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Go Team Wales!

Knitting

A few weeks ago, a woman named Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (a.k.a. “The Yarn Harlot”:http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog) posted the idea that during the Olympics we all can be Olympiads, in our own way–for us, it’s the “Knitting Olympics”:http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/olympics2006.html. Each of us sets our own goal, to be a knitting challenge for the individual, to be cast on sometime on February 10, 2006 (the day that the Olympic Torch is lit) and completely finished and ready to wear by the day the torch is extinguished, February 26.

Seems like a silly idea?
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Fundamentalists Flee In Terror!

Fun

I may have found a group to believe in: Unitarian Jihad. I found myself drawn to them, my world-view altered, my spirit lifted, when I read such charismatic phrases as, “We will require all lobbyists, spokesmen and campaign managers to dress like trout in public.” I could do with a few more trout and a few less lobbyists. Maybe that’s just me.

Was the Pope a Gambling Man?

Religion

I sure hope so. Otherwise, this is just wrong: “Place your bets!”:http://www.oddschecker.com/betting/mode/o/card/specials-politics/odds/124960x/sid/240720 If you decide to throw your hat into the ring, I don’t think I want to know.

(I put this under “Religion” but it could just as easily be culture, or even reference, if you are so inclined to visit our friendly web-bookie again…)

because everybody needs one

Beauty and Fashion

You know, I was looking for that special something for that special someone… something that said, “I was thinking of YOU!” and I found, well, this.

Don’t worry, special someone. You will not be receiving this anytime soon.

Maybe if it was covered with feathers? Or had a head? Or was something else entirely?

You see, I believe that every blog can aspire to some Bad Knitting content.

Islam’s marked woman

Religion

This “article about Irshad Manji”:http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/01/1086058850070.html, a feminist Canadian Muslim and author of _The Trouble With Islam ó a Wake-Up Call For Honesty and Change_, caught my attention.

I’m very impressed by her candor, and I think she is right to press for a Muslim reformation, in that the true power of a faith comes from individuals choosing, after thought, to follow tenets, not blindly. There seem to me (not that I am an expert on Islam) to be so many good aspects to the religion, if only individuals can allow themselves to choose, and not feel they have to live a medieval religion.