I got to the Creative Commons launch late (Q and I had to apply CPR to a dead server in Portland), and had to stand near the back, near the avocado dip. My summary of the speeches, therefore, has to be “Mumble mumble mumble (LOUD CRUNCHING NOISES OF MY OWN MOUTH) (APPLAUSE)”. Some elements I gathered through the static: Lessig, to follow up on his triumph of getting Milton Friedman and Ursula Le Guin to join forces in Eldred, got video pledges of support from John Perry “Intellectual Property is an Oxymoron” Barlow and Jack “I 0wnz0r Y0ur C0mm0nw3al” Valenti. Together – AT LAST. DJ Spooky spoke, then played something Quinn described as “19th Century Koyaanisqatsi” and therefore I liked. It is under the MUMBLE MUMBLE CRUNCH license. Aaron Swartz managed to explain RDF well, even as his presentation AV morphed behind him into /dev/random piping into video memory. The Creative Commons team also showed a fantastic Flash movie that explains the whole concept far better than any echo-mumbling I could muster. I can’t find it on the site, but oooohhh when I do, it is so getting redistributed. The brie was nice.
Our replacement Roomba (the previous one died in protest of our lifestyle) arrived. We’re looking for someone else in the area to play Two Robot Vacuum Cleaners Enter, One Robot Vacuum Cleaner Leaves. This is where two Roombas are placed back-to-back in the middle of a room, and set running. First to escape through the one open door wins. Also, when we’re drunker, we’re tying pens to them and making automatic art on the kitchen floor.