What: Today, Google is celebrating Ada Lovelace's 197th birthday, and who are we to argue? After all, Ada Lovelace --- a genius mathematician and the daughter of Lord Byron --- absolutely rocks.
Graphic designer Sydney Padua appreciates this and has created a webcomic all about Ada Lovelace and fellow mathematician Charles Babbage. Fighting crime for Queen Victoria. Using a difference engine. As you do.
Comparable to: Very Kate Beaton sense of humor, but with a lotta lotta footnotes about how much Charles Babbage hated street musicians (fact!).
Opening lines: "Ada Lovelace was the only legitimate child of mad, bad, and dangerous to know poet and nutcase Lord Byron. Her mother Anabel fled the exploding planet her husband yet worried that Ada had inherited his wild blood."
Representative panel:
Bonus representative panel:
How to get it: The main page is here. Meet the cast here. See the Pocket Universe Guide here. Access the archived stories here. Start reading the current story ("User Experience") here.
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