the Time Cube” (Crutcher Dunnavant)
“Your 8 Circuit Brain, a Primer” (J. Fox Circe & Autumn Tyr-Salvia)
“The Dwarf Fortress” (Alex Handy)
A Special 5MoF Birthday Surprise

We want to extend thanks to all the speakers, but especially all the people
who have been showing up and make this event a success. Without all of you,
it would not be able to happen.

*schedule is subject to change, although the date/time/location will remain
the same.

Greetings all!

We are pleased to announce the monthly “5 Minutes of Fame”, scheduled for this Thursday, January 21st, at 8pm at Noisebridge. Bring yourself, your friends, your pet alien, and ping pong balls to throw at the speakers.

All speakers have been notified, and the current schedule is as follows*:

Act 1:
“Down the Rabbit Hole” (aestetix)
“Hacking is Politics” (Christie Dudley)
“Open Source Money” (Ken Restivo)
“Understanding G-Force/iTunes Music Visualization Through A Working Implementation in Max-MSP” (Bill Nye)
“Mission Comics & Art” (Leef Smith)

Act 2:
“NVC: a Human-to-Human Communication Protocol” (Jonathan Foote)
“Corporate Peoplehood — Can a corporation become the embodiment of a people?” (Michael Rogers)
“Hacking Fat Metabolism” (Da Mystik Homeboy)
“Making Music with Gameboyz” (starpause)
“Spurious Causality” (Davidfinedavidfinedavidfine)

We want to extend thanks to all the speakers, but especially all the people who have been showing up and make this event a success. Without all of you, it would not be able to happen.

*schedule is subject to change, although the date/time/location will remain the same.

Note: We’ve received a cease and desist letter from someone who’s already using this name; we have been in contact with the EFF, and are responding accordingly.

Come one, come all to Noisebridge this Thursday at 8PM and experience the wonder of Christmas past, present and future!

We have several dazzling performers for you that evening, a full lineup can be seen below:

Act 1:

• 5MoF Bingo! (Mr. Gonopolis)
• Exploring the Orbital Lifestyle (Samuel Coniglio)
• Teaching Computers to Teach People to Read and Speak (James Salsman)
• Octavia: Distributed, Secure, Parallel Network Filesystem (Chris Palmer)
• Report from RoboExotica (Davidfinedavidfinedavidfine)

Act 2:

• Follow the Funding: Researching the Rich for Grants & Donations (Rhonda)
• The Midas Touch (Sai)
• Bloc’ing Votes (Josh Myer)
• Pre-Internet Folklore Memetics (Naomi Most)
• A Krampus Kristmas (Alex Handy)