Lindsay Lohan interviewed Devendra Banhart and therein occassioned his mention of a couple-three shards of beauty I had not previously known but that fell in a niche of expression (proclamation when good) that I had just been considering after having come across an exchange on the quality of names between a member of Dr. Dog and his counterpart of the criterati.

So, with that preylewd, hears [yes] the jackpot promised—but don’t wade into this thinking it’s a laugh at Lohan; she’s little more than a coincidence here:

LL: So there are three of you who work together in your band? Or is it just you?

DB: Well, it’s a band. It has switched around from time to time and the name changes. The first time it was called the Queens of Sheba. The second time it was called White Buffalo, Deer Woman Appears. And then it was called Hairy Fairy, after the Cockettes. Right now we don’t have a name.

LL: When I saw you play, I think it was you, one of your friends, and a girl who performed.

DB: That’s right. They’re all in the band. It’s Noah Georgeson who co-produced and co-engineered Cripple Crow [XL Recordings], and Eliza Douglas, who was also in the band called the Bunny Brains. You’ve made two records, right?

LL: Yeah.

DB: Then why aren’t you hooking me up with your albums?

The content isn’t much, but the band names come sparkling out and have me seeing things in a new way.

That’s all it takes.

[found on FindArticles]

Hacker Language

Language helps re-enforce the barrier between computer hackers and non-hackers, as well as that between hackers and crackers. Computer hackers have developed their own language. Firstly there is vocabulary that non-hackers will not know (TCP, IP, winsock, Linux, root access, vi, etc) due to a lack of computer-related knowledge. Secondly, some computer hackers have modified English with a set of conventions. Hackers replace ‘f’ with ‘ph’ (likely coming from phreaks who were interested in ‘ph’ones), and ‘s’ with ‘z’. Also hackers use numbers in place of letters such as ‘1’ for ‘i’ or ‘l’ (though replacing ‘i’ is not the proper usage), ‘3’ for ‘E,’ ‘4’ for ‘a’, and ‘7’ for ‘t.’ Also it is important to use random caPitAlizaTioN, abbreviation, slang, emphasize words by putting ‘k-‘ before them (”k-rad”), and finish a statement with a series of characters for emphasis.

Take this example from an Internet Relay Chat message in a hacking group (#hack):

We Hackers: Language of Hackers.

(I make) Love this tightle of the EP just out from CSS.