Heh. Rupert “Ron Weasley” Grint got fugged, but it was pretty good-natured. I thought the hair was weird myself, but then I rediscovered my teenage girl crush on boys with long locks. *sigh*

Cut-Up Cakes – an old cookbook that shows women how to turn ordinary sheet cakes into dyed coconut monstrosities. It’s like baking a tangram. Who wants to eat a swan? And “Fanny the Fish” is just wrong in any culture…

The Australian iTMS features a Celebrity Playlist from Russell Crowe. And get this – he put “Closer to Fine” by the Indigo Girls on there! I nearly fell out of my chair.

YARN Magazine has just posted its contributor guidelines, just in case you’re thinking of submitting some patterns! (I know I am.)

According to ZDNet, the Australian iTunes Music store has officially launched! Snookums is home sick so I’m trying to get him to sign us up so we can have a look. I have to say I’m not thrilled about AUD $1.69 a song though. Once you work out the exchange rate, that’s more than the US! What’s the rationale there? Sure, Aussies are used to paying more for stuff that has to be shipped in, but we’re talking about bits and bytes here. I suppose I should just be glad it’s not as bad as the UK…

Later: I have just purchased my first song. It was “Move This” by Technotronic. I love that song.

Woohoo! The Knitty Calendar is available for ordering! Now you can hang me on your wall.

Later: Okay, now that I’ve looked at all the other images I can really see where ours fits in. They’re all so colourful and kooky!

Much later: The Honorable Mentions Gallery is now up, and both of our other photos were selected!

Slashdot have picked up the Australian iTunes Music Store story… Looks like the announcement should come tomorrow morning!

I had a major breakthrough with the fish phobia tonight. We were out to dinner at my co-worker Leanne’s new place, and her boyfriend Brendan (the one who works at XO) cooked for us. Knowing my issues with fish, he served us baked rainbow trout with smoked almond stuffing and he ASSURED me that it wouldn’t be fishy in the slightest. So there I was with an ACTUAL FISH on my plate, nasty little eye staring up at me and everything, and I reached out with my fork and ate a bit. And he was right! It was pretty nice. I’m not gonna say it’s now my favorite dish ever or anything, but I told him that eating a whole friggin’ fish is pretty much the highest compliment I could pay him as a chef. The Snook was conspicuously silent during this portion of the meal, which I correctly interpreted as his version of not talking to the pitcher during a no-hitter. No jinx! So we’ve reached another milestone. Of course, I nearly yuked it all up when Leanne, on a dare, ATE HER FISH’S EYEBALL. *shudder* Actually perhaps it’s better if I don’t think about that bit…

The real point of the visit was so that Leanne could help me construct my Halloween costume, which she did. And it’s gonna be AWESOME!