02 PM | 21 Jan

“7 of the most amazing women you’ve never heard of… ” [#geekgirl]

[Hedy Lamarr via Wikipedia]

[Via salon.com] “For centuries, women all over the world have fought and ruled, written and taught. They’ve done business, explored, revolted and invented. They’ve done everything men have done — and a lot of things they haven’t.

Some of these women we know about. But so many others we don’t. For every Joan of Arc, there’s a Mongolian wrestler princess; for every Mata Hari, there’s a Colombian revolutionary spy; for every Ada Lovelace, there’s a pin-up Austrian telecoms inventor.”

06 AM | 09 Jan

#RIP Marina Ginestà, “…the defiant militia girl” [#geekgirl]

[Image Credit: El País/ Juan Guzman (EFE)

[As reported by El País] “Some pictures are touched by fortune, ready to become icons of an era as soon as they are developed. One such image is a photograph taken at the onset of the Spanish Civil War, depicting a dishevelled, attractive young woman with a rifle slung over her shoulder who stares at the camera with a combination of joy and defiance as she stands on the rooftop of a building affording views across Barcelona. The girl, a magnificent symbol of the proletariat’s revolutionary epic and the hopes of a people who had taken up arms, was named Marina Ginestà, and she died in Paris on Sunday at the age of 94.”

07 PM | 10 Sep

“Grace Murray Hopper records the first computer bug in her log book…” [#geekgirl]

[Image Via http://iae-pedia.org]

[Image Via http://iae-pedia.org]

[From “This Day in History”] “At 3:45 p.m., Grace Murray Hopper records the first computer bug in her log book as she worked on the Harvard Mark II. The problem was traced to a moth stuck between a relay in the machine, which Hopper duly taped into the Mark II’s log book with the explanation: First instance of actual computer bug being found.”