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Category: Random Links

Links that I’m reading/watching/listening to/thinking about

  • Fat Dog in a Little Coat

    Fat Dog in a Little Coat. CraftFail + Chris Farley reference = laughing and laughing and laughing.

  • Amish collecting unemployment

    I had no idea the recession was hitting the Amish back in Indiana so hard. Makes sense though; a LOT of them were employed in the RV industry. Church elders are allowing them to collect unemployment now, but some are even leaving the faith so they can drive cars to jobs farther away.

  • What’s taters, precious?

    I am suddenly enamored of the idea of growing potatoes in the spring.

  • News from Indiana

    Two surprising bits of news from Indiana this morning:

    • Lawmakers are proposing redrawing the Indiana-Michigan border. Huh? Apparently the original border was laid out in 1827 with wooden pegs, and that’s all people have to know where the line is. I had no idea! I kinda thought that even without GPS, surveyors would be able to always know where the line was based on their, I don’t know, magic measurements or whatever. Guess not.
    • Elkhart County has slipped to #2 on the unemployment list. #1? Lagrange County with 18.9% unemployment. Jeeeez. That’s the county where I went to high school. It’s the county where several members of my family still live. I just can’t even imagine what it’s like with 1 out of 5 out of work.

    Links courtesy of The Elkhart Project.

  • Chippo is HOT!

    Chippendale is on both lists of top suburbs to buy houses and apartments in Sydney. High demand from first-home buyers is pushing prices up. Woohoo!

  • Spreadtweet

    Spreadtweet. A Twitter client that looks like an Excel spreadsheet, for people in offices with restrictive managers. (I, on the other hand, trade Twitter client recommendations with my manager. Hi Venks!)

  • Zombie Macs

    Wow. Somebody’s actually created a Mac botnet by infecting users who pirated Photoshop CS4. Yikes. (As Snookums put it: “Good thing I don’t know anybody who would do that.” Me: “Uh… Yeah.”)

  • CUB Site put off indefinitely

    Wow. Just spotted on SMH: “It’s off: Carlton brewery site goes flat”.

    THE developer behind the massive former Carlton and United Brewery project at Broadway has called an indefinite halt to construction and says the project will not start until the global economy recovers.

    Very interesting. On one hand that’s more time for the project to be scaled back to a level that meets residents’ concerns for overpopulation and green space. On the other hand, it’s a massive city block that looks like Wonka’s chocolate factory was leveled by a wrecking ball. I posted it to the Life in Chippendale blog; I’m interested to hear what other people think about it.

  • Demystifying Double Crochet

    Demystifying double crochet for beginners. Great tutorial with super clear photos. Knowing where to put that last stitch is always the problem I have with crochet. This helps a lot.

  • The Elkhart Project

    The Elkhart Project. MSNBC is “focusing long-term coverage on the city of Elkhart, Ind. to provide perspective on the national recession.” Wow. I’ve already learned stuff I never knew about the area I grew up. The most surprising was that the RV industry is/was pretty much all non-union (which I should’ve realized given that I never heard anyone in my family other than Grandma Vee mention a union ever). As my cousin Kim said on Facebook, “Here’s hoping the press coverage ends up doing some good in the end.”