Unholy glee.

[featherynscale]

Steam-powered telegraphy.

"We have built and modified a steam-powered Telex machine and connected it to the new-fangled invention for modern telegraphy known as "the Internet". We will present this steampunkish invention in form of a lecture, thus hoping to enlighten interested ladies and gentlemen on the principles of steam engine physics, 5-bit Baudot encoding, and historic telegraphy in general."

I have a soft spot in my black little heart for anything that combines two technologies that are profoundly not chronologically likely. :)

Comments

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

Kewl hack.

Reading the web page made me realize just how much I cannot comprehend a world that is so separated where the news of something major in Washington not being known in Baltimore for at least a half a day.

[(Anonymous)]

I know. I had to read that paragraph three times before it made any sense to me at all. :)

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

That's me. Got logged out, alas.

[adammaker.livejournal.com]

at the same symposium... we missed:

The Role of Brilliant Deviants in the Liberalization of Society

How People Like Us Make People Like Them Accept Us

I'm planning to look at how hackers and other "folks like us" get the "real world" to let us be crazy deviants, and continue to pay us anyway.

Clearly not everyone is able to do this - hence the sort of person who says, "I'd love to [go to Burning Man] [blow things up] [dress eccentrically]" but never does any of it. But some of us are able to get the world to play along, and I am looking at that from a sociological point of view.

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fahrplan/events/2359.en.html

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I love brilliant deviants!