Female inventors? There must be some mistake, sir!
Want to find some famous female inventors?
Try the query “she invented” in Google, and it will come back to you with a helpful
Did you mean: “he invented”
Sigh. This isn’t Google’s ‘fault’ — but it does sadly reflect that there are a lot more references and queries online to inventions by males than females.
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End Times - The Atlantic (January/February 2009) ["what if the old media dies much more quickly? What if a hurricane comes along and obliterates the dunes entirely? Specifically, what if TheNew York Times goes out of business—like, this May? "] |
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Jan 9, 2009: Reflections of a Nomadic Learner in the Age of Ubiquitous Communication at London Knowledge Lab | |
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vortexbox.org [Bootable CD that turns an old pc into a music server running DLNA] |
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Listing of Scanned Piano Rolls [More scanned piano rolls...] |
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Listing of Scanned Piano Rolls [Archive of MIDI-fied player piano rolls...] |
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Tom Wolfe on Radical Chic and Leonard Bernstein's Party for the Black Panthers -- New York Magazine | |
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We posted 2 pictures on Flickr... | |
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AF: “leaving darrell to photograph the poor drowned fox” | |
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Critic’s Notebook - What’s Wrong With Vogue? - NYTimes.com | |
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flickurbook [Sync flickr sets with facebook albums. Web-based.] |
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We posted 1 picture on Flickr... | |
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We posted 31 pictures on Flickr... | |
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AF: “is getting ready to do a lot of untagging” | |
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folkrank [an algorithm for ranking in folksonomies] |
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MisEntropy: A Whitepaper outlining an Ad Pre-Testing model based on Prediction Markets ["The fundamental principles behind current advertising pre-testing models have hardly changed in the past few decades. This paper argues that it’s time to update the discipline with contemporary paradigms of collaborative thinking and decision-making. Using the thinking behind prediction markets, the paper constructs a completely revamped model for ad pre-testing – offering another avenue for advertisers seeking precious market information, while also clarifying the role played by traditional ad pre-testing."] |
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DB: “ok that's news photo of the year... http://tinyurl.com/5m7p7t” | |
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Ravishing Beasts [Taxidermy blog. Quite something.] |
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AF: “is looking for eye lash glue” | |
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DB: “I didn't realise Conny Plank was dead! Shameful!” | |
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Jan 15, 2009: Digital Cities: Virtual Tools for Creating our Built Environment at The Building Centre | |
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Jan 5, 2009: Preview screening of The Wrestler and Q&A with Mickey Rourke - Soho, London at Curzon Soho | |
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bookoutlines / FrontPage [Even better that just reading the back cover!] |
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As if Things Weren't Bad Enough, Russian Professor Predicts End of U.S. - WSJ.com ["Mr. Panarin posits, in brief, that mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation will trigger a civil war next fall and the collapse of the dollar. Around the end of June 2010, or early July, he says, the U.S. will break into six pieces -- with Alaska reverting to Russian control."] |
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Running a club night in London will require reporting of all acts and ‘target audience’ to the Met. WHAT?
Or at least, what it might be up to…
The continuation of exclusion, by other means…
Self-appointed internet censors mess with Wikipedia.
New times call for new words and phrases. The list starts here.
Fingers crossed…
This matters. Get involved.
Google explains its new browser, comic-book style
Hello, world.
Cute Overload’s calendar sold out in a day. We ask, what’s their secret?
Pew’s latest research on news consumption in the US.
It’s that time of year again…
UK culture minister says product placement “contaminates” TV programmes.
A bit more political transparency in the UK
From supermodel to media brand.
And how to make a business from it
Surprise! Using IM improves kids’ linguistic skills.
Microblogging officially tips over into the mainstream
No, really.
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The debut video of the singer-songwriter and friend of BST.
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