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  HP Slate 7 hits US for $169. How does it stack up against Google’s $199 Nexus 7?
  Kevin C. Tofel, gigaom.com

  Months after it was intro­duced, HP’s Slate 7 is avail­able in the U.S. for $169.99. That’s not a bad price for a 7-inch Android tablet with a 1.6 GHz dual-core proces­sor, but to keep costs down HP h …

  Despite myself, I’m intrigued by HP’s new Android tablet. Especially since it’s so pretty.

  
  

  04/27/13

• I JUST noticed something strange on Wikipedia. It appears that gradually, over time, editors have begun the process of moving women, one by one, alphabetically, from the “American Novelists” category to the “American Women Novelists” subcategory. So far, female authors whose last names begin with A or B have been most affected, although many others have, too. The intention appears to be to create a list of “American Novelists” on Wikipedia that is made up almost entirely of men. The category lists 3,837 authors, and the first few hundred of them are mainly men. The explanation at the top of the page is that the list of “American Novelists” is too long, and therefore the novelists have to be put in subcategories whenever possible. Too bad there isn’t a subcategory for “American Men Novelists.

  Wikipedia’s Sexism Toward Female Novelists - NYTimes.com (via techladymafia)

  WOW.  

  (via changetheratio)

  04/26/13