prosthetic knowledge
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Communicate in Analogue (via designyoutrust)
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P:Log - blogging technology for prisoners (concept)
Made to allow anonymous posting by inmates, the P:log consists of a touchscreen panel and an integrated printer/scanner unit. Each prisoner will have his own blog account and can upload his thoughts by scanning a written letter. Before the article hits the Internet, the prison warden will be able to screen for undesirable materials or hidden codes, though the identity of the poster remains unknown. The letter will then be released to the public for comments which are accessible by the inmates.
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Beeper Code: The Caveman Days of Text Messaging Some of our codes were super private so I can’t share them, but others were standard: 411 for information, 911 for emergency, 143 to symbolized the number of letters in each word of the phrase “I love you.”
There was also an accepted system of sending numbers so that, when written together, looked vaguely like letters. We’d grown up getting adults to spell “BOOBLESS” on calculators by typing in the elements of a story about Dolly Parton and then holding the calculator upside down. (Her bra size was 69 and that was 2, 2, 2 big. So, she took 51 diet pills and went to see Dr. X eight times. Now she’s… 55378008.) From there, it was an easy jump to many other words. Hello was 07734. That was one of the easiest one. We said “Hello” a lot. Bitch? Why that was 81764, naturally. There were so many, it became necessary to have beeper-code dictionaries, or at least, a basic decoder.
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From Neatorama: The illustration is from a new book called “The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception,” based on two manuals written by professional stage magician John Mulholland. During the Cold War, the CIA hired Mullholland to teach their covert operatives sleight-of-hand tricks and secret signals they could use in the field.
