Month: May 2010
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We Interrupt This Comic Because I’m Really Distractable
Here at 2dGoggles we are always On The Alert for the very latest Babbage facts, especially facts as awesomely cool as these.. via Bruce Sterling at Beyond the Beyond: Charles Babbage, the Secret Police Reports!! “The known Fortunato Prandi of Camerana, arrived here from Lyon during the 10th day of the present month in the…
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Lovelace and Babbage vs The Organist, pt 5
This is a totally self-indulgent episode that has nothing to do with anything. What’s the use of Pictures and Conversations without NOTES? This episode is dedicated to Martin Gardner’s Annotated Alice, which I read until it fell apart; more recently I’ve been hugely enjoying Lewis Carroll in Numberland, a highly recommend little book, from whence…