On lucky breaks and saying yes « this is rachelandrew.co.uk
Rachel tells the tale of how she came to be the splendid web worker she is and finishes with some advice for up-and-coming workers of the web:
Make 2012 the year you go out and do it.
Link archive: December 31st, 2011
BBC News - Hackers plan space satellites to combat censorship
The network will interpret SOPA as damage and route around it …with SCIENCE!
College Misery: Henchminion Sends In the Tale of “The Magna Carta Essay!”
A trojan horse for plagiarised college papers, much like the fakery on maps (“Lie Close”, “Arlington”) and in dictionaries; traps to be sprung on the hapless copy’n’paster.
daniel sinker • Hacker-Journalism 2011: A year of “show your work”
A look back at some of the best code for journalism over the past year.