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SOFTWARE Two great free applications: Blender and Sonic Pi A few weeks ago I downloaded a couple of free applications, Blender and Sonic Pi, and I am b…
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CRYPTOCURRENCY Brain wallet cracked! The Folio Society edition of John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces In The Magnet 30, I wrote that no one ha…
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CRYPTOCURRENCY Can you crack my brain wallet? — Another hint There’s $50 in bitcoin cash waiting for the first person to guess my password. Last issue …
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EPHEMERA The Pulp Magazine Archive The Internet Archive’s The Pulp Magazine Archive has downloadable scans of 13,559 pulp magazines from the 20th centu…
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WHAT I’M UP TO Chia, Raspberry Pi, and Babbitt It’s a Sunday afternoon, and I’ve spent most of the day cooking for the family and installing the Chia N…
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BRAIN WALLET Can you outsmart my brain wallet? To send bitcoin to someone you need three things: some bitcoin, a private key, and the sender’s bitcoin …
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CRYPTOCURRENCY It’s more fun to be a chia farmer than a bitcoin miner This weekend I became a space farmer! All I had to do was donate 400 GB of unused…
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ART Bernie Kaminski’s Paper Mâché Bernie Kaminski’s Paper mâché junk drawer filled with paper mâché pens, pencils, batteries, receipts, and other junk.…
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Detail from Tono Monogatari by Shigeru Mizuki Welcome to another issue of The Magnet! This one is a bit later than usual, but I had a writing assignmen…
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UNTRANSLATED Aesop’s Fables: The Satyr and the SwordDetail from Wenceslaus Hollar’s illustration for “The Satyr and the Sword,” from John Ogilby’s Aeso…
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P.J. Soles (left) and Dey Young (right) in Rock and Roll High School (1979) The two most memorable 1979 movies about teenagers are Over the Edge and Ro…
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ARTIFICIAL LIFE The Norn TorturerA screengrab from the defunct Tortured Norns website (via Archive.org) Last week I wrote about Vilmonic, an artificial…
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