- Sorry About the Propaganda, Righties –
[Mahablog on the "liberation" of Tibet and Iraq, that big hole at Ground Zero in Manhattan, and the use of the word "freedom".]
(tags: none) - Women Proto-Programmers Get Their Just Reward –
The ENIAC, the world's first computer, was invented to calculate ballistics trajectories during World War II – a task that until then had been done by hand by a group of 80 female mathematicians. The six women who were chosen to make the ENIAC work [Kay Mauchley Antonelli, Jean Bartik, Betty Holberton, Marlyn Meltzer, Frances Spence, and Ruth Teitelbaum] toiled six-day weeks during the war, inventing the field of programming as they worked. But although they were skilled mathematicians and logicians, the women were classified as "sub-professionals" presumably due to their gender and as a cost-saving device, and never got the credit due to them for their groundbreaking work."Somebody else stood up and took credit at the time, and no one looked back," explains Anna van Raaphorst-Johnson, a director of WITI. "It's a typical problem in a male-dominated industry. And there's still a lot of frustration with men taking credit for women's ideas – it doesn't seem to have changed much over the last 50 years."
But although the women had been categorized as "clerks," they were rediscovered by a Harvard student named Kathryn Kleiman in 1986, during her research for a paper on women in computing. When the 50th anniversary of the ENIAC computer rolled around last year, Kleiman – now an Internet lawyer at Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth – decided that it was time to get the women the recognition they deserved.
"I called and asked what they were doing to honor the ENIAC programmers, and they said, 'Who?'" says Kleiman.
(tags: none) - TuxCards – Hierarical notebook for TuxFreaks | Ubuntu Geek –
TuxCards provides a hierarical notebook similar to CueCards under Windows. Every kind of note and idea may be managed and sorted within a tree structure.TuxCards is the notebook for TuxFreaks and for everyone who likes to use it or finds it useful during his or her work and play.Tuxcards Features
Notes can be composed using richtext elements.
There are no theoretical/practical limits on the tree-depth, on the quantity of the items and on the size of the notes.
At every start, TuxCards will automatically load your last datas.
The tree-structure (on the left side) is also reproduced as it was found at your last saving.
Drag & Drop of entries between completely different TuxCards applications is possible. Just try it. ;-)
Entry History.
Create notes with an expiration date.
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