Screenshot: A Weblog

The vagarities of life have made me fall very far behind in my websurfing and weblogging, but here are a few things that I have been enjoying as I have been catching up on my RSS feeds:

The Pre-Ninja Program - a proposal for a new academic track by a community college administrator

Writers Against Piracy - the Improv Everywhere people take on your local public library

Girls watching Sneezing Baby Panda - it's just layers on top of layers of adorable (here is the sneezing panda video the girls are watching)

I have no need for a 1470 piece tool set but I am browsing the photos of the set and coveting it. [via Boing Boing]

Who doesn't love a dynamic map of botnets. Take the guided tour via the thumbnails.... [via Slashdot]

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I am very excited, because tomorrow I'm taking part in my first Sock Wars! It's a single-elimination tournament where you assassinate your target by knitting and sending them a pair of socks before your assassin sends a pair to you. The sock pattern and target dossiers are being sent out tomorrow. I'm not the fastest knitter in the world and with it coming into finals, I'll be pretty happy if I make it into the second round on my first time out. I went out and got my yarn and checked my gauge yesterday. I'm using this Sockotta yarn from Plymouth. I like knitting in the cotton/wool blend and I went with color pattern 6670 (one of the fair isle effect color patterns), which I think will knit up into pretty, bright spring socks. I'll probably come back and post on my progress in the comments....

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