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Craftus Interruptus

The Daisy Wheel is almost done – I’m working on the lining now, and I even have pictures, plus there are a few of you I’d like to get back to, but…
The Deathly Hallows beckons. I hope you understand .

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Run to the Hills

I love sites like Boing Boing and kottke because they scout out the cool links that no one is paying me to. I get the websurfing benefits without the time-wasting guilt. Today the benefits are large indeed because Boing Boing offered up this gem: QUILTSRŸCHE : Evil Rock Quilts by Boo Davis.
Who doesn’t [...]

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Thinkin’ of the children

So according to this site my blog is rated

I must admit, I’m a bit surprised, I was expect at least a PG. Seems I’ve been keeping things squeaky clean around here. My mother would be proud. (And just as shocked as I am.)
edit: I ran the check on my personal blog [...]

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Polyester goodness

While Ravelry’s been more than satisfying my crafty blog needs lately, I still haven’t given up my tried and true habit of trolling people’s blogs for even more blogs to read. Today the comments on another blog reminded me that it’s been entirely too long since I visited stitchymcyarnpants. As someone who unapologetically [...]

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8 random things

It’s taken me a bit – here are 8 random things about me. (Edit: Turns out it’s nine, because I mis -numbered. It’ll feel like ninety because I’m rambling and hungry.) You may remember I was tagged by Ingrid. Since I generally write about knitting things in this blog, none of these are knitting-related. [...]

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Copyright law: tackling Disney with it’s own words

Still confused about Copyright and fair use? Here’s one professor’s explanation: Disney-fied.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo]
The guy who posted the video on You Tube gave this description.
Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University provides this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms.

Normally I [...]

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I didn’t actually expect to see one in the wild

Well, after laughing at this online the other day, I went out for an errand and this greeted me at the grocery store:

To complete my morning of Star Wars geekery, this was in my morning newsreader,

Pastry chef Damien Hurst made this Millennium Falcon cookie…
Now, I wasn’t able to find out what exactly inspired Chef Hurst [...]

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You know you want to click it…

Really. Click it.
I don’t know if it’s worth a rate hike but I laughed and laughed. Nice to know that postal execs are geeks too.

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