Friday, October 15, 2010

Bravo, Cornell and XKCD!

While writing my post the other day I visited a number of CS department websites. Cornell's has a rotating image highlight on its front page. Two of them really caught my eye:




Big kudos to Cornell - a picture is worth a thousand words.

Also kudos today to Randall Munroe (XKCD), for today's comic. In addition to beautifully articulating my frequent frustration with tech support, I love that the uber-smart CS superstar is drawn as a woman. Thanks for helping represent!
Posted by Female Computer Scientist at 8:37 AM
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4 comments:

  1. GMPOctober 18, 2010 at 12:07 PM

    Cute pictures!

    For a kids' show (my boys love it) that features nonstandard male/female roles, I recommend Johnny Test: he has 2 genius sisters, a stay at home dad and a working mom. Here's a pic of the "cast".

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  2. Female Computer ScientistOctober 19, 2010 at 2:27 PM

    Thanks, looks good - we'll check it out. Anything to replace Dora, god help me!

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  3. AnonymousOctober 21, 2010 at 5:06 AM

    To be fair, though, Dora has some great nonstandard roles... for instance, in one episode, she rescues a prince. (Take THAT, Disney!)

    Not sure whether that makes up for the fact that 60% of each episode is made up of the same songs cut and pasted from a template that only leaves 6 minutes of genuine story-telling time, but at least they're trying.

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  4. GMPOctober 21, 2010 at 1:36 PM

    Johnny Test is for a bit older kids (school age). My 3-year-old watches it becasue his big brother does...

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