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this has made participating in public media much more important.

ubuweb is a fantastically deep and broad archive with resources often hard to find elsewhere. check out the films section [1]- i feel any site with laurie anderson, alvin lucier, cory arcangel, and kenneth anger for free deserves your love and support.

[1] http://www.ubu.com/film/

here's the video. the fun starts at 1:50 https://youtu.be/lbruOe6Yii0 here is the max headroom incident on wttw in 1987 https://youtu.be/tWdgAMYjYSs

cliff stoll made an ... interesting movie of this book. its fun to watch and would probably make a good drinking game. : https://youtu.be/EcKxaq1FTac

here is a more recent and in depth exploration of the hacker, with a similar title but a solid footing in philosophy and history -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hacker_Manifesto

for an excellent and knowledgable look at the si, its origins and legacy read The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International by McKenzie Wark [1], author of the si influenced look at technology 2004's A Hacker Manifesto

https://www.versobooks.com/books/1869-the-beach-beneath-the-...

here is a better version of the video referenced in this blog post: https://youtu.be/x0c9ykqe2Xs

this is an excellent project that's great fun to watch the progress of. keep up the great work.

i have no experience with altos but i have been wondering -- on day one of the restore, it was noted the alto in question had some modifications from stock issue[1], could the booting issues be related to the microcode or wiring changes necessary to support those modifications? is it trying to boot off of the now missing trident drive?

[1] from http://www.righto.com/2016/06/restoring-y-combinators-xerox-... "I suspect that the Y Combinator Alto originally had both a Trident drive and a Diablo drive (as well as four Orbit boards to drive a laser printer)"

there are six fascinating hours of personal history with taylor pohlman of forethought here https://youtu.be/5i6mR3LHOB4

here is ibm's tv ad for this computer https://youtu.be/9m54rKlErwA

it's a good solution to listening to the radio for me, it'll tune in any fm or am station by call letters, so i can keep up with news and everything. its great to be able to tune in more than just the local stations. a young relative loves to hear new jokes on echo as well.

computer animation history buffs will have already noted the earlier works, few as pretty as john whitney's kerrison predictor animations https://youtu.be/ZrKgyY5aDvA which he explains here https://youtu.be/5eMSPtm6u5Y

i did the same thing and was also pleased with the results until the recent change that removed the submit button from the text entry field on comments - now there isnt a way to reply to conversations on facebook.

good advice, fascinatingly it turns out the whole thing was part of the development of the IFB, the earpiece in common use on every tv news show: The turboencabulator skit was originally intended to demonstrate the usefulness of earpiece radios as a replacement for cue cards when actors are delivering lines for a video. Bud Haggart wanted to show that you could use the earpiece effectively even when the lines get ridiculously difficult to follow, so he used the turboencabulator as a subject because it'd been a running gag in the engineering community ever since its first technical description was published by John Hellins Quick in 1944.

encabulation is a great topic of study with many interesting video demos

turbo encabulator v1 https://youtu.be/Ac7G7xOG2Ag rockwell turbo encabulator https://youtu.be/2fjcJp_Nwvk rockwell retro encabulator https://youtu.be/pbsmHnsjJZk chrysler turbo encabulator https://youtu.be/UyRllRWfLJE chrysler turbo encabulator diagnosis and service https://youtu.be/pbsmHnsjJZk fort worth vintage flying museum specific service notes https://youtu.be/bOV0v1Uq5CY

seems like a great idea - but isn't the term 'paperweight' slang for bricked hardware that the magic smoke has escaped from?

typo in article headline

trivia lovers will note beatnik was founded by thomas dolby

n.b. rosegarden is the linux sound app, soundgarden is a rock band

where wizards stay up late isbn 9780684832678

weaving the web by berners-lee 006251587X

the master switch - tim wu

the soul of a new machine - tracy kidder 9780316491976

dealers of lightning

if you like eco, check out 'Q' by luther blissett, which is given away for free on his website[1] along with all of his other works.

1: http://www.wumingfoundation.com/english/biography.html

excellent work, thanks for sharing. my wavyness simulation resulted in more literal results [1] so i'm glad to have code to study for improvements.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnG6I1nsHy4

wow that's a nice bounty for changing two parameters on the end of a URL.

i can't imagine that the general public features in the calculus for naming elements whatsoever with names like Yttrium and Dysprosium

to me this appears to have been written by Theodore Gray, did I read the same thing you did?

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth. -voltaire

as a lifelong newspaper reader i check the byline. i'd argue knowing who the author is is normally important, especially in the case of op-eds.

great article but terrible slug -- headline reads like a zippy the pinhead punchline.

she's credited in the byline

entertainment weekly shipped an issue with a full phone inside, a trend i've been hoping for since the first time a blinking LED was included in a cover as a promo.

http://mashable.com/2012/10/02/ew-has-smartphone-inside/