Open thread: Happy blogiversary

It’s been three years today since Skud’s first post. Happy blogiversary!

This is an open thread for comments on any subject fitting our policy.

Angry noms

I just spotted a picture of angry bird cupcakes drift past in my Google+ stream. Unfortunately when I clicked on it, it reported the site was over quota. Oh well.

So I hopped over to flickr and found you some.

8 cupcakes in an assortment of coloured silicone cups with white icing and green or blue sprinkles. Each cupcake has a fondant ball shaped like an angry bird or green pig atop it. There is one pig with bruises and the mustached pig. They are surrounded by the single big blue angry bird, a bundle of 3 little blue angry birds, the white bomber bird, the black bomb bird, the yellow torpedo bird and the red bird.

If you feel like geeking out in the kitchen, there’s even an award winning tutorial. There’s also a few other gamer entries on the instructables competition results page.

Open thread: om nom nom… circuitry

It’s time for another Geek Feminist party! This party is in honour of our new blogger Courtney, who also writes for From Austin to A&M. You might also remember Courtney from Amanda Hess’s interview at The Sexist. She guest-posted here in September.

Courtney, I hope you enjoy this edible circuit, at least to look at!

"555 LED flasher 1" by Windell Oskay, CC BY

Got any geek foodstuffs to share with Courtney?

This is also an open thread for discussion of older threads, threads you’d like to see, links you’d like to share, or other topics of your choice.

Write linkspam on it (26th September, 2009)

• Cake Wrecks posts a hilarious (and of course unfortunate) collection of geeky cakes for girls in honour of GeekDad
• Carla Schroder has posted the second part of her Linux Today series on sexism in FOSS: Sexism and Other -isms Hold Back FOSS, part 2
• Wondering what happened at the previously mentioned women in free software mini-summit? This seems to be the notes. Looks like they’re talking about the same things we talk about here, and in other communities.
• Carleton University is offering a workshop to help young men “take a leadership role in addressing issues of dating violence” — I (Terri) posted this and promptly got asked what use these really were, but to be honest, I have no idea what such a workshop entails. Anyone want to enlighten me? Any way we could use this sort of idea to help combat issues in geek communities?
• Chris Ball, who attended Mark Shuttleworth’s talk, weighs in with a post entitled On keynotes and apologies.
• Systers is running a code sprint at GHC, Oct 1. If you’re not at GHC, you can also participate using IRC, and you don’t have to be a member of Systers to help out.

Update (by Mary, 28 Sep): misskinx told us in comments that the workshop on dating violence is not a Carleton University event, it’s organised by the Ottawa Coalition to End Violence Against Women (OCTEVAW) and the Sexual Assault Network (SAN).