Month: October 2013

  • we accept gifts via check, wire, paypal, square, dwolla, and bitcoin. which do you prefer? an email i just wrote to a donor to The NYC Foundation for Computer Science Education. i love writing that line. feels so damn good. (via fred-wilson)

  • kadrey: …what do you have to be scared of?

  • rstevens: IT IS DONE One week only.  Plus! A special surprise shirt that will blow your socks off.

  • All the most important technologies that have driven growth — what economists call general purpose technologies — trace their funding back to government. These are the technologies whose effects permeate across large parts of the economy, not just a single sector, and nurture decades of growth. These include aviation technologies; space technologies; semiconductors, the Internet;…

  • 101 objects that made America

    jkottke: This month, Smithsonian magazine tells the story of America using 101 objects drawn from the 19 musuems and research centers of the Smithsonian Institution. Among the objects are the original Star Spangled Banner flag, the passenger pigeon, the polio vaccine, the pill, and Benjamin Franklin’s Experiments and Observations on Electricity. A companion book, The…

  • 101 objects that made America

    jkottke: This month, Smithsonian magazine tells the story of America using 101 objects drawn from the 19 musuems and research centers of the Smithsonian Institution. Among the objects are the original Star Spangled Banner flag, the passenger pigeon, the polio vaccine, the pill, and Benjamin Franklin’s Experiments and Observations on Electricity. A companion book, The…

  • wacky-thoughts: Stampomatica 3D printed letterpress machines

  • jomc: https://twitter.com/samfbiddle/status/395569774958497792

  • seedtoshirt: New York, New York – We went to the fiber lab at the Fashion Institute of Technology where they’re going to do some wicked testing on our shirts. Unfortunately, we had to sacrifice a shirt for science. Here’s a look at the T-shirts analyzed right down to the yarn (magnified at 48x). (@qdbui/NPR)

  • the technical reason we start counting arrays at zero is that in the mid-1960′s, you could shave a few cycles off of a program’s compilation time on an IBM 7094. The social reason is that we had to save every cycle we could, because if the job didn’t finish fast it might not finish at…