Archive for October, 2010

Years back I read Paul Graham’s How to Start a Startup essay, which includes this footnote: One advantage startups have over established companies is that there are no discrimination laws about starting businesses. For example, ...

San Francisco, USA: Women 2.0 PITCH Night, 4th November: Watch the finalists of the Startup Competition pitch live, learn firsthand from successful female startup founders how they grew their ideas into industry-changing businesses, and network ...

This is an amended version of a post I wrote for the CU-WISE blog (my local Women in Science and Engineering group). See below for additional comments to geek feminism readers. This Wednesday fun is ...

This is a guest post by L. Minter. L. Minter is a feminist biology student and a blogger at Feminist Book Club. Rosalind Franklin was a British scientist who made significant contributions, but whose work ...

It was those very numbers that made me start to look at the breakdown of the applicant pool, in terms of the ratio of male to female, and the discovery of what was, I think, ...

Take Back Halloween! costume resources showed up in the linkspam recommendations. We love Halloween. We really love Halloween. We think it’s cool that there’s one day a year when people can dress up as anything ...

Melbourne, Australia: Go Girl Go for IT 2010: A free IT careers showcase for Secondary School Girls Years 8-11, Deakin University, Burwood, 27th and 28th October. Trigger warning for violent crime against women: Russell Williams ...

This is cross-posted at Restructure! I demonstrated an aptitude for computers when I was a young girl, but I didn’t have home Internet access until I graduated from high school. I blame the Patriarchy, partly. ...

My friend and fellow female geek Liz has just concluded her long-running comic, Tao of Geek. Congratulations Liz! In celebration, here’s one of my favourite strips: But with Naomi and Chris (the lead women of ...

Submissions for Wednesday Geek Woman are still open and will close October 27 (this time). This is a guest post by Wednesday. Wednesday (late of Weekday Blues) is a young geek feminist with an interest ...

[Trigger Warning: Links marked with [TW] discuss rape apologia] [TW]Kirby Bits has thrown down the gauntlet (the one with the middle finger extended) in response to Penny Arcade profiteering via merchandise from the “Dickwolves” incident: ...

Say hello to Ms Spam-Spam! We’ve put in a special account for linkspams to make it more clear that linkspams are a group effort here. All the old linkspams are now listed with this account ...

A friend of mine released some songs with the following note: Originally conceived for release on 3″ CD, this four-track EP was inspired by the many difficulties encountered over the years by women who are ...

I was just going to stick this in a linkspam: The Anita Borg Institute for Women in in Technology is hiring! There are currently three positions available: Development Director, Marketing Manager and Manager, Research and ...

Chemistry and danger and pretty colours! All the ingredients of the perfect geek hobby. Have you seen Lauredhel’s series on soapmaking? The Setup, The Making, The Day After, Finis. She also runs a community for ...

A friend of mine submitted this out of season for Ask a Geek Feminist. The benefits of friendship, huh? Here we go: I want to donate money to a group that influences politics in a ...