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One man’s story of The Quarter Booths.

Tales of Woz’s Genius

“So he started disassembling the program to see how it was protected. But as he was disassembling it, he noticed that the floating point routines were suboptimally coded. So, in true Woz fashion, he wrote a program he called VisiCrook, which patched VisiCalc to eliminate the copy protection, but also to make the math run three times faster.”

A music artists story:

The sad fact is that there are very few artists for whom any record company will spend millions of dollars. They only do that if they think they have a sure thing, and a sure thing in their eyes is the one that sells the most CDs, not the one who’ll do the best at live shows, or the one who will stay popular for the longest. They’re in it for the quick buck, not the long haul, and once you’re not in vogue anymore, they just drop your contract.

Some of the same issues that face musicians also face OpenSource hackers, now to feed the family.

John Perry Barlow speaks on the issues around Napster:

A profound moment, indeed. Indeed, it is an assault on everything that has stifled the cultural expression of our society. It’s an assault on the system that stole every dime The Chambers Brothers ever made while grotesquely enriching Brittany Spears.

Once again Barlow is d’man.

What do ladies like to vibrate and men like big? Here is a hint, it is not what you think.

[viz mouth organ]

The Perlhacktut has been published, hack the Perl.

Unix sucks, but not for the reason you think.

Salon found Advogato.

The Open Sex Page:
Open Sex is an idea whose time has finally come.