Slash dot was running an article yesterday about the top twenty movie hackers and the top ten movie servers. The obvious crew were in the short list with Jack Stanfield, Gus Gordon, and Neo featuring alongside real giants such as WOPR, The Source and Hal9000. But I ask you - who wants to see computing doen well in the movies? Surely what we really want is computing done badly so we can watch, and laugh, and nudge our friends so they drop their popcorn while we say "That would never happen in real life." The much more amusing article is entitled "things that code doesn't do in real life" and it's filled with just these sentiments. From streaming code, blipping text and childhood geniouses it rips to the core of bad plots and crazy directors.  

• Top ten movie hackers - http://www.drivl.com/hackers.html
• Top ten movie servers - http://www.vibrant.com/blog/servers-in-the-movies-our-top-ten/
• Things code doesn't do in real life - http://www.drivl.com/code.html

My list of the top five hackers would be a bit different ...

1. Neo (he just is ok)
2. Stanley Jobson (Swordfish)
3. Crash Override (Hackers - terrible film but he was good)
4. Boris Grishenco (Goldeneye)
5. Jack Stanfield (Firewall)