We were camped with Camp I Am over on the west-most side of the Esplanade. We generally did not stray too far from our camp. If you were over on the east side, well.. that might explain it. Another possibility is that you might have been looking for it during the day. For the most part, the spider only went out at sunset and at night. The spider also broke down twice in 2006, and was repaired on the playa both times thanks to the dedicated Mondo Spider Crew of bedlamites.

We disassembled it and put it in two trailers: a wicked horse trailer (thanks Wade!) and a peanut sized utility trailer. In 2007 we plan to bring it down in a custom built trailer.

Burning Man will be held in the Black Rock Desert, 120 miles north of Reno, Nevada. The towns of Empire and Gerlach serve as guardians of the desert region.

Amplified music is a favored method of participation and self-expression at Burning Man, and one that influences a large number of people. Of course, Larry Harvey has a few things to say about this. Check out this interview with him from the Summer 2000 Newsletter. This year, large scale sound systems are restricted to those camps located along the 2:00 and 10:00 axes. Sound levels produced by any electronic system or device should not exceed 90 decibels outside of a camp or village.

Nowhere is based upon the same key principles as Burning Man, but they are separate entities and have different atmospheres.

No. Any dominoes that you saw at a previous Burning Man were built by somebody else. Plus, they were probably a lot smaller.

Whoa Betty! The power grid in Center Camp is for the civic entities like the Rangers, Playa Info, the Artery and BMIR (our radio station). You will need to use your on-board generator. Out of consideration of your neighbors, we recommend using your generator sparingly.

Burning Man is a yearly outdoor arts festival that takes place in the Nevada Desert. It's hard to say exactly what Burning Man's about - it's about the creation of a cohesive, yet temporary community. It's about participation. It's about respect for the earth. Go to their web site to read more about it.

Luckily, Daron Gardner runs the fantastic Music Fellowship label and agreed to release "Centrefuge" even before he was in the band (he was still in the fantastic, and much more talented 49 Hudson at the time). After that intial step, we met Adam Forkner who helped us meet Ben Goldberg (who released "Seasons") Chris Scofield (who runs Strange Attractors Audio House), and Calvin Johnson (you know who he is).

Burning Man takes place on public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Assateague Island National Seashore is federally controlled land managed by the National Park Service. Park Rangers are present on the island. Also, Assateague Beach Burns are much smaller than Burning Man; the largest beach burn we've ever had was about 150 people.

AD2K will be located deep on the playa, about 5000 feet from the Man in the direction of 1:00. See our plans for more information.

You don't have to be in a camp in Burning Man or Nowhere. For the past two years Nowhere has been small enough that the atmosphere feels like one big camp. However, if you want to set up a camp, go for it.

A "BM Attendee" is a business, salesman, or entrepreneur, that shows up to our meeting(s) on The Playa to inform like minded businessmen ways to actively promote each other's offerings. A "BM Attendee" will get a personal and remembered connection from other Attendees.

The original and revised Programs were very successful in encouraging and making it easy for plan officials to correct certain violations of ERISA's fiduciary responsibility and prohibited transaction rules. Based on our experience, as well as comments from employee benefit plan practitioners, we believed that additional changes to the Program were needed to further encourage people to use the Program. These changes will also improve administration of the Program by EBSA's Regional Offices.

Despite what many have been led to believe, none of the Lazy Bear players are gay. Anything you may have read to the contrary in the tabloids was most likely a false rumor started by Logan and/or Ryan. However, the Lazy Bear crew has had a longstanding joke involving Logan getting himself into situations that cause passersby to assume he's gay, which then results in him comically exclaiming "Logan is NOT gay!" To promote someone else's inside joke, buy this shirt.

Dan: One day in a club in Kansas City, KS, I was sitting with Aaron Seymour of the Delilahs (a band from Mpls and our pals), and on the p.a. was Sloan, Canadian noise-popsters and anti-poseurs. Aaron said, "Why does everything have to be this Semisonic bullshit?" I didn't have the answer to his question but I loved the Sloan record and I loved the new word even more, so when we needed a name there it was.

Although both festivals encourage creative expression and happen in the great outdoors, the similarities really end there. Burning Man is a huge festival, with more then thirty thousand people in attendance. The Fire Tribe Gathering is smaller, with a maximum of 150 people are on-site, including children. At Burning Man, there are hundreds of different kinds of art installations, which aren't really connected to each other, and there is no time when the entire group gets together.

Commercial aviation is not encouraged. The Airport is built for private pilots and their passengers to participate in the event. Occasionally a pilot has extra room in her plane and is willing to take passengers who are able to share the expenses of the flight. Try joining the Aviators mailing list and asking the list.

Yes, although we don't review every single game that comes out. We don't have the staff to handle that. We do, however, focus on reviewing games that matter. We haven't been posting many lately, but hopefully that changes soon.

I found the latest one to be most interesting, as I wonder if our medications work properly if we have GI issues. This is about Parkinsons yet I wonder.... Researchers have recently found that people who have Parkinson's disease and also have a common gastrointestinal infection may be better able to control their symptoms of Parkinson's disease with levodopa if their infection is successfully treated.

In 2006, the fairgrounds raised their rate to $15 because they really couldn't afford to continue charging $10. is still a low rate for a campground.

Answer: Yes, most of us use our awnings during Burning Man but lash them down good. The winds are fierce so a heavy duty awning strap is recommended. If you don't use a strap then it's a good idea to roll it up during a wind storm.

You and about 40,000 other people would trade anything for a tandem ride. Unfortunately, we can't offer it. We've done a few tandems in the past but they are pretty spontaneous and random, and there's no way to plan to get one.

BEYOND BLACK ROCK is being produced with the full cooperation of the Burning Man organization, which views this point in time as a significant turning point in the community's history, and is eager to chronicle where they've come from and where they're going. The Project Staff is actively participating in shooting and production, and this unprecedented level of access ensures that this film will offer the most in-depth examination of the organization and its work ever undertaken.