I have yarn on the way, the handpainted from KnitnPurlZen, Lornas laces and Cascade220 from The Knitting Zone and Viking Wool from Sirri. I'm WAAAAAAAITING. I bet we have the technology for teleportation and it's just a conspiracy that keeps it from utilizing it. Yeah.

Was browsing last night in search of cotton online. I can NOT find any online cotton vendors in Turkey. Then I hit China, it's too far away. I checked Egypt. It looks like they cotton is sent over here and there and everywhere else to be spun for handknitting yarn. I don't really need sheets, though it seems like we can never have enough sheets here, can't really knit with them. I love this guy's bags and the shawls are cool, wonder why they only come in black though.

Ancient Egypt is one of Kiddo's recent obsessions. We got her an Egyptology book a while back, it is in the form of a travel diary of a girl looking for some tomb ( I think Osiris). Lots of cool inserts, maps and even a board game called Senet which I never ever win for some reason. Thinking of making a felted version of the game so we don't mess up the book. For the bedtime story she alternates between this book, the encyclopedia of space (galaxies, blackholes and whatnot) and "normal" kids books. When I read the Egyptology book to her she usually takes over and tells me the stories of the gods, pharaohs, queens and who's brother did what and about the guy with the bird head. The first time she did this I had a WTF moment. How do you know all this?? It's in my cartoon! I had no idea.

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A few reads on note on The Cartoon. On WSJ's Opinion Journal one by Amir Taheri - Bonfire of the Pieties Islam prohibits neither images of Muhammad nor jokes about religion.

There is no Quranic injunction against images, whether of Muhammad or anyone else. When it spread into the Levant, Islam came into contact with a version of Christianity that was militantly iconoclastic. As a result some Muslim theologians, at a time when Islam still had an organic theology, issued "fatwas" against any depiction of the Godhead. That position was further buttressed by the fact that Islam acknowledges the Jewish Ten Commandments--which include a ban on depicting God--as part of its heritage. The issue has never been decided one way or another, and the claim that a ban on images is "an absolute principle of Islam" is purely political. Islam has only one absolute principle: the Oneness of God. Trying to invent other absolutes is, from the point of view of Islamic theology, nothing but sherk, i.e., the bestowal on the Many of the attributes of the One.

Does he know something they don't know? I wonder, do the guys with the molotov cockails, Nigerian MPs and those leaders who are boycotting Danish goods? Why only Denmark and New Zealand? The cartoons have been printed in 32 countries so far. Could it really be that this is part of a bigger plot? And I don't mean the default EZP type plots but something like that. Why else would one of the holymen make their own pigfaced cartoons to circulate? Natrional Review Online has a symposium up on the cartoons, opinions from many including Mustafa Akyol, Rachel Ehrenfeld, Basma Fakri and Bat Yeor. Most definitely worth a read - The Clash to End All Clashes? Making sense of the cartoon jihad.

By way of Pajamas Media - Good for them. At least not all are CNNweenies.

Wonder if the olympics will make it sans problem at this rate.