“When John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry developed the first digital computing machine at Iowa State University in 1937, little did they know that their invention would become an integral part of a sophisticated worldwide cat picture distribution system….”
That’s from How to blog good, which I discovered thanks to tipperography. More linky goodness from the world wild web…
- World’s creepiest ever musical instrument?
- via Gizmodo
- Where is the hole in the pipeline for women in physics?
- From Inside Higher Ed, a competitor–free!–to the pricey Chronicle of Higher Ed.
- Super-simple electric bicycle mod from Neodymics
- Frank Wilczek, “personal communication.”
- Does your (written-good) blog have a snowball’s chance of whuffie?
- I’m used to reading Suw at Chocolate and Vodka, but she’s also at HeardSaid and Strange Attractor and now at “infinite monkeys.” Suw, blog where you want, but give us one “Suw” RSS feed!