It works for iJustine.

The problem with Clair Cain Miller’s “Why So Few Women in Silicon Valley?” post is that one could basically write the same thing, every single day.

“There’s a really strong image of what a computer scientist is — male, skinny, no social life, eats junk food, plays video games, likes science fiction,” says Sapna Cheryan, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Washington who has researched why few women choose computer-science careers. “It makes it hard for people who don’t fit that image to think of it as an option for them.”

Dur. I grew up around engineers, my Dad is one, albeit not a computer scientist, and one day he sat me down and said, “You have two choices, you can either be good at what you do or be a symbol of your sex [as in gender], and if you want to be a sex symbol nobody’s going to take you seriously.”

This is the prevalent attitude in today’s technology industry and while it’s not particularly progressive, it must be taken into account when trying to get actual work done.

My point: The time we spend complaining about being underrepresented and only valued for our attractiveness (I’m looking at you Jolie O’ Dell) is time we could spend getting good at Python, growing our websites, bootstrapping our startups, or you know, breaking news.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got a “Hot Girls and iPads” slideshow to upload.

Douglas Spink, a.k.a Dr. Fausty, was arrested yesterday for running a “Bestiality Farm” in Northern Washington and, as of this morning has perhaps the worst Google footprint of any living person.

Even before his arrest, bestiality farmer Spink (I’m not even going to get into the onomatopoeia here) had a modest Internet presence; posting on BeastForum, reviewing stuff on Amazon (actually using the phrase “straight from the horse’s mouth” sans irony in a non-animal related book review), and microblogging on Twitter at @drfausty.

I’m actually surprised/relieved he never got into Farmville.

… is fucking genius.

I know three guys (Full disclosure, all three are my friends). The first one built a website that miraculously showed exactly what people were linking to in the cutthroat news-hungry field of tech reporting. The second one made a name for himself being somewhat Internet literate and shocking. And the third, well the third was from L.A.

Over this weekend these three guys, most likely forced to procrastinate on taxes, creatively and collaboratively came up with TechFuckingMeme, a site that turns relatively innocent (well, except for anything written by Dave McClure) tech headlines into what they actually should be:

I especially like “Twitter Slaps Developers in the Face With A Penis …” (We’ve all been there).

Anyway, this is a work of art — And I hope you all finally finished your taxes.

Pic from "If Not The Chronicle Then What" at INFORUM SF

Oh the age-old question of “What is a journalist!?” … Just like in Junior High, please respond with a “Y” or an “N” (or in the case of James O’ Keefe “Fuck ‘N’”).

And while you guys are playing MASH and making cootie chasers and reading/not reading The Chronicle, the aggregators are taking your shitty headlines and ledes and selling ads on them, minimal effort and definitely a lot less bloviating.

There’s a Greek saying that goes, “A man with an empty fridge does not philosophize.”

Hey journalism, your fridge is empty — you might want to step off that podium.

Count the headline typos in billionaire Mark Cuban’s latest post about the FCC! Free Stickybits stickers to the first person who catches all three.

“From a business perspective, it doesn’t make sense for these guys to all play nicely with one another and make it so you don’t have to use their services. The need to take steps to ensure that you will use their service, and will do so instead of a rival service. That’s the way it works, and that’s the way it has always worked. And that’s why it’s a war. Right now, it’s just the early stages where all sides are arming themselves. Soon, they’ll try to kill one another. And that may not be such a bad thing.”

Earlier today Techcrunch’s MG Siegler demanded blood be spilled on the front lines of the location wars. Thus far contender Gowalla’s Read-only API is less a weapon than a shield — and pretty much the only thing stemming the power of Geo-local aggregators like Britekite and possibly Twitter and Facebook once they get their shit together.

The Austin based start-up may be protected by its closed data policy for now, but these apps have yet to reach far beyond the early adopter crowd. When they do, Gowalla will be overpowered by the formidable “If you ain’t first you’re last” momentum of Foursquare, unless it’s got something stronger than “I’m pretty!” in its arsenal.

There’ll never be a Foursqualla just like there never was a Myfriendface — because there’s no such thing as friends, in business or in social media.

And war is good, because it lets you know you’re still alive.

Before you do anything else this morning, VOTE FOR THE WEB2HOS HERE. (Also: Please let me know if you’d like a hi-res version of this ^ stunning piece of Photoshop for fan posters, mugs, baseball caps, etc).

Oh, I think the guys might be doing something also … Hehe, Fivesquare.

iPhone Announcement at Macworld, January 9th, 2007


Google Phone “Announcement,” December 14th, 2009

If anyone needs their memory refreshed, Steve Job’s original speech below:

I especially like the “Cheap Cell Phones” advertising on this particular embed.

And for a more “sinister” version …
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