The philosophy of "Pervasive Computing" underlying Project Oxygen has
been spectacularly successful at bringing oodles and oodles of money
into the building.  

If computer science has taught us one thing, it's that if a little of
something is good (e.g abstraction, indirection,) a whole lot of it is
even better!

Therefore, today we will be brainstorming new "substance-themed"
project descriptions aimed at shaking even more money out of corporate
pockets.  Each project definition will consist of a title substance, a
theme, and the types of sponsors it targets as "partners".  A handful
of examples from our early brainstorming sessions:

Project:        Oxygen
Theme:          Pervasive Computing
Partners:       Mainstream computer companies; Japan
Status:         wildly successful

Project:        Vaseline
Theme:          Invasive Computing
Partners:       Medical imagery companies; the Discovery channel
Status:         pilot project underway in the MIT legal dep't 

Project:        Latex
Theme:          Perverted Computing
Partners:       Media Lab; adult entertainment industry
Status:         UROPs hired to perform extensive preliminary research on web

Project:        Tobacco
Theme:          Carcinogenic Computing
Partners:       Philip Morris;  Al Gore
Status:         waiting for Al "the tobacco farmer's friend" Gore
                to replace Al "big tobacco is evil" Gore

Project:        Acid
Theme:          Hallucinogenic Computing
Partners:       Harvard;  MIT undergraduate dormitories
Status:         project leader is away on "trip", expected back when
                Thorazine wears off

Please help us generate more ideas this evening!  Our goal is to have
not less than $1.5 billion in boondoggle proposals by the end of
tonight's...

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