Links of the Day

From Geek Feminism Blog:
Thinking About Gender and Space -- on the subject of "Men's Space" typically belonging to men and "Women's Space" typically belonging to... men? Go take a look.


From CMKL (via Seanchaidhe):
A Raise for Museum Workers, Already -- On why treating your permanent employees as, well, permanent, is GOOD for your museum's business. Pertains to the Civ/War strike.


For the Geek Grrls:
Girl Geek Dinners are in Ottawa!

Related Link (from The Female Perspective of Computer Science): The First Official Girl Geek Dinner in Ottawa -- A quick run-down of who was there, what was said, and how the first one went.


From Feministe:
Pink AND Magical! -- A look at gendered toy marketing and technology. It's... true... :-\


For the Amature DJs:
Blip.fm is a DIY radio-station creator. Which sounds like it could be a lot of fun. May check this out myself. ;-)


From Racialicious:
Oh You Can't Speak to a Brotha -- On street harassment from members of one's own community.


AND


From No Not You:
Standing In Front of the War Machine With My Hands Outstretched -- on the prevalence of dating violence and sexual assault, and how there's nothing on a national level doing anything to address or stop it.

On Cameras...

So.

I have an Etsy account.

I'd like to put stuff up for sale on it.

While (A) this inovles actually making jewellery for said site[1] but (B) also involves being able to take pictures for said site.


So it would be nice to have a camera.


Now. I can get a web-cam for $30.

I'm pretty sure, however, that a web-cam is not the kind of thing you use to take still-life pictures of gleaming jewels set against a back-drop of black velvet[2].


With that in mind, if anyone happens to know where I can find something along the lines of a nikon coolpics L19/L20[3], for about $30 (ahahahaha) I'd love to hear about it.

conversely... something that takes decent stills AND video[4] and is available in that ridiculously low price-range would also be very, very convenient.


Any ideas? :-D


- TTFN,
- Amazon.


[1] Give me a couple of days, I can throw together some pretty and elegant, semi-precious stone earrings without too much difficulty. This isn't the problem.

[2] By-which I mean "a backdrop of [my black velour skirt]". <*cough*>

[3] Which, to my knowledge, tend to retail for about $120/$130 when bought new.

[4] I don't know if the L19/L20 can do this, so I throwing it out there for reference' sake.

Superwoman

Makes me cry EVERY time I hear it.

Superwoman - Alicia Keys.