An Internet Moment

By Jeremy Hudson

Harold, Maude, Cannibal Holocaust and Nib

I recently decided to finally watch Harold and Maude, a movie I had never seen in its entirety. Everybody has seen it, my list of most intriguing movies to see was empty, it was time. It is, of course, quite marvelous. But I stopped it in the middle because it became too much. This character Maude is a galactic artist who shoots yellow submarines out of her eyes. She is somebody I really wish I could... read more

For those who have never heard of Lawrence Lessig, he is someone you should really get to know. Very few people really get a chance to confront the institutional system at all it's weakpoints, due to financial independence and top notch legal expertise. But Lessig does this.

His big things are free culture, intellectual property law that is social, and non-corruption.(i.e. non-shilling)

This site has a bunch of free talks and info from him, I highly recommend it.

http://random... read more

If you don't know who Richard Stallman is, you don't know anything about software. This is not acceptable. If you use software, you should know some basics about it.

Assigned reading:

www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm