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Top Ten Geek Girls
TurboPatrol writes "CNET have published a list of the Top Ten Girl Geeks throughout history. The winners include the elegant Ada Byron (the world's first computer programmer), Grace Hopper (invented the compiler) and Lisa Simpson (invented the perpetual motion machine — well, in the world of cartoons). Some of the entries are fascinating, for example Marie Curie apparently used to carry plutonium in her jacket pockets. Have they missed anyone out?" At least two entries on the list are stupid. I guess someone thought they were funny.
Well, inside she's mostly zero's..
Forgot to add, here's a link to her Flickr acct:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/leahculver/
I'm not a stalker or nothin, just wanted to post that before I go back to hiding in the bushes with my binoculars.....
Chums up, let's do this!
I have a hunch where the 1 gets inserted
A woman invented COBOL? This does not surprise me. *ducks*
Hey! Maybe Paris can come over to my house and we can play games together.
I've got a great joystick.
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Paris Hilton is the loveable hateable icon of absurdity. She should be on every list. Sexiest woman (#47 Paris Hilton), best actress in a foreign film (#23 Paris Hilton), world's strongest man (#97 Paris Hilton), most downloaded interent video star (#3 Paris Hilton), most likely running mate for Barak Obama (#2 Paris Hilton), and people who remind you of the Olsen Twins (#1 Paris Hilton).
We laugh today... but I wouldn't be surprised if Paris isn't the first female US president... and most likely will be the first president to put electrolytes in the water supply.
What's sad is that we haven't learned from history and realized that women have smaller brains then monkeys and cannot be practically educated. Khazakistani scientists have proven it time and time again. :)
Plutonium was created in the 1940's. Marie Curie died in the 1930's.
Holy shit... are you saying Marie Curie could travel back in time!? WTF? OMG?!
No Bill Gates?
Come on, everyone who had the pleasure of hearing him scream with his high pitch voice knows better.
Is that plutonium in your pocket, Marie, or are you just happy to see me?
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What do you mean, the 1? That girls is all about ones. And I don't mean cold ones, either.
'Fess up, you were watching PBS last night, weren't you?
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Well she had to get plutonium back to herself somehow. I'm sure in 1985 you can get plutonium at your local conrer store but in the 1930's it's a bit harder to come by.
I must take issue with your comment - Lisa Simpson certainly is *not* a coke snorting self promoting gamer.
Where the 0 doesn't shine?
Even Hillary Clinton is more geeky than Paris Hilton, just for being married to a guy who used to work with the guy who invented the Internet, and then moved on to make a world-renowned powerpoint presentation about the weather.
That's Hedley!
I have a hunch where the 1 gets inserted
If she was a normal woman that would be a foregone conclusion but with Paris Hilton there are several possible points of entry.
That's HEDLEY Lamarr!
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Well, Gore invented the internet, but it was Hilary who gave him the idea to use a series of tubes.
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Whereas Paris Hilton has developed the idea of the SPREAD spectrum along slightly different lines?
I think it was just a sidekick. And she probably just tried her same password, 'slut', and got lucky.
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Well, Paris Hilton was an early adopter of the rapidly growing field of celebrity online cocksucking - though I have to say the article's omission of Pamela Anderson (a pioneer in the field) is pretty disappointing.
And also interesting is the fact that there's no mention of how much cock any of the others sucked. Quite shoddy standards, if you ask me.
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Paris Hilton, to me, fits geek definition #1. True, not in the spirit of the list, but technically accurate nonetheless -
geek
One entry found for geek.
Main Entry: geek
Pronunciation: 'gEk
Function: noun
Etymology: probably from English dialect geek, geck fool, from Low German geck, from Middle Low German
1 : a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake
2 : a person often of an intellectual bent who is disliked
3 : an enthusiast or expert especially in a technological field or activity
What you don't think that Paris has script writers? Lisa's are just better at it.
I swear, Slashdot's taggers are a harsh crowd. The minute something hits that isn't hard news, they're all over it with that depressing "slownewsday" tag-in-the-face.
You could have a day that goes like this:
Microsoft opens complete Windows source code
Steve Ballmer Resigns from Microsoft, Will Become Carpenter
Nintendo Asks: What Makes a Good Game
Bill Gates and Larry Ellison Announce "Domestic Partnership."
Steve Wozniak bests Steve Jobs in UFC
And that Nintendo story will get a slownewsday tag before the electrons dry...
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"North America was created in 1492."
Yes, Christopher Columbus "created" North America in a supercollider (in his parents' basement, I'm sure). It wasn't until decades later that trace elements of North America were found naturally occurring in extremely small amounts, thanks to North America's extremely long half-life combined with one-in-a-million occurrences of natural plate tectonics.
There's an entire chart of about 100 famous women scientists in history up on the web, which is only a tiny fraction of the total number of real geek women. I'd say that there are probably in the order of a thousand plus who are TRULY famous and TRULY geeky (although there are many many more than that who are "merely" really good geeks).
I'd say that it might be much more interesting to compile a comprehensive list and then allow for ranked voting to find the most famous (now) of the truly amazing geek women who live (or have lived) truly amazing lives that go as far beyond what most would call hardcore geek as the hardcore geeks go beyond the mundane in "real life".
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I wish Paris would have been first so I wouldn't have had to read the whole article.
>Paris Hilton?
Uh, yeah, ABOUT that.
>The only thing this list proves, it the author's inaptitude as a journalist.
You spelled "asshole" wrong.
Maybe Paris Hilton is on that list to give Mary Shelly new ideas?
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Great. 'Cause being hot is the quality we should be concerned with when identifying the best geeks.
There are lives at stake here!
I'm not overly religious, but I'd bet that putting Paris Hilton and Ada Byron in the same top-ten list guarantees the author one of the top-ten spots in hell.
Obviously this article needs help. Let's nominate some replacements.
If they insist on fictional characters, how could they possibly leave out Dana "The Thinking Man's Crumpet" Scully?
Which reminds me, "How much cock, could Paris Hilton suck, if Paris Hilton could suck cock"?
-H
Unless you're measuring her promiscuity in Millions of Insertions Per Second.
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Strange. It's not just that Emmy Noether currently seems to be underestimated by the world. It seems this ignorance is actually conserved over time. There must be some symmetry to all of this.