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File:How Green Was My Envy.jpg|link=How Green Was My Envy|'''''[[How Green Was My Envy]]''''' is a 1941 American drama film about the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family, told from the point of view of the youngest child Huw, who, despite the best efforts of affectionate and kind parents, grows up envious of others.
File:How Green Was My Envy.jpg|link=How Green Was My Envy|'''''[[How Green Was My Envy]]''''' is a 1941 American drama film about the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family, told from the point of view of the youngest child Huw, who, despite the best efforts of affectionate and kind parents, grows up envious of others.
File:Nixie Economy.jpg|link=The Nixie Economy|'''''[[The Nixie Economy|The Nixie Economy: How black market Nixie tubes fuel the underground economy]]''''' is a study of the economic and historical significance of Nixie tubes, with an emphasis on the underground and semi-illicit computational activities carried out by a self-organizing network of Nixie manufacturers, dealers, and users.


File:Man-portable phrenology system.jpg|link=Man-portable phrenology system|A '''[[man-portable phrenology system]]''' ('''MPPS''') is a lightweight phrenological measurement and analysis system that does not require vehicle support to transport or operate.
File:Man-portable phrenology system.jpg|link=Man-portable phrenology system|A '''[[man-portable phrenology system]]''' ('''MPPS''') is a lightweight phrenological measurement and analysis system that does not require vehicle support to transport or operate.
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* ''[[The Nixie Economy]]
* ''[[Transdimensional corporation]]''
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* [[Verdigris]]
* [[Verdigris]]

Latest revision as of 19:35, 9 November 2023

Advertisement for Portable Envy.
Portable envy component (lower left) on a clock generator circuit board. Note the classic "green with envy" glow.

Portable Envy is a brand of electronic devices which offload the emotion of envy (nonfiction) from the user's mind to remote storage for later upload.

History

Early versions of portable envy exploited vulnerable components on substandard circuit board components, for example by exploiting components designed from faulty industrial espionage (see Capacitor plague (nonfiction)).

Subsequently, pirate manufacturers have released knock-off circuit boards with built-in portable envy features.

Portable envy devices are popular black-market items in many prisons, despite efforts by get-tough wardens (and, in some prisons, self-regulating prisoners) to forbid ownership or use of portable envy.

In the News

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Social media

  • Post @ Twitter (19 July 2023) - typo Brando
  • Post @ Twitter (25 March 2022)