Merry Christmas to everyone back home, and hackers around the world. The authentic German Christmas tree, complete with candles and straw ornaments. Fun Holiday Fact: Germans apparently have both Santa Claus and St. Nicholas. Santa (“Weihnachtsmann” in German, literally, “Christmas man”) comes on Christmas Eve in a flying sleigh with magic reindeer. St. Nicholas comes […]
Entries from December 25th, 2008
25C3 Arrival
December 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Germany, Hacker culture
I’ve arrived in Berlin at the 25th Chaos Computing Congress (25C3). I’ve only been here a couple hours, but so far it’s been really cool. Things I’ve seen: A little toy RC flying saucer with blinking LEDs and a tendency to crash into (or “attack”) passersby. A guy with a multimeter working on repairing a […]
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Remember I said hackers aren’t just the guys who steal your credit card number?
December 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Germany, Hacker culture, Technology
Well, sometimes, they are really 1337 elitist Cambridge hackers who figure out how it’s possible to steal your credit card number when you use it at the cash register. Then, occasionally, they go to German hacker conferences and explain how to do it. Hint for those of you playing along at home: it involves power […]
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Club-Mate: The drink of champions
December 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Germany, Hacker culture
One of the important elements of a subculture is its tendency to collectively select visible markers of membership in that culture: clothes, hairstyles, preferred products. Hackers as a culture are certainly not immune to this, but as a culture that prides itself on valuing accomplishment over image, the markers of membership in hacker culture tend […]
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The Swedish Conspiracy
December 30th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Conspiracies
There is no Swedish Conspiracy.
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