Sally Ride

Today's Google Doodle celebrates Sally Ride! In fact, there are five Google Doodles for her:

 

 

My personal favorite - because it highlights best (imho) her work to encourage girls to engage in all fields of science and technology:

In addition, Google has posted a Behind the Doodle to highlight this amazing woman:

Links!

• Libraries, Books, Writers, & Suchlike
• Libraries could outlast the internet, head of British Library says 
• Art went missing amid library effort to upgrade security 
• Yes I Can "I love a good challenge, or even a really silly one, like the claim that You Can’t Defend Public Libraries and Oppose File-Sharing. Um, wanna bet? I’m not writing for some site called Torrent Freak, so I don’t have to leave all logic behind." Heheheh...I love Annoyed Librarian. 
• Margaret Atwood puts unseen manuscript in 'Future Library' 
• May 26, 1897: Dracula goes on sale in London 
• Amazon and Penguin Random House said to be in dispute 
• 25 Of The Most Incredibly Beautiful Book Sculptures Ever 
• Do Touch The Artwork At Prado's Exhibit For The Blind I want to go there and do that...
• Net & Tech
• Twitter is under no obligation to host Chuck Johnson’s witch hunts Twitter banning Johnson does not, legally, infringe upon his First Amendment Right to free speech, since Twitter is not Congress (yet). (Just joking - I don't think Twitter will ever run for office.) Is it censorship? Sure, why not. Is it wrong? Maybe. It's a slippery slope, anyway. I do believe anyone should be free to say whatever they want to say, even if it's crazybeans; I am not convinced that companies that provide platforms for communication, like Twitter, are therefore beholden to allow crazybean speech, unless they specifically state that they will host any and all speech. That said, Twitter, Facebook, and other public communication platforms have become invaluable sites for fringe-party communication, an absolutely vital piece of true democratic action. Truly, it shouldn't be the company's responsibility to determine what is or isn't "good speech" - it should be the reader's duty to vet that information before acting on it. We should be better consumers of communicated information - and not rely on Twitter to babysit us. But it's tricky, considering most people are not going to become responsible information consumers overnight, and people's lives are actually made vulnerable due to the spewings of Johnson and the like. We need to approach the whole mess carefully. Related: Free Speech, Censorship, Moderation And Community: The Copia Discussion and Manila Principles  
• Low-income homeowners get free solar panels thanks to cap & trade Cool! 
• Health & Science
• Health Check: four reasons to have another cup of coffee Like you need to give me a reason...
• Paralysed patient makes natural movements using robotics and the power of thought 
• Amazing Drone Footage Of Sudan's Mysterious & Forgotten Pyramids 
• Researchers Discover An Island Made Almost Entirely From Fish Poo I don't think I want to vacation there. 
• 85,000 Endangered Antelopes Die Mysteriously In Just One Day 
• Authority Issues
• Justice Department reaches settlement with Cleveland over police conduct "Justice Department officials would not provide any details of the Cleveland settlement. But other cases have required an independent monitor and significant changes in training and policies." 
• Cleveland Police Officer Acquitted of Manslaughter in 2012 Deaths "A police officer who climbed onto the hood of a car after a chase in 2012 and fired repeatedly at its unarmed occupants, both of them black, was acquitted of manslaughter on Saturday by an Ohio judge....Officer Brelo, 31, was one of 13 officers who fired 137 rounds at Timothy Russell and his passenger, Malissa Williams, who were killed after a chase through the area on Nov. 29, 2012. Officer Brelo fired his Glock 17 pistol 49 times, including at least 15 shots after he reloaded and climbed onto the hood of Mr. Russell’s 1979 Chevrolet Malibu and the other officers had stopped firing."
• Other (Serious Stuff)
• How to Turn a Hipster into a Capitalist Tyrant in One Evening "A new play, World Factory, asks the audience to run a clothing factory in China – and even the creators have been surprised at how people have behaved."
• Continuing the 10 Ideas to Save the Economy series - End Corporate Welfare