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Who Was Your Favorite Female Geek of 2007?
Yesterday I kicked off my 2007 best of polls by asking you what your fave new Apple product was of 2007. Today I've put together some of the hottest and most popular female geeks of '07 including Mary Lynn Rajskub, Jenna Fischer, Tina Fey and Kristen Bell. Not only did they grace the covers of our favorite geek magazines but they proved in more ways than one that they are true geeks at heart.
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The Votes Are in: Your Favorite Female Geek of '07 Is. . .
Your favorite female geek of 2007 is Kristen Bell who received a total of 440 votes! Kristen is not only the star of Veronica Mars, but she also plays Elle Bishop on Heroes and is the narrator on Gossip Girl. Here's a short snippet from her feature in Geek Monthly: "She's always using crazy gadgets (on Veronica Mars) that I have no idea where her character gets the money for - and she carries a taser.
Tech Dating 101: I Like Him, I Hate His Video-Game Obsession
In our Tech Dating 101 series, we've already tackled issues surrounding the nude photos you found on his laptop, his female-dominated address book, and his annoying CrackBerry addiction. But what's a girl to do when he just can't get enough of his video games? OK, I know I'm probably not the best person to answer this, but I can give you a few pointers on how to deal.
Modern Day Notecards Featuring Subtle Geeky One-Liners
Well color me geeky happy — who needs Tech Dating tips when cards like this exist?! Call me old-fashioned, but I just love cute geek-inspired cards.
Even if he didn't friend me on Facebook, waited longer than three days to call after our first date, or has a ton of female contacts, I'd still let one of these irritating tech-behaviors slide if he slipped one of these flirtatious letterpress cards ($7 for a set of six) in the mail.
Top WTF Moments From Gossip Girl Episode "The Lost Boy"
Are we back on the horse now? After a couple of OK episodes of Gossip Girl, this week's "The Lost Boy" really felt like the show I know and love. Everyone's playing everyone else, everyone's lying to everyone else, mysteries solve and then re-form .
Andrea Owens of Think Geek: Geeky Girl We Love
ThinkGeek has long been a go-to destination for geek shoppers online, so when I was introduced to one of their Merchandising Assistants and she immediately divulged she is a geeksugar fan, I realized we were a match made in heaven.
Andrea Owens, who describes herself as "laid back, high strung, random, a little bit crazy, fun, and a little bit of an organizing control freak," had always been a fan of Thinkgeek and had joked it would be so awesome to work there. After moving to Virginia, she checked the website to look at a gift for her husband noticed they were hiring.
Casa Interview: Interior Designer Leslie Bamburg (Part 2)
On Monday I brought you the first half of my interview with Labexperiment founder Leslie Bamburg. Two years ago, Leslie Bamburg formed her company Labexperiment, an interior design business that offers an affordable professional decorator option to the design fiend who lacks mad cash. Labexperiment works on the premise that beautiful design can be affordable, individualized, and integrated to meet the resident's needs.
Sugar Shout Out: May's Must Haves
- Casa craves being outside with festival lights
- Yum's excited for curved kebab skewers and stacking wine glasses
- Bella's staying beautiful with dry shampoo and safe sunning
- lil loves a jelly bean sling and tea tunic
- Fab is feeling jelly sandals and caftans
- Buzz can't wait for Glee, Green Day and Last Chance Harvey
- Fit's a fan of lip moisturizer and stainless steel water bottles
- Pet prefers natural snacks and a Maow Wall feeder
- geek's gaga for the new Flip Ultra HD and the UltraPowerShot
- Cost-saving ideas and social ideas for the weekend
- After 341 Years, Britain picks their first British female poet laureate
Geeks We Love: Elaine Chow of Gizmodo
You've already seen the men of this year's Geeks We Love series, and now it's time to mix it up with a girl-crush: Elaine Chow of Gizmodo.
A gadget girl living in and writing from China, Elaine is set apart by geography and gender, as most of the Giz staff is male. Check out what she has to say about that, as well as a valuable dating/technology lesson she learned in my interview with her.
Geeks We Love: Peter Ha of CrunchGear
In my daily online tech travels, there are always sites that I visit not once, not twice but multiple times a day. One of the sites in this daily line-up includes CrunchGear, a chic tech blog filled with gadgets, geek gear and up-to-the minute news stories. I particularly enjoy reading posts by freelance writer Peter Ha, who dishes about everything from his wild Seoul trip adventures to his first experience on a Virgin America flight.
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