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Here’s an interesting blog entry from my favorite church (tongue-not-in-cheek) about a guy who had his parole revoked because he refused to go to a drug rehab program that had a strong religious component.

Check it out at the ULC.

I’m sure you know that we’re 98% chimp, but you’re also 80% frog!

I’d love to get this piece of junk mail.

Important highlights in the exhibition include linen socks worn by King Charles I during first half of the 17th century, Napoleon Bonaparte’s socks worn by him during his exile on St. Helena, exquisite pale pink silk stockings worn by Queen Victoria during her reign and teeny, tiny hand-knitted socks made by talented knitter Althea Crome who created all of the clothing worn by Coraline, the figurine in Tim Burton’s 2009 stop-motion film by the same name.

Read more: Bata Shoe Museum Explores the History of the Sock

Hey, my sister Althea got a little more publicity  on ‘Knit Happens‘ a knitting podcast.  Go Althea!

Check out Episode 17 if you’re interested in extreme knitting.

I’ve worked with people who do that too.

Watch this video

Thank God it’s good Friday.

Larry:  And Tourette’s Syndrome?

Mr. Deity:  Yeah, leave it in.  But wait for Tourette.

Rob sent me a cool link to a nice collection of tea-baggin’, I mean tea-party signs.  Teabonics

Dang, I never knew about this.  During prohibition, the government required industrial alcohol manufacturers to add very toxic poison to the alcohols, knowing full-well that people get their alcohol from stolen industrial alcohol.  Ended up killing around 10,000 americans.  I wonder how many went blind.

Check out the full story at Slate.

This is really an impressive commercial, with almost no computer aid in the shot.

Okay, some folks just found a 100 Million year old insect embedded an amber that has 3 eyes on a stalk on the back of its head.  Now that’s cool. Click on the image for more info.

Cool find from Richard Wiseman’s blog: the Amazing Brick Man.