• Happy Ada Lovelace Day! Today is a special recognition of the woman who wrote the first-ever computer program. Here’s a brief history of Ada’s extreme radness. [The Mary Sue]
• Hundreds of protesters performed acts of civil disobedience in Ferguson, Missouri yesterday in continued protests over police brutality. One of the people arrested was none other than Cornel West . [NBC]
• What’s your name? It may matter if you’re writing to your lawmaker about your thoughts on legislation. [Code Switch]
• Writer Katha Pollitt’s new book Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights reframes abortion as a social good. [Slate]
• How much do you want to know about the new fundamentalist Christian film Left Behind, starring Nic Cage? Not much? Okay. [Salon]
• Last weekend’s New York City Comic Con was the biggest ever. [Autostraddle]
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