While this "pink turd" (to borrow and slightly tweak Gruber's lovely turn of phrase) is truly, truly hideous, it actually is pretty much on par with the kind of clueless-about-half-the-species sort of whiz kids who named the iPad. Just my two thoughts on an item at digitaldaily.com

In the last three weeks, my programming class has kept me too busy playing my hand at being Ada to put together a coherent piece on the order of last year's ALD post. But I'm already planning something all-out for next year. So this one's a quickie. Much of tech right now is dominated by social media. And one of the big rumors floating around is that because women are… Continue reading

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I had a lot of fun with the first project for my video class, and am really enjoying digging back into FinalCut Pro. Continue reading

Things the Nazis said about the Jews:

1. Communist/socialists
2. Liberal/decadent
3. Stabbed the country in the back
4. Vampires/bloodsuckers
5. Not "real"/loyal citizens
6. Had a homosexual agenda
7. Morally suspect
8. Overeducated elites
9. Supported/produced "degenerate art."
10. Controlled media/film industry

Things that happen when terrorists win:

1. Government theocracy
2. Prayer in schools
3. Creationism in schools
4. Emphasis on sexual "purity" (only for women)
5. Feminism and working women demonized
6. Homosexuality illegal (gays jailed or killed)
7. Divorce severely restricted
8. Abortion illegal
9. Pornography illegal
10. Perpetual war

Which side are you on?…

One of my co-workers, an incredibly talented artist herself, invited me to submit a piece to a juried art exhibit, Baby, It’s Cold Outside… , “about how you do/do not define, dismiss, despise, and/or devote yourself to ‘feminism.’” I especially liked the guideline to “free to offend, just be mindful as to whom you piss off.” Continue reading

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A mid-year check-in on my "Things that need to go away in 2009" post, to see how much progress we've made as a culture. Continue reading

"Having a feminist partner was linked to healthier heterosexual relationships for women. Men with feminist partners also reported both more stable relationships and greater sexual satisfaction. According to these results, feminism does not predict poor romantic relationships, in fact quite the opposite." Continue reading

Imagine you're a teenage girl, and you want to be a rock god: who are your role models? Who's there to look up to? Who can you respect? Continue reading

So, this Souter thing. Interesting. Mostly, to me, because it opens up the possibility of getting a second (and maybe, eventually—wait for it!—an unprecedented third) woman on the bench. 8-to-1 is simply NOT RIGHT! Continue reading

Sometimes I have days when Ruth Bader Ginsburg is my favorite person in the entire world. Continue reading

Because he's totally not Vader; he's Old Man Potter grumpface, all that whippersnapper Bailey's Savings and Loan is nothing but a miserable little socialist scam! Continue reading

When I was in high school, the American Taliban took over my town's school board. One of their first moves was to create a policy banning the school from "encouraging, or supporting homosexuality as a positive lifestyle alternative." Continue reading

There are already well over ONE THOUSAND Ada Lovelace Day posts listed at http://ada.pint.org.uk/; I've been so moved by so many people's that I wanted to highlight a few that really touched me, whether they were well-written, moving, taught me something, or were just about really cool ladies. Continue reading

I explained two weeks ago that when I first learned about Ada Lovelace Day back in January, I was about halfway through drafting this post, my response to—and in some ways, retaliation against—the many "best"/"most influential" people in tech list links that were flooding emails, facebook pages, delicious networks, and print publications right around the turning of the new year. Continue reading

In ninth-grade science class, we watched a documentary about the discovery of the double helix, and it left me blazing indignant with anger. James Watson and Francis Crick, the two men who won the Nobel Prize for this discovery, had stolen essential research from the offices of an x-ray crystallographer named Rosalind Franklin, without which they never would have deduced the helical nature of DNA. Watching how she was treated… Continue reading

After watching The Kid Stays in the Picture, Robert Evan's egotistical documentary about how awesome Robert Evans is and how awesome it is being Robert Evans, with my boyfriend and a bottle of Perrier Jouet a few weeks ago, I decided to mention some of my favorite works of nonfiction, and why they are so awesome. Continue reading

Anyone who has a problem with Mrs. O's off-one-shoulder beaded white gown obviously doesn't remember that Nancy Regan wore an almost identical dress at her husband's first inauguration Continue reading

In the spirit of my recent "Things that I bought that I love" tribute post, and with a nod to Arianna Huffington's "Bye-Bye 2008: Things I Want to Forget," here's a list of things which all sane and rational humans should resolve to avoid in this young year. Some are altruistic, some are practical, some tongue-in-cheek. But I'm deadly serious about them all. Continue reading