The Shorty Awards - Honoring the best of Twitter and social media. Get In The Christmas Spirit: Hang Some Lady Scientists On Your Tree. By Susana Polo | 10:30 am, December 2nd, 2011 Eavesmade’s Heroes of Science have been around for at least a couple years now, but every year the holiday season runs around and something reminds me of them and then I get excited to know they exist.
The Etsy seller puts together laser-etched images of famous scientists for the hanging on, oh, anything. And they’ve also got a set of Women in Science, which includes some incredible ladies. If you’re the kind of person who likes your science in your celebration, these could be just the ticket, but with their simple design, you could really put them up any where, any time of the year. You can buy the whole set or individual ornaments, which is much closer to the concerns of my own budget.
(via The Hairpin.) 10 Action Librarians. Allow Us To Explain According to Wikipedia, “stereotypes of librarians in popular culture are frequently negative: librarians are portrayed as puritanical, punitive, unattractive, and introverted if female, or timid, unattractive, and effeminate if male.”
TVTropes, in fact, lists only two librarian tropes: the Hot Librarian, for a very specific kind of story; and the Scary Librarian (basically the shushing librarian with one notable subversion). Even J.K.Rowling admitted that she was unable to present a kind librarian in Harry Potter because otherwise all the mysteries would have been solved in a couple of days. And so we thought to ourselves: there are plenty of kick ass librarians in fiction! Like all the time… when they are allowed to be main characters… and aren’t one-scene jokes… um. Future Timeline. How Much RAM Can You Hard Drive Stand? – Music Video.
Who Says Science has Nothing to Say About Morality? Hilarious: How to Kung Fool People. Batman vs. Superman’s Powers [Cartoon] Ty Templeton Mother's Day Marvel vs DC. News - GeekTyrant. Crazy Physics Dude. How To Write A Generic SF Novel. The Mary Sue - A Guide To Girl Geek Culture - Part 2. Paging Dr. NerdLove. LAB ROMANCE. A large list of awesome female atheists. In a perfect world, we shouldn't have to have a separate list for female atheist activists.
Some commenters even said such a list was "patronizing" by insinuating that women couldn't play with the big boys. But when other polls, lists, and posts seem to forget our existence, every little bit of awareness helps. We have just as insightful things to say, but we need people to listen. The Guild. Watchtheguild's Channel. The Guild - "Game On" A Bollywood Themed Gamer's Anthem. The Guild - Do You Wanna Date My Avatar.
Felicia Day. Felicia's Melange - A collection of links and small bloglets. Fawkes and Codex Highland Sextasy Poster. WWdN: In Exile. In 2001, blogs were very new things.
In fact, as much more time was spent arguing talking about what blogs even were, and where they fit into the media landscape than was spent actually, you know, writing in them. In fact, I don't even think the word "blogging" existed back then, and whenever it arrived on the scene, it was used pejoratively to describe the equally-distasteful "bloggers" who were on the verge of not just threatening the status quo, but disrupting and then changing it forever.
I read a lot of blogs (many of them were just called online journals or something similar), so when I made my first stupid website at Geocities (RIP) called Where's My Burrito, I put a blog in there, right next to my hit counter and guest book. My first entry in that blog looks something like this: That was posted on July 24, 2001. The next day, I wrote this: And then, later, this: Okay, you can all stop worrying.
I announced it in the usual fashion: The New Site Is Open! Tonight I'm Frakking You.