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Posts tagged ‘toys’

2012.01.16   Lego for girls can be awesome   (3)

Nannan reminds us that just like any other Lego kits, it’s only a matter of time before the kids take it apart and build something way cooler.

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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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2010.09.22   half hearted ethnicity in toys: japan barbie + ken   (4)

This post was originally published at 天高皇企鹅远. There are some new Barbies doing the rounds, and they’re amazing: I don’t even know what’s going on here. This toy website tells says that Japan Ken wears ...

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2010.05.17   The linkspam-whore dichotomy (17th May, 2010)   (2)

Lightgetsin rants in The one where I shout about able-bodied technology privilege for a while: Also, the next person to tell me to get a Kindle . . . really shouldn’t. The Kindle occasionally reads ...

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2010.05.12   Tinkering   (26)

Mark Pilgrim’s post Tinkerer’s Sunset laments the increasing tendency of Apple devices to be locked for development unless you have a Mac, XCode, an iPhone simulator, and $99 for an auto-expiring developer certificate. He goes ...

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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” ...

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2010.04.08   Macho, macho ‘spam, I want to be a macho ‘spam (8th April, 2010)   (1)

jesstess at Stemming wants to motivate programming for a twelve year old girl. Head on over and give her ideas. There’s discussion following on from Cath Elliott’s admiration of The Lord of the Rings in ...

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