Update: See map coordinates data correction note below.
To all you dirty hippies our esteemed friends traveling to Burning Man this year: be safe, stay hydrated and sunscreened, please don't floss your butt with el-wire, and watch out for these characters.
The event has a new theme this year: Hope and Fear. But, bla bla bla, theme schmeme, we all know it's about the pink-haired girls and real-life Magritte tableaux, awesome footwear, naked people on hobby-horses, beautiful fire, and all the other indescribable stuff that flashes in your head when someone asks "What's Burning Man?" and you can't explain.
BoingBoing reader Turgan has created a neat interactive map website that lists events, camps, and artwork at Burning Man 2006 here.
More information about that site here, here, and here:
Update: Wayne Correia says there's a problem with some of the data in Turgan's map:
The camps map google maps overlay stuff is using the wrong location data, overlaying camps on a satellite photo from a previous year that doesn't reflect this year's location — which is north about 1.33 miles from the 2005 site.
These files can be loaded into your GPS or Google Earth to see exactly where the event is located this year. This BRC layout is accurate for this year and should be disseminated.
And Thomas Terashima tells BoingBoing,
I am helping host the Canadian Street Hockey Tournament — better known as the Xeni Cup —
this year at
Burning Man at The_Many theme camp, located at 9:00 near Guess.The time is set for Thursday at 3:00 PM. Equipment will be provided. Bring your own favorite hockey stick and (Canadian) beer.
Link to more info, and here are photos from last year's edition of The Xeni Cup.
Update: Alas, the Burningman bingo image link is dead. Anyone have an archived copy somewhere? Going to Black Rock City without it is like going to see Snakes on a Plane without your audience participation script!
Update 2, yay:
Here is is.
Reader comment: Phil Stripling says,
The Civilized Explorer is having its annual geek fashion show on
Friday September 1 at 2:00 pm, Chance at 8:30. Photos from last
year here.We give away free clothes to geeks with no fashion sense so they
don't look like tourists at the Burn on Saturday night. As you
can see from the photos, many arrive as geeks, but no geeks leave.
