I don’t have much to talk about today knitting-wise that I didn’t talk about yesterday. So I thought I’d share some of the neato sites I’ve run across while I was surfing around this week.
Cuter than a bag of puppies!
As knitters, I suppose we all dream of having our own wool “on the hoof” in one way or another. I’ve certainly thought about it. I honestly don’t think I’d get into the whole shearing-washing-carding-spinning-dying thing but who knows? Perhaps with a small flock of my own, it would become important to me to see the whole process through from beginning to end. I would probably do it at least once - just to see how it all went together. In any case, the idea of growing my own wool has a lot of appeal. I don’t really expect ever to be in a position where it might be possible, but if I ever were, I think these guys are what I’d be looking for:
Miniature Southdown “Baby Doll” Sheep
The sheep grow to between 18” and 24” at the shoulder and are quite docile. Wouldn’t a backyard with a small flock of these guys be awesome? When you didn’t want to knit, you could go out and play with them :)
Time Beguiler
Then, courtesy of Incoming Signals, there was this:
Samorost, opening screen
There are no instructions or dialogue - once the opening screen comes up, you’re on your own. Great fun and beautiful to look at!
Useful Stuff
Finally, just to make this a real assortment, there’s this from Tech Support Alert. These are freeware utilities and they are some of the best around. While I haven’t tried all of them, SpywareBlaster and Spybot Search and Destroy I’ve been using for a while and they are very good at what they do - which is keeping your system free of software that tries to ferret out information or hijack your browser. There’s more that just utilities here though, there’s an entire software suite that’s worth a look just for the games :)
As always, if you do decide to try any of these, make sure you understand what they do (and don’t do) before you install them. Most items have links to the homepages of their creators which will fill you on the latest updates, etc. All of these are free for non-commercial use.
I’m hoping to get a fair amount of knitting in this weekend and I hope you all get to do the same :) See you Monday!
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Hmmm...my comment on yesterday’s entry has gone into the cyber ether.
It was a damn good comment too!
You’re right - cuter than puppies. Have a good weekend!
ACK!! 
I had wondered whether commenting was functioning properly when there wern’t any! Thanks for letting me know. It should be fixed now. Poop! I hate missing comments! 
That’s so odd - I’ve just had to do the Spybot S&D and adaware thing twice in three days on my work computer. The first time I got bitten, it was by a knitting blog of all things, hosted on one of the shadier free sites. One of the pop up ads got me. Earlier today, it was Quizilla.
I haven’t had a problem at home, probably because I do less web surfing there. I know, for shame. :)
Gail - LOL! Well, we do what we have to do at home and if we can’t get it all done there, what other option is there but to do it at work?
