Dragon eggs
If they get enough clicks and visits, they should hatch. I like the look of the orange one.
Alison Hawke
Christmas is coming
I used to hate the smug people that got all their Christmas shopping done by October, until I moved to the US and had to be one of them. The last mailing date for parcels to the UK sent by sea used to be some time in October. Sea mail
Autumn Knitty
The autumn Knitty is out! It was up, it went down, it got back up again...
First, the patterns. Waves of Grain is a beaded lace scarf pattern that might be perfect for my Wollmeise. Anne Shirley is nice, but for some other yarn. The 1840 Nightcap would be a
Not dead yet
BBC News: 'Big Bang' experiment starts well
Scientists have hailed a successful switch-on for an enormous experiment which will recreate the conditions a few moments after the Big Bang. They have fired a beam of particles called protons around the 27km-long tunnel which houses the the
Particle smashing
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) goes live at Cern this week! A hundred metres below France and Switzerland it will be smashing particles together at high energy levels using a 27km ring of superconducting magnets kept at -271C. Particle energies will be up to 7TeV, for a head-on collision
The Brain and the Internet
There have been a few news and magazine articles recently about how the internet may be changing how we think, affecting our focus, even re-wiring our brains. I got wondering about this, and an older article about Asperger's syndrome and the Autism spectrum, and it ended up
One hundred ugly cars
From the Telegraph, the 100 Ugliest cars of all time. This was a poll of British readers, but take a look at what claimed the top slot:
Cars 100-81, cars 80-61, cars 60-41, cars 40-21, and the final 20-1.
The editor's comments on
The Great Wollmeise Frenzy
There's this yarn, Wollmeise, dyed in Germany in vivid colours. It's nice yarn. The colours are intense and you get 50% more than other yarns. Wollmeise is made by one person, so it's rare and coveted. Every time it arrives at The Loopy Ewe
Secret diaries
BBC News: The secret code of diaries
There is a certain thrill to cracking a code. The 300,000-word journal of Charles Wesley, the co-founder of the Methodist movement, which was written in an obscure shorthand, has been solved and the diary transcribed. It has taken nine years.
Recreational test-driving
I'm not a gear head, or a speed freak, but I like cars and I like driving. I like acceleration because I want to know that what I'm driving has enough oomph under the bonnet to get me out of a problem if necessary. I like