This is just about the most fantastic thing I’ve ever seen! It’s a bracelet that spells out “I am starstuff” in amino acid code. If anyone wants to send me an early birthday present, this is at the top of my list!! ;)
Category Archives: simply magnificent
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Augustine defined the grace of love as volo ut sis—I want you to be. “There is,” he wrote, “an affirmation of the mystery of the other in relationships based on love, an affirmation of unexplained and unfathomable differences.”
Ada Lovelace Day
In her translation of Luigi Menabrea’s memoir on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, Ada Lovelace appended notes that included a method for calculating Bernoulli numbers with the machine – the first computer programme. The calculations were never carried out, as the machine was never built.
Understanding that computers could do a lot more than just crunch numbers, Ada suggested that the Analytical Engine “might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.”
Night Moves
This photo was forwarded to me by my friend Shadan at JPL… We’ve no idea who took the photo, but it’s absolutely the best picture of a night launch either of us has ever seen!
Alice in Wonderland 1903
The only surviving print of the first-ever film version of Lewis Carroll’s tale has recently been restored to its original colors by the BFI National Archive. With a running time of just 12 minutes (8 of which survive), Alice in Wonderland was the longest film produced in England at the time.
Shy? Cynical?
If you’re shy and cynical, or perhaps one or the other, or if you just like good, strange fiction, pick up Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical by our good friend Rob Shearman. It’s a treasure trove of horror and sentiment, joy and bitterness.
George Clooney’s Mustache alternately made me shudder and smirk with cruel delight, The Hidden Story had me weeping in the middle of a crowded airport, Crumble made my heart ache deep into the night, and Sweet Nothings had me laughing for days.
It’s a book I recommend unreservedly to all my lovely Valentines!
(That means you.) <3
Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical is available from Big Finish.
Christmas Puppies!
…also, I should point out that Santa is a woman. Which is awesome.
