Tag yourself: I’m the giant, contiguous, unlabeled block of nothing that includes parts of eastern California, central Nevada, central Oregon, eastern Idaho, northern Wyoming, all of Montana, western North and South Dakota, and a slice of Nebraska.
1) The first non-vowel letter of your last name
2) The last non-vowel letter of your last name
3) Your age
4) The number of siblings you have
5) The number of pets you have
Initially, there are moments where the cape is only going to be worn in certain scenes. But once Ben was cast and he did a few goes in the cape, then he pretty much didn’t want to take it off.
Rogue One costume designer Glyn Dillon about Ben Mendelsohn’s love for Orson Krennic’s cape
(via powerofunity)
It’s a cape, of course you look like a BAMF with it, especially in imperial white.
Critics complained that Indian musician Daler Mehndi’s music was only popular because his videos featured beautiful women. Mehndi’s response was to create a video featuring only copies of himself greenscreened in, leading to the creation of the “Tunak Tunak Tun” video.
This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!
Today is Ada Lovelace Day. Who's that? Just the first computer programmer. Ever.
Lovelace’s friend Charles Babbage designed a concept for a machine he called the “Analytical Engine” – essentially a mechanical computer that would have relied on punch cards to run programs. He recruited Lovelace to translate some notes from one of his lectures, but while Lovelace was translating she added to the notes herself.
The notes grew to three times their original length, as Lovelace described what many call the first computer program. Because of funding issues, the machine was not built during her and Babbage’s lifetimes.
But Lovelace’s published article on the Analytical Engine later became a source of inspiration for Alan Turing’s work to build the first modern computers in the 1940s.
Women are sometimes considered outsiders in the science and technology fields, but Lovelace and many of the female computer programmers who followed her are proof that this paucity is a function of society, not capability. We forget or never learn about the female “computers” who programmed early mechanical machines in World War II, or that the women’s magazine Cosmopolitan once ran articles suggesting that women were perfectly suited for programming.
If the lack of acknowledgement of women’s contributions to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields grinds your gears, then Ada Lovelace should be one of the first names you go to right that wrong.
Further reading:
Wikipedia profile
10 Things You May Not Know About Ada Lovelace
What if there were more women in tech?
Why we ALL need to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day
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