The Finding Ada blog have posted video from the Ada Lovelace Day 2010 Unconference in London. Special Guest was Maggie Philbin of Tomorrows World fame. I post the video below as it is well worth a watch if you have the time to learn about Women In Technology.



Speaking of women in technology, check this out

Drawing inspiration from the bathroom aisle in Kmart, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student has created a simple, inexpensive pump that could transform medical care, from disaster-relief efforts to day-to-day operations in American hospitals.

Danielle Zurovcik, 28, created the pump, which uses negative pressure to pull bacteria and fluid out of wounds, for her master’s degree thesis project.

In other news, is Iceland the most feminist country in the world? Julie Bindel at the Guardian asks.

Iceland is fast becoming a world-leader in feminism. A country with a tiny population of 320,000, it is on the brink of achieving what many considered to be impossible: closing down its sex industry.

While activists in Britain battle on in an attempt to regulate lapdance clubs – the number of which has been growing at an alarming rate during the last decade – Iceland has passed a law that will result in every strip club in the country being shut down. And forget hiring a topless waitress in an attempt to get around the bar: the law, which was passed with no votes against and only two abstentions, will make it illegal for any business to profit from the nudity of its employees.

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