UConn SSDP had a really cool (and under-reported) pre-conference to SSDP’s Northeast Regional Conference in April.

Several of “the usual suspects,” including myself, spoke. There’s no doubt, though, that Eric Sterling stole the show. I have seen him speak 10+ times, and he is one of the best and most engaging public speakers I have ever been exposed to. Fortunately my camera was rolling:

I was honored to be invited to speak at a very small panel at the largest and most prestigious gathering of experts in the fields of drugs and drug policy – the drug policy alliance biennial conference. I spoke about the free software movement’s view of cognitive liberty, and why the drug policy reform movement is a natural ally for free and open source software.

….now before you jump on me about the “order of magnitude” comment with encryption – I fully realize that with increasing strength that decryption becomes several orders of magnitude more difficult, but as this was not a technology conference, I didn’t want to belabor the point.

This is one of the coolest pieces of informative art I’ve ever seen.

If you are even remotely interested in the Lord of Rings Story, you must have a look:

So, I’m definitely not an advocate of government health care (see my last post proposing a republican vision of health care), but I really definitely can’t stand Joe Lieberman. Some activists (and friends of mine) from UConn staged a really sweet sit-in, unto getting arrested and simultaneously singing.

This is one of the best sit-in videos this year.