John McCain invented the BlackBerry- September 16, 2008 From Politico:Asked what work John McCain did as Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee that helped him understand the financial markets, the candidate's top economic adviser wielded visual evidence: his BlackBerry. "He did this," Douglas Holtz-Eakin told reporters this morning, holding up his BlackBerry.http://lessig.org/blog/2008/09/john_mccain_invented_the_black.html 4DEMs, 4GOPs: CHANGE we (all) can push for- September 11, 2008 Earmarks petitionLobbyist petition mp4 versionmp4 versionhttp://lessig.org/blog/2008/09/4dems_4gops_change_we_all_can.html the wrong in earmarks- September 11, 2008 SusanG at the DailyKos has a callout for John Cole's post about earmarks. As Cole put's it: The total national debt, as I write this, is $9,679,000,000,000.00 (nine and a half trillion). The Budget for 2008 is close to $3,000,000,000,000.00 (three trillion). Our budget deficit for this year is going to range in between $400-500,000,000,000.00 (four hundred to five hundred billion, give or take a few billion). The total value of earmarks in 2008 will be approximately $18,000,000,000.00...http://lessig.org/blog/2008/09/the_wrong_in_earmarks.html taking responsibility- September 11, 2008http://lessig.org/blog/2008/09/taking_responsibility.html help design REMIX, the site- September 9, 2008 My next (and the last) copyrightculture book, Remix, will be coming out this fall, and I'm miles behind in preparing a site. If you're able to volunteer to help with the DESIGN, I'd be grateful. Please email me, and thanks! Update: Thanks for all the offers. I think I'm set on this.http://lessig.org/blog/2008/09/help_design_remix_the_site.html BarackBook fact check- September 8, 2008 A tongue-in-cheek reply to my addition to GOP.com's BarackBook.http://lessig.org/blog/2008/09/barackbook_fact_check.html Picasa Web Albums goes CC- September 3, 2008 Very cool news this morning: the latest version of Picasa Web Albums now, like Flickr, supports Creative Commons licenses.http://lessig.org/blog/2008/09/picasa_web_albums_goes_cc.html Happy Birthday to GNU- September 2, 2008 British humorist Stephen Fry has produced a video to mark the 25th Anniversary of RMS's launch of the GNU operating system. Watch and celebrate here. This is an extraordinary milestone to mark. I'll keep a list of celebratory videos here (email me with any links). Congratulations to Richard on the success of this movement launched as an idea 25 years ago (September 27 is the date), and more importantly, thank you to Richard for this movement launched as an idea 25 years ago.http://lessig.org/blog/2008/09/happy_birthday_to_gnu.html |