Remember the adorably geeky baby Link outfit I wrote about last week?
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Well, there was much rejoicing in the geeky craft world today as the knitting pattern was released at Happy Seamstress!
You can download the detailed PDF here.
The bad news is that my knitting abilities are limited to simple scarves. The good news is that I have 9 months (or less…will find out tomorrow) to hone my skills, or to bully someone else into making it for me. 
Via Joystiq.
Does anyone else lay out their art supplies – whether it be tubes of paint, pastel sticks, or colored pencils – and organize them by color? And after they’re all prettily arranged by their color families, then hue, then shade…do you ever just sit back and admire your collection?
Because I don’t. 
The Felissimo Design House has launched the 500 Pencils service, which delivers 25 colored pencils a month for 20 months – until you have acquired all 500 colored pencils in their collection – for $33 a month.
Forget wine-of-the-month, cheese-of-the-month, heck – even beer-of the month clubs. This is the perfect monthly collection subscription service for me!
Not only does the 500 Pencils service provide this visionary service, they also carry marvelous display cases for your pencils. Check out the Orchestra, which mounts the pencils in sets of twenty…
Its big brother Aurora…
The flexible, bendable Color Wave…
And my personal favorite, the Flower Vase.
“Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No. Just as one can never learn how to paint.”
-Pablo Picasso
Via Luxist.
Back in the early 90s, I had heard of CDs but dismissed it as an expensive fad…
…until one day when I visited a friend. Her parents had bought her a CD player for her birthday, and I quickly became enthralled at its superior sound quality over cassette tapes. The best part? You could skip to the next track. 
I quickly began a campaign for a CD player as my upcoming birthday + Christmas gift. I joined Columbia House and BMG (remember those?). Over the next decade, I managed to accumulate quite a CD collection. I believe I had over 1,000 CDs at my last count which took place one lonely Saturday night back in 1998.
Then came the era of digital music. My massive collection of CDs now sits untouched in my parents’ basement, doing no more than gathering dust.
Yesterday, Yanko design posted the Qubic. Designed by Kenneth Lylover, these combination-frame-slash-storage-devices may be the solution to my unused CDs…at least the pretty ones.
Now, if only someone were to provide a solution for my MiniDiscs…
How many times have I read the words “Jenny has died from dysentary” in my formative younger years?
Well, my favorite web comic xkcd has done it again with their interpretation of 19th century Oregon:
Do you remember playing The Oregon Trail when you were younger? Did you love it as much as I did?
Yesterday, Wired Gadget Lab pronounced Windows 7 to be “Microsoft’s best OS yet.”
This isn’t saying much when you consider the unreliability of XP and the epic failure of Vista. Microsoft has yet to create a decent OS since Windows 2000, and even that is inferior to Mac OS X and Linux.
However, I could not help but be wowed by the screenshots included in the article. No, not the features of the OS, but rather the colorful desktop backgrounds that are simply full of joie de vivre.
According to Microsoft’s Engineering Windows 7 blog, “Windows is for the whole world” and thus – “we wanted to recognize the global audience of Windows by seeking out illustrators with varied backgrounds and styles with the intention of representing and appealing to people all around the world.”
They say that Apple is the prefered OS for creative types, but these backgrounds blow Apple’s proprietary backgrounds out of the water!
I am loving this Pho tableware set!
Designed by Omid Sadri:
Inspired by the form of the Vietnamese lantern, this pho bowl set is intended to simplfy and enrich the experience of eating the famous Vietnamese soup. The bowl set makes it easier to carry the soup and its many condiments, while creating a new eating experience by progressively revealing the different layers.
While it is designed for pho, J and I both agree that this set can also be used for other Asian dishes, such as authentic Japanese ramen, or Korea’s many casserole dishes.
Via Embracing All Things Fobby.
I saw this poignantly funny image in BuzzFeed today. I do, however, disagree with #7 – “Letter” – and petition to replace with with “Message Boards.”
Examining this with a bit more depth, I am reminded of one of my favorite Cracked articles, 7 Reasons the 21st Century is Making You Miserable. If you haven’t read it, go do it now. You will find a new appreciation for fresh air and good old-fashioned means of social interaction such as face-to-face conversations.
What do you think? Has technology (sadly) taken over our lives?
Is anyone else counting down the days until Sunday?
In preparation for the upcoming season and in celebration of the super-successful first two seasons, Film Freak Central has created a video essay examining the cinematography of Mad Men. Enjoy!
Via Kottke.
I have studied the piano since 5 and the violin since 8. I guess the 20+ years counts as a different generation of musical study, because they certainly didn’t have geeky symphonies such as PLAY!, or talented, passionate, FUN choir teachers such as that of the famed PS22 back in my day.
Earlier today I stumbled upon a YouTube video of a string quintet from the Seattle’s Marrowstone in the City program. I love how they start with the classic Bach’s Double Violin Concerto and continue on a captivating arrangement that will have you laughing and reminiscing. You have to keep watching for the unexpected twists in the Halo, Tetris, and Pong sections, because they are truly legend…wait for it…dary!
Via Miss Cellania.
I’m ashamed to say that we don’t have much wall decoration in our home, because if we did, I would love to try this:
Via Apartment Therapy Unplugged.
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