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Stitching through Time

In working on TFCB’s Dressing a Nation fashion series, I read about colonial girls and their samplers. Not unlike the young women of the days of yore, who learned stitching techniques through samplers, I too learned about embroidery, cross-stitching, and other needle-and-thread techniques by working on the reproduction at left of the colonial Williamsburg Chase […]Read more "Stitching through Time"
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My Favorite Keystrokes

[I asked production editor Sarah Olmanson to give us an insight into her job. Here’s her report.] For some people, favorites are things like “raindrops on roses” and “whiskers on kittens.” But for a production editor (and maybe every other computer user), it’s hitting “Cmd+Z”* and “copy and pasting.” Yep, these are my favorite things—at […]Read more "My Favorite Keystrokes"
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Contest: Think Like a Trickster

I’ve been looking through our new Tricky Journeys series, which asks readers to take the place of a famous trickster figures from various multicultural folklore traditions, and it started to remind me of one of my favorite high school teachers. Mr. Raische used to teach us about revoluntionary moments in world history by walking us […]Read more "Contest: Think Like a Trickster"
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Ada Lovelace Day

Happy Ada Lovelace Day! Named for the woman widely considered the first computer programmer, this day has been set aside to highlight influential women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Bloggers: if you feel so inspired, create your own Ada-themed post and link it to the official website! Of course, right now you’ll find […]Read more "Ada Lovelace Day"
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Here’s to the crazy ones.

I don’t have a personal remembrance of Steve Jobs, but I have, in the course of my computing life, owned a non-trivial number of Apple products (the SE/30 on the right is the first computer we ever had). You may count me among those who believe there is something great about what Apple creates (but […]Read more "Here’s to the crazy ones."