I've had an arm injury for three years as of today.
I saw Rachel Chalmers and told her about
the disparity in the size of the Free Dmitry movement as compared with other
movements, like the anti-war movement. And I mentioned that the
Eldred
petition had been signed by about 10,000 people -- and that this is
thrilling, but really pretty small by
PetitionOnline's standards.
(It's still about ten times as many as ever participated in any political
movment I organized, so I have no small amount of respect for
this accomplishment.)
Rachel pointed out that the small Free Dmitry movement was nonetheless
large enough to free Dmitry, where the huge anti-war movement was
too small to stop the war. So seid nun geduldig.
At a party on Friday we played a bunch of geeky songs. If I were to
try to build up a canon, I would start with
- All of
Astrocappella
- Several versions of the free software song
(like the Free Software Song (techno remix))
- Follow the GNU
- I Thought We Knew That
- Title of the Song (excerpt) (thanks to Sumana)
- God Wrote in LISP (thanks to Mako)
- The Valenti remix
- Remix of a Congressional hearing on copyright (I have this as
a file "copyrightwars.mp3", but I can't find the original source right now
it includes the line ... "Ten percent, five percent of the people
have hacked it, and they have on their t-shirts, they have the code, you know,
they have to be a genius to figure out how to do it. Normal people just
put it in and say 'I'll pay the money.'")
- DeCSS songs, especially the two recordings of Wecker's "Descramble (This
Function is Void)" (but we would never play those at the EFF).
I had proposed to do this
way back in September
2001. Maybe I'm too easily impressed by remixes of things I care
about and am interested in.
My proof about sums of powers is wrong! Sorry for leading
you astray.
