When it changed (1998?)
Anthropologist Biella Coleman just posted “1998 and the Irish Accent is Why I Study F/OSS”. She quotes a rumination by Don Marti on 1998 as a crucial and strange year in tech: …there was all this...
View ArticleMaths is hard, let’s go linkspamming (7th January, 2010)
It’s that time of the fortnight again: The 11th Carnival of Feminists — Global Edition! is live. The next carnival is on January 20, and accepting submissions of new feminist posts. A Softer World:...
View ArticleHow John Scalzi invented fanfic
So the other day John Scalzi posted on his blog that he is writing a “reboot” of H. Beam Piper’s science fiction novel “Little Fuzzy”. He says: Why did you do this? Because as far as I know it’s...
View ArticleBut pink is a linkspam’s colour (13th October, 2010)
Our regular commenter Jenni wants to share a new geek feminist group blog she’s writing for: Bad Reputation. From the first post: Our strapline is a feminist pop culture adventure. We’re named after...
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