Posts tagged ‘music’
2011.07.16 Open thread: Bill Nye the Music Guy (5)
I found this great source of Bill Nye music videos and this one made me laugh: I don’t know if he’s known world-wide, but the Bill Nye The Science Guy was an inordinately popular kids’ ...
Full Story »2011.07.14 Music geekery (8)
Didn’t we link to this geek hierarchy? I just searched the GF blog and can’t find it. Anyway, SURPRISE! All forms of geek on the hierarchy are male! At least til you get to the ...
Full Story »2011.06.03 Open thread: Super mario bros accapella by Jimmy Wong (4)
There are a lot of covers are the mario bros theme, but Jimmy Wong’s version is especially cute and singable because it goes beyond the source to make something really fun: And as if the ...
Full Story »2011.05.23 He can only be defeated via his weakness for linkspam (23rd May, 2011) (7)
Win a Scholarship to National Computer Camp: GamingAngels.com and National Computer Camp (NCC) are offering a scholarship for NCC’s June/July 2011 enrollment valued at $985 to a female student (ages 8-18) for one week. ‘National’ ...
Full Story »2011.05.04 Roll a D6 (11)
As a tabletop gamer who carries dice in her bag, I’m highly amused by this d&d roleplaying parody of the Far East Movement’s “Like a G6″ : Roll a D6 from Connor Anderson on Vimeo. ...
Full Story »2011.02.04 Some reasons I’m looking forwards to PAX East (13)
A few Penny Arcade fans with little grasp of basic human decency and even less grasp of basic grammar and spelling have really been making for an unpleasant week. The last linkspam has related links ...
Full Story »2011.01.05 Wednesday Geek Woman: Else Marie Pade (0)
Calvina Hobbes is a Scandinavian fangirl, who sometimes takes time off from English-based media fandom to fawn over brilliant men and women slightly closer to home. Danish composer Else Marie Pade is a pioneer in ...
Full Story »2010.10.18 Open Thread: Music to $action by (9)
A friend of mine released some songs with the following note: Originally conceived for release on 3″ CD, this four-track EP was inspired by the many difficulties encountered over the years by women who are ...
Full Story »2010.10.08 If it’s really good, men made it (22)
I feel odd blogging about a movie I haven’t seen, I want to get that out of the way. But a lot of women I trust are telling me that the movie The Social Network ...
Full Story »2010.09.20 The Real Female Geek Anthem (15)
I am in love with Marian Call. This is beautiful. (via Amy at Skepchick)
Full Story »2010.09.12 Girl, it’s time to automate (Open Thread) (13)
A friend of mine works in a biology lab working on cell motility and breast cancer research, and a while back she shared this amusing piece of marketing: Biology equipment boy band! And it’s actually ...
Full Story »2010.04.20 Death by a thousand links (20th April, 2010) (6)
Check out, and contribute to, Flickr’s Women in Tech group, photos of women in technology speaking at conferences or doing techy things. (Also check out The New Feminine for a little subversion of what “feminine” ...
Full Story »2009.09.17 Were you a LEGO girl? (10)
This Youtube video made it worth my while to get out of bed this morning despite the cramps that are starting to sneak up on me, damn them. 1500 hours of moving LEGO around and ...
Full Story »2009.08.21 Quick hit: Do you wanna date my avatar? (14)
Since The Guild’s released their new music video, Do You Wanna Date My Avatar, I’ve had the song stuck in my head. My sister and I had this amusing conversation about what, as feminists, we ...
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