Gates wants you bitten by the charity bug
InternetNews | at | by Mike
Bill Gates developed quite the reputation as a pointed pitchman -- if not necessarily a slick one -- during his long tenure as the public face of Microsoft. He certainly didn't disappoint at the TED conference this week, when he unleashed a jar full of mosquitoes on the audience.
The stunt took place during Gates's 18-minute presentation at TED -- short for Technology, Entertainment and Design, an annual conference that gathers many of the world's intelligentsia to discuss everything from world politics to architecture to genetics to charity. Gates, who is now retired from active participation at the software company he co-founded, now works full-time at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.