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Posts tagged ‘girls’

2012.05.08   Girls and Robots   (164)

Five-and-a-half year old Maya has decided she doesn’t like cars because she wants people to like her. Her mom wants to hear from geek women who like robots, grand adventures and still have friends and wear pink and go dancing.

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2012.04.20   Quick hit: Top Girl, Rock Bottom   (2)

A quote from Mara Wilson’s review of Top Girl. I’ve played some pretty terrible video games, but this sounds like it may be a candidate for the worst game ever.

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2012.01.26   Re-post: OMG, Ponies! (Or… my love affair with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)   (2)

I always thought my friend Sarah summed up the appeal of My Little Pony the best: Once you believe in rainbow-coloured ponies who can talk, there isn’t much limit to your imagination.

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2011.12.19   Pandering to horny teenage linkspam   (9)

Angela Zhang of Cupertino won a $100,000 scholarship for her cancer fighting research. In her project, Zhang aimed to design a targeted gold and iron oxide-based nanoparticle with the potential to eradicate cancer stem cells ...

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2011.09.16   OMG, Ponies! (Or… my love affair with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)   (26)

I always thought my friend Sarah summed up the appeal of My Little Pony the best: Once you believe in rainbow-coloured ponies who can talk, there isn’t much limit to your imagination.

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2011.09.06   Enough of this linkspamming nonsense (7th September, 2011)   (10)

Links for you! Is Wikipedia more or less gender-balanced than Encyclopædia Britannica? Is outing powerful tech figures OK? And how to praise girls.

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2011.07.12   Hubris, thy name is linkspam (12th July, 2011)   (0)

Trigger warning Assange’s Account Looks Like Accusers’ Account: Assange’s own attorney now effectively concedes that was, at best, what happened here: His victims gave subsequent consent to sexual activity for which explicit consent was neither ...

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