Right Here, Right ‘Bao’
Oakland and the surrounding East Bay Area is a welcoming, casual town. The standard uniform of jeans and a hoodie
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Author: Julie Kang
Gender and Tech: The New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
My name is Julie, and I am an actual woman in tech. Sometimes it’s hard being me in tech, because
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NOC Tweets Game of Thrones: She’s a Killer Queen
Last night, NOCs Alice (House Stark) and Julie (House Mormont) assembled to live-tweet the Season 6 Finale of Game of
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NOC Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
If Agents Mulder and Scully from The X-Files formed a New Wave synth band, what would they sing about? Kituria from Project Fandom and
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NOC Recaps Game of Thrones: Dicks and Stones
Last week on Game of Thrones, most of the attention was focused on underground extremist movements in various parts of the
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NOC Recaps Game of Thrones: Arya Gonna Go My Way?
Last week on Game of Thrones, we witnessed various examples of people dealing with their demons, either literally (as with Dany
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NOC Recaps The Legend of Korra: Battlefield Earth
Episode Eight: “The Terror Within” Note from Julie: This week, I’m going to keep the recap brief in order to
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NOC Recaps The Legend of Korra: I am the Son and the Air
Episode Seven: “Original Airbenders” This episode showcased the rise of the new Air Nation. Tenzin is the master teacher of
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NOC Recaps The Legend of Korra: Sister From Another Mister
Episode Five: “The Metal Clan” Team Avatar and Lin Beifong are taking a break in an idyllic valley. Naga is in
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NOC Recaps The Legend of Korra: We Are Family
Episode Three: “The Earth Queen” We begin with a sparring session between Uncle Bumi and Kai, led by Jinora. Uncle
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NOC Recaps The Legend of Korra: Gotta Catch ’em All!
Episode Two: “Rebirth” Team Avatar (minus Mako the Brooding Teenager) is ready to set off for Operation Air Nation. Pema,
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NOC Recaps The Legend of Korra: There’s Magic in the Air (Bending)
Episode One: “A Breath of Fresh Air” Two weeks have passed since Avatar Korra’s amazing triumph against UnaVaatu during Harmonic Convergence.
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The Legend of Korra Third Season Trailer and Surprise Release Date
Team Korra, we have a date! On Friday afternoon, Nickelodeon announced that the first THREE episodes of the third season
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NOC Recaps Game of Thrones Part Two: Valar Morghulis
[Ed note: The season finale was so epic, we couldn’t contain our thoughts in just one post! So to accommodate
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NOC Recaps Game of Thrones: They Might Be Giants
Episode Nine, “The Watchers on the Wall,” starts with an awkward discussion between Jon Snow and Sam Tarley. Sam presses Jon
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NOC Recaps Game of Thrones: Don’t Push Me Cuz I’m Close to the Edge
When we last saw Tyrion, he was spitting righteous vitriol at his trial. The seventh episode “Mockingbird” shows a softer, more introspective
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NOC Recaps Game of Thrones: Nice Day for a Weird Wedding
Occasionally, it sucks to live on the West Coast: the Purple Wedding damn near broke Twitter hours before I was scheduled
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Six Signs Daenerys Targaryen is Actually Asian
Join us tomorrow, April 13, at 9:00 PST for the live-tweeting of the second episode of Game of Thrones: hashtag #GOTNOC. I’m
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Episode Fourteen: “Light in the Dark” Continued from Episode Thirteen The Republic’s finest ships and zeppelins are circling the city.
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Live-Tweets from Doctor Who‘s 50th Anniversary Special
On Saturday, at 11:50 Pacific Time, the 50th Anniversary episode of Doctor Who, “The Day of the Doctor,” premiered in
Read MoreNOC Recaps The Legend of Korra: Friends in All the Right Places
Episode Twelve, “Harmonic Convergence” The second half of this week’s exciting installment of The Legend of Korra set things up
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NOC Recaps Doctor Who: Which Who? That Who!
“The Night of the Doctor,” secret webisode by Steven Moffat The mini-episode starts chaotically, with a brown-haired British girl at
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Calling All Whovians!
If you have ever eaten fish sticks and custard or felt the urge to stroke a blue police box and
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