{"id":3894,"date":"2010-11-13T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/11\/13\/the-hacker-knacker-maker-revolution-gathers-steam\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T16:15:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:15:28","slug":"the-hacker-knacker-maker-revolution-gathers-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/11\/13\/the-hacker-knacker-maker-revolution-gathers-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hacker-Knacker-Maker Revolution gathers steam…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I got a bit of mail from Great Britain about the use of the word “knackers” in yesterday’s post. I vaguely remembered that this word has anatomical connotations in the UK. But it just worked so well. I needed something that would rhyme with Marx’s “Workers.” And “Knackers” is kind of close to “Hackers.” And we all have “The Knack.” So, I made use of some artistic license. Apologies to our British cousins. I’m already on linguistic thin ice with them because of my use of the American pronunciation of solder. (The Brits pronounce the L — to their ears, the American pronunciation conjures up an activity far removed from soldering.) <\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, the Hack-Knack-Make revolution continues. This morning I learned that the New York and Philadelphia Hacker-spaces will be featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition this Sunday. (I’m jealous — I want SolderSmoke to somehow get onto NPR. One listener suggested a letter-writing campaign…) <\/span>

The poster shown above is for a documentary that is being done on all of this. Check it out: <\/span> http:\/\/www.electromagnate.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got a bit of mail from Great Britain about the use of the word “knackers” in yesterday’s post. I vaguely remembered that this word has anatomical connotations in the UK. But it just worked so well. I needed something that would rhyme with Marx’s “Workers.” And “Knackers” is kind of close to “Hackers.” And … Continue reading “The Hacker-Knacker-Maker Revolution gathers steam…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3896,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894\/revisions\/3896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}