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Saturday Link Dump
I haven’t done one of these in ages. Also: insomnia has struck. This is my new favourite cartoon. Strong words lurk within, beware. Robert Barclay Allardice – The Celebrated Pedestrian: “His most famous feat was the walking of 1,000 miles (1,600 km) … Continue reading
Posted in Art, eurovision, History, humour, Language, linkage, Photography, Popular Culture, Scotland
Tagged Art, games, geek, Photography, Scotland, wtf, youtube
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Stay Awhile And Listen
No word on release date (of course), but there’s actual footage now: Diablo III is finally happening. Quick, are frogs falling from the sky? Addendum: it feels weird adding this to a post on a computer game, but Danish author, … Continue reading
Webs We Weave
How badly do I want this uppercase scarf? Pretty badly, I tell you. The scarf led me on a typographic journey of the net which yielded new interesting sites: the & Blog, Bembo’s Zoo which is seriously cool, FontStruct which … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Craft, Knitting, Literature, shopping, typography, yarn
Tagged Art, books, games, geek, illustrations, lettering, Literature, love, Print Culture, qwerty, technologies of writing, texts and words, traditions
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Just Call Me Ariadne
Friday afternoon I went through my yarn stash and decided to give some of it to charity. Okay, so it was some not-really-funky cheap acrylic novelty yarn that I picked up at the beginning of my knitting career (i.e. February), … Continue reading
Before We Started Painting the Town
It is just one of those things, as Cole Porter wrote. I do not intend to let Fourth Edition become a voyeuristic woe-is-me blog just because I happen to be rather ill at the moment. Sadly, I am rather ill … Continue reading





