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Feb

The End of the Mainframe Era at NASAnasa.gov This month marks the end of an era in NASA com­put­ing. Mar­shall Space Flight Cen­ter pow­ered down NASA’s last main­frame, the IBM Z9 Main­frame. For my mil­len­ni­al read­ers, I sup­pose that I should define what a main­frame is. Well, that’s…

The End of the Mainframe Era at NASA
nasa.gov

This month marks the end of an era in NASA com­put­ing. Mar­shall Space Flight Cen­ter pow­ered down NASA’s last main­frame, the IBM Z9 Main­frame. For my mil­len­ni­al read­ers, I sup­pose that I should define what a main­frame is. Well, that’s…

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06

Jan

officialssay:

Fmr. Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, getting in an argument with a reporter who pointed out that one of Romney’s top advisors is a lobbyist — right after the GOP candidate stated that lobbyists were not running his campaign.

“You’re out of line,” Romney’s spokesperson told the reporter later. “Save your opinions and act professionally. Don’t be argumentative with the candidate.”

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29

Nov

The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Edward Carrington, 1787

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25

Nov

My dog’s a tap dancer. :)

My dog’s a tap dancer. :)

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23

Nov

futuramb: Engineers take first step towards augmented-reality contact lenses (Wired UK) A team of micro-engineers has made the first stride towards projecting augmented-reality vision in front of the human eye. They’ve created a computerised contact lens that can display a single pixel. An important step on the way towards a total visual augmented reality. Wow.

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Engineers take first step towards augmented-reality contact lenses (Wired UK)

A team of micro-engineers has made the first stride towards projecting augmented-reality vision in front of the human eye. They’ve created a computerised contact lens that can display a single pixel.
An important step on the way towards a total visual augmented reality.

Wow.

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Stowe Boyd: Connected Kids

smarterplanet:

I pulled some data from a presentation from the K5 Learning Blog. Kids today are amazingly connected, but less involved in the physical world:

  1. More US kids aged 2-5 can play a computer game than ride a bike.
  2. 19% of kids aged 2-5 know how to play a smartphone app; 9% know how to tie their shoelaces.
  3. More kids aged 2-5 can open a browser than swim unaided.
  4. Kids aged 0-8 spend an average of 1 hour 44 minutes watching TV or video daily, 29 minutes reading, 29 minutes listening to music, 25 minutes playing computer or video games, and 5 minutes using new mobile devices.
  5. Kids aged 8-18 spend 7 hours 38 minutes using entertainment media daily: more than 53 hours per week. That’s an hour more than 2004 (6 hours 30 minutes). Because they multitask [non-rivalrous media] they pack 10 hours 45 minutes into those 7 hours and 38 minutes.
  6. 65% of kids aged 0-8 watch TV at least once per day. That’s 37% of kids aged 0-1, 73% of kids aged 2-4, and 72% of kids aged 5-8.
  7. Kids under 2 spend twice as much time watching TV and videos than being read to (1 hour 54 minutes versus 53 minutes per day).
  8. For kids aged 8-18, live TV consumption declined by 25 minutes from 2004 to 2009, but total TV consumption went up thanks to the Internet, cell phones, and iPods. 59% (2 hours 39 minutes) consisted of watching live TV, and 41% (1 hour 50 minutes) consisted of time-shifted TV, DVDs, online, or mobile.
  9. 53% of kids aged 2-4 have used a computer, 90% of kids aged 5-8 have.
  10. 25% of kids are going online daily by age 3, 50% by age 5.
  11. Cell ownership among kids 8-18 rose from 39% in 2004 to 65% in 2009.
  12. 7-12th graders spend an average 1 hour 35 minutes per day sending and receiving texts.
  13. 51% of kids aged 0-8 have played a console game, 81% of kids aged 5-8. 17% of kids aged 5-8 play console games at least once a day, 36% play then at least once per week.
  14. 27% of kids aged 2-5 screen time is used with new digital devices.
  15. 29% of parents have downloaded apps for their kids aged 2-5 to use.
  16. iPod ownership for kids aged 8-18 rose from 18% in 2004 to 76% in 2009.
  17. 23% of kids aged 0-8 watch educational TV shows, 8% use educational programs on the computer, 7% play education games on new mobile devices.

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You’re the head on the spear
You’re the nail on the cross
You’re the fly in my beer
You’re the key that got lost
You’re the letter from Jesus on the bathroom wall
You’re mother superior in only a bra
You’re the same kind of bad as me

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And here’s the actual video. Where women belong in journalism, back in the 1940s.

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Vintage Journalism Video Teaches Women Not To Reach For The Stars (VIDEO)

I should have known better than to dream big. ;D

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thepoliticalnotebook:

Brian Nguyen, photographer for UC Davis’s student newspaper The Aggie, captured the events of yesterday’s protests from beginning to end, and was kind enough to submit them for publication here at The Political Notebook. Above are a selection of photos capturing the police in riot gear, arresting and pepper spraying the student protesters. What an intense group of shots.

You can follow Nguyen’s Flickr stream or follow him on Tumblr. 

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