Quinn wanted a distributed project to synthesise all possible music, and hand out the copyrights to whoever has the screensaver running at the time. This man clearly needs a distributed project to synthesis all human thought, and good luck to him.
At Biella‘s house last night, somebody was looking for 37,000 signatures to get a proposition onto San Francisco’s ballot. Cory wisely suggested that this was too humble: why not seek out 37,000 propositions, and then get each of the proposers to sign each others’ propositions? Everyone wins! San Francisco’s a creative place, after all, and everyone loves a denial-of-service attack on democracy. My suggestion at this point was to construct a distributed project to generate all possible signatures (therefore guaranteeing all future propositions would be automatically included), then, once that was achieved, a distributed project to generate all possible propositions. Perhaps we could even copyright them all, and win some cash whatever the political outcome.
After that, I fear, the suggestions became quite impracticable.