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Anyone interested in reading any of the original articles......

posted 12 years ago by RealHausFrau
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I saw there was some interest by others in reading some of S.G’s TNR articles. While most have been scrubbed online due to legal reasons or whatnot, I did find a site that has quite a few, including 'Hack Heaven'...unfortunately, I didn't see the Caucus/Young Politicos story, which I'd love a link to, if anyone has it.

In reality-the majority of the articles were pretty average, New Republic-bland...I skimmed through the majority.

They did have touches of the fantastical, however; which, I'm guessing, are the special S.G.touch.

Regardless, here's the link for anyone who's interested.

http://stephenglassarticles.blogspot.com/

"We got no food, no jobs... our PET'S HEADS ARE FALLING OFF!"

[–] bron-tay 12 years ago

Thanks for the link. TNR is pretty blah all right, but it'll be fun to see the S.G. touches!

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[–] niajean 12 years ago

Have you read the reviews posted by that blogger? He/she has an aryan superiority complex (basically thinking all white people are gods) and is a complete anti-semitic. I wouldn't recommend showing people this prejudiced blog.

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[–] Evolution-X 12 years ago

I read Hack Heaven as well and I was like "Seriously, they ran this through?". None of what was written seemed believable.

All I need is one mic...

[–] para_owl 11 years ago

Here is "Hack Heaven"

http://www.ep.tc/realist/140/11.html

--Will.

[–] jimbrown257 9 years ago

Thanks for the link to that article.

That Stephen Glass must have been some charmer because his work wasn't all that outstanding. It was just an average article. But the dialogue ("Show me the money! Show me the money!!") was so corny. No one would have asked for those things; they would have just asked for the money to buy them. That is how salary negotiations work.

[–] powerfull_jedi 11 years ago

Hack Heaven feels like a novel or short story.

Apparentely this software firm had software enginners that:

1-Didn't have a DMZ set-up;
2-No packet sniffing (that's been around since the 80's);
3-Don't read log files;
4-Have sensitive data online;
5-Don't know how to use basic network functions like ping/netstat/traceroute;

Minor red flags for techies.

The fact that the company knew that this kid was responsible for this prank/intrusion is more than enough to make him liable in court. So to make demands of any sort fall squarely in the realm of pure fantasy.

[–] scorpion-52 10 years ago

Hack Heaven reads like a bad Fanfiction story, even someone as I.Q. starved as Paris Hilton(or any of those "Real" Housewives) could tell that story was fake from light years away.

His other stories that i've read however weren't so easy to spot as being fake, since most of them at least had some truth to them and some were actually pretty well-written. his "Don't You D.A.R.E." article being one example. While some of the events in that story were fabricated, his characterization of as D.A.R.E. being an ineffective, malicious and hopelessly out of touch organization is not at all untrue, it's a sentiment shared by many people including myself, who believe that D.A.R.E. does much more harm then good.

[–] humphreys-828-116926 10 years ago

A recovering drug addict who used to smoke $150 dollars a day of Meth was telling me how much fun she had in D.A.R.E in highschool.

[–] notspecial 9 years ago

Thanks for this link. Reading an article now. What's funny is he's claiming high school kids are no longer ordering extra gravy for their mashed potatoes to finger paint with b/c the food is now edible. Yeah, it was believable when you were talking about elementary school but HIGH SCHOOL?!?!?! How could people believe that? "Lunch time" certainly means two different things to a 3rd grader and a 10th grader.

First article I've started, I'm going to read more. Thanks again soooo much for this. I've been wanting to read more of his stuff for years.
All except for what I've been able to read from excerpts of his book. I thought it was going to be something different.

Anyway, back to this article, it's too funny that he talks about a 6th grader that no longer does school-slop sculpture contests then right into the high school kids no longer finger painting. Has anyone seen high school kids playing with their food? Ridiculous.