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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.
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?
Plutonium was created in the 1940's. Marie Curie died in the 1930's.
What is interesting, in a disturbiung way, is that Marie Curies workbooks that she used while discovering radium are still considered dangerously radioactive.
Well, inside she's mostly zero's..
I have a hunch where the 1 gets inserted
A woman invented COBOL? This does not surprise me. *ducks*
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.
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.
Kari Byron from MythBusters.
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.
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.
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.
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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She was originally married to a German weapons supplier. Consequently, she knew about things like tanks and torpedoes.
Came up with what we now call frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology, trying to make a torpedo which could be directed after launch, but couldn't be jammed.
Reasonably good actress. Brainy as all hell. Drop-dead gorgeous.
Now THERE'S a Geek Girl rolemodel who simply needs better publicity.
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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!
1) Ellen Hancock, First with IBM (hired as a programmer in the mid 60s, then led the network team [SNA, Token Ring under her watch] first woman Senior VP at IBM), then with Apple (as CTO, she killed Copland... and pushed for the NeXT buy out... in some respects, she may have saved Apple... and then fired by Steve)
2) Kim Polese: Product Manager of original java team, co-founder of Marimba, poster girl of the DotCom(bomb) era.
3) Kari Byron (MythBusters) would be better mass media geekdom icon than Paris or Lisa, at least she sometimes shoots things, ignites stuff, dabbles in ballistic trajectories, welds stuff, and dresses GyrlGeek;-).
YMMV, but those would be my Candidate Substitutions.