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The Lost Art of Windows 95 Pranks

This article was originally printed in 2600 The Hacker Quarterly Volume 38, Number 3 The release of Windows 95 (and later Windows 98) was such a great time for pranksters. The addition of features such as Active Desktop, multi-user accounts, Internet explorer – all of these areas were just rife for exploitation… I mean exploration. […]

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A History of Artificial Pets

Introduction From Sony’s metallic marvel Aibo, the robot dog that barks in binary, to the questionably edible Chia Pet – a glorified house plant, nothing screams “21st-century ennui” more than our love affair with artificial pets. These impersonal, battery-operated furballs and clay-covered critters provide an avenue for the millennial, Gen Z, and boomer alike to […]

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Collapse Sort

Collapse sort is a brand new sorting algorithm that takes full advantage of the AMAZING qualities of Javascript arrays and their dynamic nature.

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Stable Diffusion Pictionary with Bot Ross

Introduction Before we dive into the project, we should at least provide a brief explanation of Stable Diffusion. Since it’s already been the subject of mass interweb hysteria for quite some time, I’m not going to go into any great detail. Stable Diffusion is a generative art modal algorithm that was originally put forth by […]

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Strangest Things

At this point, a lot of people have probably seen the Cthulhu-style dread horror series Stranger Things. Even if you haven’t, you will still be able to follow the gist of this blog post. As I was catching up on the second season of Stranger Things, there was a brief scene involving Sean Astin’s character, […]

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Specular Realms founded.

With blood, sweat and tears, this company is finally off the ground. Now let the money start rolling in baby because I have the combined business acumen of the underpants gnomes combined with Sam the Eagle.