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posts from 2016 / 05
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May 28th, 2016 4:13pm
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May 28th, 2016 8:26am
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May 27th, 2016 5:40pm
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Hey Mike Stavely
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Hey kids, gett tickets to see Dinosaur Jr. for the Monday show at the Independent in late September w/ Amanda Walker Stavely and I. Bring ear plugs.
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May 23rd, 2016 3:22pm
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May 21st, 2016 9:59am
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May 17th, 2016 9:38pm
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A billboard at the edge of Oak Ridge, TN, where US citizens secretly mined uranium for the Manhattan Project.
May 16th, 2016 9:19pm
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May 16th, 2016 9:17pm
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A million things to do with a computer!
I gave a talk at !!con last weekend, about my favourite programming language scratch:
Back in 1971, Cynthia Solomon and Seymour Papert wrote “Twenty things to do with a computer”, about their experiences of teaching children to use Logo and their ideas for the future.
They were wrong: There’s a lot more than twenty. Logo’s successor, Scratch, has over thirteen million things that children and adults alike have built. Scratch is radically approachable in a way that puts every other language to shame.
This talk is about the history, present, and future of Scratch: why Scratch is about ‘coding to learn’, and not about ‘learning to code’.
I had a incredible time at !!con. The live captioning was fantastic (and they’re crowdfunding a game to teach steno too).
The livestreams are up (but no captions), and my talk is 3h29m32s in on day 2.
May 10th, 2016 6:39pm
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May 5th, 2016 7:56pm
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May 5th, 2016 7:51pm
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“What do you think a hit man would charge to rub out a couple of cats?“
May 5th, 2016 7:43pm
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The Icelandic Language still uses the letters Þ and Ð, which used to be in the English alphabet too but which fell into disuse and were eventually left out altogether. Their pronunciation is the sound made by the “th” in “this” and “that” respectively.
Incidentally, the Þ was not included in early English printing press types. As a substitute they used y, which looks somewhat similar. Thus was the popular misconception born that English people used to say “ye” as in “ye old shoppe.”
May 5th, 2016 7:43pm
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May 2nd, 2016 6:36pm
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: pedantry in space
May 1st, 2016 9:22am
