ERIC CONSPIRACY

  

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ERIC CONSPIRACY

Specialty Definition: ERIC CONSPIRACY

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Eric Conspiracy n. A shadowy group of mustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous talk.bizarre posting ca. 1987; this was doubtless influenced by the numerous `Eric' jokes in the Monty Python oeuvre. There do indeed seem to be considerably more mustachioed Erics in hackerdom than the frequency of these three traits can account for unless they are correlated in some arcane way. Well-known examples include Eric Allman (he of the `Allman style' described under indent style) and Erik Fair (co-author of NNTP); your editor has heard from more than a hundred others by email, and the organization line `Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories' now emanates regularly from more than one site. See the Eric Conspiracy Web Page at `http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/ecsl/' for full details. Source: Jargon File.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: ERIC CONSPIRACY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-c-e-i-i-n-o-p-r-r-s-y"

-4 letters: capriccios, conspiracy.

-5 letters: aepyornis, arccosine, caponiers, capriccio, cocineras, coprinces, isopycnic, precisian, precision, procaines, proscenia.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ERIC CONSPIRACY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 52 49 43      43 4F 4E 53 50 49 52 41 43 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01010010 01001001 01000011 00100000 01000011 01001111 01001110 01010011 01010000 01001001 01010010 01000001 01000011 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#82 &#73 &#67 &#32 &#67 &#79 &#78 &#83 &#80 &#73 &#82 &#65 &#67 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0052 0049 0043      0043 004F 004E 0053 0050 0049 0052 0041 0043 0059

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39524337237494853504352353759

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INDEX

1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
3. Bibliography


  

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