A Quincy, Massachusetts woman who runs a micro-business from her home, warns that a new US law requiring costly testing for lead in children's products is going to turn millions of home-crafters into criminals - and old stock will have to be dumped ( Read more... )

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i've been off of work, unpaid, for a week now, and i suppose it shall continue until 2009 ( Read more... )

i just joined ravelry... username is surrealestate.

if you haven't joined it yet, you should cuz it is amazing as everyone says. :)

saw nine inch nails this weekend and... wow. they dropped copious amounts of money on the most elaborate light/projector setup i've ever seen:

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and they played a handful of songs from the first two albums (which are the only ones i really listened to a lot). i suppose between those two things alone it was worth it. sorry i'm not very descriptive, i ( Read more... )

the macy's day parade, complete with the real rick astley!

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(thanks to popjellyfish)

yeah, but what the hell is rick rolling you ask?

just got back from cyborg camp, and it pushed me further into hatred of twitter, but one step closer to caving in to peer pressure. especially interesting was klint's bit on low tech and affordable technology in developing ( Read more... )

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the first ever lolcat, circa 1905:


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just read like two weeks worth of flist... too much to even comment, but i did reads it, even all the election stuff. but now i'm wondering what kind of first lady michelle obama is gonna be. i mean wtf is up with this dress:


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