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Virgil Griffith, Internet Man of Mystery
by Acidus at 12:32 pm EST, Nov 21, 2008 |
Girls hang on Virgil Griffith. This is no exaggeration. At parties, they cling to the arms of the 25-year-old hacker whose reason for being, he says, is to “make the Internet a better and more interesting place.” The founder of a data-mining tool called WikiScanner, Griffith is also a visiting researcher at the mysterious Santa Fe Institute, where “complex systems” are studied. He was once charged, wide-eyed rumor has it, with sedition. No wonder girls whisper secrets in his ear and laugh merrily at his arcane jokes. null
Virgil is, without a doubt, a hacker rock star. |
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RE: Virgil Griffith, Internet Man of Mystery
by janelane at 1:53 pm EST, Nov 21, 2008 |
Acidus wrote:
Virgil is, without a doubt, a hacker rock star.
He's definitely smarter than a lot of other people: Nevertheless, he was able to persuade the University of Alabama that his “life experiences to date and his published papers constituted the remaining required courses to graduate,” and in 2007 he received his bachelor’s degree.
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Virgil Griffith, Internet Man of Mystery
by Decius at 1:13 pm EST, Nov 21, 2008 |
Girls hang on Virgil Griffith. This is no exaggeration. At parties, they cling to the arms of the 25-year-old hacker whose reason for being, he says, is to “make the Internet a better and more interesting place.” The founder of a data-mining tool called WikiScanner, Griffith is also a visiting researcher at the mysterious Santa Fe Institute, where “complex systems” are studied. He was once charged, wide-eyed rumor has it, with sedition. No wonder girls whisper secrets in his ear and laugh merrily at his arcane jokes.
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Virgil Griffith, Internet Man of Mystery
by noteworthy at 4:23 pm EST, Nov 21, 2008 |
Virgil is, without a doubt, a hacker rock star. Girls hang on Virgil Griffith. This is no exaggeration. At parties, they cling to the arms of the 25-year-old hacker whose reason for being, he says, is to “make the Internet a better and more interesting place.” The founder of a data-mining tool called WikiScanner, Griffith is also a visiting researcher at the mysterious Santa Fe Institute, where “complex systems” are studied. He was once charged, wide-eyed rumor has it, with sedition. No wonder girls whisper secrets in his ear and laugh merrily at his arcane jokes.
From the archive: "I never thought I'd see the day when a laptop was better at picking up girls than a Ferrari. That's it, I'm ditching Windows."
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