Returns after an unannounced six-month hiatus with reader-sourced improvements to the New Blue Box circuit, warns of an early caller-ID-like device marketed to catch obscene callers, and expands earlier coverage of free-electricity meter wiring. Read more →

Skewers the Nixon administration’s response to the 1973 energy crisis, then gives a detailed illustrated guide to reading, slowing, jumping, or bypassing residential electric meters and picking a ‘rollersmith’ meter lock, alongside a fundraising appeal for Abbie Hoffman’s legal defense. Read more →