Video game source code is a bit like the sheet music to a piano sonata that’s already been performed and recorded. One might reasonably ask: If you have the recording, what do you need the sheet music for?

You don’t, if all you want is to listen and enjoy the music. But to a pianist performing the piece, or a composer who wants to study it or arrange it for different instruments, the original score is valuable.

Finally I can brush up on assembly language.

Mark Zuckerburg:

I’m excited to share the news that we’ve agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook.

You mean you ‘get’ to acquire Instagram.

We believe these are different experiences that complement each other. But in order to do this well, we need to be mindful about keeping and building on Instagram’s strengths and features rather than just trying to integrate everything into Facebook. That’s why we’re committed to building and growing Instagram independently.

I hope so.

Users generate simple, consumable content on Instagram. Photos. Not a mess of Farmville moves and second hand content streams from other mediocre applications.

They also use instagram on one (type) of device. Smartphone. It’s so simple, and I love it.

I don’t want music, video, gifs, tweets, gamification. i just want photos.

Please don’t fuck this up.

Also, I like how almost every article detailing a company’s demise now ends with the same sentiment: “if only they had Steve Jobs…”

Her room mostly lacks high-tech amenities. Homework assignments are handwritten on whiteboards. Students write journal entries in spiral notebooks.

Ms. Rosenbaum did use a computer and projector to show a YouTube video of the devastation caused by bombing in World War II. She said that while technology had a role to play, her method of teaching was timeless. “I’m teaching them to think deeply, to think. A computer can’t do that.”

She is a republican (shocking) and is irrationally afraid of the change (shocking) technology will bring to the classroom. Instead of providing any morsel of a reasoned argument against exposing student to new technologies, she instead attempts to downplay it’s importance.

Rather than relying on technology, she seeks to engage students with questions — the Socratic method

Smash-cut to 20 students struggling to keep their eyes even partially open, counting the seconds on the analog clock circa 1967, shifting uncomfortably in a chair made mostly of lead and burnt-orange lucite. Oh, the boredom.

Why fight technology, or anything remotely progressive for that matter? A conservative position that aims to hold on to tradition for tradition’s sake is charming at best, but should’t be taken seriously. Computers in the classroom might challenge the status quo, but seriously, isn’t that how every fucking great thing in the world happens ever…ever??? Indeed.

It reminds me of John Lennon’s Aunt Mimi, who was always annoyed by his incessant guitar playing. Like Ms. Rosenbaum in Idaho, she just couldn’t quite connect the dots:

“The guitar’s all very well as a hobby, John, but you’ll never make a living out of it.”

The computer’s all very well as a hobby, children, but you’ll never make a living out of it.

The BBC reports that the engineers are concerned about small cracks that have appeared on the wing ribs of some Airbus A380 airplanes, and that they’re calling for the whole fleet to be grounded for investigation.

Airbus:

We confirm that minor cracks were found on some noncritical wing rib-skin attachments on a limited number of A380 aircraft. We have traced the origin. Airbus has developed an inspection and repair procedure, which will be done during regular, routine scheduled four-year maintenance checks. In the meantime, Airbus emphasizes that the safe operation of the A380 fleet is not affected.

I don’t like the words “aircraft”, “wing” “cracks” and “noncritical” to share the same sentance. Doesn’t sit well.

I’ll stick to trains.

“Rick Santorum” is currently the second most popular Google search term (after “Iowa caucus results”), and the number one hit for Rick Santorum’s name is, for the first time in a long time, not sex-related.

It was a good run.