...and apologies if you've already seen it on other social media elsewhere, but it's too good not to share.  One does not simply Trololo out of Isengard.

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Via Topless Robot.

 Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a celebration of women in science and technology, named after one of the first female computer programmers (who also happened to have a very cool name).  So raise a toast sometime today to your favorite technological and/or scientific heroine.

For this year's ALD,  I'm celebrating Madeleine L'Engle - it might be a stretch ( Read more... )

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Via the BBC by way of yuggoth : Emmy-winning actor Patrick McGoohan, best known for starring in cult 1960s TV show The Prisoner, has died at the age of 80.

Be seeing you, Patrick.

You have one of these superpowers - just one.  Which do you choose?

Flight, or invisibility?

What would you do with your new found power?