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thenearsightedmonkey: Self-Portrait by Borges, drawn after he’d gone blind
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theatlantic: Happy Ada Lovelace Day! A Collection of Essays on Gender and Tech From Your Friends at The Atlantic On a day that honors one of the (female) pioneers of computer science, our second annual round-up of our work on women in technology. Read more. [Image: Wikimedia Commons]
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kottke.org: 1491: the New World before Columbus
kottke.org: 1491: the New World before Columbus jkottke: As a belated recognition of Exploration Day, here’s Charles C. Mann’s piece on the history of the Americas before Columbus: 1491. This piece blew my doors off when I first read it. Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was vastly more populous and sophisticated…
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This is what myths do: they tell us how things came to be. And all too often the myth-making process is the only way people on the margins can “speak themselves” into existence. Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah at Los Angles Review of Books. De origine actibusque aequationis Rachel Jeantel, Rammellzee, Basquiat, and the Art of Being an…
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They are very simple and honest and exceedingly liberal with all they have, none of them refusing anything he may possess when he is asked for it. They exhibit great love toward all others in preference to themselves… They would make fine servants. With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do…
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engineeringhistory: Martha Sloan, the first woman to be elected president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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syfycity: Architecture as cyberpunk: Solohouse by Lebbeus Woods, 1988.http://syfycity.tumblr.com
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humanscalecities: In a recent conference, Marta Relats from Design as Politics, shared with us this book, and how they try to avoid bullshit language in their studies related to architecture, urbanism and cities discourse and this is one of the premises they insist with the students. What if contemporary architecture discourse is disarmed of all…
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Why Microsoft Word must Die
Why Microsoft Word must Die azspot: Nor is Microsoft Word easy to use. Its interface is convoluted, baroque, making the easy difficult and the difficult nearly impossible to achieve. It guarantees job security for the guru, not transparency for the zen adept who wishes to focus on the task in hand, not the tool with…