Celebrating the fabulous (almost entirely female) coders of the AO3 for Ada Lovelace Day - celebrating the achievements of women in technology and science.

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We've just had another office round of 'I'm sure the weather has changed...' The below compares monthly averages for the last 10 years with the average monthly temperature since 1944 at the Perth airport.


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(Video Rental | Bremerton, WA, USA)
Me: “Thank you for calling [video rental store]. How can I help you?”
Caller: “Have you seen District 9?”
Me: “Yes, I have. Do have questions about it?”
Caller: “Is this some sort of Australian joke?”
Me: “I beg your pardon?”
Caller: “All this movie has been is interviews with government people and aliens wearing ( Read more... )

My trail went boingboing -> predictably irrational -> Autocomplete Me and the topic was Google's predictive powers based on frequent searches. The 'how can I get my girlfriend to...' prediction from top to bottom reads a lot like the summary of a bad romance novel - which implies men read them more than I think ( Read more... )

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Robin Chase founded Zipcar, the world’s biggest car-sharing business. That was one of her smaller ideas. Here she travels much farther, contemplating road-pricing schemes that will shake up our driving habits and a mesh network vast as the Interstate. This entry was originally posted at http://samvara.dreamwidth.org/429473.html.

CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) is Australia's national science agency - swiped from
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*snortles* It had to happen: The Vamp - NSFW.

Found via RevolutionSF of all things.
This entry was originally posted at http://samvara.dreamwidth.org/412603.html.

• Attended Dr Megan McArthur’s talk for Science Week about her trip into space to extend the life of the Hubble Space Telescope. I have a HUGE crush; her talk was accessible, inspiring and interesting and I want a spaceship of my own.
• Saw The Chemist play at Amplifier and enjoyed their singer’s amazing voice.
• Digitised the remainder of my CD collection
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