Our regular NES hacker Don (A.K.A) no carrier is doing has live re-programmed NES visuals for 3 great acts at the Khyber starting 8pm on Tuesday night!

Sets include Entertainment System and the Megas, both purveyors of your favorite video game covers such as the Mega Man theme! Also performing, is Cheap Dinosaurs, One of Philly's finest Chiptune smiths, and Holy Ghost.

More information at http://www.thekhyber.com/cal/index.php

See you there!

For those hackers (most of you) that keep an eye on the old-school security hacking DEFCON 16 just ended yesterday in Las Vegas. So below is our quick wrap-up of DEFCON 16, the highlights and lowlights of a week of security conference madness.

Medeco keys get recreated just from pictures. Whoops? At least it's not a bic pen?

Wired got a tour of DEFCON 16 NOC keeping tabs on that has got to be one of the most awesome network management tasks ever.

I don't know about you, but after visiting The Last Hope, this is just the icing on the cake... or should I say the magnet on the LED? Check out Geeks and Toys Word has it that a mystery woman may be bringing a holographic projection as well. So, get ready for things having to do with hamster balls, geek audio/video and basic old fashioned discussions about particle theory. Actually, you don't have to do the last, but just be ready to meet everyone in Philly that appreciates smart art. Go Hacktorians!!

There is a great story on geek night life by a little newspaper company in NYC. Congrats to IgniteNYC , NYC Resistor, and the whole NYC geek scene on the great coverage!

If you hadn't noticed, Philly's scene is rocking too. We had a great iSepta/ripit launch party (photos) and there is an awesome event this Thursday from us at The Hacktory. And of course we also have Junto, an upcoming BarCamp Philly and we just had a sweet Fail Camp. And that off the top of my head, without doing a web search!

Next time (and I'm not the first one to say this) we just need get our two sister-cities to do huge awesome events together!

GEOMETRY

The home computer and Internet connectivity has contributed greatly towards a more connected and accessible visual world. A person from one terminal can see the Earth from space, view the building blocks of atoms or even watch a web cam sunset from Fiji. The Internet has enabled us to see our world from a vast number of perspectives through a vast number of technologies. We sometimes forget that the visual world is composed and also based around Geometry.

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Open Hack yesterday! A bunch of new faces as well as some returning folks. We had a good stream of people throughout the afternoon into the evening.

Lots of projects were in progress this month. The new air conditioners kept things cool, despite people's hot projects (in all senses of the word-- Steve's blowtorch work definitely brought some excitement.)