Tongue-tied

Do I look different? I just got a new keyboard and mouse. USB. Cordless. For the first time in my life I have one with no cigarette ashes between the keys, gumming up the space bar. It even has all the letters and numbers on it. That’s kind of cool. But now I can’t talk [...]

I need to make this a mother/daughters event

She’s Geeky; A Women’s Technology (un)Conference What is She’s Geeky? The She’s Geeky (un)conference will provide an agenda-free and friendly environment for women who not only care about building technology that is useful for people, but who also want to encourage more women to get involved. It is designed to provide women who self-identify as [...]

Looking for love in all the wrong places

In a supposed effort to attract more women into the computer sciences program at Washington State University (aka Wazzu), the campus Linux users group, predominantly male, got the idea of holding a Nerd Auction with this tag line: “You can buy a nerd and he’ll fix your computer, help you with stats homework, or if [...]

Going the extra miles

I have Muslim friends who, five times a day, practice the commandment to “Turn then thy face towards the Sacred Mosque: wherever ye are, turn your faces towards it …. ” (The Quran, Al-Baqarah, 2:149) when they pray. Now, during the holy month of Ramadan, it’s more important than ever. But what would they do [...]

It’s all a (Protestant?) plot

The Catholic Church considers the use of any birth control, including condoms, to be a sin, whether to prevent pregnancy or a deadly disease. But that wasn’t enough for an archbishop from Mozambique. When threat of Hell doesn’t work, go with the conspiracy theory. From the BBC: Archbishop (Francisco) Chimoio told our reporter that abstention, [...]

Put it on the mantle?

Was it really 21 years ago that the Highlander movie came out? And 15 years since the series? So who do you think was the real Highlander? Christopher Lambert or Adrian Paul?

A waking nightmare

From Burrow on her blog Angry For A Reason: The daughter of teachers and with a glittering academic future, Fran was delighted when she became pregnant. But social services discovered the illness she thought she’d put behind her – and will confiscate her daughter when she is born… It’s frightening but true. A 22-year-old woman [...]

Do they give you hives?

Yesterday while filling out paperwork at the dentist for my son, I found this on the medical history form. If you look carefully at the blurry picture above (sorry – took it with my cell phone), you’ll see circled a line which says “Allergies other than drugs? WOMEN.” The answer was an emphatic NO, he’s [...]

Let there be peace on Earth

Today, September 21, is the United Nations International Day of Peace, established in 1981 to be honored first in 1982, coordinating with the opening of the General Assembly. From InternationalDayofPeace.org: In establishing the International Day of Peace, the United Nations General Assembly decided that it would be appropriate “to devote a specific time to concentrate [...]

Painting with sound

This is so cool. In the same way that you can drag your mouse around the screen to draw in Paint, you can now drag your mouse across a graduated color screen and create music that rises and falls in pitch, depending on where on the grid you move. The choice of instruments include flute, [...]

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