If you were part of the hacker scene in the 1980's or 90's (or you played a certain tradition in Mage: The Ascension around that time) you undoubtedly have come across the weird, wonderful, bewildering, and occasionally insightful antics of The Cult of the Dead Cow, a crew of hackers originally based out of Texas who were well known for their periodic text file releases.  What isn't well known until very recently is that many cDc alumni have gone on to do great things, from starting one of the first security companies to ascending to C-level status at some well …

While digging around in my picture archive on Windbringer, I found a handful of photographs from the White House hackathon held by the Internet Archive back in January of this year.  I ran a couple of searches and didn't find anything I wrote about what I worked on there (weird...) so here are the pictures I took when I wasn't coding.