Sock Wars!!!

This is funny! This takes crafting exchanges to a new level. *g*
A regular craft exchange (for those that have never heard of this) involves signing up and getting a patner to trade some sort of crafted item with.
This is a crafting war! To win you have to make your socks and send them before you get a pair. Once you recieve a pair of socks you are a "fallen comrade" and out of the game.

Check out Yarn Monkeys blog to get all the details.

In fact it kind of reminds me of a new video game I just heard of called The Ship .

Live in fear.... Kill or be killed... or is it knit socks or don't knit socks.... ;-)

Cool Handmade ipod thingies

I thought I'd chime in with a few of the neat ipod holders/cozies I have seen out there.
We all know that few electronic devices have spawned as many accessories as the ipod.

If you do actually need something to put your ipod in, the choices available are a little daunting. :)

Here is the coolest ipod thingie ever... only it's for the obsolete shuffle. :(
It is almost cool enough to buy a shuffle just so you can have this holder. You can read a little about it in English at Yanko Design but these little guys are handmade in Japan by Temas
I hope they make a version for the Nano! :)

This handmade case is made from recycled truck tires and looks very functional it's from Solio
And of course, I have got to have at least a couple of cute things from Craftster . I love this little turtleneck sweater for the nano.And here is an ipod cover after my own heart.

You just can't help but say Awwwww!!! This cutie is available at Etsy.

~Tamara

Microsoft Pitting Argo Against iPod, Nintendo DS, PSP

Finally fed up with consumer electronics manufacturers failed attempts to defeat everyone's favorite Cupertinonian music player, Microsoft went ahead and devoted a few hundred-million dollars to their own doomed affront to product usability. Yes, our good friends from Redmond have failed to learn from everyone else's mistakes by going with the one-up tactic. Instead of realizing that the reason everyone likes iPods is because they don't have too many things in the way of playing music, Microsoft believes that what everyone really wants is an entire XBOX in the way of their music. Codenamed Argo, their new device will be XBOX branded and released along side yet another service from Microsoft to compete with the iTunes Music Store. So not only does MS want a piece of Apple's pie, but they've pointed their finger at Nintendo and SONY's lucrative (more so Nintendo) portable game markets and asked un-politely for the pain. Keep it up guys. Self-destructing mega-corporations make for a lot of great blog posts.

CleanFlicks deemed "Unconstituntional"

Remember that great place down the road where you can rent that crazy awesome movie you've always wanted to see but never did because it was rated R and you didn't want to have to see the gruesome, gore-filled violence, ridiculous language, or gratuitous sex scene, but the place cleaned it up so it didn't have all the nasty stuff and left a nice, relatively "family friendly" movie behind? **sorry for run on**

Well, now U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch has ruled that "scrubbing" movies so that they keep out those disgusting little pointless bits of derogatory filth violates copyright laws. Yup, that's right! Now CleanFlicks, among 3 other companies, have to put up shop and hand over their inventory to abide by this ruling. Ray Lines, the head of CleanFlicks, says that this is just a "David v Goliath", rewritten by Hollywood.

Another interesting piece of information are the directors involved in pushing this issue to court. Among 16 others, Steven Spielberg, Robert Redford, and Marin Scorsese. They say the objective is "to stop the infringement because of its irreparable injury to the creative artistic expression in the copyrighted movies," the judge wrote. "There is a public interest in providing such protection."

Sounds to me like Satan and his demons are at it again and are just trying to make it that much harder to live in this decrepit system.

Homestar Runner Returns!

Wow! First off let me start off by saying HOLY COW it's been forever since there's been a decent post on here! Let's not let this lull happen again guys! ... That said: Woo Hoo!! Homestar Runner has finally returned after a month long hiatus. It's nice to see the guys there got their act together and got it back up and running. I've missed Strongbad. For awhile I was a little scared I freaked him out because the week they stopped updating the site, I had sent in a little request to Strongbad asking him whether or not he'd ever get married. I SCARED STRONGBAD AWAY!! OH NOES !!!

Anyway, they made up for it by posting a nice little cartoon. Welcome Back Homestar! And welcome back Divertissmentz !!.... or however you spell that ....