Jude Milhon

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Jude Milhon (March 12, 1939 – July 19, 2003), in Anderson, Indiana, best known by her pseudonym St. Jude, was a hacker and author in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Milhon coined the term cypherpunk and was a founding member of the cypherpunks. Another term she is credited with coining is hippie, in 1962 in Cleveland [1]. She began programming in 1967, writing software for the Horn and Hardart company. Among the projects she contributed to were the Berkeley Operating System and Community Memory. She was a member of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, and the author of several books, including The Cyberpunk Handbook (1995) and How to Mutate and Take Over the World (1996) ISBN 0-345-39216-7. She was a senior editor at the magazine Mondo 2000 and frequent contributor to Boing Boing. On July 19, 2003, Milhon died of cancer.

Contents 1 Quotes 2 Bibliography 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Quotes

• "Hacking is the clever circumvention of imposed limits, whether imposed by your government, your IP server, your own personality, or the laws of physics." — St. Jude

• "If we can't have sanity, we can fake it with humor. Humor gives you the same distance from the situation, the same metaview, only laughing is easier than sanity and possibly more fun." — St. Jude

• "Give us bandwidth or kill us!" — St. Jude

• "Girls need modems!" — St. Jude

[edit] Bibliography

• The Joy of Hacker Sex (proposed)
• How to Mutate & Take Over the World: an Exploded Post-Novel. (1997) (with R. U. Sirius) Random House ISBN 0-517-19832-0
• Cyberpunk Handbook: The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook. (1995) (with R. U. Sirius and Bart Nagel) Random House. ISBN 0-67-976230-2
• Hacking the Wetware: The NerdGirl’s Pillow Book (1994) (internet release of ebook)

[edit] References

• Delio, Michelle. "Hackers Lose a Patron Saint", Wired News. July 22, 2003. Retrieved March 4, 2006.
• Dodson, Sean. Obituary | Judith Milhon | Making the internet a feminist issue, The Guardian. Friday August 8, 2003. Retrieved September 2 2007.
• Milhon, Jude. "St. Jude's Shameless Self-Promotion Shack!" (AOL homepage). Retrieved September 2, 2007.
• Welton, Corey. "St. Jude Gets Verbose", Verbosity Magazine. August 1996. Retrieved March 4, 2006.

[edit] External links

• The WELL's St. Jude Memorial and Virtual Wake