<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434888366939_40886"><span>Probably so!</span></div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434888366939_40887"> </div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434888366939_40888"><div id="yiv0884793208yui_3_16_0_1_1429682681128_41666" class="yiv0884793208" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434888366939_40890"><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434888366939_40889">More Sunday reading</span></font></div><div id="yiv0884793208yui_3_16_0_1_1429682681128_41666" class="yiv0884793208" dir="ltr"><font color="#ffffff" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><br></span></font></div><div id="yiv0884793208yui_3_16_0_1_1429682681128_41666" class="yiv0884793208" dir="ltr"><font color="#ffffff" face="Calibri, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434888366939_40904"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434888366939_40903"><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434888366939_40902" class=""><a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/06/15/the-thrilling-adventures-of-lovelace-and-babbage-sydney-padua/?mc_cid=661f567940&mc_eid=cabf205810" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434888366939_40900">How Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage Invented the World’s First Computer: An Illustrated Adventure in Footnotes and Friendship</a></span><br></span></font></div><div style="width:450px; 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Now, the 38,000-word epic stands<br clear="none">> not only as an accomplishment of prose, but of journalism as<br clear="none">> art. <a shape="rect" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/" target="_blank">http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/</a><br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> P.<br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>