Link Roundup from Outer Space (11th September, 2009)

• Jennifer Ouellette at Twisted Physics blogs about people playing the Doctor Who theme on two Tesla coils
• Women 2.0 startup weekend creates 19 startups
• Alaya Dawn Johnson takes the creator of TV’s “Supernatural” to task in An open letter to Eric Kripke.
• Has feminist blogging gone mainstream? at Feministing
• Secret feminist agenda: revealed! in a real estate ad found by Lovely Listing
• Chronotron also takes a pot shot at those Evony ads, with time robot-themed boobs.
• The Boston Globe has an article on Gioia De Cari’s one-woman play, Truth Values: One Girl’s Romp Through MIT’s Male Math Maze
• Greta Christina posted the second half of her discussion of race, gender and atheism: What We Need to Do — And Why: targetting diverse speakers for conferences, taking complaints about diversity seriously, and continuing to talk.
• Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister, has issued a statement calling the government treatment of Alan Turing in the 1950s “appalling” and apologising (via Brenda and undoubtedly many others)
• The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has published a podcast of a discussion from the Adelaide Festival of Ideas: “Sex, Knowledge and Society. Is science culturally based? Does gender play a role in scientific study? And why do famous philosophers always have beards?” (via Clinton Roy in email)
• The OTW owns the goddamn servers! (Partial context — does anyone have a link to the original quote from Cesperanza in ’07 in response to the Fanlib imbroglio?)
• Over at Shakesville, they take on the white-male-ness of the Mac vs PC ads: It’s hip to be smug.