Random stripe generator.

I've been listening to way back issues of Brenda Dayne's Cast On Podcast. In one of the very early ones she mentions this really cool bit of software from a blog called Biscuits and Jam to help create stripe patterns for knitting. I'm currently planning a striped raglan and I always pictured it with a regular stripe pattern, but maybe I should consider a random design.

"Bad artists copy. Great artists steal." - Pablo Picasso

There is a very interesting project on the internet called We Feel Fine. They have written software that searches through blogs to find the statement "I feel". Their software collects these sentances plus some information about the blogger including their age, gender, location, and weather at the time of the post. All of the sentances come together in different pictures and give us an idea of how the world feels. You can view the applet by clicking on "Interactive Version" on their website and check out the feelings swirling around us on the internet. Apparently, they also have a book out which would be interesting to check out too.

Knit-o-meter.

I've added a new gadget to the sidebar of my blog. It's called the Knitmeter and it keeps track of how many metres of wool I've knit this year. Um, so far, I've knit myself almost all the way to Jones Baseline. I'm on my way to Rockwood. I think I'm going to try to get home to Warsaw by the end of the year!