Lawrence Lessig' s keynote at OSCON 2002 last week prodcued a nice catch phrase: "Create like it's 1790" ...and now he's even got a nice gif for it.

Mr. Lessig is ceasing his speaking tour schedule to fight the good fight in Washington D.C.. He's leading the team of lawyers in the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act trial. After that he'll be concentrating on his new project the Creative Commons.

The 1790 thing refers to Lessig's statement about the state of copyright laws in 1790, which allowed a wonderful amount of freedom to artists at the time.

A run down on some recent films I've seen:

• Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys: Fantastic, more real than real, And a great soundtrack.
  
• Wave Twisters: Like Heavy Metal for Hip Hop. I want this DVD!
  

Don't ask me why I've seen so much fluff crap lately. I have no excuse:

• Austin Powers: Goldmember: There are parts where my head hurt because I'd been laughing too long.
• Mr. Deeds: This is the least funny comedy in the history of comedies.
• Reign of Fire: Acting good, Special Effects good. Story baaaaaaaaad.

So here's an article on the company that scammed me out of $2,400 for a new Mac: [Link]. The reporter failed to mention that they've done this exact same thing before (MedNetPlus, a former company owned by the same person which supposedly went out of business the same way). Also failed to mention that J.C. Morris advertised a post-9/11 charity raising sale, where some percentage of sales was to go to a September 11th Relief Fund ..yet no one has been able to verify any money actually went to a fund. This is a violation of a federal law, you'd think they'd take it seriously...

Caught a cool new band in San Diego last night: ILYA. They are a 6 or 7 piece ensemble that I would describe as a bit Bjork and a bit Massive Attack. There should be a CD coming out soon, and I got on their mailing list in hopes they make it up to San Francisco sometime.

So I didn't blog much during OSCON 2002. Mostly because my punk-bitch wi-fi driver sucked. Maybe I'll type up some stuff later, for posterity....

So I just checked into the San Diego Downtown International Youth Hostel
(I'm in town for the O'Reilly 2002 Open Source Convention) and decided to test out
my laptop wifi card ...sure enough I got a dhcp server; Free Internet!

I can already tell this week is going to be geek heaven.

Someone on on the dive-bar mailing list sent a link to a SF City database that lists the health code history for every restaurant in the city. I whipped up this perl script to capture the data from the city website, so now I have a list of every bar and restaurant in The City (with links to their health code history).

My favorite bar seems to have had minor problems with vermin. I'm not surprised, I remember having to fight off a burly cockroach there one time.