Archive for March, 2011
2011.03.17 Wednesday Geek Woman bonus submissions thread (March) (0)
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, ...
Full Story »2011.03.16 Wednesday Geek Woman: Hedy Lamarr, inventor (0)
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 ...
Full Story »2011.03.14 Career change to programming (8)
This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our commenters. This is the last post from round 4. Round 5 will run in the second half of 2011. I have a 24 year old ...
Full Story »2011.03.13 Where are all the linkspams? (14th March, 2011) (16)
Betsy Leondar-Wright and ana australiana write about the impenetrability of middle-class activism to working class people, and about how the sidelining of middle-class subcultures isn’t equivalent to systemic oppression: It’s not “them” — it’s us!, ...
Full Story »2011.03.13 The Fourteen Not Forgotten and Sexist Posters at Waterloo (7)
This is a guest post from Christine Cheng. She is a research fellow in politics at Exeter College, University of Oxford. In a previous life, she studied systems design engineering and was student government president ...
Full Story »2011.03.11 ICANN nominations open (1)
ICANN nominations are open. The ICANN controls domain names, among other services that create a globally coordinated Internet. Maria Farrell, a member of the nominating committee points out: So far, there are about 35 applications ...
Full Story »2011.03.09 Angry Birds! (4)
As I mentioned in Some reasons I’m looking forwards to PAX East, my friends and I have been making angry birds to play with at PAX East this weekend. I finally took some pictures and ...
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