Copyrighteous

What do you a call someone who studies meteors?

No, really.

I feel like people should not give software for physicians names that are a one letter substitution away from "malpractice".

Namie Amuro is a very famous Japanese pop star. Mika pointed me to her most recent album. The title is, Can't Eat, Can't Sleep, I'm Sick.

I like the title! While Namie goes into some detail on the nature of her malady in the title of her piece, I think it would be even better if she did so more.

Like, for example, in my new upcoming single, Can't Think Straight, Can't Stop Vomiting, I'm Sick.

As part of the Defective By Design anti-DRM campaign which I've been rabble-rousing for recently, there are going to be a series of protests at Apple Stores across the United States Saturday, June 10th. Events will be in New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, and Plano.

There will be costumes and cameras and plenty of people attempting to warn Apple customers about the dangers of DRM in iTunes and Apple hardware and software.

If you are going to come to any of the events, you can find more information on the Defective By Design website and you can RSVP by mailing appleflash@defectivebydesign.org.

If you are coming to Boston, there's a tentatively planned after party at the Acetarium. If you have an iPod or other DAP with DRM, we can attempt to liberate your iPod with RockBox there.

If you live in or near any of these places, you should come. If we don't win some serious mindshare in the next year and before the next holiday season, it will become much more difficult. As consumers of technology, we have a lot to lose to inaction right now.

My friend Seth recently pointed out that the Brazilian Real coins look strikingly similar to the Euro coins.

I agree. This was something that I noticed on my last trip to Brazil as well. In fact, they are so similar I had trouble telling which one were the knockoffs or which were Real!

Mika and I applied for membership at the Boston Athenæum today.

In addition to paying the USD $160 yearly fee, were each asked to provide three references who can attest to care for books. That's right; three references to get a library card. This is a very good library. We'll hopefully hear back about our application within two weeks. If we are accepted, we'll be able to take guests into the library with us.

The Athenæum has, among other things, a copy of Narrative of the life of James Allen, alias George Walton, alias Jonas Pierce, alias James H. York, alias Burley Grove, the highwayman. Being his death-bed confession, to the warden of the Massachusetts state prison. It is bound in the authors skin.

Apparently, while rare, this is not entirely uncommon. The Harvard Law Library has another example of anthropodermic bibliopegy and just a couple months ago, someone found a book bound in human skin in the middle of the street in Leeds.

It's about time for a wrap-up on the recent major event in my life.

On May 29th, Mika Matsuzaki and I were married.

The festivities kicked off with a parade through Somerville's Davis Square. Andres Salomon kept rhythm on drums and, thanks to my new lab adviser Chris Csikszentmihályi, we had a couple dozen other wikipedians, hackers, technologists, and biologists keeping tune on kazoos. Like all good Somerville parades, we forgot our parade permit. Which was fine.

On the marginally more traditional side, we exchanged vows (written under a mathematical constraint -- Mika's idea) and rings. The marriage was made official by Oxford/Harvard professor of "Cyberlaw" -- who I once worked as teachers' assistant for many years ago -- and Massachusetts Justice of the Peace, Jonathan Zittrain.

We ended the day watching the sunset with the serious party-goers from out of town, Debian, and the FSF. Then off to dinner and "happily ever after."

Lots more pictures are linked the Cambridge wedding page on our wedding wiki. If you have pictures, you should link them there or mail them to use and we'll upload them. If you want to send messages of congratulations, please visit that page for mailing instructions (best!) or a wiki page to write them up on.

Just yesterday, we received (via Joey Hess) four wonderful pages of tightly packed congratulations messages from the attendees at DebConf. Although it's not a constitutional matter, I'm pretty confident we had more than 3Q developers signing that form which, in a Debian election methods sort of way, really warms my heart. Thank you everyone! It's really too bad we missed DebConf but we're both determined to make next year!