And now my jaw is a-drop at the amazing conversation about Beading as Interstitial Art that is happening amongst crafties and IAF Auction contributors
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elisem, ktempest, copperwise, (moderator) krismcd59 and others on our third IAF Online Salon. You should go join them.I'm just going to go take a hot bath and let everyone else be articulate and talented for awhile.
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A small booth headed up by a woman as nice as her creations are clever, Keep It Moving Design sells knit plants. Each hand-knit specimen comes in a pot with its own name. Most are flexible due to wire armature and some even have moss. She has some great vintage-like jewelry pieces and some embroidered men's ties too. All depends on what she's been up to that week. If you can't make it to the Flea Market you can find some of her work on her her Etsy site.
Black metal and baking don’t usually go together, unless you’re talking about baked brains. The Black Oven, however, is a blog of cookie, cupcake, and brownie recipes, none of which require blood, animal sacrifices, or pledging allegiance to Satan. (more…)
This shirt is sheer brilliance. Let’s face it, who doesn’t love silly tees? Clearly, Paul Frank does! For a reasonable $32 at Urban Outfitters, this tee is a perfect way to have yourself smiling all day and others giggling. With you, not at you. Promise!
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The first book in Shelley Adina's series: It's All About Us
. Visit her website for an interactive community based on the books.Tall, blonde Lissa Mansfield is used to being one of the "in" crowd--but being accepted by the popular girls at posh Spencer Academy boarding school in San Francisco is turning out to be harder than she thought. And then there's her New-York-loudmouth roommate, Gillian Chang, who's not just happy to be a Christian herself--she's determined to out Lissa, too! If Lissa can just keep her faith under wraps long enough to hook Callum McCloud, the hottest guy in school, she'll be golden.
But when Callum pressures her to go all the way with him, Lissa has to decide for herself how far is too far. How can she see that line when he's so gorgeous and popular and she's so dazzled? And besides, she's too busy shopping for a Valentino and booking the hottest celeb for the Benefactors Ball. Who knew finding a place at Spencer Academy would be so complicated?
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All About Us #2: The Fruit of My Lipstick
(August, 2008)All About Us #3: Be Strong & Curvaceous
(January, 2009)The plow with the four-leaf clover symbolizes the luck of the farmer.Boing Boing challenge: draw Jack's flag. LinkThe quicksand represents the travails of life. The hand sticking out of it is so you know it’s quicksand and not just a dirty spot on the flag.
The bat stands for eternal life, through our lord Dracula.
The sheaf of wheat symbolizes the bounty of the land, and the hope that soon more things will come in sheaves.
The parrot represents the need to communicate, even if it’s only squawks.
The tin of paprika stands for paprika, a spice I hope to learn more about.
Today on Boing Boing Gadgets we saw mugshots of the dumbest thieves in New York State, foresaw the return of crappy Tiger-style LCD games, and played with a frightening WowWee Chatterbot. John converted a houseplant's meaningless biometric readings into—appropriately enough—twitter posts; Joel lost a few extra pounds on a novelty velocipede, and Rob donned a useless anti-cellphone radiation suit. JVC and Kenwood gazed lovingly into one another's eyes. We also looked at a GUI-based music video; a transparent Eee hardcase; a phone of little use to onanists; an iPod file squirter; a gallery of shipping containter data centers; a scammy fuel-injection gizmo that outsmarts at least one Florida NBC affiliate; and AT&T screwing its own customers. We learned about Japanese cigarette vending machines, the fears of Thai children, everything there is to know about bicycles, and how to turn corpses into a syrupy fecal sludge. Don't forget the adjustable hot sauce.
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Eager coworker: I took a candy bar from you yesterday, but I didn't have a dollar. And I want to take one again today.
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Edition 45 of the Encephalon psychology and neuroscience writing carnival has just arrived online, this time ably hosted at PodBlack Blog.
A couple of my favourites include a poem inspired by a new stereoscopic atlas of the body and brain, and an excellent post on the neuropsychology of stalking (with a great bonus Death Cab for Cutie track!).
Coincidentally, the stalking article appears courtesy of Neurocritic where the the next edition of Encephalon is due to appear in two weeks.
Link to Encephalon 45.
Blogger Albert Alberts loves a slim wallet, and after reading over some of our wallet-slimming tips, he realized he had a powerful wallet-slimming tool in his pocket all the time: his iPhone. His idea? Rather than reducing his membership cards to just one club card, he scanned his membership cards to his computer, then synced them to his iPhone as an album called WalletCards. According to the post, his phone-friendly cards even scan successfully. You're still going to be at the mercy of whether or not the workers are willing to accept your scanned cards, but if they are, you can carry around all the membership cards you want without adding any bulk to your wallet.
Firefox and Internet Explorer only: The Surf Canyon browser extension embeds extra search results at Google, Yahoo, and MSN. With Surf Canyon installed, search the web with your favorite engine as usual. A bullseye icon will appear next to results—click it to expand another level of links related to the single result. My test for a "lifehacker" Google search was promising: Surf Canyon included links to the official Lifehacker book, Upgrade Your Life, and a life hacks site search engine at Google Coop. Surf Canyon is a free download, and it's available as both a Firefox extension and IE add-on.
- Music:Frank Sinatra - One For My Baby
Okay, so the clip above isn’t SF, but it’s very surreal, and that’s what I like about The Golden Girls TV Show. Yes, it has been suggested I now need to turn in my man card, but I really enjoy this show when it’s not being preachy. Rose’s St. Olaf stories are utterly bizarre and surreal.
Also, the show has had its science fictional moments, as when they wind up as heads on ice-surrounded plates in a dream sequence about being cryogenically frozen….
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The incident occurred during a Southwest flight from Austin to Dallas. "After multiple requests, the flight attendants were not successful in getting the passenger to get off the phone," says a Southwest spokeswoman. (Dallas Morning News | AP brief)