Saturday, August 17, 2002

More Lessig

The good folks at O'Reilly have put up a transcript of the now-legendary speech Larry Lessig gave at OSCon on July 24.

Leonard Lin has also created an amazing Flash Presentation of the same speech, combining .mp3 with .ppt, or something like that. Whatever he did, it was a labor of love and skill, and very well done.

O'Reilly also has a large list of multimedia files of OSCon presentations, keynotes and other talks, including my own.

By the way, I am also re-reading Larry's companion book to this speech, The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World, and I am no less convinced than ever that this is the most important book of our time.

Buy it and read it.

[Later...] Steve Mallett points to a three-word summary statement on Page 170 of The Future of Ideas:

Dinosaurs should die.

The UCSB one-post brochure

If you're trying to make up your mind about which UC school to attend, maybe Bryan Field-Elliot can help make up your mind.

Back

Took awhile with Friday traffic and all, but I got back okay. I always enjoy the drive down 101 from San Francisco to Santa Barbara. It's beautiful, the landscape varies constantly, and it's almost infinitely nicer than the far more familiar and ruler-straight I-5, which is the default choice for driving between San Francisco and L.A.

After dinner we went out to Aqua Blue, a terrific restaurant for which there seems to be no reference on the Web. The kid was so wasted he ate about three bites of spaghetti and fell asleep on the floor.