Following the “Titstare” fiasco at Disrupt, we’re having a greater conversation about sexism in the tech industry. And women who work in tech won’t be the only humans to benefit from the disruption of brogrammer culture.

“There is no space for subjects that could be classified as social, like talking about inequalities. Of course, this is a false differentiation, because there is really no way to entirely separate the two — social dynamics are just as important as technical abilities.”

If you can’t go on a date without checking your phone four times for Facebook and Twitter updates, you may want to try cold turkey for a bit.

A lovely weather technology link round up to keep you entertained if you’re snowed in, or even if you’re not.

“This is a post all about pulling amazing material from various places around the interwebs.”

Because like half of these new features will be useful for the next A-Camp.

I was there for you and I wanted to buy everything.

“If I can get through this without cryin’ it’ll look a lot cooler.”- Nathan Fillion

Katrina’s Team Pick: Finally get closure on the Windows XP desktop background circa 2004.

It’s statistically likely that you missed this amazing life-changing panel. We can help you with that.

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.

When I hear the words “Civil Union” or “Domestic Partnership,” I think “inequality” and “separate but equal.”

Team Technostraddle looks back on an awesome year of gaming. And then our thumbs fell off.

The death of net neutrality may spell the end of all that is odd and good about the interweb as we know it. And it’s really important to learn why. You like lolcats, don’t you? I thought so.

Pay what you can for a set of sweet indie games! Google changed ever-so slightly and now we’re all weeping and won’t leave our basements! And Stephen Hawking’s DIY time travel how-to.

Holy Smokes! Lady Gaga comes to Rockband, Battlestar Galactica lives on in an MMO, Infinity Ward explodes, Steam for Macs gets announced, six gigs of free SXSW music and holy shit, Earth’s days are shorter. Whoa there!

This (early) edition of Geekender is a love song to video games maps! Because I love cartography, and by cartography I guess I mean gaming. But hey, everybody likes Mario 3 and Zelda, right? AND THERE’S A SECRET BONUS QUESTION which is: Would you join an Autostraddle guild in WoW? Because that’d be hot.

Wondering what movie to see on your next hot date with a hot geek? We’ve got you covered with our 2010 geeky movie preview! Alice in Wonderland, Prince of Persia, Kick-Ass, Harry Potter and the Neverending Film Franchise and more!

F*ck yeah lesbian/queer/genderf*ck tumblr blogs – when it comes to stuff gay girls like, tumblr is the best thing to happen to photography ever. Here’s a sampling of the very best.

If you need an excuse to read comic books, looking at the sexy ladies of the X-Men clad in their skintight asskicking outfits is a great place to start. Meet the hottest member of the X-Men, one of the coolest and sometimes the most batshit-crazy: Jean Grey! Also known as the Phoenix. Also known as Famke Janssen. Also just plain smokin’ hot. There are a lot of sexy X-Ladies, but she’s my numero uno, and here’s why.