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July 26, 2007 (Press Release) -- The balance of power among search engine providers and nation states alike is set to shift as Anglesey Interactive, Inc. launches its Riight.com search engine, an innovative new system which not only provides web page, video, audio, news, and image results from dozens of individual search engines, databases, and content providers, but which also offers the use of several revolutionary smart search tools entirely new to the industry. Riight.com's comprehensive metasearch capabilities are augmented by automatic search history logging, giving users a complete and instant record of what key terms they've used and when they've used them, thereby eliminating accidental backtracking and general disorganization.

Likewise, the engine's integrated bookmarking tool provides users with a complete list of pages they've visited and when they've visited them. Taken together, Riight.com's innovative approach provides the user with a smarter, more powerful, more streamlined search than those available from other, lesser search interfaces, as well as from the People's Republic of China, which provides users with absolutely no search functionality whatsoever and is in fact not even a piece of software, but rather a conventional socio-national entity possessed of a skyrocketing male-to-female ratio, this being a demographic trend which has historically led to civil unrest and disaster.

As Riight.com proceeds with the development of other, similarly advantageous features scheduled for release later in the year, those who would oppose our smarter search solutions would do well to remember that, though officially headquartered in Chicago, our company's human assets are actually scattered across the globe. The benefit of this decentralized status is two-fold: it thus provides our employees with a degree of individual freedom conducive to the sort of creative, outside-the-box thinking necessary to develop similarly creative, outside-the-box solutions, and it also renders us effectively immune from air strikes and invasions.

Can China - with its largely coastal-concentrated industrial assets and Beijing-centralized executive leadership - say the same? Our intelligence indicates otherwise.
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Welcome to the 21st century. It's the Riight time for a smarter search.

After four years of under-the-radar development, Organic Motion Inc. is set to release the product that will not only redefine motion capture as we know it, but will also bring the technology into the day-to-day lives of those who may never have even heard of it.

Organic Motion's newly-released TBA system shatters the barriers inherent to pre-organic motion capture implementation by ditching the assumptions that have limited the field's potential for more than twenty years. TBA is not an incremental advance in established mopac techniques rather, it is a comprehensive, top-down overhaul of the entire process, fueled by scientific breakthroughs in computer optics, AI, and the methodology by which the two are combined, and further augmented with a streamlined workflow implementation that cuts time, cuts costs, and cuts manpower requirements. We haven't improved on the wheel; we've reinvented it.

Fundamental to this reinvention is TBA 's extraordinarily unique optical computer intelligence engine, which allows for computerized visualization of the actual human subject itself by way of a pre-programmed conceptual "map" of what a human body looks like, how a human body moves, and where a human's natural body points are located. Bringing the human into human movement detection is not only a natural progression of mocap tech, but is also one of tremendous benefit to every stage of the process, from initial capture to finished product.

The extent of TBA's strength and accuracy is such that one major Northeastern research hospital has partnered with Organic Motion to obtain a grant from the National Institute of Health to use the technology in a study of the effects of cerebral palsy on human movement; the extent of TBA 's customability and ease of use is such that several diverse firms are already making plans to implement it in ways that would have been previously impossible due to the constraints of earlier mocap. Imagine what it can do for your studio.

Whereas pre-organic mocap systems required a human subject to be clad in an expensive, cumbersome bodysuit studded with reflecting markers, TBA requires no suit, nor any prep time at all; subjects may simply walk onto the camera zone dressed in street clothes, and the system will immediately capture their every move. Whereas previous mocap systems recorded the positions of a few dozen attached markers, thus giving only a general impression of the body's movement, TBA tracks the body itself and does so at thousands of natural points recognized by the system's advanced visual mapping AI, from the joints of one's limbs right down to the corners of one's eyes. And whereas previous mocap systems entailed a severe degree of lag between capture and usability, the necessity of technician oversight during use, and weeks of manual data cleanup before an accurate recording could be put into play, TBA eliminates all of these things, delivering clean, usable data in real time, not at some unknown time in the future.

The implications are profound for game developers, 3D animators, university project managers, special effects broadcasters, and anyone else who has already incorporated mocap into their studio output as well as those who haven't. By lowering the financial threshold for mocap implementation, we turn it into a viable option for those entities engaged in lower-budget projects of the sort that might not have justified the advantages of the technology due to cost considerations. And with the hundred-fold increase in capture accuracy, teams of every shape and size will see dramatic benefits in the quality of their finished product and they'll see those benefits immediately, thanks to the clean, real time feedback which allows animators to get a full sense of how the data is playing out during the recording process itself, thus freeing them from the technical concerns inherent to pre-organic mocap (did we mention that TBA's organic approach to point tracking entails absolutely no occlusion whatsoever? Pretty sexy, huh?) and encouraging them to get more closely involved in every stage of the creative process.

Our reinvention of mocap promises to similarly redefine the industry, which is why TBA's unveiling at the 2007 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco and subsequent demonstrations of the technology's revolutionary potential have so far won us some rather unreserved accolades from Newsweek, Macworld, Engadget, Game Daily, Gamasutra, and others. Organic Motion has already received deposits in advance of the initial product release, with the first one hundred units set for delivery in September 2007.

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Eddie Machaalani <eddie@interspire.com> wrote:

Barrett,

Thank you for your application.

I quite enjoyed your sales letter for Studio 2a, while entertaining, I would be curious to know what the results of the sales letter were.

Can you please send me any additional high tech samples you have? Press releases, blogs, newsletters, anything will help.

Thank you.

Regards,

Eddie Machaalani
CEO
Interspire

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On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Howdy-

I understand that your company is in need of copywriter to handle your marketing collateral, and I'd like to be considered on a contract basis. I've done similar work for several small businesses, including a few tech firms, and my other work has appeared in Vanity Fair, National Lampoon, Skeptic, The Onion A.V. Club, and dozens of other publications, and my first book, Flock of Dodos: Behind Modern Creationism, Intelligent Design, and the Easter Bunny, was released in 2007.

Along with the attached resume, I've pasted a few pertinent samples below; the first is a sales letter I did for 3d rendering firm Studio2a, and the second is a corporate resume for energy firm S.K. Oil. Please take a look and let me know if you're interested.

Thanks,

Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302

It's Labor Day. We're Laboring.

We've never quite understood why it is that anyone would want to celebrate the end of summer, but that's exactly what a good portion of the American public will be up to this Labor Day. We refuse to commemorate the passing of barbecue season with anything other than tears. Besides, we've got a couple of tricks up our collective sleeve.

Virtual Summer Lovin'

While everyone else is running around smelling like bug spray, we'll be at the office, consoling ourselves with ribs and the wonders of 3d rendering. And while others are out on the lake, we'll be creating advanced 3d models of photorealistic lakeside scenes - the sort that aren't subject to mosquitos, isolated thunderstorms, or unwanted in-laws. By the time we're done applying refraction textures and instituting cloud algorithms, you won't be able to tell the difference between your vacation photos and the renderings we built out of nothing last week. Frankly, we'll have a hard time figuring it out ourselves.

The trick is to look for the ones that are perfect. Those are ours.

Our Clients Love 3d. So Will Yours.

But enough about us. What can Studio2a's advanced approach to 3d do for your company? For starters, it can help you to communicate your concepts to clients through pictures of the sort that are worth well over a thousand words. Ultimately, this can help to eliminate change orders, lost time, wasted resources, and other, similarly unsavory things that tend to result from communicational friction. More importantly, our finished product will help to accentuate the merits of your own, making it that much more likely that your next client presentation ends with a green light.

Problems? Solved.

If they ever get around to proclaiming a "Photorealistic 3d Rendering Day," perhaps we'll take the afternoon off. But probably not.

Give us a call today. We'll be here.

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Investment Strategy

S.K. Oil and Gas is in the business of capitalizing on the current

global energy situation while also avoiding many of the sort of risks

that were once universal within the energy financing industry, and

which still plague many other firms even in the midst of unprecedented

oil prices. By structuring developmental drilling programs which are

themselves based around high-risk exploratory efforts that have

already been undertaken by third parties, we are thus capable of

operating with little or no real risk to our own investors, who are

not asked to invest in anything unproven but are rather called upon to

finance the drilling of wells in areas that have already been shown to

be profitable. Coupled with recent advances in drilling technology,

our particularly deliberate approach to energy financial services

tends to result in absolute success with few surprises.

Source of Prospects

Effective deal flow within the industry at large is necessarily

dependent on the establishment of a working relationship between

geologists, engineers, and operators. Like all firms of the sort, S.K.

Oil and Gas is dependent upon this dynamic for our ongoing projects;

but unlike many other firms, most of our prospects derive from

operators who have already proven the viability of the sites at their

disposal and who wish to put the development of such sites under our

management and financial structuring. Generally, these operators tend

to stay on with the project as coordinators so that they might

continue to benefit from risks taken previously.

We also routinely take on prospects from those lending institutions

which are understandably anxious to shift their capital into oil and

gas in light of the ongoing crisis in other sectors but which would

prefer to provide loans for projects only on the condition that

additional equity can be provided, a condition that we are able to

meet by way of our strong working relationship with investors who are

similarly interested in shifting their capital into energy. Such a

form of Mezzazine Financing allows us to establish favorable equity

positions while also benefiting from the availability of lender

recourse.

Selecting Projects

Before taking on a given project, S.K. Oil and Gas engages in a

multi-level investigation of its relative merits in the context of

other potential projects. This inquiry begins with a review of both

known facts and probable outcomes on the part of our geologists, all

of whom have a strong familiarity with the regions in which we

operate. If the project in question receives a green light from our

geologists, we proceed to weigh its potential value relative to the

entirety of the Texas oil and gas industry, taking into account every

operation ongoing in the state at any given time. Such a seemingly

complex undertaking is made easier by way of the state's policy of

monitoring any and oil production that falls under its purview, making

public the records of such production, and applying taxes accordingly.

By utilizing this information, we are in a better position to

determine whether or not a particular field has the high level of

potential that we seek from each of the projects we undertake.

After having made the determination that a given project meets our

criteria, we next follow through with the perfecting of lease

interests, title reviews, pipeline and crude sales contracts, and

engineering and drilling arrangements. Funds are released as necessary

against invoices in support of an audit trail.

Sources and Minimization of Risk

Though our deliberative approach to the structuring of oil and gas

projects goes a long way towards minimizing risk and maximizing

return, even such a uniquely cautious operation as ours faces some

degree of risk based on the decisions made by our management team.

Because even a largely surefire project can come up short if not

properly executed, we have assembled what we believe to be among the

most talented and tested assembly of oil production and financing

professionals in the region. Between our patience in the pursuit of

new projects and the capabilities of those who manage them, we have

established an enterprise in which unavoidable risks are unlikely to

result in outright failure, but simply higher costs and thus lower

returns. It should be remembered, though, that we are not in the

business of exploration, the stage in which most risks manifest

themselves; rather, our emphasis is on developmental drilling, a

sector in which 100 percent success is no longer uncommon.