I’ve only had my iPhone—has it really been just?—two weeks, and I already can’t fathom life before it. This device isn’t a luxury item, but a basic necessity for me.
pangram love
pangram love
almost absurdly cute: buzzfeed | The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog
brilliance
brilliance
Caring about grammar is cool!!
Or anyway, if this thing keeps cycling the web, it will be soon.
Girls who rock
Girls who rock
Imagine you’re a teenage girl, and you want to be a rock god: who are your role models? Who’s there to look up to? Who can you respect?
a crush on rbg
a crush on rbg
Sometimes I have days when Ruth Bader Ginsburg is my favorite person in the entire world. Today is like that:
On #amazonfail
On #amazonfail
When I was in high school, the American Taliban took over my town’s school board.
One of their first moves was to create a policy banning the school from “encouraging, or supporting homosexuality as a positive lifestyle alternative.”
Cute!
Cute!
I wish they had these when I was lil… Check out My Little Predator, My Little Alien, My Little Han Solo in Carbonite, My Little Skeletor, My Little Edward Scissorhands and way more at artist Mari Kasurinen’s website…
Finding inspiration through Ada
Finding inspiration through Ada
There are already well over ONE THOUSAND Ada Lovelace Day posts listed at http://ada.pint.org.uk/; I’ve been so moved by so many people’s that I wanted to highlight a few that really touched me, whether they were well-written, moving, taught me something, or were just about really cool ladies.
Kick-ass women in tech
Kick-ass women in tech
I explained two weeks ago that when I first learned about Ada Lovelace Day back in January, I was about halfway through drafting this post, my response to—and in some ways, retaliation against—the many “best”/”most influential” people in tech list links that were flooding emails, facebook pages, delicious networks, and print publications right around the turning of the new year.
yes, I want this too, please
yes, I want this too, please
So, with this being a recession and all, I suppose imaginary shopping is the best way to go when it comes to luxury goods. In which case I’d shell out the big nonexistent bucks for one of these conjunctive lovelies: A deluxe carrying case for an ampersand, designed by Marc Johns.
gorgeous retro book design
gorgeous retro book design
Ohhhh…pretty! (Some favorites from the much-larger “I Can Read Movies” series by spacesick.)
Ada Lovelace Day — start drafting your posts!
Ada Lovelace Day — start drafting your posts!
In ninth-grade science class, we watched a documentary about the discovery of the double helix, and it left me blazing indignant with anger. James Watson and Francis Crick, the two men who won the Nobel Prize for this discovery, had stolen essential research from the offices of an x-ray crystallographer [...]
Yes I Want Please
Yes I Want Please
The Bibliochaise. The Bookshelf Made of Books. Rebound Design’s recycled Book Bags—I’m rather partial to the Chicago Manual of Style. And the Bookcase Staircase, which you just have to click on through to see to believe.
Final Project
Final Project
Completed my final animation project on Friday. You can see it right here; just make sure to have the volume turned up on your computer. The animation was done in Maya, which is the same software that Pixar uses! I mixed the audio in Audacity, and did all of the post-production work in FinalCut Pro.
