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February 10, 2009

Bill Gates Tried to Kill Me

Fascinating how it became a big deal that Bill Gates released proto-malarial mosquitoes at the TED conference last week in Long Beach. I was sitting about 20 meters from the stage, so I got to see the whole mosquito thing up close and personal. No-one panicked; everyone thought it was an amusing bit of strange shtick by Gates. And then Drudge got hold of it, and the rest is history.

Anyway, here is a Colbert Report clip on the non-malarial Gates-ian mosquito release:

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