Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Types of Bitches

Someone found a list of 90 types of bitches... on the floor of a 3rd grade classroom in DC. Check it out here. (Thanks, Ashley)

Monday, June 21, 2010

BP Execs Spill Coffee

In Sweden, Men Can Have It All

Read the NYT article here.

The Most Influential Women in Technology 2010

Check out the FastCompany list here. The bios are especially inspiring for all genders.

Elaborate Wedding Proposal

Phone Software Takes the Taps Out of Typing

The man who brought you T9 on your cell phone has a new invention: Swype.
Back in the 1990s, typing out “hello” on most cellphones required an exhausting 13 taps on the number keys, like so: 44-33-555-555-666.

That was before the inventor Cliff Kushler, based here in Seattle, and a partner created software called T9, which could bring that number down to three by guessing the word being typed.

Now there is a new challenge to typing on phones. More phones are using virtual keyboards on a touch screen, replacing physical buttons. But pecking out a message on a small piece of glass is not so easy, and typos are common.

Mr. Kushler thinks he has a solution once again...
Check out the solution in the NYT article here.

Why Women Aren’t C.E.O.s, According to Women Who Almost Were

"It’s not a pipeline problem. It’s about loneliness, competition and deeply rooted barriers." Read more in the NYT .