PAUL BOUTIN — Burning Man, the Bay Area's annual alt.credibility event for geeks, has gone from "radical self-expression" to self-litigation. Founders Larry Harvey and Michael Mikel each want sole ownership of the name. Third founder John Law, who split a decade ago, has sued both to free the Burning Man name into the public domain. Law wants to "keep anyone from having an exclusive right to capitalize on these brands."

The prize for the most annoying romance in this week's Vows goes to the following couple, who met just as the male half was moving to Los Angeles. It seemed as if things weren't to be, but,

Business 2.0 Magazine thinks you should recruit employees at Burning Man. They're wrong.

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This weekend's hottest tip concerns that home away from home for Burners, Tribe.net. The social site has long been the Friendster of Valley hippies and geeks whose social calendar revolves around the Burning Man summer festival. (Until recently, that included Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.)