Archive for September, 2009

Hello everybody I spent the past weekend at the 18th Annual Women’s History Network conference, which this year was held in the rather lovely surroundings of St Hilda’s College, Oxford. It was one of the ...

LCA2010 (the conference usually known as “linux.conf.au”, but in New Zealand for 2010) has an initiative to sponsor diverse attendees. Google is sponsoring the LCA2010 Diversity Programme in which Open Source contributors who are members ...

Terri recently pointed out that one way to involve more women in open source is to hire them into open source companies, an approach which works for other technology sectors as well. I’m looking for ...

I knit. Sometimes I crochet, and sometimes I sew, but mostly, lately, I knit. My Nanna taught me when I was a kid, and I’ve done it on and off ever since. Sometimes people look ...

I subscribe to a lot of blogs related in some way to women and technology, and skim through them at least daily in my feed reader. Lately I’ve noticed that there’s some vital mismatch in ...

There is no cynical response to the unbearable shock, grief and misery of that day. I cannot comprehend how the Caster Semanya controversy has been so grossly mishandled. Zoe Brain points out that this is ...

Today’s guest blogger, Juliet Kemp, is a sysadmin, technical writer, and environmentalist. The other week, I got an email from someone who had read one of my articles. This is something that happens from time ...

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 ...

Yanin “Jeeja” Vismistananda‘s fight scenes in the movie Chocolate (also titled “Fury” in some versions) are totally amazing! I love how fierce and determined she is and how focused when fighting. In Fury she pays ...

Today’s guest post is by aca-fan Kristina Busse. She is the co-editor of the journal Transformative Works and Cultures and blogs at ephemeral traces. My name is Kristina. I am a mother and a fan. ...

Technology for “keeping kids safe” unsurprisingly sometimes serves a dual purpose, as Lauredhel points out: Your kids’ ’secure’ online chats being sold to marketers Pink Brain, Blue Brain: Claims of sex differences fall apart. Newsweek ...

I just read this post by seperis, i miss ship wars like so much, and I had to stop, blink, say “YEAH!” out loud, then IM it to yatima and Sumana. I want to say ...

Spend a day or two away from LJ/DW, get hopelessly behind on what’s happening in fandom’s latest Fail. I first learnt of this new phase of the brouhaha via ivorygates’ post: I am aware that ...

As you know, Bob, comments on this here blog are closed after 14 days in a probably-futile attempt to forestall entropic decay. That’s why we have these here open threads. Do you like nature documentaries? ...

io9 interviews Liza Trombi and Kirsten Gong Wong, the new editor and managing editor of the SF magazine “Locus”. A cool job post through the Language Creation Society. Linguists take note! Hilary Lister, first quadriplegic ...

Francesca Coppa is one of the founders of the Organization for Transformative Works. She’s also… … director of film studies and associate professor of English at Muhlenberg College, where she teaches courses in dramatic literature, ...