The lock busters
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An annual Dutch Open lock-picking competition is described where 50 or so men and women wield burglar tools and represent the international steel bolt-hacker diaspora. The rules comprise of each person getting a different lock with eight minutes to open their lock, then switching locks across table and beginning again for another eight minutes, and at the end of each round, whoever has a shorter combined time is the winner.
Publication Name: Wired
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 1059-1028
Year: 2005
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Big city knights: a Jedi order establishes a new temple - in lower Manhattan
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A group of Star Wars fanatics live out their passion by participating in lightsaber training in a dance studio in lower Manhattan every Tuesday. They use improvised lightsabers and practice choreographed swordplay.
Publication Name: Wired
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 1059-1028
Year: 2007
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Go, skid racer, go!
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'Drifting,' a fishtailing auto-racing technique initiated by oversteering, began in Japan and is now taking hold in America.
Publication Name: Wired
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 1059-1028
Year: 2003
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