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	RIP: Joybubbles

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8-20-2007 12:12 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d2240b5b-2406-44fa-8b97-82b6c49bad37/A4A2FFAA-6C9F-44DF-95AB-1C4FFEA3C52A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/14/rip_joybubbles_grand.html" href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/14/rip_joybubbles_grand.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.boingboing.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/14/rip_joybubbles_grand.html"><H3><A _moz-rs-heading="" name="036836">RIP: Joybubbles, Granddaddy of Phone Phreaking, 1949-2007</A></H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/14/rip_joybubbles_grand.html"><BLOCKQUOTE><A name="036836">Joybubbles (formerly Joe Engressia), often called the granddaddy of phone phreaking, died last week at 58. </A><P>
<A name="036836"> Blind since birth, Joybubbles amazed with his ability to make free telephone calls simply by whistling into a phone.  He was one of the central characters in the seminal 1971 <EM>Esquire</EM> article on phone phreaking called "Secrets of the Little Blue Box."  </A></P><P><A name="036836">Multifaceted, he was as famous for his encyclopedic knowledge of the telephone system as he was for listening to all 800+ episodes of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood when Fred Rogers passed away in 2003. And, he was a heckuva nice guy.
</A></P><P><A name="036836">There's no one great link here, sadly; wikipedia article is </A><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joybubbles">here</A>, a good tribute to him is <A href="http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists/20030309gene0309fnp1.asp">here</A>; news of his death <A href="http://www.telecom-gear.com/Death-of-Joybubbles-(Joe-Engressia)-article3581--2.htm">here</A>.</P></BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A4A2FFAA-6C9F-44DF-95AB-1C4FFEA3C52A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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