Happy Ada Lovelace Day. I am delighted to see this.
Hilary and Kati in the November 2011 issue of Glamour. Hello fabulous geek women!
Read the article by Kara Swisher.
(via pith)
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Reblogged from jenbee.
Happy Ada Lovelace Day. I am delighted to see this.
Hilary and Kati in the November 2011 issue of Glamour. Hello fabulous geek women!
Read the article by Kara Swisher.
(via pith)
Reblogged from jonnodotcom.
“Dixie’s bar in 1950s New Orleans, one of the few places in the South where gay men and lesbians could gather openly.” (via The Gay Bar: Is It Dying? @ Slate)
Reblogged from melissa.
“I had this client the other night. He’s been here once before. He’s youngish, late twenties, early thirties, and he comes late at night. He wants me to list all the men I saw that night and what I did with them. It doesn’t matter if he’s into what I did to them, his focus is on the sheer volume - not the specifics. His fetish is the fact that he’s paying me. He wants me to list the clients I saw, tell him how many, how old they were, how much money they gave me. He asked me how old I was. “Twenty-two,” he repeated. “I get to buy twenty-two.” I was on the verge of telling him that, actually, no, you get to buy a specific service with a twenty-two year old for an allotted amount of time, but he sensed my loathing and semi-corrected himself by tacking on a ‘half an hour.’ He disclosed to me that he was a writer. He’d been working on a semi-autobiographical novel about his ‘wacky adventures’ in college. He went to Journalism grad school at Harvard (I think 40% of my clients are Harvard boys, eck). I had this flash of him as a doughy faced college kid; him on his friend’s yacht, taking weekend flights to South America to sex tour Brazil. Did his wacky adventures include going to see a twenty-two year old sensual masseuse? Something clicked inside my brain and I realized just how much I hated this man I was slowly jerking off. That asshole, using his fucking privilege to write for Newsweek and the AP and to come get a massage from me, while he aspired to write for the neo-liberal hole that is the Economist. In my mind, I made a pact with him. If he was going to write about this I was going to write about it, too. And if he published it, I would get it published and use his real fucking name. I finished up and told him he should keep his cum. He was confused. “You know, you should keep it. Like a souvenir or a memento. You paid a lot of money for that sperm. It’s worth something now. 160 dollars, actually.”
— Favoured Strangers: On Thinking Yourself a Tourist: Sex Work & Class (via lots of smart folks)
Reblogged from youdontlooklikeafeminist.
“The way to pussy is feminism.
My first time being tumble quoted. People really love feminism.
This is a line from my show “I Look Like An Egg, but I Identify As A Cookie.” http://heathergold.com/cookie which you’re welcome to bring to your school or funtime. I’ve made over 50,000 chocolate chip cookies in it with people (f/k.a audiences) all over the US.
”
—
Heather Gold (via lipstick-feminists)
Could it be? The best thing I’ve read all day?
(via youdontlooklikeafeminist)
Reblogged from jenbee.
“This is really the heart of it isn’t it?
Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and one simply for the right to speak, to have ideas, to be acknowledged to be in possession of facts and truths, to have value, to be a human being. Things have certainly gotten better, but this war won’t end in my lifetime.
”
Reblogged from melissa.
This was a really great conversation. I hope to post more about this at heathergold.com soon.
The End of Shame, or, Getting Over Oversharing
Hosted by Heather Gold, with Cindy Gallop, Melissa Gira Grant, & Jeff Jarvis
recorded at SXSW Interactive, March 13, 2011(Here it is, rough and fast. Wish you were there. Maybe you were.)
Reblogged from stfuconservatives.
chasailos: sixohthree: edatrix: iheartokeeffe:mohandasgandhi:
No, that’s not a picture of asphalt. It’s a picture of MILLIONS of tiny dead fish thanks to BP. Get. Angry.
That looks like fucking asphalt. Omg.
D8
Reblogged from merlin.
The combo with the npr sature is pitch perfect. Like all those facejackers are npr can’t wait to turn their jobs into 14 second ones.
[***Considering Some Things* - Jim Fairness and “The 14-Second Work Year”**](http://tinyurl.com/14SWYear) *The 14-Second Work Year* changed the way I think about pretty much everything. Nice to hear the author expand on some of the concepts on QPR. ***** Previously on QPR: [**CryingStore® - Episode: “Cold Tulips”**](http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/71222124/cryingstore)
Reblogged from viafrank.
I’m a lover of paradox. It feels much richer and truthful to me than most else. And funnier. There’s some heart to it. Wilde was a genius paradox giver:
I can resist anything but temptation.
I find a lot of the comedy out there now tiring. And Frank Chimero has articulated the why beautifully. Of course its just a lot of fine, rational reasoning being applied to jokes.
I’ve been spending the past few days thinking about paradoxes. Good jokes. Good concepts. Good design. I think all three share a firm foot in the realm of paradox.
To understand paradoxes is to be able to hold two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time. And maybe to give both equal…
Leo Frank makes headlines 90 years after he was lynched
Al Franken Amendment. Haliburton: Defense. The Jewish Senator: Rape. Checkmate.
Israeli Settlements. Netan-yahoo, the creepy landlord and 3,000 units
Pat Tillman. So not Jewish. So good for the Jews.