Ada Lovelace Day: from my subscriptions

Here’s a big assorted hunk of tasty soft-centered Ada Lovelace Day goodness, brought to you care of the ridiculously large list of weblogs I poll:

• Anna describes a number of women who invented things relevant to people with disabilities;
• Donna Benjamin wants us all to get to know Jude Milhon as best we can after her death, and also has a hat tip for many others;
• The Border House contributors bring you any number of women in games and game development
• Rachel Chalmers brings us Betty Flint, a New Zealand expert on desmids (a variety of freshwater algae);
• Jon Corbet remembers Evi Nemeth, in charge of the Unix hours at the University of Colorado when he was an undergraduate;
• Paul Fenwick couldn’t contain his excitement in one entry, and profiled seven women over part 1 and part 2;
• Geek Feminism had quick entries from a number of us;
• Brianna Laugher investigates women at the Australian weather bureau;
• Damana Madden reports that Lindsay Ratcliffe had her back at ThoughtWorks;
• Danielle Madeley is among the geeks that Sumana Harihareswara whispers to;
• gwyn_bywyd admires St Frideswide, made patron saint of Oxford, 500 years before Oxford admitted women;
• Silvia Pfeiffer has a shout-out to women in multimedia research and development;
• Noirin Shirley learned a lot at the Irish Centre for Talented Youth that was directed by Sheila Gilheany;
• Sarah Stokely wrote about Kirrily Robert and the Geek Feminism blog;
• tigtog digs some techie Hoydens out of the archive;
• ALD is exactly like a box of chocolates for Brenda Wallace, who couldn’t stop at one; and
• Matt Zimmerman tells us about two women he discovered on Planet Ubuntu Women, Akkana Peck and Miriam Ruiz;