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Flashback: C&C Red Alert
Electronic Arts is giving away free downloads of their classic PC game, Command & Conquer: Red Alert. Apparently it’s a promotion to remind all gamers that Red Alert 3 is coming out soon. But hey, free...Hacker Personality
Recently I read over most of The Jargon File, an ancient (in web years) document of hacker lore. (Recommended: check out the Hacker Folklore for some great stories.) One of the appendices is a “portrait” of typical hacker characteristics, and I was quite surprised to see how well the page on...Imagine
I’m not dead yet. To prove it, I’ll quote from somebody else who hasn’t been writing much lately: Think of how much better the world would be if everybody—young and old, black and white, American and Russian, Time and Newsweek—spent part of each day playing with an...Euphemisms and Metaphors
Sometimes the new euphemisms and metaphors (nudge-nudge, wink-wink, knowhatimean?) of rock-n’-rock escape me these days. I mean, it wasn’t hard to miss “Puff the Magic Dragon” (although my darling wife has yet to be disillusioned). But a recent song from a Paste Magazine sampler...Ontological Proof That Elvis Is Alive And Well And Working At 7-Eleven
I’m sitting in my living room half-watching Elvis: King of Entertainment, a Christmas/birthday present from Whitley, my sister-in-law—who knows my soft spot for the King of Crooners. It’s a sort of Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Elvis Aaron Presley And Other Things You...Those who don’t remember history…
Today I just learned the fascinating story of how the S.E.C. got started; this is a must-read! ;)About Me
My name is Eric Wallace. I'm quite fond of coffee, snorkel masks, hacking, recreational therapy, alternative uses for spam, and twelve-tone improvisation. Some of these things are true, but I'm not telling you which.
