meatsock
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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 3 years ago
i'm excited about dril mentioning doing anything in the style of Brass Eye [1] (a satiric british news show from the 90s)
Comment · 3 years ago
it is pronounced "[KA] + [MOO]", not "[KA] + [MUS]"
Comment · 3 years ago
It is a useful standard - plastic PCMCIA card protectors make good card wallets.
Comment · 3 years ago
it was sampled in a whole bunch of tunes
code 718 - equinox - https://youtu.be/Ffal9nAd1Sg
MOTU - Do You Want Me (Disco Latino Mix) - https://youtu.be/QV02KvyNQb8
paperclip people (carl craig) - remake uno - https://youtu.be/BdSFKvnpu2Y
Comment · 3 years ago
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.
Comment · 3 years ago
RIYL
Where Wizards Stay Up Late - Katie Hafner
Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web - Tim Berners-Lee
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires - Tim Wu
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age - Michael A. Hiltzik
*edit - add crlf
Comment · 4 years ago
> my own fledging attempts at electronic music.
i'd like to hear more about that.
Comment · 4 years ago
the hackers soundtrack is fantastic and includes some of the best electronic music from the era. the version of halcyon and on is in my opinion almost as good as the original 11 minute 12" uk promo edit [0], which may not have fit on this soundtrack.
in 2020 varese sarabande released an expanded 2xCD of the hackers soundtrack [1]. the second disk includes full length versions of the instrumental electronic music composed for the film by simon boswell [2] but not included on the 1 disk soundtrack and is absolutley essential listening while rollerblading to the payphones at penn station.
[0] https://www.discogs.com/release/42711-Orbital-Halcyon
[1] https://www.discogs.com/release/15991139-Various-Hackers-Ori...
Comment · 4 years ago
it is hard not to mention the fine WGBH produced re-enactment [1] version of this story any time this book is mentioned. there's also a german film from the POV of the other side of cliff's story [2]
[1] https://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_173A6CB5E5234750BEFB591...
Comment · 4 years ago
> I sometimes wonder if I would disrupt someone's nascent [systematic interference] business model if I started publishing my maps regularly.
it seems obvious publishing this might not be fully appreciated by the crowd who jams. has this project generated any complaints?
Comment · 4 years ago
here is a blog post [1] that links to a terminfo file [2] written by Alexandre Montaron that might help.
[1]: https://chapelierfou.org/blog/a-minitel-as-a-linux-terminal....
[2]: https://chapelierfou.org/files/mntl.ti
Comment · 4 years ago
his 2017 release 'music for percussion' [1] and large and immersive video installations [2] are worth a look as well
[1]: https://www.discogs.com/release/11738371-Ryoji-Ikeda-Eklekto...
Comment · 4 years ago
I also wanted to see some original source images. As in times past, a random slashdot user [1] comes through in a pinch: [2]
[1]: https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/05/20/1732226/ancient-for... [2]: https://twitter.com/NineDragons2/status/1524634961525026819
D/A and A/D | Digital Show and Tell (Monty Montgomery @ xiph.org) 3/2/2013 https://youtube.com/watch?v=cIQ9IXSUzuM