Tao Neuendorffer

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🚋 on the T 😷 in Pittsburgh 🎤Songs and stories of computer science💾 We are none of us alone🎵 People of all colors and genders keep making tech history🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Waylon Jennings and Big Bird singing Ain’t No Road Too Long in Follow That Bird (1985) #SesameStreet #Muppet
Taylor Farms cheat sheet so you don't get dem poopies... • Taylor Farms • Earthbound Farms • Little Salad Bar (Aldi) • Marketside (Walmart) • Kroger House Brand • Target private label greens • Costco salad kits and greens etc • Traders Joe's chopped salad kits and fresh produce • Fast food: McDonald's, Taco Bell (Yum! Brands), Chipotle, Subway, pizza hut, kfc, olive garden, top golf, red lobster, burger king, etc • The "TF" Indicator: Codes starting with letters like TF, TFRB, TFPM, or TFRS denote processing and packing originating from a Taylor Farms facility
Withdrawing in Disgust is Not the Same as Apathy Cutting Some Slack with Richard Linklater by Melissa Petrek and Alan Hines Illustration by Eric White a grid of pictures of smiling white people. out of one lady’s head, a reflective blue head emerges, a yellow smiley face drawn between their eyes Okay. Time for a reality hack. Put down this magazine, pop in your car, speed to the nearest video store and rent Richard Linklater's Slacker. No, really—we're serious. Why? Well, for starters, it's a brilliant film. More like a Pachinko game than a film really. Characters bump into each other randomly, events elide into the next fractured vignette or crazed solipsistic rant. It's got the feel of 3 a.m., semi-drunken rambling at a dwindling party—overheard snippets of philosophy, bitching, urban folklore. JFK conspiracy theories folded into sales pitches for Madonna's pap smear; Dostoevskian prose blended into paranoid diatribes about ClA/space alien kidnap plots; fond, anarchistic glorification of tower-sniper Charles Whitman ("This town's finest hour") and the Smurfs as calculated conditioning for the return of Krishna ("It gets kids used to seeing blue people").
Joybubbles is a documentary directed by Los Angeles filmmaker Rachael Morrison that tells the story of Joe “Joybubbles” Engressia Jr., a legendary and whimsical blind hacker who helped pioneer the art of “phone phreaking.” Gifted with perfect pitch, he realized that if he whistled the exact tone of 2600Hz into the telephone receiver, he could make free phone calls and explore the inner workings of the telephone network. His incredible skill for hacking the network eventually awarded him the nickname “The Whistler,” and he became famous among a group of underground telephone hackers who called themselves phone phreaks.
Taylor Farms cheat sheet so you don't get dem poopies... • Taylor Farms • Earthbound Farms • Little Salad Bar (Aldi) • Marketside (Walmart) • Kroger House Brand • Target private label greens • Costco salad kits and greens etc • Traders Joe's chopped salad kits and fresh produce • Fast food: McDonald's, Taco Bell (Yum! Brands), Chipotle, Subway, pizza hut, kfc, olive garden, top golf, red lobster, burger king, etc • The "TF" Indicator: Codes starting with letters like TF, TFRB, TFPM, or TFRS denote processing and packing originating from a Taylor Farms facility
Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer (1985)
Margaret Hamilton stands next to a stack of program listings from the Apollo Guidance Computer in a photograph taken in 1969 (Left Picture Credit: Wikimedia Commons) Margaret Hamilton in an Apollo Command Module (Right Picture Credit: NASA)
The Dark Princess, the main antagonist in Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer (1985)
Totally Rad Instruction Manual Jaleco™
Uranium glass citrus reamer. Just simply the worst idea. Don’t use these. – from the Phil Broughton Collection, 2024
Air Quality Index (AQI) Good 0-50 Moderate 51-100 Unhealthy for sensitive groups 101-150 Unhealthy 151-200 Very Unhealthy 201-300 Hazardous 301-500
After Lynn Conway transitioned in 1968, she lost her family and was fired from her job at IBM. She went on to Pioneer the MICROCHIP Technology that Powers your SMARTPHONE. She has been a Tireless Advocate for TRANS RIGHTS and an INSPIRATION for Trans Leaders Everywhere. She was A LEGEND, AN ICON AND A TRAILBLAZER. She will be Thoroughly Missed. R.I.P. Lynn Conway (1938-2024) Thank You For Everything. — Sophie Labelle
Reading Rainbow Library Dance
BYTE the small systems journal Energy Conservation JULY 1981 Vol 6, No 7 $2.50 in USA/$2.95 in Canada A McGraw-Hill Publication In The Queue Volume 6, Number 7 July 1981 Features 26 The Santa Cruz Open: Othello Tournament for Computers by Peter W Frey One of the surprises was the impressive showing of the microcomputers and hand-held electronic units. 38 Bulld a Z8-Based Control Computer with BASIC, Part I by Steve Ciarcia Zilog's new single-chip microcomputers ease the construction of a small, inexpensive computer system. 48 Harvesting the Sun's Energy by George E Mobus A computer model helps determine the amount of solar energy received by a flatplate collector. 94 What Time Does the Sun Rise and Set? by Bruce Barkstrom This sunrise-sunset program calculates many parameters associated with the sun. including the amount of solar radiation received by the earth. 136 Multiprocessing with Motorola's MC6809E by Hunter Scales The MC6809E microprocessor is designed for use in a multiprocessor system. 158 Computer Simulation of a Solar-Energy System by Daniel Doan An electric-circuit model makes heat flow easier to understand. 178 Energy Conservation with a Microcomputer by David R Jackson and John M Callahan The principles of energy conservation can be applied to your home using a program written in PET (Microsoft) BASIC. 230 Kalman Mileage Predictor-Monitor by Jerry Lobdill Predicting your car's fuel economy can alert you to mechanical problems. 252 The Infamous Traveling-Salesman Problem: A Practical Approach by Richard T Parry and Howard Pfeffer A decision-tree-pruning algorithm greatly reduces the time needed to soive the traveling-salesman problem. 308 Micromodem Support in Apple Pascal by Scott G Robinson Pascal support of the standard operational features of the Micromodem II.
US Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121 One number to call your US Senators and Rep. Save to your phone contact list.
US Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121 One number to call your US Senators and Rep. Save to your phone contact list.
Apple iMac G3 colors
Jim Henson on set of THE MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN
JIM HENSON Presents A FRANK OZ FILM "The Muppets Take Manhattan"
See, I’ve Got A Really Good System: If I Want To Send A YouTube Video To Someone, I Go To File→Save, Then Import The Saved Page Into Word. Then I Go To "Share This Document" And Under "Recipient" I Put The Email Of This Video Extraction Service… I’ll Often Encourage Relatives To Try To Solve Computer Problems Themselves By Trial And Error. However, I’ve Learned An Important Lesson: If They Say They’ve Solved Their Problem, NEVER Ask How. XKCD I once worked on a friend's dad's computer. He had the hard drive divided into six partitions, C: through J:, with a 'Documents' directory tree on each one. Each new file appeared to be saved to a partition at random. I knew enough not to ask.
Decoding the Devil Black Women Codebreakers and the Secret War Against Stalin’s Bomb Sarah Valentine
Oscar the Grouch enjoys a pickle ice cream sundae with an olive on top
Kicking Butt in Computer Science Women in Computing at Carnegie Mellon University Carol Frieze, Ph.D. and Jeria Quesenberry, Ph.D
Includes electronic quick reference for the Newton API and a demo version of the Newton Toolkit for the Mac OS Newton Programmer's Guide by Apple Computer, Inc. Newton light bulb logo
Maniac Mansion (1987) box
Camper Van Beethoven Weird Angles An Interview with David Lowery by Marc Laidlaw Camper Van Beethoven is my favorite band. I speak not only of cerebral appreciation of various effects, ingeniously contrived yet as spontaneous-seeming as a music-camp jam, nor of undersea tone-currents to which my body sways as helplessly as a piece of kelp. It's not that all the words and music arrow straight to the heart, either, for some of the songs are goofier than a surfer's left foot, while others are moody and morbid as the darkest night of a Saturnian poet's soul. The fact is, Camper Van Beethoven's sound is so well-rounded, so full of surprises, that—the first time I heard it—the music already seemed like an old and favored friend—unpredictable, ever-changing, but good and deep and true. This many-faceted persona is currently the work of five musicians, though it remains the evolved product of many individuals who have played in the group and left their stylistic marks on it over the years. Sadly — although perhaps luckily for my primitive interviewing skills — I was able to corner only one of the five at San Francisco's Warfield Theater on December 15, 1989, the last night of their Key Lime Pie Tour. David Lowery, spokesman and chief lyricist for CVB, is a lanky blond with features that Rudy Rucker says remind him of someone who has been buffeted by countless cosmic storms and spent hard nights in the outer gulfs of existence or perhaps East Texas: a face honed down to rugged essentials by the elemental action of visionary weather. I don’t know about all that, but Lowery definitely has developed a unique approach to life and those things in it worth singling out as significant. Like all the best artists, he shows us the strangeness in familiar things, and vicé versa. In fact, the word "strange" recurs frequently in conversation with him: strangeness as a signifier, a key to those weird doors that open so rarely and memorably in the claustrophobic corridors of our lives.
A message from Act Against AIDS AIDS is like any regular disease. Merely touching someone [with AIDS] is not infectious. This is a proven scientific fact. Don't be afraid. If someone close to you has contracted [AIDS], treat them with kindness. Your love and courage is the best vaccine! Let's save the world with love and courage. Japan Foundation for AIDS Prevention PHONE: 0120-177-812 COMPILE supports Act Against Aids.
The prominent #EndGenderApartheid campaign was launched in 2023, calling for the global recognition of the crime of gender apartheid. A key component of the campaign's strategy is to mobilize a global mass movement akin to that against racial apartheid in South Africa. The implicit assumption is that the language of gender apartheid evokes a stronger response among the public than alternatives such as the language of gender persecution. We tested the effectiveness of this rhetorical frame in a survey experiment on 1,200 members of the United States public and 100 US elites, finding null effects. However, informing respondents that the systematic oppression of women violates international law significantly increased their support for policy action. Legal codification may thus have a stronger impact on public opinion than subtle rhetorical framing related to the severity and scope of human rights abuses. We also uncovered evidence of a spillover effect between distinct human rights issues, where more pro-Israeli individuals were less responsive to the gender apartheid frame than pro-Palestinian respondents, likely because Israel has been accused of apartheid. Overall, our study contributes to broader academic debates about the impact of language, the efficacy of international law, and the possibility of backlash effects in response to human rights shaming.
These are some of our compatibles In fact Open Access is compatible with more than 25 of the world’s most popular microcomputers. Open Access is the popular integrated do-it-all super program that can perform virtually every task you're ever likely to encounter. Open Access includes an electronic spreadsheet, 3D business graphics, word processor, appointment scheduler and telecommunications module, all revolving around the powerful information manager. Open Access operates on the following MS/PC DOS microcomputers: AT&T, Challenger, Chamellion, Columbia, Compaq, Corona, Datamax, Data General, Digital Rainbow, Eagle, Emtek, Hewlett-Packard, Hyperion, IBM, TT Extra, Monroe, NCR, NEC, Olivetti, Pantek, Philips, President, Sigma, Sperry, Tandy, TeleVideo, Toshiba, Texas Instruments, Wang, Zenith.
T-Rex: A portable computer that fits in the palm of my hand and presents as a black bar of glass that I have to tap without Any tactile feedback? No Thanks!
Barkley, Elmo, and Big Bird on Sesame Street
Earth will be destroyed in 12 minutes to make way for a hyperspace bypass. Should you hitchhike into the next galaxy? Or stay and drink beer? The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Don’t Panic! Infocom Official Magazine Advertisement from Compute! (USA), Issue 65, October 1985
Big Bird, Aloysius Snuffleupagus, and Barkley on Sesame Street
A film by Noah Leon A film about a little green computer, and the people who love it. Love Notes to Newton
THE BISEXUAL UMBRELLA BISEXUAL Anyone attracted (sexually, romantically, or otherwise) to people of more than one gender, or to people of similar+different genders, and who identifies as bisexual PANSEXUAL / OMNISEXUAL Anyone attracted to people of all genders and sexes, or regardless of sex and gender, and who identifes as pan or omni POLYSEXUAL Anyone attracted to people of many genders and sexes (but not all) and who identifies as poly QUEER A non-specific identity for describing anyone diverging from heterosexuality monogamy and vanila sexuality In a bi-spectrum context, it's used to convey attraction to people of more than one or to many genders FLUID Attraction which changes or might change over time (towards people of various genders) HOMOFLEXIBLE / LESBIFLEXIBLE People who are usually attracted to genders similar to their own, but might occasionally be attracted to people of genders different from their own HETEROFLEXIBLE People who are usually attracted to genders different from their own, but might occasionally be attracted to people of genders similar to their own BI-CURIOUS Descrbes people who are usually gay, lesbian, or heterosexual and who are curious about expermenting with people of genders different from ther usual preference OTHER BI IDENTITIES Include biromantic, panromantic, bisensual, pansensual, bidyke, byke, bisexual-lesbian, ambisextrous, anthrosexual, multisexual, gender-blind, pomosexual, and many more Made by Shiri Eisner http://bidyke.tumblr.com
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THE BISEXUAL UMBRELLA BISEXUAL Anyone attracted (sexually, romantically, or otherwise) to people of more than one gender, or to people of similar+different genders, and who identifies as bisexual PANSEXUAL / OMNISEXUAL Anyone attracted to people of all genders and sexes, or regardless of sex and gender, and who identifes as pan or omni POLYSEXUAL Anyone attracted to people of many genders and sexes (but not all) and who identifies as poly QUEER A non-specific identity for describing anyone diverging from heterosexuality monogamy and vanila sexuality In a bi-spectrum context, it's used to convey attraction to people of more than one or to many genders FLUID Attraction which changes or might change over time (towards people of various genders) HOMOFLEXIBLE / LESBIFLEXIBLE People who are usually attracted to genders similar to their own, but might occasionally be attracted to people of genders different from their own HETEROFLEXIBLE People who are usually attracted to genders different from their own, but might occasionally be attracted to people of genders similar to their own BI-CURIOUS Descrbes people who are usually gay, lesbian, or heterosexual and who are curious about expermenting with people of genders different from ther usual preference OTHER BI IDENTITIES Include biromantic, panromantic, bisensual, pansensual, bidyke, byke, bisexual-lesbian, ambisextrous, anthrosexual, multisexual, gender-blind, pomosexual, and many more Made by Shiri Eisner http://bidyke.tumblr.com
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Newton lightbulb logo Newton Internet Enabler User's Manual
iPod nano 5th generation
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The sun, with googly eyes and big teeth: Let the Sunshine! Let the Sunshine! The Sun! Shine In! Little girl: Mom! The Sun is back and it's singing again! Keep kids safe while staying cool - prevent window falls. Move furniture kids can climb away from windows. Open double-hung windows from the top. Install window guards.
Photograph of Joe Engressia Jr., aka Joybubbles, holding a telephone receiver against each ear The phone to me was the closest thing to God on earth. —Joybubbles Rachael J. Morrison’s documentary Joybubbles about a boy who discovers he can control the global telephone system by whistling a magic tone. Born blind and yearning for connection, his early obsession with the telephone sparks a subculture that shapes the future of hacking and technology
Loveparade first occurred in July 1989, when 150 people took to the streets in Berlin. It was conceived as a political demonstration for peace and international understanding through love and music. The motto Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen (in English — Peace, Joy, Pancakes) stood for disarmament (peace), music (joy) and a fair food production/distribution (pancakes). Fotografien von Daniel Biskup Haus der Geschichte
LABYRINTH: THE COMPUTER GAME An all new fantasy adventure from LUCASFILM GAMES TM and ACTIVISION. Based on the spectacular film directed by Muppet Man Jim Henson and starring David Bowie. Features Jim Henson's magical puppet characters from the film. Available on: Commodore 64/128 Cassette Commodore 64/128 disk
Stand With All Of Us, Not Just Those You Recognise each word next to a different pride flag
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Photograph of Captain Crunch by Paul Winternitz Captain Crunch, Whistle Blower: A Report from the Front Lines Meet the legendary John Draper, a.k.a. Captain Crunch, your prototypical phone phreak. You know, the guy who created one of the first blue boxes back in the early 60's and turned on Woz and Jobs and a whole generation of phone phreaks. His famous handle came from the whistle found in Cap'n Crunch cereal boxes, a handy source of the 2600 Hz tone he used to commandeer the Bell Long Lines telephone network and bounce his voice seven times around the world and back again. Just to see if it could be done Fast-forward to Crunch '93, respectable Mac programmer. We caught up with him just after the Third Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy in March in San Francisco, where Cypherpunks mixed freely with computer cops and assorted spooks and suits —Wes Thomas MONDO 2000: What are you up to right now? CAPTAIN CRUNCH: I'm with the Cypherpunks. We're the people that use cryptography or cryptotechnology to protect and preserve our privacy. The Cypherpunks are the élitist of the élite. I just came back from the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy '93 conference where we all met M2: What was the most important thing that happened there? CC: The thing I really feel good about is the tremendous opposition to the FBI's Digital Telephony proposal and the tremendous interest in data encryption. Dorothy Denning, who's at Georgetown University, seems to think that data encryption should not be in the hands of the private citizen, that the private citizen should not have the right to use data encryption M2: But surely she's not opposed to data encryption per se? CC: Well, I meant encryption that can't be unscrambled by the NSA. That's understood. See, there are different levels of encryption. But the key idea was that if private citizens use encryption, they should have to register their private keys with the government M2: Amazing! And how did people react to that?
This illustration was attached to an article that detailed more concerns about potential for fraud when computers are used in voting. I don’t fully understand what it is portraying though, maybe a computer in a voting booth that has been prised open? Newsday (Nassau Edition), Monday, Nov 6th, 1972
Muppet Haunted Mansion
Man in a flat cap, sunglasses, black gloves and a trenchcoat sat at a terminal in front of a large, old computer. There is a flashlight, a set of keys, a crowbar and a small bag on the table beside him.
Rainbow Apple logo on a Sparkasse Essen abacus rainbow stripes on an Apple Watch
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Calvin: See, the Problem with Fine Art is that it’s Supposed to Express Original Truths. But Who Likes Originality and Truth?! Nobody! Life’s Hard Enough Without It! Only an Idiot Would PAY for It! But POPULAR Art Knows the Customer is Always Right! People Want MORE of What They Already Know They Like, So Popular Art Gives It To 'Em! Hobbes: And How ARE the Movie Sequels this Summer? Calvin: Great! Man, There’s Nothing I Hate More Than Paying Five Bucks and Having to Deal with Some New Plot.
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Your World. Your Newton. A hand holding a Newton MessagePad displaying the Newton Lightbulb logo, against a sky full of office supplies, reminders, celebrations and airplane
Mondo 2000 issue 1 (1989) Cyberpunk Issue Rudy Rucker Vernor Vinge William Gibson Bruce Sterling John Shirley A blonde razorgirl dressed in leather and large sunglasses confusedly says waitaminnit… You mean… It’s already Tomorrow? -an' I missed Today?
Sesame Street, Follow That Bird
Hand washing tips: 1) Wash Your Hands! 2) Then Put On An N95+ Mask! 3) Make Sure It Is On Tightly! 4) That’s Right. Keep It There! 5) Good. Good. Very Good! 6) That’s It! 7) Well Done! You Did It!