i'm excited about dril mentioning doing anything in the style of Brass Eye [1] (a satiric british news show from the 90s)

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=En3TYdWfwaw

it is pronounced "[KA] + [MOO]", not "[KA] + [MUS]"

One of my favourite factoids on the French language, generically the final letter is not pronounced except C, R, L, & F, so DOS line-endings. Once seen, never forgotten.

Maybe Samus is supposed to be pronounced Saméw?

It is a useful standard - plastic PCMCIA card protectors make good card wallets.

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

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.

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

> my own fledging attempts at electronic music.

i'd like to hear more about that.

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...

[2] https://www.discogs.com/artist/68855-Simon-Boswell

Get with it grandad. we scoot to the Uber while using our iPhone these days.

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...

[1] https://youtu.be/PGv5BqNL164

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_(film)

> 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?

Meatsock my old buddy! Nope, no one has complained to me yet.

Back before I made this site, when I was publishing my maps on twitter, on-demand, I did get DMs like "I'm Ukrainian. Could you make maps for [range of dates] for [region]?" and I had to think through the ethics. Was I OK publishing information that could not-inconceivably get someone killed in a war zone? Was that person really Ukrainian? Did it matter?

I decided that this information is being broadcast for anyone to easily receive, and also that it is self-censoring in a way: aircraft generally don't fly with ADS-B in a war zone, so I don't have data for hot war zones. (But I'm open to revisiting if someone has a different perspective.)