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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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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.
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…