I was looking at this chart:
( cut to save flist from image and political musings )

So apparently there was a recent uproar in the Ruby on Rails community about a presentation that was clearly written with the assumption that the audience was male and sexualized women make excellent props for technical discussions. The up side is that it has lead to the best feminist technical post I've seen. It is always nice when someone makes ( Read more... )

( feminist analysis of The Dollhouse, the new show from Joss Whedon, and a related discussion of Deadwood )

I think everyone, of any political belief, can unite around how crappy that poem was ( Read more... )

I'm moved! There are some things I am not bringing with me which, if you want them, are available as long as you can get them from Cambridge by Thursday ( Read more... )

( photo behind the cut: toilet paper prayer flags in Lhasa )

Some people impulse buy clothes or food or electronics; I signed up for the GREs.

Hmmm, maybe I should look at a review book before then...

Reading scientific papers on video games and violence is interesting. Whereby "interesting" means "incredibly annoying". Slashdot linked to a newpaper article that quotes a guy who published this. Now, his quoted beliefs aren't in the peer-reviewed article, but he doesn't bother to clarify that. I read through all of the previously published ( Read more... )

If you have a little patience and are interested in code, http://www.oopsla.org/oopsla2007/podcasts/invited-talks/keynote0104-50-in-50.mp3 is the audio of a history of programming languages presented at oopsla. Some parts of it very much ( Read more... )

And two really struck me. First:

"Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one."

And secondly:

"Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry."

Damn straight.