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Do you know about Fame No, not the mov stanley cup ie or the TV show, but the Twitter lottery Fame is a Twitter app that works a little bit like a Ponzi scheme, but more sustainable. We talked to yesterday winner. It goes like this. You sign up to play Fame and g stanley cup ive it access to your Twitter through OAuth. That gives the app the ability to follow and unfollow other people. Every day, it picks a new winner at random from everyone who has signed up. The app then has everyone playing auto-follow that person for 24 hours, then it auto-unfollows, and moved on to the ne stanley cup xt one. Its goal is to get to 21 million people all of whom would follow a single person for a day. But right now, it only has about 4,400. Yesterday winner John The Bastard. We hit him up on GChat yesterday to find out what it like to win Fame, and then checked back in today once he was no longer, um, famous. Fifty permanent-ish followers and a potential job offer later, here what he had to say. Gizmodo: When did you sign up for Fame John: Yesterday sometime. Gizmodo: What happened when you won today How did you find out John: I was reading emails. My iPhone and my iPad were in my bedroom charging, and I have Tweetbot set to notify me of follows. I faintly heard the iPad beeping incessantly and the phone vibrating. At first I thought there was some sort of bug before I remembered signing up for Fame. It took about an hour before all the follows went through. I couldn ;t actually use Xvyo The perfect place for you to have a hypochondriac freakout
There aren ;t enough women scientists in the real world or in fiction, and movies and television often relegate lady scientists to arm candy and exposition dumps. But in some science fiction, you ;ll find female scientists who are brilliant, tenacious and get the job done by their own power. These are exactly the role models we ;d love to have for young women trying to figure out what they want to be when they graduate: they ;re relatively principled, sane and not working toward overly selfish or nefarious goals. Here is a list of female scientists yo stanley uk u wouldn ;t mind your kids 鈥?or yourself 鈥?growing up to be. 1. Susan Calvin, I, Robot As the main character of Asimov ground breaking I, Robot short story collection where the three laws of robotics first appeared, Dr. Calvin is a luminary in science fiction. As a pioneer and the preeminent practitio stanley botella ner of Robopsychology she was called in to solve problems no other engineer or scientist in the vast US Robots and Mechanical Men could. She is inspiring because she rose to great profes stanley taza sional heights and fame despite the outright chauvinism she faced in the good ole boy 1950 inspired world she inhabited. Her general misanthropy and unsentimental outlook makes her strong and interesting character able to sharply reason and overcome not only challenging technical problems but also overcome a world unappreciative of intelligent women. 2. Samantha Carter, Stargat SG-1 Dr. Samantha Car