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tends-towards: “ didymium: “ Wendy Carlos: • Was a musical prodigy who started piano lessons at six and had composed her first classical work at age ten • Built her own computer at age 14 in 1953, before most people knew what a computer was, and won...

tends-towards:

didymium:

Wendy Carlos:

  • Was a musical prodigy who started piano lessons at six and had composed her first classical work at age ten
  • Built her own computer at age 14 in 1953, before most people knew what a computer was, and won a scholarship for it
  • Helped Dr. Robert Moog work on his earlier synthesizers, providing technical assistance and convincing him to give the Moog synthesizer touch sensitivity
  • Her breakthrough album, Switched on Bach, won four Grammy awards, started a craze for synthesized music, and remained on the Billboard Classical Album top 200 chart for over a year
  • Composed music for the movies A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and the original Tron 
  • Collaborated with “Weird Al” Yankovich on a parody of Peter and the Wolf centred around the importance of oral hygeine
  • In case this wasn’t enough, she is also an accomplished solar eclipse photographer

Bonus kitty:

All info from her wiki page and website

AGH, SO MUCH ADORATION.

Incredible.

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engineeringhistory: “ Kathleen Booth with the ARC computer relay panel, 1948. Booth developed various components for the ARC and wrote the ARC assembly language, generally considered to be the first assembly language. ” First assembly language....

engineeringhistory:

Kathleen Booth with the ARC computer relay panel, 1948. Booth developed various components for the ARC and wrote the ARC assembly language, generally considered to be the first assembly language.

First assembly language. Awesome.

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Color.

Color.

Line.

Line.

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parislemon: “OS X Algae? Update: I love the idea of OS X Sea Lion. Cute. Clever. ” Agreed. I would love it if it were called OS X Sea Lion. Can’t wait for Monday.

parislemon:

OS X Algae?

Update: I love the idea of OS X Sea Lion. Cute. Clever.

Agreed. I would love it if it were called OS X Sea Lion. Can’t wait for Monday.

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“If language is incorrect, then what is said does not concord with what was meant; and if what is said does not concord with what is meant, what is to be done cannot be effected….Therefore the gentleman uses only such language as is proper for speech, and only speaks of what it would be proper to carry into effect. The gentleman, in what he says, leaves nothing to mere chance.”

Confucius, Analects 13:3

Exactly.

parislemon: “buzzfeed: “ Yeah, this checks out. ” Science! ” Love it.

parislemon:

buzzfeed:

Yeah, this checks out.

Science!

Love it.

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explore-blog:

Lawrence Lessig on fixing America’s broken political system. There is also a companion TEDBook: Lesterland: The Corruption of Congress and How to End It.

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Media Queries in SVG images

thisisresponsive:

Did you know that you can embed media queries inside SVG images? Interestingly, the media queries react to viewport of the image itself, not the viewport of the browser.