App-controlled toy (NSFW)
A mini-review of a remote-controlled vibrator. NSFW.
Archive for Technology
Highlighting
There are lots of things I love about ebooks, including their portability and their searchability. But one of the things I love most about them is their highlightability. I’ve never had any desire to mark up paper books. I’m one of those people with a deeply rooted sense that books should be kept inviolate; I […]
Fixing the garbage disposal
The most important thing I learned in high school stage tech was a paradigm. I usually phrase it this way:...
Ziggurat imagery in different tech levels
I've just started reading both Norman Spinrad's 1980 Songs from the Stars (first chapters set in a post-apocalypse quasi-ecotopia in...
Control over communications in Vinge’s Zones of Thought books
(Quasi-spoilers here for all three Zones books, in that if you've got this idea in your head as you read,...
Tech is bad, nature is good
For a long time, we've been reading stories and books about how things mediated through technology are bad and being...
Items: Women, tech, and tech companies
New Yorker article: “A Woman’s Place: Can Sheryl Sandberg upend Silicon Valley’s male-dominated culture?” Video-game event bans women under...
Links: tech stuff
Some technical and vaguely tech-related items, mostly from a couple months back: IBM discovers the business value of editors. OkCupid...
Everything is amazing (and nobody’s happy)
I forget who linked to this recently: a clip of Conan O'Brien talking to Louis C.K., in which LCK points...
VR for pets
Had a bunch of vivid and odd dreams this morning, featuring stuff like a kind of a human-kite ride down...
Designing for a physically diverse audience
A few things that seem kind of related to me: HP's face-tracking webcam apparently doesn't detect black faces as faces....
Geek feminism blog and wiki
Cool new group blog: the Geek Feminism Blog, featuring Liz H, Sumana H, and a bunch of other interesting writers....