Calendar girl website survives attack

A targeted denial-of-service attack from the US failed in its mission over the weekend to shut down an Australian website promoting a controversial calendar showcasing the sexy side of women who work in the IT sector.

The Screen Goddess calendar was created by IT industry worker Sonja Bernhardt to tempt more women into technology-related careers. However, it met a storm of controversy last week because some of its "models" appeared partially clad.

Story from The Age.

Geek goddesses or calendar girls?

Sydney Morning Herald
Female IT professionals have posed for a provocative calendar to try and shake off their industry's geeky image and encourage young women to consider a computing career.

Gold Coast-based IT doyen Sonja Bernhardt said the motivation for the calendar was the rapidly declining number of women taking up computer studies and careers.

If only she'd published a calendar

BBC | Artist gets naked to earn bread
An artist who baked a life-size model of her own naked body out of bread dough will watch her audience eat it at an exhibition.

Administrative note

Just letting you know that if the main site disappears for a few days between now and the first of the month, it's because that wave of interest in the Olympic curlers' calendar generated by Playboy caused my daily traffic to spike up to ten times its normal level. That's 100,000 views this month...so far.

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It's the New Year...

Sixteen years ago, firefighter Manuel Chavez was casting around for ideas to raise money for the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 341's Houston Fire Fighters' Burned and Crippled Children's Fund.

"I thought about a calendar," he said, "you know, maybe nice pictures of fire stations or big trucks." He ran the idea by a lot of people, including women friends and family members.

"They were like ‘who wants to see that? We want to see the firefighters.' So I thought, why not?"