Archive for December, 2010

Have any of you noticed the amount of fun geeky jewelery around at the moment? I for one have pink laptop earrings which I got from Claire’s in the US last month, HTML head tag ...

Call For Participation: Spectral Amoebas – A Blog Carnival about Asexuality and the Autism Spectrum: We are asexual bloggers on the autistic spectrum who want to explore the intersection between autistic and asexual identities. The ...

Years ago, probably around when I started my master’s degree, I had a chat with a friend about grad school, and she was telling me about how she’d made the decision not to continue on ...

For the Linux geeks: Lyz discovers that Computer Engineer Barbie has a penguin oursin responds to “Why don’t you just hit him?” with another argument against: If this sort of thing happens within a social ...

Warning: discussion of harassment and bullying. There is mention of self-harm and links to real-life bullying accounts at the end. The substantive part of Corey’s comment which was not published on my “Why don’t you ...

You may have heard the story already: First grader Katie was bullied over her star wars water bottle. The boys claimed that star was was for boys. The story was picked up by epbot and ...

One of the many awesome women I met at Grace Hopper posted this experience she had with a student: So far in the grading it seems like everyone did their fair share of the work. ...