- The OTW and the EFF released two public responses to the U.S. Copyright Office today. They’re related to the DMCA Anticircumvention Hearings earlier this year. This merits a whole post if someone wants to take it on.
- If you’re in Seattle, check out these free astrobiology lectures at the University of Washington, noted by Timmi Duchamp on Ambling Along the Aqueduct, the blog for Aqueduct Press.
- An awesome open letter to Glenn Beck by Verite Parlante from Whose Shoes Are These Anyway? Verite outlines how Beck is a public figure and that the site in question is clearly a satire.
- Scanning Dead Salmon in fMRI Machine Highlights Risk of Red Herrings, from Wired. Always do your multiple comparisons corrections to separate signal from noise!
- Holy Discontent, Batman!: Rosepixie reviews a clever vintage equal-pay advertisement featuring Batgirl.
- Gail Carmichael blogs about the first girl geek dinner in Ottawa.
- Carla Schroder has an editorial on sexism in FOSS over on Linux today, which lists off a bunch of real life stories of issues women have encountered in free/open source software communities. (Unsurprisingly, there’s some incredulity in the comment section.)
I am in so totally love with that PSA ad.
*grin* Nice nod to Emma Goldman there.
I always enjoy the link roundups. Thank you for the work that goes into them.
Passing this on, in case of the remote chance you hadn’t seen it yet: Enough women in Coders at Work?
I hadn’t! Wow. Thanks, and if you like you can tag stuff in delicious, “geekfeminism” and we’ll pick it up !
Good to know. Thank you!