2011 was a year of milestones. In April we celebrated our second birthday by announcing $50 million in pledges. In July we reached 10,000 successfully funded projects. And in October we reached $100 million in pledges and had our one millionth backer. It was an eventful year.

Let’s look at some statistics for 2011:

Launched Projects: 27,086
Successful Projects: 11,836
Dollars Pledged: $99,344,382
Rewards Selected: 1,150,461
Total Visitors: 30,590,342
Project Success Rate: 46%

Here’s 2010:

Launched Projects: 11,130
Successful Projects: 3,910
Dollars Pledged: $27,638,318
Rewards Selected: 322,526
Total Visitors: 8,294,183
Project Success Rate: 43%

This paper describes a series of functions for performing Conway’s game of Life [Ga70] in APL, beginning with versions that go back to the early 1970’s. The paper doesn’t deal with the game itself, but rather with the expressive power of various approaches, and particularly with the increased expressiveness found in some of the new operator extensions to APL.

Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality: "People are being killed out there, and CeCe is being punished for not being killed."

Annotated list of organizational tools for research, from the Organizing Creativity blog.

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