Feminist hacker Barbie

Last week, public outcry over the poorly thought through Mattel book, Barbie’s I Can Be a Computer Engineer caused Random House to pull the book, Amazon to drop the book, and Mattel to apologize. Here’s a good run down of that part of the story.

What I like best is what happened next. Developer Kathleen Tuite put together this tool to let you re-caption the book in a more appropriate fashion.

You can search Twitter for #FeministHackerBarbie to follow along, or check out this Tumblr feed for some of the best.