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TechLudd is on tomorrow in Dublin, are you going?

Since we’re talking how women should be treated in technology, how about the workplace?

Yahoo’s Infoworld catalogs the best free stuff on the web.

What I want. A walking, talking robot remote that does what I tell it to.

Rick is still not feeling 100%, drop by with some grapes and eat them all.

I watched The Right Stuff over the weekend. Now, these are on my list of books to buy.

And on that Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier in an X-1: 

 

And my favourite scenes from The Right Stuff, Yeager test flying the NF-104. There’s plenty of parallels with the Icarus myth all throughout the movie. In this case, Yeagar’s persona embodies the unheralded pilot:

 

 

Torngat with ‘Minute By Minute’: 

 

 

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