Okay, Arizona, now you’re just messing with us.
Arizona is about to outlaw Internet trolling.
Which means I can think of a few people who’d better not be from Arizona.
...read more10 Problems Women Need to Fix Before They Can Complain About Problems With Popular New Software, On a Blog
So people were real mad about my and other posts around the interwebs pointing out the fact that Siri can locate basically anything penis-related (Viagra, condoms, escorts, blow-jobs) but can’t find birth control, abortion clinics or oral sex for women. The responses were… fascinating, to say the least.
...read morePhotoshop-by-numbers
Though we generally notice the more egregious offenses, when a magazine cover barely resembles the celebrity it’s supposed to portray, we’re so jaded that we let it fly, much as we accept that a Picasso is going to kind of look just about person-esque.
Now scientists at Dartmouth can identify precisely how cubist a cover photo has become on a scale of 1 to 5.
...read moreTeenagers: Way More Boring Than We All Thought
It turns out that teenagers are not even sexting that much. Ugh, teenagers. Don’t you know that adults’ lives are so horrifyingly boring that we have to occupy ourselves by harping on you young, adventurous things doing stupid crap like sending each other nudie pics with your fancy portable telephones? I just retired my flip-phone [...]
...read moreEmma Sullivan vs. Sam Brownback: A marketing case study
The biggest screwup out of Kansas Governor Sam Brownback’s office of late is easy: tattling on an 18-year-old to her high school for some juvenile comment she made on Twitter during a Youth in Government field trip to the capitol. I mean, seriously: Emma Sullivan says, to her mob of 60 whole Twitter followers, “Governor [...]
...read moreYes, Emma Sullivan is definitely lucky she’s not Ruth Marcus’s daughter.
As are we all. If you were my daughter, you’d be writing that letter apologizing to Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback for the smartalecky [She actually said "smartalecky." I didn't just add that. -Ed.], potty-mouthed tweet you wrote after meeting with him on a school field trip. Also, that smartphone? The one you posed with, proudly [...]
...read moreSiri: Total Misogynist.
The big news of the week is that Siri, the iPhone 4s’s virtual assistant, is apparently unable to find anything related to women’s health. Ask her to find an abortion clinic in New York City — a place with a few abortion clinics — and she can’t locate a single one. She can, however, direct [...]
...read moreYour startup is inferior to that guy with the mobile app for golfers
In case you needed a reminder that ventures traditionally associated with women are inherently inferior to things that are manly and such, tech reporter Jolie O’Dell is happy to remind you via Twitter. Women: Stop making startups about fashion, shopping, & babies. At least for the next few years. You’re embarrassing me. After a few [...]
...read moreOn tech conferences and the amazing invisible women
I spent most of yesterday at our local BarCamp, a free “unconference” where the organizers, speakers, and attendees are pretty much all the same people and speaking slots are open to anyone who shows up on the day of the event with a presentation they feel like delivering. They’re lots of fun and generally attract [...]
...read moreThere’s an app for that. (Yeah, I went there.)
The fight against violence against women has reached the Office of the Vice President–which is good, because there are a lot of other offices that would have let it sit in the foyer without even offering it a cup of coffee until it gave up and went home. Even better is the surprisingly modern approach [...]
...read moreGetting More Women to Tech
On Friday, the Wall Street Journal published a piece by Shira Ovide, one of its media reporters, about the lack of women in the leadership among tech companies and talked about the protests over the separately branded TEDWomen conference that was announced last month. Short version: There are too few women in tech. Only about [...]
...read moreThe Impermanence of Light
Tonight I did something I do less and less of these days — I came home and didn’t jump on the Internet. Didn’t rush through my meal to hurry up and check my e-mail only to be inundated with the day’s nauseating blog comments. Didn’t skip reading the book I’m almost finished with to see [...]
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