Film and Literature Studies

Hackers

April 30th, 2024

On this week’s episode of Unclear and Present Danger, Jamelle, John and special guest Laura Hudson (formerly of Wired and The Verge) watched the 1995 cyber-thriller "Hackers," directed by Ian Softley and starring Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Fisher Stevens and Lorraine Bracco, with supporting roles for Matthew Lillard, Penn Jillette, Wendell Pierce, Marc Anthony and Felicity Huffman."Hackers" centers on Dade Murphy, alias "Zero Cool," who made hacking history 7 years before the events of...

Telecom history

November 28th, 2023

Introduction This is a book about cops, and wild teenage whiz-kids, and lawyers, and hairy-eyed anarchists, and industrial technicians, and hippies, and high-tech millionaires, and game hobbyists, and computer security experts, and Secret Service agents, and grifters, and thieves. This book is about the electronic frontier of the 1990s. It concerns activities that take place inside computers and over telephone lines. A science fiction writer coined the useful term "cyberspace" in 1982. ...

Vivisystem

October 6th, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Vivisystem (idea) See all of Vivisystem, no other writeups in this node. (idea) by PureDoxyk Thu Dec 21 2000 at 18:05:26 A phrase coined, as far as I can tell, by Kevin Kelly in his book "Out of Control", copyright 1994. He uses "vivisystem" to describe the melding of mechanical and natual systems; things that are man-made, but instilled with Life's Laws. He believes this to be the eventual direction humanity is heading for: One...

TEENAGE TUPELO (1995)

June 16th, 2023

366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links."Everything Revealed! Nothing Explained!"–tagline for Teenage Tupelo DIRECTED BY:John Michael McCarthyFEATURING: D’Lana Tunnell, Hugh Brooks, Wanda WilsonPLOT: Voluptuous D’Lana Fargo is knocked up by local Tupelo singer Johnny Tu-Note. Her mother sets up an adoption, and Johnny wants her to get rid of the baby. D’Lana falls in with a group of "Man Haters" who are fans of stripper/sexploitation filmmaker Topsy Tur...

What literature do we study from the 1990s?

February 20th, 2023

What literature do we study from the 1990s?SourceURL: https://pudding.cool/2023/01/lit-canon/ Skip to main content The Pudding Decade ’80s ’90s ’00s Genre Fiction Non-fiction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 What literature do we study from the 1990s? Swipe Right The first Harry Potter book was published 25 years ago. I wonder if it will go the way of To Kill a Mockingbird or The Great Gatsby: a literary classic that’s required reading for American students. If Harry Potter ends up on English 101 syllab...

Big Blue (idea) by jonnyace - Everything2.com

February 15th, 2022

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Big Blue (idea) See all of Big Blue, there is 1 more in this node. (idea) by jonnyace Thu Aug 24 2000 at 1:56:31 1994 French film, directed by Luc Besson. French title La Grande Bleu. US release is supposed to be a mockery of the original. Starring Rosanna Arquette, Jean-Marc Barr. Also stars Jean Reno, one of the reasons to watch the movie. This film has something of a cult status among scuba divers, although it is actually about ...