shwango! blog

i’ve just started the steven levy book crypto. so far it’s great – i’m done with the first chapter – but there are many references to other books that sound great! gotta find the codebreakers by david kahn. (i dig that ww2 crypto history shit!) the broken seal sounds cool too.

in with the recent pile of “crap” i retrieved from my parents’ house, i found a book i bought at the indianapolis children’s museum back in the 6th grade called cryptography – the science of secret writing. i didn’t understand it all back then, maybe now i’d be able to grasp it. it was written in 1943 by laurence dwight smith, so it’s dated compared to computers now, but the material is facinating.

also have to finish flatland. quite interesting! so far that old cartoon “the line and the dot” keeps popping into my head!