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Long time readers and listeners know I am a tremendous fan of Ed Piskor’s story about a fictional hacker, Kevin “BoingThump” Phenicle, clearly inspired by real life hackers and events that figure largely in modern computer mythology. I wrote previously about how Ed decided after finishing volume three of a planned four parts to go [...]
By Thomas Gideon
– March 29, 2012
This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, a heads up that changes are coming on two to three weeks as I complete the migration of my podcast production to Linux. A will announce a firm date once I have one and give a better run down of [...]
By Thomas Gideon
– September 22, 2010
As long time readers may know, I have been a big fan of Ed Piskor since I became aware of his graphic novel in progress, WIZZYWIG. When he wrote about his decision to re-work the three volumes so far and release the completed story as one volume, I determined to contact him for an interview. [...]
By Thomas Gideon
– September 12, 2010
I enjoyed the original three volumes of Ed Piskor’s well researched and lovingly crafted graphic novel, Wizzywig. When I read a few months ago that instead of producing the conclusion as originally planned, Piskor was going to re-work those volumes improving the art and story telling then release everything as a single printed book, I [...]
By Thomas Gideon
– August 4, 2010
Being ever interested in the history of hackerdom and in hacker culture, it is hardly surprising that I am an immense fan of Ed Piskor’s series of comic books, “Wizzywig“. I was delighted to be one of some unknown number of folks to whom Piskor sent a personal note explaining that he has decided to [...]
By Thomas Gideon
– June 11, 2010
This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, a quick review of Ed Piskor’s latest installment in his WIZZYWIG series, Volume 3: Fugitive. Listener feedback this week is from Marc, Hugh and Joel who commented on my iPad remarks and yareckon who commented on the Hacker Hero monologue. [...]
By Thomas Gideon
– February 3, 2010
I noted when Ed Piskor finished volume 3 of his hacker epic, WIZZYWIG. To tide us over, he even made the previous two volumes available for free. Now the third volume is finally available for order in print. Ed has also provide a link so the first half can be read online, as further enticement. [...]
By Thomas Gideon
– January 1, 2010
Last week, I noted that Ed Piskor had completed the latest volume in his hacker epic. To celebrate the milestone, and perhaps to tide us over until we can order a copy, he has made the first two volumes freely available. The books are shared as a zip file containing a single, large-ish PDF. It’s [...]
By Thomas Gideon
– December 14, 2009
I not only blogged about Ed Piskor’s wonderfully researched graphic novelization of a fictitious but compelling hacker but purchased and devoured both volumes he’s produced in the series so far. He just announced that he has completed volume 3. Unfortunately, it will be another few months before we can order it. Ed has been posting [...]
By Thomas Gideon
– December 10, 2009
This is a feature cast. In the intro, I share my review of Ed Piskor’s “Wizzywig Volume 1: Phreak”. The feature this week is part two of a round table discussion of some of the issues that were prominent this year. I was joined by Kevin Crosby, Vaskin Kissoyan, and Eric Christensen. The topic of [...]
By Thomas Gideon
– December 31, 2008
I mentioned Ed Piskor’s graphic novel, “Wizzywig” on the podcast. My copy of the first volume arrived last week and I promptly devoured it in about two days. I subscribed to Ed’s RSS feed after completing the first volume and placing my order for the second. I noticed that in his writing, he is concerned [...]
By Thomas Gideon
– December 29, 2008
This is news cast 164. If you are in the DC area, come to the Creative Commons 6th Birthday Party being coordinated by the DC CopyNight crew and generously hosted by Public Knowledge. This week’s security alerts are a massive distributed attack on SSH servers and a zero day exploit in Microsoft’s WordPad and Internet [...]
By Thomas Gideon
– December 14, 2008
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