Rebecca Goldstein wrote out her speech for this conference for the first time ever, agonized over whether to for the first time examine “the gender issue”. To examine whether her behaving as though the world doesn’t care that she’s a female was a good behaviour.
Category Archive: Books
Nov 10 2012
Raising Boys Feminists Will Hate: The Book (The Trailer)
Not sure if I’ll be able to write a post I’ve got brewing in my head immediately, with all the various things that need doing this weekend, so I’ll put this up for now. Actually, I have two posts in mind, but both of them will take some doing to set to e-paper. I’m sure …
Sep 20 2012
Pinkification of The Internet, For Dummies
!["Internet pour Les Nulles", or "Internet For [Female] Dummies" cover](http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/files/2012/09/internetpourlesnulles-615-150x150.jpg)
The For Dummies series is arguably the best known computer self-help manual series in the world. It’s diversified into other fields, of course, with Sex For Dummies and Fishing For Dummies, but its bread and butter is still the computer industry. But it turns out that they evidently haven’t been capturing one all-important market with …
May 05 2012
Pentametron creates sonnets out of users’ tweets
This is certainly a lot better use of a Twitter bot than most. It’s just the sort of high-concept bot I would love to do, if only I had a decent idea for one. And I bet it’ll irritate real poets, like Cuttlefish, for its (present) flaws. Creator Ranjit Bhatnagar built, in PHP, a script …
Mar 17 2012
Neil Gaiman: Piracy boosts sales
It’s very telling to see someone extraordinarily popular, extraordinarily widely-read, and with a great deal to lose, put his own works up on the internet for free as an experiment, and change his mind about piracy when the empirical evidence proves his original thoughts on the matter wrong. Just yesterday, I bought a copy of …
Nov 23 2011
Broken Blade launch
Kelly McCullough posted the following to his Wyrdsmiths blog. I am reblogging it out of laziness a genuine effort to spread word about his book. So, I have a new book coming out a week from Tuesday, Broken Blade. The first chapter can be found here. It can be bought at all the usual places, …
Nov 06 2011
God: “It Getteth Better”
An absolutely shameless marketing strategy by Simon & Schuster to promote A Last Testament: A Memoir By God. But I’ll bite, because it’s sacrelicious. Also, there’s a great little scuffle going on right now between Simon and Schuster and the National Organization for Marriage. NOM is DEEPLY OFFENDED by this, and has reuploaded the video …
Nov 05 2011
Humpty Dumpty on the meaning of words
Relevant to a discussion at Stephanie’s about whether to out a persistent and rather unsubtle troll so their meatspace acquaintances have a better understanding of what kind of viciousness he gets up to online, allowing them to protect themselves. It has, as most conversations do, meandered into an area related to the meanings of certain …
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