Archive for February, 2008
New Software
GusMueller: “Acorn 1.1 has been released, woot. And it’s about time too- the ‘intro’ price was starting to look a bit permanent. You can read the release notes on the Acorn wiki.”
Congrats to Josh Marshall
Jarrett House North: “The world seems to agree. Having won a George Polk Award for legal reporting, TPM’s crowdsourced investigatory model now stands as a new high water mark in what lowered transaction costs can do to journalism. No matter how quiet, distributed, and seemingly boring, no matter how voluminous the documentation in which the offense is buried, you can now count on one thing: bloggers will be there to put the pieces together and spell out the uncomfortable truth.”
ICA & CA Habitat for Humanity Pattern Book
Veritas et Venustas: “Development practices over the course of the last 60 years have eroded, and in some places obliterated, this great American tradition. Instead of building mixed-income neighborhoods, we have built single-income subdivisions isolated from each other.”
R2D2 knit hat
MAKE Magazine: “This R2D2 knit hat from the Craft: Blog was just too geek-chic to not cross-post here.”

“Tenderizer” ring
MAKE Magazine: “Ken Goldman’s ‘Tenderizer’ ring”

Knit gas-mask hat
For the knitters who read this weblog…
Boing Boing: “Craftster’s Teriyakimoto knitted this (non-functional) gas-mask hat for work and play”

And I’m not kidding…
