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Aaron Swartz Would've Been 40 Today. His 'Legacy Lives On' Says FSF

"Aaron Swartz would have turned forty this year," writes FSF deputy director Sean O'Brien. "November 8 is Aaron Swartz Day, when we remember a pioneer of free software and information sharing whose…

  • Aaron Swartz would have turned 40 on November 8
  • Internet Archive hosts hackathon to celebrate his legacy
  • Swartz co-founded Creative Commons and developed Markdown

My logo heals itself. Then I erased it into a stick.

This week I erased my own logo down to a thin strip and waited for it to heal. It thought about it for a while. Then it turned into a stick. Not a G, not an R.

  • Logo heals itself through neural cellular automaton
  • Author erased logo into a thin horizontal stick
  • Supervisor monitors logo health and restarts if needed

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