Top Ten Geek Girls

TurboPatrol writes "CNET have published a list of the Top Ten Girl Geeks throughout history. The winners include the elegant Ada Byron (the world's first computer programmer), Grace Hopper (invented the compiler) and Lisa Simpson (invented the perpetual motion machine — well, in the world of cartoons). Some of the entries are fascinating, for example Marie Curie apparently used to carry plutonium in her jacket pockets. Have they missed anyone out?" At least two entries on the list are stupid. I guess someone thought they were funny.

Re:Real geeks only please

[pigeon]

Well, inside she's mostly zero's..

Also, Flickr Account

[fernandoh26]

Forgot to add, here's a link to her Flickr acct:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/leahculver/ [flickr.com]

I'm not a stalker or nothin, just wanted to post that before I go back to hiding in the bushes with my binoculars.....

Re:Real geeks only please

[diersing]

I have a hunch where the 1 gets inserted

Grace Hopper

[Anonymous Coward]

A woman invented COBOL? This does not surprise me. *ducks*

Me and my joystick

[ma11achy]

Hey! Maybe Paris can come over to my house and we can play games together.

I've got a great joystick.

Paris Hilton should be on every list

[Ingolfke]

Paris Hilton is the loveable hateable icon of absurdity. She should be on every list. Sexiest woman (#47 Paris Hilton), best actress in a foreign film (#23 Paris Hilton), world's strongest man (#97 Paris Hilton), most downloaded interent video star (#3 Paris Hilton), most likely running mate for Barak Obama (#2 Paris Hilton), and people who remind you of the Olsen Twins (#1 Paris Hilton).

We laugh today... but I wouldn't be surprised if Paris isn't the first female US president... and most likely will be the first president to put electrolytes in the water supply.

Re:Lisa Simpson?

[Ingolfke]

What's sad is that we haven't learned from history and realized that women have smaller brains then monkeys and cannot be practically educated. Khazakistani scientists have proven it time and time again. :)

Re:Plutonium? Unlikely

[Ingolfke]

Plutonium was created in the 1940's. Marie Curie died in the 1930's.

Holy shit... are you saying Marie Curie could travel back in time!? WTF? OMG?!

What????

[Anonymous Coward]

No Bill Gates?

Come on, everyone who had the pleasure of hearing him scream with his high pitch voice knows better.

Re:Plutonium? Unlikely

[slowbad]

Is that plutonium in your pocket, Marie, or are you just happy to see me?

Re:Real geeks only please

[elrous0]

She runs on a very simple program:

10 Say "Yes, I'll have sex with you" 20 GOTO 10

-Eric

Re:Real geeks only please

[empaler]

What do you mean, the 1? That girls is all about ones. And I don't mean cold ones [hrwiki.org], either.

Re:Cynthia Breazeal!

[tb3]

'Fess up, you were watching PBS last night, weren't you?

Re:Rock Bottom

[GigsVT]

Didn't you hear? Slashdot was bought out by 12 year old girls.

Yes, they are indeed going to change the CSS to "OMG Ponies".

Re:Plutonium? Unlikely

[hal2814]

Well she had to get plutonium back to herself somehow. I'm sure in 1985 you can get plutonium at your local conrer store but in the 1930's it's a bit harder to come by.

Re:Paris Hilton or Madame Curie... hmmm

[Anonymous Coward]

I must take issue with your comment - Lisa Simpson certainly is *not* a coke snorting self promoting gamer.

Re:Real geeks only please

[ivan kk]

Where the 0 doesn't shine?

Re:Real geeks only please

[clacke]

Even Hillary Clinton is more geeky than Paris Hilton, just for being married to a guy who used to work with the guy who invented the Internet, and then moved on to make a world-renowned powerpoint presentation about the weather.

Re:Also, Flickr Account

[solevita]

I am also not a stalker, but look, she gets drunk and passes out! What I'm about to type may be disturbing to some, but...


We could steal her Mac Book Pro! It's all legal if you shout "surprise!" first.

Re:Hedy Lamar

[Anonymous Coward]

That's Hedley!

Foregone conclusions..

[Anonymous Coward]

I have a hunch where the 1 gets inserted

If she was a normal woman that would be a foregone conclusion but with Paris Hilton there are several possible points of entry.

Re:Hedy Lamar

[TrailerTrash]

That's HEDLEY Lamarr!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazing_Saddles [wikipedia.org]

Re:Real geeks only please

[StoatBringer]

Well, Gore invented the internet, but it was Hilary who gave him the idea to use a series of tubes.

Re:What about Heddy lamar? Spread Spectrum anyone?

[Anonymous Coward]

Whereas Paris Hilton has developed the idea of the SPREAD spectrum along slightly different lines?

Re:Real geeks only please

[Viper Daimao]

I think it was just a sidekick. And she probably just tried her same password, 'slut', and got lucky.

Re:Foregone conclusions..

[operagost]

I call the left nostril!

Re:Me and my joystick

[randito]

That`s hot.

Re:The list is an insult to women

[MS-06FZ]

Well, Paris Hilton was an early adopter of the rapidly growing field of celebrity online cocksucking - though I have to say the article's omission of Pamela Anderson (a pioneer in the field) is pretty disappointing.

And also interesting is the fact that there's no mention of how much cock any of the others sucked. Quite shoddy standards, if you ask me.

Re:Me and my joystick

[m0RpHeus]

Hey! Maybe Paris can come over to my house and we can play games together. I've got a great joystick.

I believe what you meant was that she come over to your house to play with you Wii.

geek defined

[Anonymous Coward]

Paris Hilton, to me, fits geek definition #1. True, not in the spirit of the list, but technically accurate nonetheless -

geek
One entry found for geek.

Main Entry: geek
Pronunciation: 'gEk
Function: noun
Etymology: probably from English dialect geek, geck fool, from Low German geck, from Middle Low German
1 : a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake
2 : a person often of an intellectual bent who is disliked
3 : an enthusiast or expert especially in a technological field or activity

Re:Lisa Simpson?

[tinkerghost]

What you don't think that Paris has script writers? Lisa's are just better at it.

Slashdot's taggers are harsh...

[writermike]

I swear, Slashdot's taggers are a harsh crowd. The minute something hits that isn't hard news, they're all over it with that depressing "slownewsday" tag-in-the-face.

You could have a day that goes like this:

Microsoft opens complete Windows source code
Steve Ballmer Resigns from Microsoft, Will Become Carpenter
Nintendo Asks: What Makes a Good Game
Bill Gates and Larry Ellison Announce "Domestic Partnership."
Steve Wozniak bests Steve Jobs in UFC

And that Nintendo story will get a slownewsday tag before the electrons dry...

Re:Plutonium? Unlikely

[Guppy06]

"North America was created in 1492."

Yes, Christopher Columbus "created" North America in a supercollider (in his parents' basement, I'm sure). It wasn't until decades later that trace elements of North America were found naturally occurring in extremely small amounts, thanks to North America's extremely long half-life combined with one-in-a-million occurrences of natural plate tectonics.

You are correct.

[jd]

There have been famous geek girls since the times of Ancient Greece. I forget the name of the woman who graduated from Oxford with a starred degree, got her masters and completed her PhD in mathematics, all by the age of 17, going on to lecture at I think Harvard at 18. That's a fistfull of world records right there. Florence Nightingale was mentioned by another poster, but don't forget Mrs. Mary Seacole, a contemporary of Florence Nightingale who invented a number of surgical techniques in use today. Although I detest her, Margret Thatcher (who has an earned doctorate in chemistry) is certainly famous and has characteristics you could consider geeky. The there's Heather Mills - TV celebrity and world-renown astronomer.

There's an entire chart of about 100 famous women scientists in history up on the web, which is only a tiny fraction of the total number of real geek women. I'd say that there are probably in the order of a thousand plus who are TRULY famous and TRULY geeky (although there are many many more than that who are "merely" really good geeks).

I'd say that it might be much more interesting to compile a comprehensive list and then allow for ranked voting to find the most famous (now) of the truly amazing geek women who live (or have lived) truly amazing lives that go as far beyond what most would call hardcore geek as the hardcore geeks go beyond the mundane in "real life".

Paris Hilton

[ThurstonMoore]

I wish Paris would have been first so I wouldn't have had to read the whole article.

Re:The list is an insult to women

[rs79]

>Paris Hilton?

Uh, yeah, ABOUT that.

>The only thing this list proves, it the author's inaptitude as a journalist.

You spelled "asshole" wrong.

Maybe Paris Hilton is on that list to give Mary Shelly new ideas?

Re:Leah?

[NoTheory]

Great. 'Cause being hot is the quality we should be concerned with when identifying the best geeks.

Well, Let's Fix It

[nobodyman]

I'm not overly religious, but I'd bet that putting Paris Hilton and Ada Byron in the same top-ten list guarantees the author one of the top-ten spots in hell.

Obviously this article needs help. Let's nominate some replacements.

Re:Leah?

[hotdiggitydawg]

If they insist on fictional characters, how could they possibly leave out Dana "The Thinking Man's Crumpet" Scully?

Re:The list is an insult to women

[hemanman]

Which reminds me, "How much cock, could Paris Hilton suck, if Paris Hilton could suck cock"?

-H

Re:Real geeks only please

[drinkypoo]

Lots of I/O, but no MIPS

Unless you're measuring her promiscuity in Millions of Insertions Per Second.

Re:Real geeks only please

[ilikejam]

That's some impressive bandwidth.

Did I say width? There's a joke in there somewhere.

Re:No Emmy Noether?

[DancesWithBlowTorch]

Strange. It's not just that Emmy Noether currently seems to be underestimated by the world. It seems this ignorance is actually conserved over time. There must be some symmetry to all of this.