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All The Small Things: Comic-Con Dug Into Some Progressive Politics, Other Cool Shit
At the San Diego ComicCon’s smaller events, your free swag is knowledge.
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From Sailor Moon to Yaoi Fangirls: Gender and Sexuality at Otakon 2012
How is sexism perpetuated in anime and manga? What is the role of women in geek culture? Just some of the interesting topics covered by my visit to the East Coast’s largest anime convention.
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My Little Pony: Lesbianism is Magic
The “brony” fandom is a lot more Sapphic than you’d think, at least as far as their fanfiction goes.
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Facebook Will Be Publicly Traded, and Some Think Users Deserve to Benefit
Technology theorists raise questions about who should be paying whom.
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Kate Leth Draws Comics, Knows What We Want: The Autostraddle Interview
Queer comic artist Kate Leth (of Kate or Die! fame) talks about drawing, women, drawing women, and why filthy comics are the most fun. Also, she made a sexy drawing just for you!
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Batwoman #4: Smart, Feminist and Very Very Lesbosexy
Batwoman #4 passes the Bechdel test! And it includes a ton of tastefully done lesbian sex! What is happening to mainstream comics, you guys?
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The Comic Sans Project Rethinks Your Least Favorite Font
Whitney’s Team Pick: Thought you needed more Comic Sans in your life? No? Well, here’s some anyway.
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BlogHer 2011: Transcript From That Panel About How You’ve Driven Me Crazy
It’s statistically likely that you missed this amazing life-changing panel. We can help you with that.
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Google+ Social Club: Highlights and Invite-Fest
Google+ is taking the interweb by storm! Read up on what you need to know and snag an invite while you’re at it!
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17 Board Games You Could Be Playing Right Now and Having So Much Fun
In a world fraught with civil unions and bigoted t-shirt merchants, one ragtag team of queers will find out what it’s like when people stop being polite, and start playing Scattegories.
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Start Reading Comics Part #1: Warren Ellis, Professional Cynic
“Warren Ellis is an excellent point-of-entry for those of you who aspire to one day spend heaps of money on comic books, but don’t know where to start. He’s like a gateway drug. Well, probably more like a “fix” or a “monster bong hit” because he’s so DARK.”
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7 Best Internet Productivity Tools: Build A Better Online Life, Fix Your Problems
Whether you’re as obsessive about organizing your online presence as Rachel and Taylor are or still getting the hang of it, you’re sure to find at least one of these sites and/or apps useful. Workflowy for neurotic list lovers, Pinterest for magpie collectors of shiny things, Instapaper for a little light reading – take your pick!
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It’s Cataclysm WoW Guild Go Time: Let’s Do This Thing, Autostraddle
Let’s figure out our World of Warcraft guild for Cataclysm so we’ll be ready to roll come Tuesday! Remember how you wanted to do that? Discuss within!
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Super Meat Boy Cures 99% of NES Mario Nostalgia
Okay, maybe not 99%, but this game could probably cure cancer.
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Violent Video Games Might Relieve Stress, Also Grass is Green (Or Is It?)
New research indicates that video games relieve stress, making us less depressed and hostile. And all this time we’d been playing them because they made us sad and hateful. Hm. Also, Google debuted a feature that will help just about anyone make an app and how to teach yourself synesthesia in three easy steps. Well, maybe not three.
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My HTC Droid Incredible: 6 Things I Absolutely Love
The HTC Droid Incredible is sure lucky it lives up to its name, because I think we can all admit it was a pretty dumb thing to call a phone. But hey, that’s water under the bridge. Because this phone is seriously amazing. Hear all about it from a recent dumbphone to smartphone convert, our very own Sarah.
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Top 5 Legend of Zelda Boss Battles: Kick Ass, Elf-Style
Who doesn’t love to kick ass? No one, that’s who! And what better way to do it than as a little green-clad elf? Your little green-clad elf costume/assault charges notwithstanding, here’s our guide to doing just that. Yes, it’s time for Kim’s fave Legend of Zelda boss fights!
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Comics 101: The First Step Is Admitting You Have A Problem
Have you ever wanted to read comic books but found yourself a) overwhelmed, b) intimidated or c-g) five kinds of confused? We lay it all out for you, kind of like a railroad magnate would. But he’d be laying railroad track, and we’re layin’ knowledge and we’re a layin’ it about comic books. So check it out– get schooled about the comic book, the graphic novel, the comic strip and that wily beast the webcomic.
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41 Geeky Women to Follow on Twitter #ladygeeks
Everyone needs a geek or two in their lives, maybe a geek or three in their bedroom, so why not follow a few on Twitter? Hell, follow 41 of ’em! Here’s Technostraddle’s list of 41 lady geeks who like to Tweet! Tweet at them! Tweet on them! DM them saucy things! Go wild!
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Open Thread: Ask a Geek Anything, Our Q & A Shoutout to Non-Geeks!
Yes, the time has come: Time for you non-geeks, novice geeks and geek apprentices to ask us anything! It’s the no-holds-barred nerd Q & A session you’ve been waiting for! You’ve been waiting, right?