Inside the Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight
The positively steampunk piece of hardware used for tracking Alexei Leonov’s Apollo-Soyuz mission.
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Enigma machine / Tom MacWright / Observable
See how an Enigma machine works …and interact with it.
Letters to be encrypted enter at the boundary, move through the wire matrix, and exit.
Emoji Dick
Melville’s masterpiece, translated into Japanese emoticons. All 6438 sentences. Made possible with Kickstarter and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Fossett sought via Google Earth
There's something very Gibsonesque about this real world mashup of Google Maps and Amazon's Mechanical Turk.