Observations

Oct
29th

Sat

Romedia Making the News with UNESCO

Following on from this month’s International Workshop for Independent Producers in Igualada, Spain, the Romedia Foundation were delighted to be featured in UNESCO’s \’Women Make the News\’ series….

Jul
14th

Thu

The fruits of immigration

A tough new law cracking down on illegal immigrants and those who hire or “harbor” them has created a severe shortage of agricultural labor in Georgia right at harvest time.

The head of a…

Jul
1st

Fri

Erik Demaine knows how many moves it takes to solve your rubik's cube

Jun
6th

Mon

iPad magic. :-)

Jun
2nd

Thu

Ready for the future of the Internet?

May
28th

Sat

(title unknown)

Thank you, Matthew Flatt, for a terrific novice-friendly intro to Racket, and for the props to Bootstrap (at about 29 minutes in)!

Thanks to Ben Zimmer of LanguageLog for introducing me to Gil Scott-Heron by way of this video and iz-infixation at 6:28. I listened to the whole thing, and this one is all good humor from the 70s, and then I listened to some music and what must be the early days of rap, things like “Inner City Blues”. Recommended.

Update: The Revolution will not be Televised — somehow I had heard of it, but hadn’t heard it. Yep, recommended!

Thank you, Matthew Flatt, for a really novice-friendly introduction to Racket, and for the props to the Bootstrap program (@:29ish). Nice interview!

May
4th

Wed

Bootstrap in the news!

Mar
22nd

Tue

Perspective: deaths normed by watts for nuclear/coal/oil