Article note: This is extremely cyberdeck, in the actual Idoru box with glasses and gloves (not that last part) sense that few things that use the term match up with.
Article note: This is the niftiest, most deeply technical esoterica I've seen in a while.
Apple has an invalid instruction in the ROM of the Classic II (ca.1991), whose undocumented behavior on real hardware is necessary to compute an address during the boot process.
Discovered because emulators that implement the documented instruction set crash, either on the invalid instruction or on the next instruction because the side-effect didn't happen.
As an immigrat … I come from another culture. And I’m aware of the fact that people elsewhere in the world think differnetly from us. I can, sort of, see us, us Americans, with their eyes. And not all that I see is attractive. I see an insular people who are insensitive to foreign sensibilites, who are lazy, obese, complacent, and increasingly perplexed as to why we are losing our place in the world to people who are more dynamic than us and more disciplined.
— (Kenyan-American Biograpeher) Edmund Morris on CBS’ Face The Nation