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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 08:09:58 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_48479" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/2782902040_386431141d.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-48479 " title="Grace Hopper" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/2782902040_386431141d.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="232" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">An important figure in the history of computing who also happened to be a woman. (flickr.com/misbehave)</p></div></p>
<p>There we were, idly checking our Twitter feed over brunch, when out lept the lede for the <em>Times</em>'<em> </em>piece on Kleiner Perkins, Ellen Pao, and Silicon Valley sexism. The opening line: "MEN invented the Internet." [<em><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/technology/lawsuit-against-kleiner-perkins-is-shaking-silicon-valley.html?_r=1" target="_blank">New York Times</a></em>]</p>
<p>Ladybeat considered a takedown, but there's no way we could top what Xeni Jardin has already written. [<a href="http://boingboing.net/2012/06/03/nyt-men-invented-the-inter.html" target="_blank">Boing Boing</a>]</p>
<p>At least they didn't drag "brogramming" into this. [<a href="http://www.news.com.au/technology/brogrammers-code-gender-gap-a-childhood-issue/story-e6frfro0-1226382264341" target="_blank">news.com.au</a>]</p>
<p>Elsewhere on the Internet, Facebook is working on ways for kids younger than 13 to use the social networking site with parental supervision. That's going to end well. [<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052702303506404577444711741019238-lMyQjAxMTAyMDAwNDEwNDQyWj.html" target="_blank"><em>Wall Street Journal</em></a>]</p>
<p>Basically admitting the U.S. government was behind Stuxnet is going to have foreign policy fallout. [<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/stuxnet-admission-likely-to-have-foreign-policy-consequences/" target="_blank">Ars Technica</a>]</p>
<p>Here's how Groupon wound up turning down that enormous acquisition offer from Google. It all seems so long ago and far away. [<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052702303640104577440580610986086-lMyQjAxMTAyMDAwMTEwNDEyWj.html" target="_blank"><em>Wall Street Journal</em></a>]</p>
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<p>There we were, idly checking our Twitter feed over brunch, when out lept the lede for the <em>Times</em>'<em> </em>piece on Kleiner Perkins, Ellen Pao, and Silicon Valley sexism. The opening line: "MEN invented the Internet." [<em><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/technology/lawsuit-against-kleiner-perkins-is-shaking-silicon-valley.html?_r=1" target="_blank">New York Times</a></em>]</p>
<p>Ladybeat considered a takedown, but there's no way we could top what Xeni Jardin has already written. [<a href="http://boingboing.net/2012/06/03/nyt-men-invented-the-inter.html" target="_blank">Boing Boing</a>]</p>
<p>At least they didn't drag "brogramming" into this. [<a href="http://www.news.com.au/technology/brogrammers-code-gender-gap-a-childhood-issue/story-e6frfro0-1226382264341" target="_blank">news.com.au</a>]</p>
<p>Elsewhere on the Internet, Facebook is working on ways for kids younger than 13 to use the social networking site with parental supervision. That's going to end well. [<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052702303506404577444711741019238-lMyQjAxMTAyMDAwNDEwNDQyWj.html" target="_blank"><em>Wall Street Journal</em></a>]</p>
<p>Basically admitting the U.S. government was behind Stuxnet is going to have foreign policy fallout. [<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/stuxnet-admission-likely-to-have-foreign-policy-consequences/" target="_blank">Ars Technica</a>]</p>
<p>Here's how Groupon wound up turning down that enormous acquisition offer from Google. It all seems so long ago and far away. [<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052702303640104577440580610986086-lMyQjAxMTAyMDAwMTEwNDEyWj.html" target="_blank"><em>Wall Street Journal</em></a>]</p>
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