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Posts tagged ‘apologies’

2011.10.30   Cookie of the week*: the IEEE knows how to apologize   (10)

Cookie of the Week* is an occasional series highlighting action in the geek community to fight sexism, in order to show that fighting sexism is possible and happening. This week’s winner is the IEEE, for ...

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2010.08.01   Shuttleworth apologises for last year’s comments at LinuxCon   (4)

Remember how last September in a keynote speech at LinuxCon, Mark Shuttleworth (Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator For Life of the Ubuntu Linux project) made a series of comments including one about how “us guys” in the ...

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2010.05.04   Feminists do things wrong   (3)

We are essentially a social commentary blog. We tend to grab relevant somethings that pass through our individual radar and put them up for discussion. As part of this, I noticed and wrote a quick hit ...

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2009.10.20   No business like linkspam business (21st October, 2009)   (6)

This week’s very special gift to the computing community, by which I mean, this week’s example of complete fail, was the Yahoo! Taiwan Open Hack Day, featuring lap dancers. Here’s the links people are passing ...

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2009.09.26   Write linkspam on it (26th September, 2009)   (6)

Cake Wrecks posts a hilarious (and of course unfortunate) collection of geeky cakes for girls in honour of GeekDad Carla Schroder has posted the second part of her Linux Today series on sexism in FOSS: ...

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