critical-perspective:

americansylveon:

shitpost-senpai:

snowystater:

bitty

Actually, This is how the webcam was invented. 

At Cambridge University, they were sick of checking the coffee pot level, so Quentin Stafford-Frasier wrote client software for a greyscale 128×128 camera hooked up to an acorn archemedes computer. 

Paul Jardetzky wrote the server program.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot

Technology always comes full circle.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

bajablastthirstblog:

targuzzler:

ryangoslingofficial:

targuzzler:

Anyone got suggestions for creepy documentaries im in the mood

here you go

not scary scary but its unsettling

What the fuck

Im watching this immediately this looks freaky as shit thank you

I saw this documentary at Sundance when I was working the festival, and every single screening of this film had heightened security, as well as bag and pocket checks before entering the theatre.

Why? Because earlier on in the festival, one of the people from Jane O’Brien Media (the company behind the “tickle cells”) was in the audience disrupting the screening.

At other festivals people from Jane O’Brien Media were kicked out for bringing recording devices into screenings with coffee cups and for continuously attempting to sabotage festival screenings. They hijacked the Q&A at a screening in Los Angeles, where they spent the Q&A portion threatening legal action against the filmmakers.

Not only a great “the truth is stranger than fiction” doc, but an absolutely crucial film to watch in an age where digital media has the power to be used for coercion. There’s a reason why those profiled didn’t want this doc getting out.

beautyintheblackness:

Books Every Black Child Should Read 

Nappy Hair – 

Carolivia Herron, Joe Cepeda (Illustrator)

The Snowy Day – 

Ezra Jack Keats

Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters – 

John Steptoe

Meet Addie – American Girl Story 

“Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales” – Virginia Hamilton

Daddy and Me – 

Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe

Dancing In The Wings – Debbie Allen

Something Beautiful – Sharon Dennis Wyeth