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It’s a crocheted atari!

And a crocheted television displaying Pitfall to go with it!

Awesome.

(Via Wonderland.)

Steve’s started a game of tag, so for my second post of 2007 here are five things that you probably don’t know about me:

• I love cornichons.
• Sometimes I wish I’d studied architecture or information visualisation.
• My favourite colour is yellow.
• Over a period of fourteen years, my sister and I have owned eleven rats.
• My middle name is Megan.

I’m not going to tag any other people, but if you want to play along, feel free.

Or, more specifically, bands I started listening to in 2006:

• Architecture in Helsinki
• Beulah
• Camera Obscura
• Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
• Christine Fellows
• Go Sailor
• Grandaddy
• Jap Jap
• Mirah
• Neutral Milk Hotel
• Reindeer Section
• Schwervon!
• The Mountain Goats
• The Pipettes
• The Polyphonic Spree
• Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
• Track Star
• Tullycraft

New York Times article on female scientists in academia. (Thanks for the link, Kathleen!) Also, the National Academy of Sciences recently published a report on barriers encountered by women in science and engineering in research universities. One thing I found particularly interesting was the observation that around 90 percent of married female science and engineering faculty have spouses that are employed full time, whereas the percentage for male faculty is less than 50 percent.

Nick and Ian have just announced a new MIT Press book series: Platform Studies. The series will investigate the relationships between the hardware and software design of computing systems and the creative works produced on those systems. The first book’s already under contract and will be about the Atari 2600 (sweet!) but Nick and Ian are currently seeking book proposals for the rest of the series. They’ve got a list of example platforms on the Platform Studies website (I’d personally be really keen to see something related to free software) so if you’re interested, why not check out the site and submit something!