Book Review of Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell

Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell by Phil Lapsley My rating: 5 of 5 stars God, this takes me back. I remember Captain Crunch, phreaking, warez, War Games, my C64 (which I got in Fall 1982), BBS's, Usenet, CdC, 2600, etc., like it was yesterday. I …

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“The Crow” AI Dance Film

THE CROW is an amazing short film in which its AI-created animation transforms a dancer from the film PAINTER into a crow. The result is a haunting and compelling piece that follows the crow through its brief dance in a landscape of post-apocalyptic barrenness, to its inevitable demise. One of the most hauntingly beautiful and stunning projects to date -- and it's the first time an AI project has won at the Cannes Short Film Festival. Do not pass this up!

Folding@Home – Joint The Fight Against COVID-19

Want to join the fight against COVID-19 & don't know how cause you're not a doctor, scientist, etc.? There's a great way anyone can help. You can donate unused computing power from your computer to Folding@Home, a distributed computing project for simulating protein dynamics, focusing on disease research including COVID-19. "The problems we’re solving require …

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My Year In Books: 2019

Every year, I participate in the Goodreads Annual Reading Challenge. At the beginning of each year, you set a goal for how many books you’ll read that year. Goodreads keeps track of your running total and then lets you know how you’ve done and what percentage of your goal you met. You can also see …

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My New Custom Designed and Built Falcon Northwest Mach V PC

Hello all. It's been awhile. Those of you still with me know the last four years have been really rough, but this one is topping even last year, which I didn't think could be done. The point, though, is that I used to post regularly for years, decades actually, but the past few years, I …

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