- Another old project moved (copied) to the GF wiki: Mary imported the Women in FLOSS bibliography she originally wrote for LinuxChix and added some new material. Add all material you know of related to women in free/open source software: both reports and talks.
- The Ada Initiative is keeping a calendar of events for women in open technology and culture. If you have any to contribute, email share@adainitiative.org.
- (Warning: quoted harassment at links.) Sadly, more in ‘net harassment of women: threats against Seanan McGuire’s cats, fatphobia and threats against Shawna James Ahern’s child. John Scalzi notes that this is The Sort of Crap I Don’t Get (as a man)
- Bad shirts, revisited: Worst T-Shirt Of All Time Tells Little Girls That Being Smart Sucks. J.C. Penney has since pulled the design, agreeing that it does not deliver an appropriate message.
- Case Study: How a notorious spammer was brought down via Twitter: atheist bloggers use Twitter and the press to force Montreal police to take the constant threads of anti-atheist harasser “David Mabus” seriously.
- Data: lightgetsin tests the
just ask for accommodations
advice given to disabled people. - Wearing a Purple Ribbon: The Back Up Project: Tina Beychok is interviewed about the anti-harassment ribbons produced by the Open Source Women Back Each Other Up Project and Gentleman’s Auxiliary.
- Charlie Stross asks his readers to nominate important books published since 2000, and then he asks them again, because they weren’t nominating a lot of women the first time.
- Linus Torvalds and Others on Community Burnout: Bruce Byfield speaks to several people in open source about burnout, including Valerie Aurora about burnout among women’s advocates.
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Thanks to everyone who suggested links.

I was looking around for information on converting my car to hybrid electric, and the best info site I’ve found is Lynne Mason’s electric-cars-are-for-girls.com. [Not specifically a recent link; I just thought it might be of interest to some.]
Don’t know where else to post this (the latest open thread is closed), but there’s still a minor bug in the comment form involving the “tabindex” attributes that keeps throwing me off as a keyboard user.
Specifically, the fields are displayed in Name, Email, URL, Comment, but the tabindex attributes of those are 1, 3, 4, 2, respectively. So using the Tab key, the fields are visited in the order Name, Comment, Email, URL.
@ codeman38, thanks for the bug report. I’ll get on that right away.
OK, that’s properly fixed now. My apologies for overlooking the tabindex numbers when I made the first ‘fix’.
Seriously, stop with the booth babes
http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2011/09/seriously-stop-with-the-booth-babes/
Interesting article by a man about how tech companies using “booth babes” lead to the assumption that women at tech conference stalls are only there as decoration anyway and that they wouldn’t know anything relevant any way.
Followed up by a proposal of how to change that.