Ironically I was driving a reformed hacker friend to the airport when we got stuck behind a big white truck with this symbol on it. He noticed it first, started laughing, and pointed it out to me. Hilarious. I had no idea there was a National Association for Information Destruction.  Certified, even.  I think it more »

July 18, 2010 | New York City | by John Draper | | | | | | It’s the 8th annual HOPE convention where hackers have gathered from around the world. I was able to interview Adrian Lamo yesterday on camera while surrounded by heavy security. It was rather nerve-wracking. Adrian Lamo, if you don’t more »

FOX TV recently optioned a one-hour television pilot GRAND COULEE written by screenwriters Giselle Achecar and Tawnya Bhattacharya. A supernatural family drama steeped in Native American mysticism, GRAND COULEE is one of six scripts accepted into the 2009/10 FOX Diversity Writers Initiative as run by Ron Taylor, the current Vice President of Diverse Programming and more »

Teammates Steve Wozniak and George Clark assess their situation in a Segway polo match. Incidentally, the warm-hearted George Clark, a tech genius in his own right, was recently spotted using his math brain at a Smith’s grocery store in Las Vegas. The human calculator helped a damsel-in-distress evaluate which brand of toilet paper would give more »

Darren Ewing is one of those rare guys that can do anything and everything in media: write, film, direct, work the camera, fix the camera, lighting, motion graphics; he is dazzling with Maya, Final Cut Pro, PhotoShop, ProTools; he can wire things, rewire things, rig a Foley studio, transform an ADR room, fix a Digidesign more »