Here’s a big assorted hunk of tasty soft-centered Ada Lovelace Day goodness, brought to you care of the ridiculously large list of weblogs I poll:
- Anna describes a number of women who invented things relevant to people with disabilities;
- Donna Benjamin wants us all to get to know Jude Milhon as best we can after her death, and also has a hat tip for many others;
- The Border House contributors bring you any number of women in games and game development
- Rachel Chalmers brings us Betty Flint, a New Zealand expert on desmids (a variety of freshwater algae);
- Jon Corbet remembers Evi Nemeth, in charge of the Unix hours at the University of Colorado when he was an undergraduate;
- Paul Fenwick couldn’t contain his excitement in one entry, and profiled seven women over part 1 and part 2;
- Geek Feminism had quick entries from a number of us;
- Brianna Laugher investigates women at the Australian weather bureau;
- Damana Madden reports that Lindsay Ratcliffe had her back at ThoughtWorks;
- Danielle Madeley is among the geeks that Sumana Harihareswara whispers to;
- gwyn_bywyd admires St Frideswide, made patron saint of Oxford, 500 years before Oxford admitted women;
- Silvia Pfeiffer has a shout-out to women in multimedia research and development;
- Noirin Shirley learned a lot at the Irish Centre for Talented Youth that was directed by Sheila Gilheany;
- Sarah Stokely wrote about Kirrily Robert and the Geek Feminism blog;
- tigtog digs some techie Hoydens out of the archive;
- ALD is exactly like a box of chocolates for Brenda Wallace, who couldn’t stop at one; and
- Matt Zimmerman tells us about two women he discovered on Planet Ubuntu Women, Akkana Peck and Miriam Ruiz;