{"id":6511,"date":"2014-11-28T08:58:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T19:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=6511"},"modified":"2014-11-28T09:56:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T20:56:00","slug":"mop-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=6511","title":{"rendered":"Mop Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"

How Long Would It Take Darth Vader To Mop The Death Star?<\/a> (via Ben Sedley)<\/p>\n

Ferguson. No words. But read these: Ta-Nehisi Coates<\/a>, of course, from the perspective of Obama’s comments; and also (via Gem) How to parent on a night like this<\/a> by Carvell Wallace<\/p>\n

Svend talked me into actually reading this link, and he was not wrong: “What the hell am I doing? I kept asking myself. Why am I forcing a fine new machine to pretend it is a half-dozen old, useless machines? Eventually I realized: This might be about my friend Tom dying.” Emulating old computers as part of a process of grief & reflection.<\/a><\/p>\n

Lotta MIT stuff this week for some reason:
\nCute profile of the MIT Science Fiction club<\/a>, which has a pretty astonishing library.
\nHistory of the MIT football team<\/a> (undefeated this season in Div 3) – the photo of the 1978 marching band is priceless
\nAnd a look back at MIT’s Tech Model Railway Club, home to the first computer hackers<\/a><\/p>\n

Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a><\/p>\n

Every aspect of this is fury-making. “Tech Dudes Take Credit For Female Scientist\u2019s Work; Plan To \u201cHack\u201d Vaginas So They Smell Like Peaches”<\/a><\/p>\n

Meryn Cadell’s “The Sweater” – Steph P emailed this thru asking if I’d heard it, and it does sound kinda familiar but from looooong ago. Wikipedia says<\/a> it’s from ’91, and went top 40 (!) in Canada in ’92, which was about when I started listening to radio Active sometimes, so… maybe? Anyway it’s pretty great!
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