Six young women mastered the power of the ENIAC – an 80 foot long, 8 foot tall, black metal machine – and harnessed its power through an archaic programming interface using dozens of wires and 3000 switches. They programmed ENIAC to perform a ballistics trajectory, a differential calculus equation important to the WWII effort, and they succeeded brilliantly. When the ENIAC was unveiled to the public on February 14, 1946, their program captured the imagination of the press and made headlines across the country. Afterwards, the ENIAC became a legendary machine and its engineers (all men) became famous. Never introduced or credited at the ENIAC events of the 1940s, the Programmers story disappeared from history. They became invisible.
Read more here: ENIAC Programmers Project via boingboing
You’re No Rock N’ Roll Fun
Cara over at the Curvature recently blogged about some changes that had been made to her favorite Guitar Hero for the third version of the game.
Observe:
On the left we have rock n’ roll Judy Nails as we all know and love her, and on the right we have there-is-no-way-that-shirt-would-stay-up-without-a-ton-of-double-sided-tape Judy Nails from Guitar Hero III:
(image courtesy of Feministing)
Oh but wait, it gets better! If the wardrobe changes aren’t insulting enough for you, you can also choose to play guitars made from sexy dismembered female parts:
Guitar Hero, I don’t think that you would know a real woman Guitar Hero if you saw one.
