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[Grace Hopper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper), witty ur-programmer and girl geek legend, explains a nanosecond.
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1. Señor Amarillo. 2. [Surto Tower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutro_Tower). On an ambitious and sunny day, [⁋](http://parkerhiggins.net/) and I climbed to the top, discovering the even better lookout at [Tank Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Hill) along the way. 3. [Stattbad Wedding](http://www.stattbad.net/). Swimming pool turned skating rink turned art space in Berlin Wedding. 4.…
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1. Visitors Welcome. Sign at my grandfather’s house. “Take nothing but pictures and sea grass. Leave nothing but footprints. Enjoy.” 2. Fuji-San. 3. Designing the Mozfest 2012 website. All post-it brainstorms look the same from afar. 4. Inside [Platform4](http://www.platform4.dk/ ), a maker hub and coworking…
The Mullet: What We Made Last Week
I spent last week in San Francisco with a few dear colleagues from Mozilla. Definitely take a look at [Ben Simon](https://engagingopenly.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/moving-forward-with-distributed-events/) & [Michelle Levesque’s](https://rwxweb.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/an-event-kit/) great summaries, too. Hundreds of whiteboards and office snacks later, I’m happy to say we ended the sprint with: * **A…
Teaching the 4th “R”. Fireside Chat with Cathy Davidson
Last week Mozilla hosted [a fireside chat](http://lanyrd.com/2012/CathyDavidson/) with Cathy Davidson: author, academic, and pedagogic provocateur. The chat was framed around what the Duke professor calls the **fourth ‘R’**. Cathy [argues](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/a-fourth-r-for-21st-century-literacy/2011/12/29/gIQAxx2BWP_blog.html) that in addition to reading, writing, and arithmetic, we need to teach **“algoRithms,”** the logic…