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Newest Addition to the Geekgasm Station: Hackers Poster (ft. my beloved Angelina "acidburn" Jolie & Johnny Lee "crashoverride/zerocool" Miller)
These are cool notebooks but there's nowhere to put a pen. I cut up an old plastic folder so that it can hook into the pouch at the back.
Hacking Arts (October 3-5), an annual student-run festival and hackathon hosted at the MIT Media Lab, marked the launch of MIT STARTUP. Hacking Arts features talks by entrepreneurs in the creative industries, tech-enabled live performances and art pieces, and demos by emergent start-ups. This year’s kick-off party at Microsoft’s Nerd Center featured a performance by Grammy-nominated artist Ryan Leslie and an ideation session by Kiran Gandhi, the drummer of MIA.
The following day, participants attended panels on Film, Music, Design, Virtual Reality, Fashion, Gaming, Performing Arts and Visual Arts, hearing from speakers such as Benji Rogers (CEO, Pledgemusic), Kevin Cunningham (Executive Artistic Director, 3-Legged Dog Productions) and Laird Malamed (COO, Oculus VR). Afterward, participants put their ideas into action during the high-voltage hackathon.
The 2014 Hackathon winners were LuxLoop (VHX Prize in Film, TV & VR), Harlequin (Most Creative), CUE (Most Disruptive) and Tomorrow Is Another Day (Best Overall Hack). A common thread among the winning hacks was how technology was used to promote human interaction or create analogue output. LuxLoop and Harlequin both used human motion to affect digital output. CUE, one of the finalists in the Pitch phase of the competition, designed a modular theatrical system consisting of wearable audiovisual hardware and a smartphone app to sequence, control and play user-programmed sound and light effects to enhance public theater. Tomorrow Is Another Day touted the idea “Turn your nothing into something,” as their project used a person’s daily “swipes” on touch-screen devices to transform daily online activities into abstract ink drawings.
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I realized that i had posted that 'magic' email to a webpage about the HERE game, so that players could upload pics without actually having to create a flickr account (sorry flickr ;) ) later on i had realized this might not be the best idea, removed it, but seems it was already tooo late.
the best part is .. i sent a support email to flickr right away, (after posting the stuff to delicious first of course). the community manager sent me an email in a flash saying that she'd read about my issue on delicious.
thanks heather!
this is amazing to me, that delicious can really be used as a communications tool.
still no email back from flickr support dept.
Hacking Arts (October 3-5), an annual student-run festival and hackathon hosted at the MIT Media Lab, marked the launch of MIT STARTUP. Hacking Arts features talks by entrepreneurs in the creative industries, tech-enabled live performances and art pieces, and demos by emergent start-ups. This year’s kick-off party at Microsoft’s Nerd Center featured a performance by Grammy-nominated artist Ryan Leslie and an ideation session by Kiran Gandhi, the drummer of MIA.
The following day, participants attended panels on Film, Music, Design, Virtual Reality, Fashion, Gaming, Performing Arts and Visual Arts, hearing from speakers such as Benji Rogers (CEO, Pledgemusic), Kevin Cunningham (Executive Artistic Director, 3-Legged Dog Productions) and Laird Malamed (COO, Oculus VR). Afterward, participants put their ideas into action during the high-voltage hackathon.
The 2014 Hackathon winners were LuxLoop (VHX Prize in Film, TV & VR), Harlequin (Most Creative), CUE (Most Disruptive) and Tomorrow Is Another Day (Best Overall Hack). A common thread among the winning hacks was how technology was used to promote human interaction or create analogue output. LuxLoop and Harlequin both used human motion to affect digital output. CUE, one of the finalists in the Pitch phase of the competition, designed a modular theatrical system consisting of wearable audiovisual hardware and a smartphone app to sequence, control and play user-programmed sound and light effects to enhance public theater. Tomorrow Is Another Day touted the idea “Turn your nothing into something,” as their project used a person’s daily “swipes” on touch-screen devices to transform daily online activities into abstract ink drawings.
Photo by Ahmad El-Nemr
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Op 9 juni 2017 vond in de Tweede Kamer in Den Haag de tweede editie van Accountability Hack plaats, een hackathon waar met open data de prestaties van de overheid in kaart worden gebracht. Accountability Hack is een initiatief van de Algemene Rekenkamer en de Tweede Kamer samen met het CBS en de ministeries van Binnenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Zaken, Financiën en Infrastructuur en Milieu. De hackathon werd georganiseerd in samenwerking met Open State Foundation. Kijk voor meer informatie op accountabilityhack.nl/
I love researching old photographs like this one. Sometimes I get a history lesson. Sometimes I get a surprise when an unassuming image turns out to be something special. This time I got both. I purchased this photograph September 19, 2011, from an antique shop in Ferrisburg, Vermont. The photographer's embossment is the Lynch Studio in Albany, New York. On the back is written, "Uncle Lester Hack, married Emma Burt, had 3 sons, Burt L., Robert S., Fred R." I believe it to be Lester G. Hack, of Ticonderoga, New York, circa 1910. I've put together a timeline of what I've learned about him.
Lester Goodel Hack was born 18 Jan 1844 in Bolton, New York, the son of Joseph Hack and Mary Fay. He appeared in the 1850 Warren County, Bolton, New York census, as Ezra L. Hack, age 7, in the household of Joseph Hack, a farmer born in Massachusetts, age 50. Having lost his first wife, Joseph had remarried Vermont-born Phebe S., age 38. With Ezra/Lester were his siblings, Benjamin F., age 17, Daniel C., age 9, Lydia, age 4, and William, age 3. Lydia may have been a step-child. See Series: M432 Roll: 609 Page: 10
They next appeared in the 1860 Essex County, Ticonderoga census. Joseph Hack, farmer, age 60, was listed with his wife, Phebe, age 47, and their children, Daniel C., age 19, Lester G., age 16, Lydia P., age 14, William C., and Mary E., age 7. Also listed was someone who appears to have been Joseph's mother, Hopey, age 84. See Series: M653 Roll: 753 Page: 155
On 27 Aug 1861, Lester Hack enlisted in the Union Army at Salisbury Vermont. He was mustered into Company F., 5th Vermont Volunteers on 16 Sep 1861 as a Private. According to Peck Revised Roster of Vermont Volunteers, Company F. was composed of men from Cornwall, Vermont, and adjoining towns. Their engagements were as follows:
Lee's Mills, Va., April 16, 1862
Williamsburg, Va., May 5, 1862
Goldings Farm, Va., June 26, 1862
Savage's Station, Va., June 29, 1862
White Oak Swamp, Va., June 30, 1862
Crampton's Gap, Md., September 14, 1862
Antietam, Md., September 17, 1862
Fredericksburg, Va., December 13, 1862
Marye's Heights, Va., May 3, 1863
Salem Heights, Va., May 4, 1863
Fredericksburg, Va., June 5, 1863
Gettysburg, Pa., July 3, 1863
Funkstown, Md., July 10, 1863
Rappahannock Station, Va., November 7, 1863
Wilderness, Va., May 3 to 10, 1864
Spottsylvania, Va., May 10 to 18, 1864
Cold Harbor, Va., June 1 to 12, 1864
Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864
Charlestown, W. Va., August 21, 1864
Opequan, Va., September 13, 1864
Winchester, Va., September 19, 1864
Fisher's Hill, Va., September 21 and 22, 1864
Cedar Creek, Va., October, 19, 1864
Petersburg, Va., March 25 and 27, 1865
Petersburg, Va., April 2, 1865
Of note...
"At Savage's Station, June 29, 1862, it [5th Regiment] suffered the greatest loss, in killed and wounded, of any Vermont regiment in any one engagement. In this battle, with not over four hundred muskets, it lost 188 officers and men in half an hour -- Company E. losing 44 men killed and wounded out of fifty-nine, 25 of whom were mortally wounded. It was here that five Cummings brothers, and one cousin, of company E, were all killed or wounded, only one of the six recovering from his wounds... In 1864 it took an active part in the terrible campaign from the Rapidan to Petersburg, and reached the line in front of Petersburg June 17. It went into this campaign with about five hundred muskets, and in one month lost 349 men in killed, wounded and missing, including two field officers, six captains and five lieutenants."
When Lester Hack's three-year enlistment was up, he re-enlisted 15 Dec 1863, was promoted to Corporal, and promoted again to Sergeant on 01 Mar 1865. He was wounded 05 May 1864 in the Wilderness campaign.
(According to a Senate Resolution dated January 1, 1883, a list of Civil War pensioners was compiled which included Lester G. Hack of Ticonderoga. Since June of 1880, he had been receiving a pension of $10 monthly for "g.s. w. rt. side & dis. of abdominal viscera." I interpret this to mean "gunshot wound on right side and disease of abdominal viscera.")
His most memorable action would come at the third battle of Petersburg, April 1865. Hack mustered out 29 Jun 1865, his enlistment spanning the entire service of the Fifth Regiment.
By one account the Vermont Brigade led the attack at Petersburg, Va., on 02 Apr 1865. Competition for Glory was fierce among the Vermont regiments, with officers of the Fifth, Sixth, and Eleventh Regiments laying claim to be the first to have planted their colors on the enemy's earthworks.
According to an account by a descendant, "...[Hack] tired of the lack of progress from the Union forces and voiced his disgust to his comrades. Hack astonished those around him when he began running toward a company of Confederate soldiers. He knocked down the color guard, overcame the enemy in hand-to-hand combat, and forced those who didn't retreat to surrender. He came back to his comrades with prisoners in tow and the Confederate flag tied around his waist..."
An account of the incident in Lester Hack's own words was provided in Deeds of Valor, by Beyer and Keydel, 1907.
"When we had driven the rebels from their works," he says, "every man began to shift for himself, pursuing the enemy, who were fleeing helter skelter in all directions. About one hundred yards to my right a small body of rebels were commencing to rally round their colors. I rushed at the color-sargeant and jerked the colors from his hands, at the same time ordering the rebels to around me to surrender. Some of them obeyed my command, but the majority took to flight."
The same book includes an image of Hack that bears a strong resemblance to the man in my photograph.
An account by a union private at the scene, J. S. Chandler, was published in The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men, by Lew Wallace, 1896.
"J. S. Chandler, late private of Company B. 5th Vermont Veteran Volunteers, and now adjutant of J. J. Hale Post No. 66, of Ripton, Vt., sends the following regarding Lester G. Hack, private Company F, 5th Vermont Infantry, who now resides in Ticonderoga, N. Y. Hack enlisted September 16, 1861, and from Yorktown. Va., April, 1862, until the close of the war, he was with the Army of the Potomac, participating in all the engagements of his regiment. Mr. Chandler writes:
"At the storming of Petersburg. April 2, 1865, after the main line was broken, a squad of Confederates gathered about a stand of colors near Fort Mahone. and undertook to rally their comrades there, when Hack remarked to some of his companions: "I am going after that Hag." They tried to dissuade him because of the disparity of numbers, our lines being broken in the defense, but he would go. He called to the Confederate sergeant for the flag. But Johnny refused to deliver it up, when Mr. Hack promptly knocked him down with his fist, picked up the flag, and presenting his empty musket, ordered the squad to surrender. They did so very quickly, probably fearing to share the fate of their leader, and in less than five minutes Hack had captured one stand of colors, two sergeants, eleven privates and won his medal."
Another account by George Grenville Benedict in Vermont in the Civil War: A history of the part taken by the Vermont soldiers and sailors in the War for the Union
"...Among the many feats of bravery performed by men of the Fifth that day, may be mentioned that of Sergeant Lester G. Hack of Company F., who seized a Confederate battle flag, knocked down the color bearer, though surrounded by a squad of his comrades, and secured the flag, which is now among the war trophies preserved at the war department at Washington."
The same source mentioned an account by Lieutenant-Colonel R. A. Kennedy, Commander of the Fifth Regiment, "...Sergt. Lester G. Hack, Company F, also deserves special mention for the daring he exhibited in capturing the battle-flag of the Twenty-third (rebel) Tennessee Infantry, when surrounded by a score of the foe, who were undecided as to the propriety of surrendering."
And this by Brevet Major M. Barber, "...Sergt. Lester G. Hack, Company F, Fifth Vermont, dashed into a squad of rebels who had gathered round a beautiful stand of colors, and, with a humanity as praiseworthy as his daring, knocked down the color bearer, seized the colors as they fell, and rushed on to another portion of the field."
In recognition of his actions, Brevet Major-General L. A. Grant wrote, "...I also respectfully recommend a medal and a furlough of thirty days to each of the following: Lester G. Hack, Company F, Fifth Vermont Volunteers, for knocking down the color bearer of the Twenty-third Tennessee (rebel) Regiment and capturing the colors of the same..."
Lester Hack got his medal, the Congressional Medal of Honor! According to Wikipedia, "Many of the awards during the Civil War were for capturing or saving regimental flags. During the Civil War, regimental flags served as the rallying point for the unit, and guided the unit's movements. Loss of the flag could greatly disrupt a unit, and could have a greater effect than the death of the commanding officer."
and
The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government and is bestowed on a member of the United States armed forces who distinguishes himself "…conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States…" Due to the nature of this medal, it is commonly presented posthumously.
I found Lester Hack in the 1870 Essex County, Ticonderoga, New York census, age 26, a farmer, living alone next to his brother's and parents' farms. See Series: M593 Roll: 936 Page: 315
In 1873 he married Emma J. Burt, daughter of Orlando and Elizabeth Burt.
Lester next appeared in the 1880 Essex County, Ticonderoga, New York census, age 35, a farmer, with his wife, Emma, age 30, and their sons, Bertie, age 5, and Orlando, age 9 months. Also in the household were Emma's brothers, Frank and Fred Burt. See Series: T9 Roll: 833 Page: 329
I found Lester G. Hack and family in a local 1892 census, farmer, age 49, with his wife Emma J. Hack, age 43, and their sons, Burt L. Hack, age 17, Robert S. Hack, age 11, and Fred Hack, age 3. Orlando was not listed, but it seems Frank Burt was still with them.
The 1900 Essex County, New York, Ticonderoga census listed Lester Hack, age 56, farmer, and wife Emma, age 50, and sons Robert, age 18, and Fred, age 11. Frank Burt was still with them. Emma's stats show that she had born four children with only three surviving to 1900 --accounting for Orlando. See Series: T623 Roll: 1035 Page: 241
According to the 1910 Essex County, Ticonderoga census, the Hack household consisted of
Lester Hack, age 66, Emma, age 61, Fred R., age 21, and Frank Burt. the census was taken in April; Emma died later that year. See Series: T624 Roll: 934 Page: 228
By the 1920 Essex County, Ticonderoga census, Lester, age 74, listed was listed a member of his son Fred's household. Fred, was a farmer, age 31, with wife, Florence, age 26, and twins, Donald and Dorothy, age two and a half. Also listed was Frank Burt, uncle, and Jessie Keler, sister-in-law. See Series: T625 Roll: 1112 Page: 13
This is Lester Hack's obituary from The Journal and Republican and Lowville Times, Thursday, 28 Apr 1928.
Lester G. Hack, 84, a well known veteran of the Civil War, died at the home of his son, Fred A. Hack, Copenhagen, at 10:30 o'clock Tuesday evening, death being caused by the infirmities of age. Mr. Hack was born in the village of Lake George, a son of the late Joseph and Mary Fay Hack, and resided nearly all his life in Ticonderoga, where he conducted a farm. He was married in 1873 to Miss Emma Burt, who died in 1910. Mr. Hack enlisted in the 5th Vermont Veteran Volunteers when but 17 years of age, and served with his company until the close of the war. He was awarded a Congressional medal for capturing a rebel flag at the taking of Petersburg, Va., the presentation being made by Secretary of War Edward M. Stanton, after the death of President Lincoln. He saw the surrender of Lee, and met and shook hands with President Lincoln several times during the war. Mr. Hack was a member of Alfred Weed Post, G. A. R., of Ticonderoga. He came to Copenhagen about a year ago and had since made his home here with his son. Surviving are three sons, Burt Hack, of Mechanicsville; Robert, of West Sand Lake, and Fred, of Copenhagen. The body will be taken to Ticonderoga where funeral services will be held Friday, with interment in the family lot in Mount Hope cemetery, Ticonderoga.
On 28 May 2011, along with other Memorial Day ceremonies recognizing veterans of all wars, Ticonderoga held a special tribute to Civil War veterans in observation of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. The rallying point was the gravesite of Lester Goodel Hack, where a ceremony was held honoring him and all Civil War soldiers. I am seeking Lester G. Hack descendants and looking forward to corresponding with them.
Probably 1970s small Trans Air radio, hacked to convert to a guitar amplifier. Dimension (in cm) H18 x W11.5 x D 6.5 Quiet amp, little distortion mellow tone. Not gonna blow anyone away, just enough volume to hear an electric guitar at close quarters but cool looking. Runs on a PP3 9v battery. See a video of it on Cigarbox Nation
www.cigarboxnation.com/video/how-to-make-a-guitar-amp-fro...
Hacking Arts (October 3-5), an annual student-run festival and hackathon hosted at the MIT Media Lab, marked the launch of MIT STARTUP. Hacking Arts features talks by entrepreneurs in the creative industries, tech-enabled live performances and art pieces, and demos by emergent start-ups. This year’s kick-off party at Microsoft’s Nerd Center featured a performance by Grammy-nominated artist Ryan Leslie and an ideation session by Kiran Gandhi, the drummer of MIA.
The following day, participants attended panels on Film, Music, Design, Virtual Reality, Fashion, Gaming, Performing Arts and Visual Arts, hearing from speakers such as Benji Rogers (CEO, Pledgemusic), Kevin Cunningham (Executive Artistic Director, 3-Legged Dog Productions) and Laird Malamed (COO, Oculus VR). Afterward, participants put their ideas into action during the high-voltage hackathon.
The 2014 Hackathon winners were LuxLoop (VHX Prize in Film, TV & VR), Harlequin (Most Creative), CUE (Most Disruptive) and Tomorrow Is Another Day (Best Overall Hack). A common thread among the winning hacks was how technology was used to promote human interaction or create analogue output. LuxLoop and Harlequin both used human motion to affect digital output. CUE, one of the finalists in the Pitch phase of the competition, designed a modular theatrical system consisting of wearable audiovisual hardware and a smartphone app to sequence, control and play user-programmed sound and light effects to enhance public theater. Tomorrow Is Another Day touted the idea “Turn your nothing into something,” as their project used a person’s daily “swipes” on touch-screen devices to transform daily online activities into abstract ink drawings.
Photo by Andrew Kubica
www.stayfocusedphotography.net/
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