Credit where credit is due

Dalmeet Singh Chawla introduces Depsy, a service that seeks to measure the contributions made by researchers to the body of software that powers science.

Was there

Someone pointed out that our building is visible in this still from (the regrettable satire) Being There (1979). Chance is walking south toward the Capitol. What would become NPR HQ is the white four-story building (only three stories are clearly visible) in the left (east) side of the frame, behind the Texaco sign. The gas station is gone, to be replaced by a grassy area in front of the D.C. Housing Authority building. On the right (west) side of the street, it would appear that the Sibley Plaza apartments aren't in place yet: the foreshortening makes judging location a little tricky.

Save the tapes

Is your suite of CMSs hooked up to a searchable, durable digital archive? Probably not. Meredith Broussard walks us through a couple of examples.

Click click

Cameron how-to page meets reality.

I hear that threads are good for eyebrows

Dave meets the Bobs.

For example, a network socket class implemented by Bob Eins—because socket.h was Not Invented Here, and thus not good enough—was namespaced as base::universe::posix::network::socket::Constants::IPV4. It was unclear what existed outside of the base::universe namespace.