They sell Matrix sunglasses (matrixshop). I'm sure Chris (my brother) will love to know he can get Morpheus sunglasses. They sell glasses like the Twins wore for $50 odd dollars, I wonder if I can justify that much for a pair of sunglasses.

I finished Heavy Weather a couple of days ago. Tom had this to say (for those who missed the comment):

Particularly the way it started with the main guy getting
a lung enema *grin*. But all the 'this time, it's gonna be an F-6' crap
started to get to me after a while. Plus the 'This is X. He hacks
airplanes' stuff was a little wanky. It's maybe just a little too fawning
about hackers and their supposed do-anything, go-anywhere mindset.
Way better than Twister though. By the way the grep reference is
moderately cool, but you do have the word 'research' for when the
process you're instigating doesn't actually involve searching for
regular expressions in files ... *shrug*. Precision is the key.

I liked the beginning in retrospect, I didn't like it at the time. I was eating dinner when I began reading, and they started the lung enema when I got up to that bit. The concept of having that done made me feel just a little sick.
I don't think he really dealt with the whole F6 thing that well. He worked up some sort of excitement, but then didn't really take it anywhere. That whole section of the plot kind of tailed off, with no real resolution. I actually liked the whole idea of "this is foo, he hacks bar" because as well as not being one of those piece of literature that fires up my hackers != crackers rant, they actually explored the idea of hacking in a non computer related context. Ellen Mae hacked Comanche, as in, she studies Comanche indians. In fact, as I remember correctly, there were only one or two computer hackers in the story.
Anything is better then Twister, how much did that movie suck? I did think about Twister once or twice though while reading the book. Is the idea for the movie loosely based off (read: stolen from) the book?
How else do you look things up if not by a series of subconcious regular expressions? That's why I now do crosswords with extensive use of egrep (is that cheating?).

Have been hacking on p(y)layer some more. I have fixed some annoying bugs, not enough to warrent a release though. Grab an updated version from Trent's nightly builds.
I suspect that my FIT assignment was marked given there have been 22 hits on the site recently. Either that or someone discovered and explored it. I wonder if it's in the google cache?