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Swordfish – (2001 movie)

2017-01-02

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244244/
https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/swordfish

A recently-ex-con world-renown hacker is swept into the well-planned efforts to fund long-term anti-terrorist terrorism.

I-like-hyphens.

Ignoring the Hollywood-hacker bullshit, it’s a good movie, particularly because so few, at least at its release, would be so A-class and yet have this particular topic. It helps shape the understanding of the passion behind Lawful Evil.

Not related to the fish Swordfish.
Partially playing off of the Swordfish (password).

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FavIcon Reloader

2016-12-29

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Pale Moon > Pale Moon extensions >

Reloads Favicons for your boomkarks. Although it won’t work for newer versions of Firefox, it works for Pale Moon just fine.

To use: Bookmarks > Reload Favorite Icons

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Millennium – (1989 movie)

2016-12-27

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097883/

An investigator of airplane disasters learns their passengers are critical to the plans of a woman he falls in love with.

This is one of the early time travel movies which really grabbed me and brought me into the genre. I don’t know that I’d call it great or could strongly recommended it to others, but I like it a lot.

Based on Air Raid – (1977 story), by John Varley

The Internet’s Own Boy – (2014 movie)

2016-12-18

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The Internet's Own Boy - (2014 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3268458/
See https://participant.com/?s=the+internet%27s+own

A documentary on Aaron Swartz and some of the major events he participated in.

2014-09-06
Film by Brian Knappenberger – Luminant Media
(old) kickstarter campaign
gpvcc9C8SbM (archive)
was vimeo.com/ondemand/internetsownboy
was itunes.apple.com/us/movie/the-internets-own-boy/id880571554

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Ext2Fsd

2016-12-12

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(on Wikipedia)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd/
http://www.ext2fsd.com/

Ext2Fsd is an open source Linux ext2/ext3/ext4 file system driver for Windows.

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – (2000 movie)

2016-12-09

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - (2000 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190332/
(archived website)

coming later

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Nightwork – (2003 book), “by” T. F. Peterson

2016-11-18

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nightwork-2003-book-by-t-f-peterson-cover

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(on Wikipedia)
hacks.mit.edu

A book on a particular aspect of culture and events in the history of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

It glimpses into one aspect of “playful hacking“, pranks and practical jokes.

Properly titled Nightwork – A history of hacks and pranks at MIT
ISBN-10: 9-780262-661379
Combines The Journal of the Institute for Hacks, TomFoolery, and Pranks at MIT (J. IHTFP) with “Is This The Way To Baker House?”

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Freax volume 1 – (2005 book), by Tamas Polgar

2016-11-18

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TODO – import more of its archived text

This is on my list of books to re-read.

freax-volume-1-2005-by-tamas-polgar-cover

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www.freax.hu ^[ 1 ] on archive.org
http://www.maz-sound.com/FREAX/en/Intro/

A book on the history of the demoscene.

This is on history and itself has become a collectable piece of it. I bought and read this years ago.. probably in 2007 or thereabouts.

aka Freax volume 1. – A brief history of the computer demoscene
by by Tamas Polgar, aka Tomkatz / Madwizards
Copyright and published by CWS Verlag
ISBN (blank)
Available as an e-book.

Footnotes[+]

^ 1	on archive.org

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SJWs Always Lie – (2015 book), by Vox Day

2016-11-18

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014GMBUR4

A sort of “Art of War” on the the topic of the more recent so-called “Social Justice Warriors”.

Highly recommended, though not necessarily because of its topic. With history and opinion, and descriptions of tactics and rhetoric, it’s a fascinating set of opinions, positions and stories. I didn’t understand half of its references, but this sort of book reveals a kind of contemporary philosophic writing that I find fascinating.

I read this just after Free Speech Isn’t Free – (2016 book), by Roosh V, which I think helped a lot.