A Link Dump of other interesting non-news things.

This is the section of the cemetery where my dad is buried. In fact, walking straight down the path on the right of the photo, my dad’s headstone is about halfway up the image.

I am absolutely crazy about Weekend Designer. Maybe my other sewing friends will be crazy about it too. Sewing projects involving simple pattern drafting and no-pattern sewing. What’s not to be crazy about?!

The 8 PG-Rated Movies That Should Not Have Been Rated PG: I have seen all the movies listed, and, in fact, saw all the movies listed well before I could get into R rated movies (and in some cases, before I could go to a PG movie alone). I was not heavily terrorized by any of them, beyond what would be expected from watching a scary movie –otherwise, it isn’t a scary movie, now is it? Are children and teenagers really that incapable of handling anything other than rainbows and unicorns these days?

Inflation Calculator: Find out just how little your money is worth now and how much you could buy in the past … if you had a time machine to get there.

Bottle Biology: Cool little environmental projects using large soda bottles. I have to do one of these, just for the fun of it!

Take a trip into the past by reading scans of a 1943 USDA Victory Garden pamphlet.

The Subprime Primer: A series of drawings explaining in the simplest terms how this mess happened. Funny, in a sad sort of way.

How to Prune Tomatoes

SearchMe is an interesting visual search engine. I don’t use it all the time, because I am addicted to Google, but it’s pretty cool.

The Last Days of W. – a photo essay (with sound)

Not-So-Bulky Golden Compass Hood – a knitting pattern.

My Pet Chicken is where I will probably be ordering chicks eventually. Have a good choice of breeds, great prices, and they don’t require you to order 25 chicks. I do not need 25 chicks. Three will do nicely, thank you.

10,000 Pages: A Colouring Book of Abstract Line Art

The links in my Read Later list are now down to 225, so this seems like an excellent time to stop. My goodness what a lot of junk that really didn’t need to be read later! But still, some good links hidden in the dreck, so I’m glad I didn’t just ditch them without looking.