the difference engine
A video of Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine in operation at the Computer History Museum.
A larger and higher quality version of the video is also available.
A video of Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine in operation at the Computer History Museum.
A larger and higher quality version of the video is also available.
This is what happens when you post a collaborative drawing app to a twitter account that has 1500 active followers.
Time from posting to first drawing was about 6 seconds. I wish I had caught it from the beginning.
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I’m just going to post some stuff I found on the web and I really like. Here goes.
1. Aza Raskin has a good overview of how people use the web in China. There’s a service over there called QQ that started with chat and has morphed into everything. About that:
Whereas chat is fundamentally about people [...]
The entire episode is full of awesome. Go watch it. His feeds are pretty awesome, too. (Thanks go to Jonathan Zittrain who set up the moment.)
Some good stuff in my whoisi stream today. Enough of a pattern in order to draw some interesting lines between different posts.
Fred Wilson posts some excerpts from an essay on what comes after post-modernism (tiny link). A little bit thick, but an interesting idea. That our next era will be defined by [...]
I’ve often heard the mysterious and intentionally vague stories from David about his former employer – NDS. David just posted about an article in wired magazine that interviews one of the people at the heart of a great story. Worth reading. And watch the video – it’s damn cool.
1 firefox window
7 firefox tabs
7 emacs windows
25 emacs buffers
4 gnome-terminal windows
13 gnome-terminal tabs
What about you? What do you have open at this very moment?