You too can join the FSF

Mark Pilgrim: I am now a card-carrying associate member of the Free Software Foundation. Software is free, but lawyers are expensive.

Tell me about it! Try working at the EFF and you'll find out just how hard this kind of lawyer works. Both the FSF and the EFF are 501(c)(3) organizations, so your contributions are tax-deductible. Yay!

A few people are already bragging about what number they are. It's so funny to see geeks have a pissing contest over numbers. Be it your slashdot member id or you SETI/rc64/Folding @Home ranking, it's always about being as close to #1 as you can.

Apparently I'm not immune. I have a slashdot id of 2549 and a FSF number of 175. I'm a guy and a geek, I guess that makes me doubly predictable...