Last Week: Oct 18 2021

by Matt

WordNerds can find the time to address that “Read Next” Pile #TBR

Bookworm Clock

This little Kickstarter-project clock using literary quotes to relay the time is adorable. It also seems imminently doable in a DIY sense, so…. maybe go support them (?). Or make your own? Follow your own rainbow, dear Maker.

 

Victoria Chang

Dear Memory is Victoria Chang’s writing based on fragments of stories her mother shared reluctantly, and “the silences of her father” as an assemblage of mementos, poetry, and literary criticism in letters to family, past teachers, and fellow poets. [via NPR] **

** (obvs, note the above link is an ‘affiliate link’ & gives this site a kickback if you happen to purchase from Bookshop. Tx.)

ALERT: BadaSS Women in History

Last Tuesday was Ada Lovelace Day… hope you got in on the action & were inspired to flex your curiosity. Personally I like to make a whole week of it 😉

Ada Lovelace Day 2021

 

THE BEAUTY OF DANCE, SEEN THROUGH THE POWER OF TOUCH

I was checking out some of the submissions for the Hackaday Prize, & saw this amazing project called KINETIC SOUL, which Shi Yun describes as a platform using computer vision to allow “the visually impaired to experience dance via kinetic feedback“. Very, very neat.

 

…as always, some #NewMusic

Oooh, Snarls has a new EP coming out soon: