.jpg "Why Facebook borrowed $100 million for servers")
Valleywag
Ah, this is why you shouldn't run tech from Hollywood. A friend of Valleywag was browsing Rolling Stone's Scientology article (to ogle at Tom Cruise and maybe catch a peek of Beck, natch) when he stumbled on this:
Scientologists run a number of boarding schools around the country, including the prestigious Delphian School, in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, which counts Earthlink founder Sky Dayton among its graduates.
And, our reader gleefully points out, Sky has an incriminating L. Ron Hubbard quote on his Earthlink homepage. Looks like he's still in the church. Meanwhile, San Fran is looking to his ISP for its wifi blanket. Says the source, "Wonder if Gavin Newsom has met the guy through his new Thetan girlfriend?"
This is run-of-the-mill in Sky's home down in L.A. But you just don't find that in the Valley. At, say, Google, a Scientology habit wouldn't fly — it would conflict with the daily Est sessions.
Inside Scientology [Rolling Stone]
Sky Dayton [Earthlink]
Comments
'Sky Dayton.' Hands-down coolest name ever.
The thought of Scientology and wi-fi blanketing brings to mind some pretty scary premonitions. Could this be the way they assimilate us all?! </conspiracy theory>
L. Ron Weirdo Creepy for sure.... Indoctrinate your own damned selves.
Its no secret that sky is a scientologist. I was an early employee at earthlink, and the entire company was scientologist and even freakier, they ran the company based on L Ron Hubbard's "Management Technology". Yes, we had to use scientologist phrases and frameworks to manage employees. They used to come around our desks once a week and we would have to show them our inboxes. Luckily, these days all of the email snooping can be done without employee involvement, so we don't have to be inconvenienced!
Earthlink is now owned by Time Warner... Therefore Timewarner and thru it Roadrunner is also part of scientology?
@Derek: That would be entertaining were it true, but alas, it's not.
Start a discussion:
Login with your username and password below. Or comment on this post via email.
Forgot your username or password? New User?