Month: July 2009
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I love, love, LOVE this vintage 1981 Lego ad. I love everything about it. If I ever had a little girl, I’d want her to be just like this.
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Gadgetgirl is going to love today’s Cat and Girl. I left a comment suggesting that the exact same thing also applies to knitters.
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Cauldron Cakes (aka Black Forest Cookies). Holy crap. I might need to make those this weekend.
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The first episode of the Knitting Ness Video Blog is up, and it’s great! Even though I know her in real life, I was surprised by how natural and charming Ness comes across on the video. (Not that she’s not charming, but talking to a camera by yourself and not sounding like an idiot is…
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Rob “Millsy” Mills wrotes an editorial in support of gay marriage. Sweet! Nice one, Millsy. I can almost overlook that whole shagging-Paris-Hilton thing in my estimation of you.
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The Anti-Knitting-Graffiti ManifestoThis one’s been percolating for a while. After all, I’ve been writing about my annoyance with this “movement” for three years now. Now the founder of “Knitta Please” is visiting Australia and the media are going crazy with kooky knitting headlines. Loads of non-knitters have again been asking whether I know about it…
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Nothing to report. I mean it. Nothing. Stupid cold kept me from any and all running last week. My sinuses cleared up by the weekend, but I’ve still got a wet cough that limits my breathing somewhat. I had to get out there yesterday, though, or go crazy. So I had short runs both yesterday…
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Child’s French Sock in Citron Pattern and Diaper KnittingLong name… for a fairly unsatisfying pair of socks. I dunno. I’m just not loving these. It’s mostly the colour, I think. The yarn is Wired for Fibre “Rita” merino sock in the colour “Opulent”. In the hank it looked like more of a semi-solid, so I…
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I contributed a review to this NYT blog post about the awesomeness that is RunKeeper. (I’m comment #3.)
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Wes Anderson’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox”???Oh dear god. Wes Anderson is making a stop-motion animation version of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr. Fox (which I’d like to link to on my RDF site, but it’s having a server issue at the moment). This looks… not good. There appear to be lots of random characters that aren’t in…