• 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 a book out loud… But the Kindle itself is not accessible… I have a handheld reading device. Hint: it cost more than a Kindle.
• sqbr reviews standard tropes in Disability in Speculative Fiction: Monsters, mutants and muggles. (via FWD)
• Anna talks about how incessant criticism of a blogger you disagree with is harassment.
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal thinks the answer to "why are there so few girl engineers?" is in the toys. (There’s a discussion thread at Sociological Images following from it too.)
• China targets online commentator anonymity: BBC News reports that China is considering forcing its citizens to use their real names when they post comments on internet bulletin boards.
• Smashing Magazine has an interview with 16 Women In Web Design: Group Interview – Smashing Magazine: ‘ware, the comments are apparently a bingo card or two.
• Do you know any women leading the development of an emerging programming language? It seems that perhaps O’Reilly doesn’t, so introduce them if you like.
• Fannish spaces, girls, and the culture of silence. Saying sorry, I can write whatever I want, and I only want to write boys snogging is a valid individual response when it only applies to your fictional life. But when it starts to be a symptom of a cultural problem, then we need to talk.
• The Penguin Trail – Cape to Cairo: a project by two women, Veera Uusoksa and Armi Korhonen, who are travelling from Cape Town to Cairo, starting January 2011, while raising awareness for free and open source software.
• Cosplay, race, ability, and gender; or, who gets to dress up as whom?: I think Caitie did a good job pointing out why it’s problematic to cosplay as characters of color as a white fan, so I want to talk a little about how this conversation links to other kinds of minority cosplaying (namely, disability and gender).
• People love to hear about you walking alone at night, feeling free, but there’s the obligatory rape culture ‘stay safe’ rider

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