Archive for May, 2010

Ragni blogs about writing, coding and beautiful text(s) over at typotendency.net and is moderating a panel of awesome geek feminists at a conference, SIGINT, in Cologne in Germany this weekend. Five feminist geeks are teaming up ...

Hollaback, the websites for fighting back against street harassment, are raising money for an iPhone app allowing posting of harassment events and harassers’ images. Find out more and donate at ihollaback.org. (Via Valerie Aurora.) They ...

Remember the Ubuntu Women World Play Day Competition that I posted about a while ago? The entries have now closed and voting has opened. If you need some inspiration to vote: If you’re wondering what ...

Lightgetsin rants in The one where I shout about able-bodied technology privilege for a while: Also, the next person to tell me to get a Kindle . . . really shouldn’t. The Kindle occasionally reads ...

Mark Pilgrim’s post Tinkerer’s Sunset laments the increasing tendency of Apple devices to be locked for development unless you have a Mac, XCode, an iPhone simulator, and $99 for an auto-expiring developer certificate. He goes ...

As Mary stated in response to my last post, flouncing on Facebook isn’t necessarily an ideal option for some of us as much as we may wish to. If you choose to stay with Facebook ...

jon asked in comments: I wonder, what would a feminist- and womanist-oriented social network look like? (We might have readers unfamiliar with the term “womanist”, if so, see Renee Martin’s I’m not a feminist (and ...