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I haven’t had a chance to read the transcript yet, but R U Sirius has an interview with the editors and one of the contributors of She’s Such a Geek, a collection of essays by women about geek women.

I picked the book up a little while ago, and while I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, I did flip through it and it looks pretty fun. Definitely pick it up if you get a chance.

BTW, if you’re unfamiliar with R U Sirius then you definitely need to do a better job of learning your history. A former Yippie, Sirius is probably best known as the former editor-in-chief of Mondo 2000. Mondo was a pioneering magazine that helped to develop the cyberpunk culture of the late 80s/early 90s. Basically, Mondo was the magazine that Wired desperately wanted to be when they started out, but never even came close to.

Things to check out from Sirius include,

• The Revolution: Quotations from Revolution Party Chairman R. U. Sirius - A collection of essays which served as the party platform for Sirius’s Revolution Party, when he ran for President in 1996.
• Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House - A history of major counter culture movements from Socrates and the Taoists all the way up to the current era.
• 10 Zen Monkeys - Sirius’s current web zine.
• The MondoGlobo Network - A collection of websites and podcasts that Sirius and his friends are doing