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Top Ten Geek Girls

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the holiday-weekend-is-starting-early dept.

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.

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  1. Lisa Simpson? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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?

    1. Re:Lisa Simpson? by qwijibo · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I doubt this article will end up in any history textbooks. However, I think Lisa Simpson is a much better candidate in every way than Paris Hilton. As a cartoon, she has all the fakeness of Paris Hilton, but the benefit of script writers to give her a personality. =)

  2. Yuck. by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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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  3. Paris Hilton or Madame Curie... hmmm by maynard · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  4. Where the hell is Kari? by chibbie · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Kari Byron from MythBusters.

  5. Re:Real geeks only please by clacke · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes. Where the hell is Anousheh?

    Ok, you go to space, you blog about it, the blog gets slashdotted. And you don't even beat Paris Hilton in geekiness? Nothing to see here, move along.