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Posts tagged ‘pax’

2011.08.28   Booth Grandmas at PAX Prime 2011   (6)

Apparently game company Good Old Games' booth at PAX prime this year featured booth grandmas passing out cookies. I was worried the PAX coverage would just make me sad that I couldn’t make it this ...

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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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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 ...

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2011.01.30   Quick Hit: Dickwolves shirt removed from store   (7)

In our linkspam, you may have seen the post “Why I’m Not Speaking at PAX East 2011.” If you haven’t, here’s an excerpt: A couple of months ago, I got asked to be on a ...

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2011.01.27   Everyone gets a linkspam! (27th January, 2011)   (3)

Programming suggestions for WisCon, the feminist scifi convention, close tomorrow, Friday, 28 January. Anyone can submit an idea; just create a login. A recent IBM infomercial highlights the role of Patricia McHugh, designer of the ...

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2010.06.10   The linkspam your mothers marched in the street for (10th June, 2010)   (2)

Get ready to PITCH: Women 2.0 Startup Competition: it’s open to entrants around the world, and entries close October 1. Lisa Crispin writes What Gender Diversity Means to Me: Jon Bach asked me a good ...

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2010.06.01   Linkspam feels left out (2nd June, 2010)   (4)

The Hack Gender project is running until June 5, inviting you to create something that talks about gender and its transitory state in modern discourse. See submission instructions and existing submissions. FemaleScienceProfessor tackles a question ...

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2010.04.07   Quick hit: PAX’s Girls and Games fail   (8)

Our dedicated linkspam spies have dug up a lot of critical takes on the “Girls and Games” panel at PAX East 2010, which sounds like it was a how-not-to for discussions of women in geek ...

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2009.08.11   On why I’m going to PAX… and why I don’t go anywhere else   (4)

Cross-posted from my personal blog. My sister and I are currently working on our costumes for PAX 2009. I’m really looking forwards to going again this year because I had so much fun last year. ...

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