Absolutely Unbelievable: Richard Stallman Crankin' Dat Soulja Boy in front of the Green Building at MIT [video](thenewfreedom.net)

Absolutely Unbelievable: Richard Stallman Crankin' Dat Soulja Boy in front of the Green Building at MIT [video]

http://www.thenewfreedom.net/wp/2008/01/16/richard-stallman-cranking-dat-soulja-boy/

43 comments

"Please tell us something surprising or amusing that one of you has discovered. (The answer need not be related to your project.)"

sspencer19 anni fa

I can't help but wonder if there is a dusty film in someone's basement of Alan Turing swing-dancing to Glenn Miller in front of Bletchley Park sometime in the early 1940s.

Because that is how people will view this in 50 years or so. Awesome!

aston19 anni fa

I need yoooouuu to put down the laptop before you start doing club dances.

jmzachary19 anni fa

Yo! That is Master GPL! Respect or he will pop a cap in your stack.

euccastro19 anni fa

Um- testing the accelerometer?

ivankirigin19 anni fa

The best confluence of hacking and hip hop since Monzy's "Drama in the PhD"

http://graphics.stanford.edu/~monzy/DramainthePhD.mp3

RyanGWU8219 anni fa

I thought Monzy's "Kill Dash Nine" was even funnier.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Fow7iUaKrq4

(Monzy was one of my TAs last year!)

mechanical_fish19 anni fa

I prefer the MP3 version. Here it is, complete with an insightful intro by the man himself:

http://www.monzy.com/?p=245

aswanson19 anni fa

What about MC Hawking? Entropy is my song: http://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-Rhyme-Hawkings-Greatest/...

mrtron19 anni fa

Bah...you want some actual hardcore CS rap

MC Plus+ http://www.mcplusplus.com/

Featuring such masterful lyrics as:

  Project 2 in the databases,
  around deadline I see desperate faces.
  Concurrency control using two phase lockin'
  two writes coming in, second one is blockin'

aswanson19 anni fa

Is he a representative of the east or west coast contingent? This is consequential, you know.

rms19 anni fa

doesn't MC Hawking rep Cambridge? (the one in England)

aswanson19 anni fa

Sure does (East Side). I was talking about MCplusplus, though.

tokipin19 anni fa

for those that haven't seen this one yet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTby_e4-Rhg

edw51919 anni fa

"The best confluence of hacking and hip hop"

That's like saying the best confluence of oil and water.

pius19 anni fa

Um, no, you're just being arbitrary. Someone could just as easily say that about hacking and heavy metal. They'd be just as wrong.

ivankirigin19 anni fa

Actually it is worse than arbitrary. The greatest bastion of electronic music in the main stream is in hip hop. Metal makes far less use of computers and such.

edw51919 anni fa

Isn't calling someone wrong kind of arbitrary?

pius19 anni fa

I didn't call you wrong. I said you are equally as wrong as someone who says some arbitrary other type of music is antithetical to hacking.

edw51919 anni fa

Then I'd also be equally as right, right?

That feels a little less arbitrary.

pius19 anni fa

Exactly. :D

ivankirigin19 anni fa

you obviously haven't heard of the genre "nerd core". it's exploding.

edw51919 anni fa

You're right. I'm far too nerdy for anything that's "exploding".

Isn't "nerd core" a contradiction in terms?

ivankirigin19 anni fa

http://youtube.com/results?search_query=nerdcore

edw51919 anni fa

I had no idea. That was too good. (Except the bit about being picked last for dodgeball was hitting a little below the belt).

I'm glad I saw that. Now destroy that link forever.

choward9319 anni fa

Every time I hear that song I can slowly feel my brain decompose.

mojuba19 anni fa

Many GPL'd sources do the same to my brain.

henryw19 anni fa

you guys know about 'superman' right? it's nasty.

rms19 anni fa

in the scheme of slang terms for sexual acts, i would say it is nothing.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=superman+dat+...

mattmaroon19 anni fa

Yeah, go play poker online, then run the names of your 9 opponents through urban dictionary. Odds are 2 will be worse.

I just hope the same thing goes for fantasy sports.

aquateen19 anni fa

I love the lab coats.

getp19 anni fa

About the man: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman

ptn19 anni fa

oh...my...god...he's a better dancer than I am :P

henning19 anni fa

I'm not that surprised by this, actually. RMS was very big into folk dancing at one point in his life.

altano19 anni fa

So is that like... A macarena type fad? Please explain this to us old folks =\

kirubakaran19 anni fa

What is a 'macarena type fad'? Please explain this to us young folks ;)

BTW, how can one be "trapped" at 23? http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=altano

[deleted]19 anni fa

altano19 anni fa

Surprisingly easily

Nicolay7719 anni fa

He's just trying to impress the lady in black.

(Or some other lady nearby.)

[deleted]19 anni fa

twism19 anni fa

pffft.... lets see if he can do the spiderman

mynameishere19 anni fa

He's the worst dancer. I remember reading his bio about how he spent years training as a folk dancer. Guess it didn't do much good.

sayrer19 anni fa

I think he is much better than anyone else in the movie. He carries it well at about 0:20-0:25, while the others look like spastic white people.