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Full spread in Linux Format

Monday, December 12th, 2011

Okay, I’m not precisely the hot centerfold spread (that was saved for a revealing penguin shot), but I was put on the cover of Linux Format! I tried to talk the interviewers into making the cover a picture of Tux in an astronaut suit (like GitHub’s octonaut) – sadly this didn’t come to fruition. Here’s [...]

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Mail delivery from NASA

Friday, October 7th, 2011

I just received the most awesome thing in the mail from NASA: a block of aerogel incased in one of the original boxes (see the inscribed number on the box) that held a block of aerogel for NASA’s Stardust spacecraft. Aerogel was used in the spacecraft to capture pieces of interstellar dust by impacting a [...]

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Hacking science: the intersection of web geeks and science geeks

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

I was honored to be an invited guest blogger on Scientific American – I’m reblogging my article here: Science should be something that is disruptively accessible – empowering people from a variety of different backgrounds to explore, participate in, and build new ways of interacting with and contributing to science. Unfortunately, the relationship most adults [...]

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