LOC has launched a pilot program by adding photos to Flickr and has asked the public to participate by adding tags. The cool thing about this project is that, for the time being, the photos have “no known copyright restrictions.” [...]
Archive for January, 2008
January 27th, 2008 - 4:57 am § in Blog
Books that make you dumb?
I try not to pick up posts from Boing Boing, since it’s pretty redundant to do so, but some guy made a chart of books that make you dumb. You can see without looking for too long that the chart is problematic. Yet, I am also pleased to report that 100 Years of Solitude is one [...][...]
January 21st, 2008 - 11:34 pm § in Blog
A series of tubes
A great story about one of the first female computer programmers, A Technical Camelot. I think I may have seen Jean’s image, standing next to the ENIAC when I was taking my computer history classes as an undergraduate. In class I learned that women did most of the programming– they were [...]