<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7bb2071f-8fa1-4506-9bbd-6e724aef5fee/89F6C526-D9D1-4F7A-983A-EC091E7C70D6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://valleywag.gawker.com/5146508/bill-gates-unleashes-mosquito-swarm" href="http://valleywag.gawker.com/5146508/bill-gates-unleashes-mosquito-swarm" style="font-size: 11px;">valleywag.gawker.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://valleywag.gawker.com/5146508/bill-gates-unleashes-mosquito-swarm"><H1><A href="http://valleywag.gawker.com/5146508/bill-gates-unleashes-mosquito-swarm">Bill Gates Unleashes Mosquito Swarm</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://valleywag.gawker.com/5146508/bill-gates-unleashes-mosquito-swarm"><P><IMG height="375" width="500" src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gawker/2009/02/3253321587_b6982ec8ce.jpg" />TED, the annual gathering of the most pretentious people from the fields of technology, entertainment, and design, just got punk'd. Microsoft chairman <A href="http://gawker.com/tag/bill-gates/" title="Click here to read more posts tagged BILL GATES" class="autolink">Bill Gates</A> released a swarm of mosquitos into the crowd.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://valleywag.gawker.com/5146508/bill-gates-unleashes-mosquito-swarm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/valleywag.gawker.com/img/C55D94B7-BBE2-41AB-910C-56205F124524" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://valleywag.gawker.com/5146508/bill-gates-unleashes-mosquito-swarm">Ending malaria is a particular passion of Gates's, whose <A href="http://gawker.com/tag/bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation/" title="Click here to read more posts tagged BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION" class="autolink">Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation</A> has spent millions fighting the disease. But he apparently didn't feel like TED attendees were taking the threat seriously. "Not only poor people should experience this," Gates said as he let the bugs loose on his audience, <A href="http://twitter.com/davemorin/status/1177476379">according to Facebook manager Dave Morin</A>. (<A href="http://twitter.com/pierre/status/1177474994">eBay founder Pierre Omidyar</A> and Twitter CEO Ev Williams <A href="http://twitter.com/ev/status/1177478039">confirm</A> the report.)</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/89F6C526-D9D1-4F7A-983A-EC091E7C70D6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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