- Scholarships and grants:
- The GNOME Foundation have opened applications for travel grants to their GUADEC conference. Applications close April 27, 2009, 19:00 UTC (not mentioned on that page)
- The ESA is offering scholarships for women and minority students who are pursuing degrees leading to careers in Computer & Video Game Arts. Deadline is May 15th for the 2010-2011 school year.
- Talk of Kick Ass:
- Roger Ebert’s review
- Irin at Jezebel: Kick-Ass: Violence And “Cunt” For Fun And Profit
- tinyheroes: A Response to Roger Ebert’s Review of “Kick Assâ€
- Pharaoh Katt is unimpressed with The Treatment of Women in the X-Men Films.
- With merely 12 hours to find and provide proof of childcare in a foreign country or miss out on a career development seminar, could you do it? Thankfully it is being resolved.
- How to use your influence for good: Jim Hines raises funds for rape crisis.
- One of Anna’s workmates has done something that might out her pseudonym, and has a post explaining why it is she has one and why it isn’t about ‘just’ having the courage “to stand up behind what you’ve said.”
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