My Top 10 Girl Geeks

Added on November 22nd, 2006

As usual I was looking at my various news feeds while at work, and noticed something interesting, CNET’s Top 10 Girl Geeks. So I decide to have a look and see what they’ve got there. The list is as follows:

  1. Ada Byron (World’s First Programmer)
  2. Val Tereshkova (Went To Space)
  3. Grace Hopper (Found Computer “Bug”)
  4. Darly Hannah (Eco-friendly Geek Icon)
  5. Rosalind Franklin (Chemist)
  6. Mary Shelley (Wrote Frankenstein)
  7. Lisa Simpson (Future President)
  8. Marie Curie (Plutonium In Her Pockets)
  9. Aleks Krotoski (Very Chic Geek)
  10. Paris Hilton (Famous Girl Gamer)

So what do I think of the list? While I may agree with some of the choices, I really really don’t agree with others, and some of the reasons and/or descriptions of these is just plan wrong. Take Marie Curie for example, she died 1934 and Plutonium was first isolated and produced in the year 1941. Daryl Hannah, hardly a geek, so no idea why she is on this list. Mary Shelley, debatable, personally I wouldn’t put her in a Top 10 because there are more deserving ladies. Won’t even say anything about Paris Hilton, I really wonder what the person who was making this list was smoking.

So what does my Top 10 look like? Well, it’s quite different. Quite a few new faces too. So without further ado, I present you my Top 10 Girl Geeks:

Val Tereshkova Marie Curie

  1. Valentina Tereshkova.
  2. Marie Curie.

Rosalind Franklin Hedy Lamarr

  1. Rosalind Franklin.
  2. Hedy Lamarr.

Cynthia Breazeal Fiorella Terenzi

  1. Cynthia Breazeal.
  2. Fiorella Terenzi.

Dana Scully Samatha Carter

  1. Dana Scully.
  2. Samantha Carter.

Morgan Webb Eve Astrid Andersson

  1. Morgan Webb.
  2. Eve Astrid Andersson.

Well, that’s my list Top 10 Girl Geeks. If you are going to, or already have posted your list, then be sure to let me now, and I’ll mention your list here as well.

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9 replies to “My Top 10 Girl Geeks”

Batkofsky said on November 22nd, 2006 at 21:25

Rick I don’t know how to tell you this but…. both Gillian Anderson and Alyson Hannigan are in relationships and thus not looking to get involved with you, sorry :(

Just messing, its a nice list, I would suggest some more but I won’t :p

crazybjörn said on November 22nd, 2006 at 22:00

She(Hannigan) was actually replaced because I made a grave error and forgot about Samantha Carter :D

Batkofsky said on November 22nd, 2006 at 22:04

I vote that Hannigan goes back up somewhere there! :p

crazybjörn said on November 22nd, 2006 at 22:06

Make your own list ;)

Silver Comet said on November 23rd, 2006 at 19:18

I vote that too, Red Heads ftw!

I will! will i tell you, WILL!
muahahaha, there will be crying, and people will die, but i shall have my list.

plumsauce said on November 25th, 2006 at 10:52

Nice touch to link to their wikipedia articles.

Let’s take a poll, how many have you heard of before arriving at this page?

I heard of seven of them.

Danny said on November 26th, 2006 at 20:34

Dude… just… no :P

crazybjörn said on November 27th, 2006 at 20:36

Ah it’s Mr. “I Would Marry Workers Before Marrying Most Of Those” :P

Silver Comet said on December 20th, 2006 at 06:02

Isn’t it
“I Would Marry Workers, ‘Toddy’ (I am not going to say ‘Toddy’ without ‘s, because I refuse to sound like I said a word in normal conversation that sounds like I’m about to break out in to baby speak…..Who’s a pretty ‘toddy’ You are! oh yesh you are! aww..) Before Marrying Most Of Those!”

I made my list rick..
http://www.newstuff.benjaminfaulkner.net/single.php?blogid=57