bricoleur

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As a bricoleur, a scavenger of information shards, smuggler, blackmailer, perhaps even cyberterrorist, the TAZ-hacker will work for the evolution of clandestine fractal connections.

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  • He's a kind of an academic translator and bricoleur of cool ideas, working over the scrap heap and pulling out useful detritus. —  MetaFilter Projects
  • As a bricoleur, a scavenger of information shards, smuggler, blackmailer, perhaps even cyberterrorist, the TAZ-hacker will work for the evolution of clandestine fractal connections. —  home
  • Andrea Mangia is captain and stowaway, songwriter and sound-bricoleur, with tracks that are tricky, polyphonic, and seconds later, four to the floor. —  Tonevendor Update
  • He is a tinkerer, a bricoleur, Dionysian rather than Apollonian. —  post.thing.net - A lean, mean, media machine.
  • "The bricoleur may not ever complete his purpose but he always puts something of himself into it". —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
 

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