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engineeringhistory: The IBM Harvard Mark I, or the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), an electromechanical computer built in 1944 for use by the U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships. The machine was built out of switches, relays, rotating shafts, and clutches and weighed approximately 10,000 pounds.
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ayanaahj: Octavia Butler’s 1965 senior class photo from John Muir High School in Pasadena, California. (via Stacey Muhammad)
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ayanaahj: Octavia Butler’s 1965 senior class photo from John Muir High School in Pasadena, California. (via Stacey Muhammad)
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archilovers: Upcycle House is an experimental project, aimed at exposing potential carbon-emission reductions through the use of recycled and upcycled building materials. In the case of Upcycle House, the reduction has been 86% compared to a benchmark house. Find more at: http://bit.ly/1dv45zM
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I think my favourite aspect of it, though, is that at times, watching the bots play together is a little like magic. The first time I saw them talk to each other, cover each other whilst reloading, help each other up after a Boomer attacked, I felt a little (only a little, mind) like a…
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I think my favourite aspect of it, though, is that at times, watching the bots play together is a little like magic. The first time I saw them talk to each other, cover each other whilst reloading, help each other up after a Boomer attacked, I felt a little (only a little, mind) like a…
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No Contest
thenewinquiry: Library of Congress By TOMAS RIOS When sports is all about the money, every call is a chance to make a buck Some white boy in Texas killed four people while drunk driving and wasn’t held responsible because he’s rich. There is maybe more nuance to the story than that, but what matters is that…
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We are Huxleying ourselves into the full Orwell.
mostlysignssomeportents: Try as I might, I can’t shake the feeling that 2014 is the year we lose the Web. The W3C push for DRM in all browsers is going to ensure that all interfaces built in HTML5 (which will be pretty much everything) will be opaque to users, and it will be illegal to report…
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We are Huxleying ourselves into the full Orwell.
mostlysignssomeportents: Try as I might, I can’t shake the feeling that 2014 is the year we lose the Web. The W3C push for DRM in all browsers is going to ensure that all interfaces built in HTML5 (which will be pretty much everything) will be opaque to users, and it will be illegal to report…
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We are Huxleying ourselves into the full Orwell.
We are Huxleying ourselves into the full Orwell. mostlysignssomeportents: zorrivel: mostlysignssomeportents: Try as I might, I can’t shake the feeling that 2014 is the year we lose the Web. The WC3 push for DRM in all browsers is going to ensure that all interfaces built in HTML5 (which will be pretty much everything) will be…