Archive for September, 2009

Programmer and self-proclaimed geek Mariya Lysenkova runs Verdage, a consultancy whose offerings include the CMS system Webist. Although happy with her roster of clients, including American Express Publishing and The Economist, she would love to ...

With thanks to hypatia for the glorious video link and apologies to Liz, whose idea it was to blog this. Surfen-multimedia by Euro-Cats came sixth in the German final to choose the entrant for the ...

Liz and I think there should be a LOLCOOKIE generator so we can give cookies to people who deserve them, but we’re too lazy/tired/busy/spoonless to do it right now. But hey, GF readers are a ...

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 ...

I’ve been thinking lately about male and female spaces, and the boundaries, and things like that, partly due to last weekend’s conference being on issues around space, and partly generated by the essays in the ...

Arr, it be talk like a pirate day, and dem scallywags at Telltale Games be givin’ away der booty. Okay, I promise, I won’t pirate it up for an entire post. But Telltale really is ...

EA has been promoting one of their games with some pretty dubious deadly sin-themed marketing stunts. Their “lust” stunt left many of us unimpressed, but with their “greed” stunt, they gave Joystiq a chance to ...

Horror wants women to scream, but not to talk – The British Fantasy Association interviews 16 horror writers. None of them women. Overview of English grammar by Suzette Haden Elgin. 11 post series and still ...

This Youtube video made it worth my while to get out of bed this morning despite the cramps that are starting to sneak up on me, damn them. 1500 hours of moving LEGO around and ...

Via Hoyden who link to IO9′s post on the subject. When is rape not rape? When it’s a supervillain pretending to be Peter Parker and having sex with Parker’s roommate, who thinks she’s having sex ...

Nick Mamatas is always trying to get me to start some shit so he sent over this link to Kathryn Cramer’s blog*. Normally I would ignore this crazy person, but I figure many others are ...

Imagine giving birth shackled and drugged so you would forget the trauma. Mad Men reminds us yet again to thank our second-wave feminist forebears. “I want a nurturing community, a web of life, a place ...

This is adapted from a post I made to my local WISE blog. I don’t remember the first time I heard about the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, but I do remember when ...

In my day job I write and read tech news and one of my beats is netbooks. This is no hardship as I love netbooks. In many ways it’s the machine I’ve been waiting for. ...

According to Technorati, blogging is male, old. A movie about Charles Darwin is too controversial for the US market. *headdesk* Less shy of controversy, New Zealand YA author Karen Healey has written about finding cultural ...

I’m going to be keynoting two conferences in the next month or so with extended remixes of the talk I gave at OSCON about women in open source, Standing Out in the Crowd. I’m very ...