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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.
I'm glad to RTFA and see people like Eugenia or Steph the Geek not on the list, HOWEVER, wtf is Paris Hilton, LISA FSCKING SIMPSON, or Aleks Krotoski on the list? Did they run out at 6 or 7 geeks, and needed filler? Paris Hilton is described as "She might look trendy on the outside, but inside this girl is all binary." WTF?
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Isn't it a little bit sad when one of the Top 10 geek "girls" throughout history has to be a cartoon character. Are there really that few women geeks to choose from?
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It's a shame they missed her: http://web.media.mit.edu/~cynthiab/
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Ah, CNet. Just when one thought you couldn't get any less useful, you squander a potentially really neat article idea on tired Simpsons and Paris Hilton jokes. I hate to say this to anyone.. but you are really not funny.
A girl geek friend of mine works for CNet. I wonder how well her and her fellows are taking this.
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Did I just see Madame Curie and Rosalind Franklin compared with Paris Hilton and Lisa Simpson? One two time Nobel Prize winner and another near Nobel Prize winner compared to a coke snorting self promoting gamer and a cartoon character.
I give up.
doesn't change the fact that to be a geek, your IQ has to be higher than that of an average turnip. A requirement which she most certainly does not meet.
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What you failed to mention is that your joystick hasn't been used by anyone other than you since 1983.
/. you were asking for it :)
Come one... this
I'd include Sophie Germaine[wikipedia.org] Germain was particularly interested in Joseph-Louis Lagrange's teachings and submitted papers and assignments under the pseudonym "Monsieur Le Blanc", a former student of Lagrange's. Lagrange was so impressed by the paper that he asked to meet Le Blanc, and Germain was forced to reveal her identity to him. Lagrange apparently considered her a talented mathematician and became her mentor. On a lighter note, how about Britney spears[britneyspears.ac]? ;)
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Kari Byron from MythBusters.
I want to know what the hell the author was smoking when this was written, beause that's some really potent stuff!
Why the f**k is Darryl Hannah on this list? She not a f**king geek! She's a left-wing, activist actress! Oh, wow, she made two board games. So what? That does not qualify her to bear the category of "geek" in any way, shape, or form.
Lisa Simpson? Paris Hilton? Others have discussed the stupidity of these entries, so I'm not going to bother reiterating them.
Why the hell are two of the most prominent girl geeks around not on this list -- Aluria Petrucci (aka Cali Lewis) and Amber McArthur? Cali Lewis is one of the most famous tech geeks out there with her GeekBrief.TV video podcast that gets tens of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of downloads every day. Even if she's just a nice-on-the-eyes presenter, she still has far more qualifications than Hanna, Simpson, or Hilton. And Amber McArthur is just about every geek's wet dream - intelligent (holds several college degrees), co-host and producer of several tech podcasts and TVs shows, host of commandN video podcast, clearly has a love for tech, and is incredibly easy on the eyes.
I certainly can agree with Marie Curie, Ada Byron, and the others. I'll even give the nod to Mary Shelley. But some of the entires in this list completely destroy the credibility of whoever the person is who made this list.
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I can't believe that they omitted Emmy Noether, one of my role models and possibly, IMO, the greatest geek girl of all time.
Despite the incredible sexism and rise of the nazi rule that she faced during her day, she was brilliantly accomplished, contributing huge amounts to the fields of commutative algebra and theoretical physics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman
Spanning Tree algorithm...she even wrote a poem about it- and she is not a top ten geek girl? And Paris Hilton is? You sure this list isn't the top ten Greek (screwing) girls?
I think this list is meant more for entertainment than fact- even if it is just someone's opinion.
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The list is an insult to women, and in particular geek women.
Having filler like Lisa Simpson is bad enough, but Paris Hilton?
If the list were of the top 10 men, would it include Dilbert and some-random-male-gameplaying-celebrity?
Honestly, there are lots of girl geeks (a lot have been mentioned in other posts, I'd like to add Jeri Ellsworth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ellsworth)) that would far better fit the list.
The only thing this list proves, it the author's inaptitude as a journalist.
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You know who they should have had on the list as a top 10 geek girl? Me. :-P
Mary Anning, a self-taught and respected paleontologist who worked in early 19th-century England, a time when it was pretty tough for a female to get any respect in scientific work.
What a lame list that they had to add fictional characters and Paris Hilton to fill out the list.
They should have chosen grandmaster Judit Polgar. You don't get much geekier than chess, and you don't get much better than Judit Polgar.
Agreed, and may I add that some of the entries completely nullify the validity of the list? Yea, varily, some of the entries will outright downgrade the others on the list. It makes me ashamed to call myself a girl geek, (even though I don't even speak or write a word of C).
To make a list as this one and post it on Slashdot is positively insulting to all those women (see other comments) who are first class geeks. The only thing Curie and Hilton have in common is their gender; to compare Marie Curie with Paris Hilton is to call an apple 'an interesting new kind of plastics'.