[Womoz] Barbie will be a computer engineer

[Thierry Noisette]

As the vote was quite debated in the list: apparently, there were enough 
geeks and geekettes (does the word work in English or is it just 
"French" English?) to vote for that choice ;-)

http://www.barbie.com/vote/

And she's using Linux !

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the Website was flooded with votes from women in the tech industry, and 
of course, pretty much every female software engineer on the planet. 
ChipChick cites Lauren Dougherty, director of Barbie marketing for 
Mattel, who says voting for Engineer Barbie became viral amongst female 
engineers; it was because this popular vote went to Computer Engineer 
Barbie, that Mattel couldn’t resist but to reward Barbie with a 126th 
career choice too.

Barbie and her dual monitor set-up with laptop (pink) running Linux, 
geeky binary t-shirt, smartphone, Bluetooth headset and of course, 
glasses, will hit the shelves Winter 2010.
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(http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Barbie-Mattel-Barbie-Computer-Engineer,news-5835.html)

As my daughter has never been at all interested in dolls, too bad, but 
for some other girls it might be a cute gift - IMHO.

Thierry
(Paris)