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/

by pius • 19 years ago

82 41 19 years ago

Alex3917• 19 years ago

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

ivankirigin4• 19 years ago

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

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

tokipin• 19 years ago

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

RyanGWU82• 19 years ago

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_fish• 19 years ago

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

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

aswanson3• 19 years ago

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

mrtron• 19 years ago

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'

edw5195• 19 years ago

"The best confluence of hacking and hip hop"

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

ivankirigin4• 19 years ago

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

pius3• 19 years ago

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.

aston• 19 years ago

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

euccastro• 19 years ago

Um- testing the accelerometer?

jmzachary• 19 years ago

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

mynameishere• 19 years ago

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.

sayrer• 19 years ago

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.

choward93• 19 years ago

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

mojuba• 19 years ago

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

henryw• 19 years ago

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

rms2• 19 years ago

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

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

mattmaroon• 19 years ago

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.

getp• 19 years ago

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

twism• 19 years ago

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

aquateen• 19 years ago

I love the lab coats.

henning• 19 years ago

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

sspencer• 19 years ago

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!

altano2• 19 years ago

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

kirubakaran• 19 years ago

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

altano2• 19 years ago

Surprisingly easily

ptn• 19 years ago

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

Nicolay77• 19 years ago

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

(Or some other lady nearby.)

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

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