On Friday, Sergey Brin released the following statement at the Official Google Blog regarding the company’s position on California’s Proposition 8, which it opposes:

Our position on California’s No on 8 campaign
9/26/2008 03:23:00 PM
As an Internet company, Google is an active participant in policy debates surrounding information access, technology and energy. Because our company has a great diversity of people and opinions — Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, all religions and no religion, straight and gay — we do not generally take a position on issues outside of our field, …

Sergey Brin, in Moscow with his mom in 1990.
“I don’t feel comfortable being one of the crowd. It’s kind of interesting I really liked the schools that I went to, but I never rooted for the sports teams. I was never one of the crowd supporting something or not. I like to maintain my independence.” ~ Sergey Brin.
Moment Magazine has just published the most in-depth biographical piece about Sergey Brin that I think has ever been written. Reading the piece one definitely gets the impression …

Lovely Lucy Southworth seems to be getting more in the public eye. Here she is at Saturday’s bigtime X-Prize bash, seen chatting with Arianna Huffington. SF Gate has more photos from the event. It seems everyone who is anyone in Silicon society (and a couple of has beens… but we still love them!) was there. Don’t be jealous, we didn’t get invited either.
Partial list:

Sir Richard Branson
Sergey Brin
Larry PageÂ
Tipper Gore, Kristin Gore and Kristin’s husband, Paul Cusack
Jerry Brown and his wife, Anne Gust
Arianna Huffington
John C. Venter
Gil Elbaz and …

Surely you’ve read the amusing Wall Street Journal piece about Larry Page’s and Sergey Brin’s big fancy airplane by now, so you don’t need SFluxe to point it out to you (read it here!) But what we want to know is why they only have ONE jet. Isn’t that a bit impractical? We don’t find it luxurious at all to have to share a jet with one’s co-worker.
And do they share a home as well? WHY have we not seen where they live yet?

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