A Momentary Taste of Being

I grew up as a fan of science fiction.  As such, Charles Babbage and the Difference Engine loom large in my imagination--as large as the book by Gibson and Sterling, as large as Lady Byron and her program for it.  So it is a great pleasure to me to be able to see, even if only in video, a working example of the difference engine.

The Poetry Bomb --interesting

A compendium of the opening lines of novels. But it is missing one of my all-time favorites: "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." The Haunting of Hill House --Shirley Jackson

As a "jungle gym" very cool