Episode 15: Women's History Month

In this week's episode, we talk about Womens' History Month and catch up on the projects we've been working on since we last podcasted.

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SF/F Events:

• FogCon: March 30-April 1 Nalo Hopkinson is the GOH
• May: Memorial Day Weekend
• BayCon: http://www.baycon.org
• Kublacon: http://www.kublacon.com/
• Clockwork Alchemy: http://www.clockworkalchemy.com/
• Fanime: http://www.fanime.com/

Womens' History Month

For more information about Womens' History Month, please visit:
http://womenshistorymonth.gov/

España talks about one of her new favorite podasts: "Stuff You Missed in History Class" from the 'How Stuff Works' series of podcasts. It's hosted by two women (Deblina Chakraborty, Sarah Dowdey) who give you tidbits of history that are fascinating, which would have made history a lot more interesting in school

http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/category/stuff-you-missed-in-history-class/

Jade & Sandy talk about two very interesting historical figures

• The Empress of China Wu Zetian (625-705 AD) -- the only female emperor in Chinese http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Zetian
• Grace Hopper, AKA Amazing Grace, a navy officer and the first programmer to create a compiler, and she may have coined the term “debugging”
  http://www.history.navy.mil/bios/hopper_grace.htm

(We lost España during the middle of the podcast due to technical difficulties.)

Making & Crafting

Sandy's DIY:

• Stitch Diva’s jewelry holder tutorials: http://www.stitchdiva.com/lace-jewelry-frame
• Sandy's comic box solution: https://plus.google.com/110156156060677413721/posts/GJsG3s3ehGV

• For LOTS of fun DIY IKEA hacks, go to http://www.ikeahackers.net

Jade's Knitting

• Finished Amused by Jordanna Paige, (http://knitty.com/ISSUEwinter08/PATTamused.php)
• “Everybody Knows” by Anne Hanson (knitty 2008)
  http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEwinter08/PATTeverybodyknows.php
• Abalone (Ravelry Link) using overdyed Blue Moon's Lucious Silk Singles