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2013-06-12 00:06:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Yay!

2013-06-11 19:58:25 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Very interesting. I wonder what the response will be!?

2013-05-15 22:07:35 (6 comments, 4 reshares, 7 +1s)

Changing my gender to male on Google+ improved my What's Hot experience Google+ has updated how they distribute content to users through Explore

Earlier today, +Kimberly Chapman told me about a little experiment she'd done. She'd opened a tab on her browser and directed it to plus.google.com/explore, a stream that enables you to see the hottest content on Google+. In another tab, Chapman changed her gender on her Google+ profile from female to male, and then loaded the Explore page into another tab.

The difference was astonishing. "As a girl, I get stupid warm-fuzzy meaningless shit," Chapman writes on a post (http://goo.gl/ZDBxT). "As a guy, I get nerdy stuff. This is not okay. I get that [What's Hot] algorithms are based on what people click, like, share, comment on, etc. Fine. But I challenge anyone to give me one good reason why there should... more »

2013-03-30 17:02:19 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Yay, fixed my annoying terminal prompt problem.

2013-03-27 03:46:05 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

ABI awards are now open!

Among them, for example: 
* The Award for Social Impact recognizes individuals who have made a positive impact on women, technology, and society. Recipients are honored by the technical women’s community at the Grace Hopper Celebration. The award includes a prize of $10,000.

* The A. Richard Newton Educator Award recognizes educators for developing innovative teaching practices and approaches that attract girls and women to computing, engineering, and math. Recipients are honored by the technical women’s community at the Grace Hopper Celebration. The award includes a prize of $5,000.

If you know someone who is making impressive strides in helping women and girls make a positive impact... take a look. (And share this, since anyone can apply worldwide.)

2013-02-27 01:58:18 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

+Linus Torvalds you have a terrible temper and you treat people really badly.

You don't have to face the consequences of your actions because of your position of power. That makes your behaviour doubly reprehensible.

You are a bully. You need to get help.

+The Linux Foundation You need to take responsibility for the behaviour of your fellows on public mailing lists. You need to establish some guidelines for fellows, and you need to stick with them, regardless of who breaks them.

+IBM +Fujitsu +HP Intel NEC Oracle +Qualcomm +Samsung USA and other Linux Foundation members need to decide if they want to have their brands associated with bullying behaviour and homophobic slurs.

And the rest of of have to start saying that this kind of behaviour isn't OK.

2013-02-14 05:53:44 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

More reviews!

2013-02-14 05:49:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Accessibility reviews (mostly because I went looking for them before the visit and didn't find them)

2013-02-03 21:17:40 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

So true!

2012-12-15 16:55:31 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

YES. This is what I try to explain whenever people ask me excitedly about exoskeletons.

2012-12-10 05:06:24 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Some great talent looking for work.

2012-11-27 17:37:09 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

I bought a digital video download today that required a video player from Leaping Brain. As usual, the proprietary player wasn't great and to transfer it to my iPhone I'd need another proprietary player. Ugh. But I browsed around and found that the video had been downloaded into a hidden directory as a bunch of .mov files. Great, except none of the files would play.

It turned out the actual player, launched from their compiled app, was a Python wrapper around some VLC libraries. Nothing funny going on, as far as I could tell, but when I tried to launch the player directly, nothing happened. The compiled app was modifying the .mov files right before they were loaded into the player, and then reverting the file on disk. According to http://leapingbrain.com/mod-machine/faq/:

 "We apply our BrainTrust™ proprietary video encryption to your movies before we upload them to ourse... more »

2012-10-16 18:26:38 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

100% agreed on this one...

2012-09-27 18:55:39 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Psssst!  Donate to The Ada Initiative!   Pass it on!

http://bookmaniac.org/support-a-geek-feminist-nonprofit/

2012-09-11 16:52:23 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Awesome!! Laina's book is out!

2012-09-11 16:44:25 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 1 +1s)

The Violence Against Women Act and Native Women.

2012-08-30 15:52:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Sassy pioneer women just loooove being smacked around.... duh!

2012-08-25 00:47:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Interesting controversy and great history here. I ended up reading a lot about Yuri Kochiyama because of this article.

2012-08-25 00:12:45 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

+Ken Starks  is a Linux and open-source supporter. He also runs a non-profit that's donated thousands of PCs to low-income  households. Now, he needs help to fight cancer.  For more on what's happening with him see:

http://thomasaknight.com/blog.php?id=71

Please consider giving. Thanks.

2012-08-22 23:32:15 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Can't keep my finger off the +1 button.

2012-08-21 07:02:53 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

Deeply moving.

2012-08-21 05:21:10 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

On the importance of conversation with adults.... too.

2012-08-19 15:37:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

This is what happens when you trepan ceramic cats and put lipstick on Eisenhower.

2012-08-16 17:35:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

AWESOME complicated thinky post.

2012-08-15 18:24:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2012-08-14 23:27:16 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

2012-08-14 21:25:24 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-08-07 00:58:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-07-31 06:40:36 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-07-21 20:39:02 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

A heroic teenager, http://abcnews.go.com/US/dark-knight-rises-shooting-victim-stopped-young-mom/story?id=16822336#.UAsS-XAbZe4   and some food for thought :  http://cgdageek.tumblr.com/post/27712633396/according-to-a-study-cited-by-abcs-20-20-black-people

2012-07-14 00:12:43 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

If you've been following the Russian Wikipedia blackout this gives some crucial background!

2012-07-12 13:48:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2012-07-11 18:00:52 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

2012-07-11 17:38:42 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Donating now! It also sounds like there are volunteer opportunities.

2012-07-02 19:29:53 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

2012-06-28 06:32:43 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I need somebody at Google I/O to preorder me a pair of Google Glasses Explorer Edition. Please call me if you know somebody there! +1 (970) 205-9374

+Project Glass  #IO12  

2012-06-22 23:10:23 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

You have GOT to be fucking kidding me.   "Science! It's for girls!" video is ridiculous. apparently the European Commission never heard of "the male gaze". Or, you know, actual science.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/eus-science-for-girls-campaigns-spark-a-backlash/2012/06/22/gJQAOi1HvV_blog.html

2012-06-08 19:36:08 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

For my birthday, my mom is making me go to the pool for physical therapy. *sigh*  she is right though..... it's no excuse not to go!

2012-05-26 04:52:54 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

This made me laugh. . . popping a boner-wheelie and then running over Newt Gingrich in a fit of mind-controllable-wheelchair rage

2012-05-23 23:57:40 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Still having a horrible withdrawal reaction from this nerve pain med.... shaking and nauseous. I keep falling asleep, which is merciful.

2012-05-21 01:09:48 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Yayyy world still round

2012-05-21 01:08:16 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Omg the world is round

2012-05-21 01:00:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

The eclipse is very cool!!! taking photos!

2012-05-20 22:59:03 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

I am now the sort of old lady who goes along in her scooter picking up trash from the street and putting it in the scooter basket. I own a flowered vinyl shopping bag and I pinch bits off of other people's plants. Now all I need is 20 stray cats...

2012-05-17 02:54:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

SpaceCamp, photo/darkroom meeting, Replicator Wednesday for 3D printer people, Python class, Machine Learning meetup, and more stuff going on all over Noisebridge tonight. There must be a hundred and fifty people here right now.

2012-05-15 21:31:08 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Best Thing Ever. Ever!!!

http://nolaanarcha.blogspot.com/2012/05/summer-2012-free-skool-classes.html

2012-05-15 19:55:36 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Swam a good 40 minutes at the pool today. I'm hoping to be up to an hour again by next week.

2012-05-15 16:15:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Byron not guilty on all counts. Good. But what a travesty that his life was devastated and he already spent a year in jail. #freebyron

2012-05-14 15:37:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

I just got an email invite from a support group for butch studs. This makes me happy on several levels.

2012-05-13 01:20:27 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Heading off to read at Writers With Drinks!