Archive for March, 2011

Over at Hoyden About Town, Wildly Parenthetical considers Tackling Misogyny: Procedures or Social Sanctions?: But more interesting has been the discussion about formal and informal mechanisms for dealing with sexual harassment. There are lots of ...

This is a guest post by Cate. Cate has a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh but escaped from graduate school to be a Software Engineer at Google. She used to be ...

If you’re not a gamer, perhaps you haven’t seen this post entitled Bioware Neglected Their Main Demographic: The Straight Male Gamer which complains about the romance options in Dragon Age II. [Warning: minor spoilers for ...

Four inspiring women have left us in the space of the past week. Diana Wynne Jones, acclaimed British fantasy author, lost her life on Saturday at 76. Ms. Jones’s work is critically acclaimed. Several of her ...

Apparently the Internet noticed today that Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert) had posted a dubious post about men’s rights and then deleted it. In anticipation of my inbox being filled overnight with people asking about ...

Short notice and all, but if you’re in Northampton, Massachusetts and bored this weekend, then ConBust might be worth your while. There’s a whole list of fantastic and broadly varying topics on the schedule page. Some ...

Ever wanted to see a crib playset for My Little Ponies advertised as a GI Joe command center? Then Gendered Adversiting Remixer is the place for you. This is more outright feminism than geek feminism, ...

I’ve been seeing this “Why women rule the internet” link a bunch, and it seems they think “rule == buy more crap.” Sure, it’s nice to be recognized as a market force, but as someone ...

[Trigger Warning for abduction, assault, rape and treatment of women as commodities] Duke Nukem Forever’s “Capture the Babe” CTF variant requires you to abduct a woman to score. The mode is revealed in the latest ...

An interesting survey from the Feminist Philosophers blog: Results: What (If Anything) Prevents Women From Accepting Conference Invitations? The most popular reason for women to turn down conference invitations is a lack of funding to ...

What the hell. It’s geeky. And this is a fairly new (published 2006) finding about komodo dragons. To quote from Wikipedia: On December 20, 2006, it was reported that Flora, a captive Komodo dragon living ...

Student applications for Google Summer of Code open March 28 and close April 8, but students are expected to begin talking to mentoring organisations now. The mentoring organisations for 2011 have just been announced. Students ...

Google Summer of Code — yes, bad name for anyone in the southern hemisphere, but you are allowed to apply! — is a project sponsoring Open Source development by students (largely university students, you have to be 18+ or ...

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, and IBM are pleased to announce a new annual event, the BCS Karen Spärck Jones Lecture honouring women in computing research. Fran Allen will give the first lecture on ...

The Wednesday Geek Woman queue is currently empty! Keep this series alive: it would be great to get six to eight submissions to keep us going for a while. If enough submissions don’t come in, ...

This is a guest post by doubleshiny. doubleshiny is an education professional and TV geek writing at endofshow.com. Although known chiefly as an actress, Hedy Lamarr was a keen inventor and mathematician who was interested ...