This is an article I came across lately. Check it out. Here is an excerpt:
"For me, then, the "fake geek girls" meme doesn't so much call into
question the bona fides of the women in question as it calls into question
"geek culture"—real or otherwise. Eddin praises geeks for being wiling to
"challenge cultural norms"—but are you really challenging the norms of a
capitalist society when you define yourself by your relationship to the
crap you buy?
I'm not saying that people shouldn't love the art they love. But I am
suggesting that the mean-spiritedness of geek culture—a mean-spiritedness
that is often, but by no means always, directed at women—is not an
accident. A culture that values knowledge and access above all things is
going to be a culture dedicated to hierarchy and to power—to defining who
is in and who is out. Such defining involves, and is meant to involve, a
good deal of antagonism, score-settling, back-biting, and cruelty. There's
not much point in defining yourself as the knower if you cannot define
others as those who do not know."
http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/fake-geek-girls-paranoia-i…
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Andrew Lowe
Cell: 831-332-2507
http://roshambomedia.com
hi everyone,
trying out the proposed meeting format that we discussed during the
hackathon this weekend at https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroom
please add items to it!
- marina
Hey Everyone,
I am doing a hacker movie on Friday for 48hour film festival. The
sub-genre of hacker film has yet to be decided, per the contest rules, but
we will be doing a hacker film no matter what... like all our other films.
:D
We could end up doing something in one of these sub-genres:
• Buddy Film
• Comedy
• Crime/Gangster
• Dark Comedy
• Drama
• Fantasy
• Horror
• Mistaken Identity
• Musical or Western
• Romance
• Sci Fi
• Superhero
• Thriller/Suspense
• Vacation or Holiday Film
You can meet us @ the hive(2141 Broadway upstairs in the common space) on
Friday night at 7pm. The event will go until 11:59pm that night, and then
we will resume shooting the next day at 8am until 11:59pm that night.
This is a great opportunity to learn production, post-production, writing,
directing and acting.
FACEBOOK EVENT HERE: https://www.facebook.com/events/454116534679627/
The finished film will be shown at the Clay theater in the city next
Thursday, June 6th at 7:00pm. The Clay Theater is located at 2261
Fillmore, SF.
Let me know if you're interested in being part of our team.
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Cheers,
Rusty
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Who's willing to help me cook for the meeting? I'm here and so is the
crockpot. I'm not so good at making smart cooking decisions, but
happy to help shop and chop!
Hi folks.
I'm trying to revive an old macintosh se and i need a 50-pin scsi drive.
Size shouldn't matter too much. Anyone have one lying around?
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Marc