Mastodawn

hellohi Jun 27, 2019

Micro SF/F stories by O Westin Jun 26, 2019

Sometimes, the moonlight will:
- draw a footpath on the water. If you walk it, it will cut you. Dance.
- forge a sword on the rocks. If you can pick it up, you'll know what to do.
- leave a ribbon for your lover's hair. If you tie it on, they can untie it.
- simply shine. On you.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

hellohi Jun 23, 2019

Boing Boing Jun 22, 2019

The ENIAC Programmers: how women invented modern programming and were then written out of the history books https://boingboing.net/2019/06/21/founding-mothers-of-computing.html

The ENIAC Programmers: how women invented modern programming and were then written out of the history books

Boing Boing

hellohi Jun 23, 2019

Boing Boing Jun 22, 2019

Star Wars-themed furniture https://boingboing.net/2019/06/20/an-elegant-weapon.html https://t.co/jQvZho4fwd

Star Wars-themed furniture to furnish your Tardis with

Boing Boing

hellohi Jun 23, 2019

Open Culture Jun 22, 2019

Pink Floyd Drummer Nick Mason Presents the History of Music & Technology in a 9-Part BBC Podcast

http://www.openculture.com/?p=1066222 https://t.co/Gm9mkeTz0s

Pink Floyd Drummer Nick Mason Presents the History of Music & Technology in a Nine-Part BBC Podcast

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has taken on another role this month: as a podcast host and music historian.

hellohi Jun 16, 2019

Yes, I Know IT ! 🎓Jun 16, 2019

"How do you know whether a quantum computer has done anything quantum at all?"
Urmila Mahadev knows the answer

https://www.quantamagazine.org/graduate-student-solves-quantum-verification-problem-20181008/
#Quantum #Computing #Achievement

Graduate Student Solves Quantum Verification Problem | Quanta Magazine

Urmila Mahadev spent eight years in graduate school solving one of the most basic questions in quantum computation: How do you know whether a quantum computer has done anything quantum at all?

Quanta Magazine

hellohi Jun 15, 2019

Open Culture Jun 15, 2019

Watch 3,000 Films Free Online from the National Film Board of Canada, Including Portraits of Leonard Cohen, Margaret Atwood & Jack Kerouac

http://www.openculture.com/?p=1065792 https://t.co/Rv6QTTzAU2

Watch 3,000 Films Free Online from the National Film Board of Canada, Including Portraits of Leonard Cohen, Margaret Atwood & Jack Kerouac

What, exactly, is Canada? The question sometimes occurs to Americans, living as they do right next door.

hellohi Jun 15, 2019

Open Culture Jun 15, 2019

Watch M.C. Escher Make His Final Artistic Creation (1971) http://www.openculture.com/?p=1023733 https://t.co/QMjLvAqF0V

Watch M.C. Escher Make His Final Artistic Creation (1971)

III hung along the walls of my fourth-grade classroom, where I spent many an idle minute or ten staring at its intricate geometry through which squares became birds, birds became lizards, lizards became fish, and it all somehow arrived at the cliff-like edge of a three-dimensional chessboard.

Open Culture

hellohi Jun 8, 2019

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Micro SF/F stories by O Westin Jun 3, 2019

"The fight is not over until you stop fighting," the master said.
"What if my opponent stops fighting?"
"Do you keep fighting?"
"What if I do?"
"Then you are not fighting your opponent any more, but yourself."#CorrectedTypo#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

hellohi Jun 8, 2019

Boing Boing Jun 7, 2019

Inequality makes a nation poorer https://boingboing.net/2019/06/07/socially-useless-guard-labor.html https://t.co/tsx1ZWhlPF

Inequality makes a nation poorer

Boing Boing

hellohi Jun 8, 2019

Open Culture Jun 7, 2019

A New Photo Book Documents the Wonderful Homemade Cat Ladders of Switzerland

http://www.openculture.com/?p=1065722 https://t.co/VuLZ7iiQCf

A New Photo Book Documents the Wonderful Homemade Cat Ladders of Switzerland

There are days when Calgon is not escape enough… Days when one longs to be a cat, specifically a free-ranging feline of Bern, Switzerland, as featured in graphic designer Brigitte Schuster’s forthcoming book, Swiss Cat Ladders...