Posts tagged ‘video’

In the context of geek events, which are usually private and which can therefore impose additional restrictions on behaviour as a condition of entry, that restrictions on photography could prevent some harassment. Behaviours around photographs makes geek events hostile to some participants, especially women.

Or as my sister put it, Algonquin + Darth Vader + Christmas. This is an open thread for general discussion on any topic, so feel free to post your own favourite geeky Christmas videos or ...

Doesn’t this dance video for the Goodman Cancer Research Centre at McGill University kinda make you feel like it’d be an awesome place to work? Has your organization done anything fun and unusual that you’d ...

[Warning for ableism.] Kathy Sierra has published a video about online harassment, particularly an incident in 2008 targetting people with epilepsy, transcripted here.

An open thread, open to comments on any subject within the scope of our comment policy.

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’ ...

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 ...

Today’s open thread is brought to you by Maru the cat, who recently turned 4 and his famous for his love of jumping into boxes. We have open threads every few weeks so that people ...

Today’s open thread is brought to you by turtles. I feel the xkcd comic above is much funnier if you read it then watch this terribly educational video about turtles: Now that you know all ...

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 ...

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. ...

We’re starting to collect some examples of photography/recording harassment experiences (still open , and some of the kinds of problems people mention there and elsewhere are: photography/recording conducted in a way that is designed to ...

This is an anecdote gathering exercise, hopefully creating an opportunity for discussion around photography at geek events. At present, the confererence anti-harassment policy (which, as a reminder, is designed to be edited to be made ...

Despite the fact that I grew up to earn a degree in mathematics, I remember math classes in my elementary school as pretty much the dullest subject on earth. Which is probably one of the ...

This is an amended version of a post I wrote for the CU-WISE blog (my local Women in Science and Engineering group). See below for additional comments to geek feminism readers. This Wednesday fun is ...

Team Antipodes is a team of three girls “headquartered in Pacifica, California, USA, but dedicated to collaboration with similar teams from around the globe.” They competed in the 2009 FIRST Lego League, placing third in ...