Thanks to Kath & Kim, I can now knit a gumnut bonnet with wattle pompom. How cute is that? Too bad Joey and Kurt (Snookums’s nephew) are too old to wear then. (Link courtesy of Mary-Helen.)
Category: Random Links
Links that I’m reading/watching/listening to/thinking about
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Buffalo Pete’s
Wow. Some guy from Wolcottville, Indiana (where I grew up) started a bison ranch! I’m trying to remember if I ever met Pete Cook. The name sounds really familiar.
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Poncho hysteria.
A-ha! So this is why I’ve been getting dozens of idiotic tourists coming in the shop looking for knitted poncho patterns.
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Jason Young has a blog.
Wow. Another Lakeland Laker has a weblog!
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Competitive Knitting
Man, I would so be up for a World Series of Knitting! Only it would need to be re-thought a little bit, as the author of that article clearly knows nothing about the craft. (Crochet, cross-stitch, and quilting are entirely separate disciplines.) Now, would I compete for Australia or America? I think about things too much. (Link courtesy of Max.)
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Awww, crap.
…And just like that, the evening turns to SUCK. John Howard has just won a historic fourth term as Australian Prime Minister. The conservatives increased their numbers in the government. Latham has conceded. Catboy’s going to become a Kiwi. Everything’s turning to crap. Dammit, I’ve already emigrated from one country with an asshole for a leader; I don’t want to do it again! Please, please, please let Bush lose next month… or I think we may have to move to Sealand.
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Vending Machine Prizes Spectacular!
The Vending Machine Prizes Spectacular! The biggest highlight for me in the whole (pretty hilarious) article was reading the guy’s ode to the Chicken Machine. You know, the one with the brown chicken that turned around and clucked and dropped you an egg. I loved the Chicken Machine.
Edited 08/04/2025: Link is dead and not archived.
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REM Album Review
Kevin’s posted an excellent review of REM’s new album. He makes it sound pretty downbeat. Crud. My fandom has really never recovered from shelling out for the “deluxe” CD edition of Up only to discover that I couldn’t tell when one depressing song ended and another depressing song began. (Not to mention the fact that it was advertised as coming with a “poster” which actually consisted of the pages of the lyrics booklet, which you were supposed to disassemble and tape together or something.) I didn’t even bother getting the Greatest Hits CD, though I suppose I will if I decide to get the new album. My obsessive-compulsiveness wouldn’t be able to stand having a hole in the chronology of my REM catalog…
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Stallman’s a nut.
Richard Stallman’s over here bitching about Linux again. How can a guy that claims not to have had a job in decades afford to fly to Australia?
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Chillin’ with the sperm.
AskMetaFilter tackles the questions enquiring minds want to know: Why, evolution-wise, do the testes hang outside a human body? Come on, you wondered that too…