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Dave Tompkins reads from 'How to Wreck a Nice Beach' tonight at Skylight Books

At its most elemental, the vocoder is an instrument of deception. A mode for veiled communication -- slang in binary code. The U.S and Russian militaries used it to compress and encrypt speech to elude enemy interception, but it soon...

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17:40 on September 22 2010

Dave Tompkins reads from 'How to Wreck a Nice Beach' tonight at Skylight Books

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — At its most elemental, the vocoder is an instrument of deception. A mode for veiled communication -- slang in binary code. The U.S and Russian militaries used it to compr... more info
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