Lovelace – The Origin

If you're on twitter, Sydney Padua's doing a draw to give away some of the original Lovelace &#38; Babbage art today: <a href="https://twitter.com/sydneypadua/status/278092306761015297" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/sydneypadua/status/278092306761015297</a><p>(by telling you this, I'm making my chances of winning worse, aren't I? aagh)

Wow, didn't know she was a daughter of Lord Byron, the famous poet.

2D Goggles is a fantastic read. It's funny and entertaining, packing a huge number of references to real facts (thanks in great part to Babbage's own self-glorifying writings). Half the fun is reading the notes and discovering Lovelace really did meet Brunel, Babbage really did hate street musicians, and so on.<p>It brings to life a certain exhilaration in English society during the industrial revolution, when people thought every problem could be solved with the right (steam-based) technology... not unlike what you might find in the Bay Area these days.

Actual paper by Ada Lovelace (translated) <a href="http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html</a>

It's unfortunate that the site is so badly arranged; the comic is sweet, especially Brunel.

Pretty nice. Love the use of "hitherto" :)