BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Susan Kitchens points out that the number of women in the freshmen class at Caltech has increased from 28.5 last year to 37 percent this year. That’s a significant rise, even though it doesn’t match other tech colleges (42 to 47 percent), or colleges in general (with 57 percent women). […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I wanted to welcome you all to this, the third annual Burningbird Bash of ETech! This year’s show promises to be the best ever, especially considering that O’Reilly has, after all these years, finally broken the 10% rule for percentage of presenters that are female! Yes, indeedy, this year’s female participation is […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The Better Bad News folk did a take on the AutoLink fooflah, which is worth a chuckle, though not necessarily a guffaw. However, what I found more interesting about the page is the *list of webloggers that the BBN folks referenced: 1. Opt Out Petition 2. Dan Gillmor 3.The Scoblizer 4. Dave […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Jonathon juxtaposed two quotes within a posting – a serious one from a woman questioning whether she would ever meet the man of her (overly perfect) dreams; and a rather humorous exchange between guys on IRC. In response to a comment attached to the posting, Jonathon also stated: An alternative […]