Neither Hip Nor Funky

I bet many of you read that last post and were thinking, “Well that’s fine, but you know what that post was really needing? More Socks!”

And others were thinking:

“Shhhhhhhh, be vewwwy, vewwwy quiet; I’m hunting wabbits, heheheh”

Well, consider all your thoughts heard:

Another belated gift, some hunting socks for my father in law. Cascade 220 Superwash, pattern made up as I went.

Also belated: responding to the “You Make My Day Awards” kindly given to me by Gudrun (go check out her new hat pattern; I’ll have pics of my test knit of it up by the end of this week), Jillian, Knitography, and Jennie. Thanks guys….mentions like these alway make me smile; in fact you could say they make my day.

It is so hard for me to pick ten knitting/crafting sites that make my day because there are so many, so I’m going to broaden it a little (aka take the easy way) and list other internetty goodness that makes my day.

1. LOLcats: don’t need to say much here…only need to find a way for my cat to earn fame on the site.  Just a quick glance can make me smile in the morning before I’m off to work.

2. Slate’s Political Gabfest: The Most Adequate Political Talkshow.  They’re still working on a slogan, but I think the ironic humbleness of this nomination fits well. I love Slate in general, and I am alway informed and amused by John Dickerson’s articles.  The three mainstays of this podcast are intelligent, humorous, and straightforward.

3. Indexed: Brilliant commentary in small doses.  She manages sum up diverse issues in succinct graphs and diagrams in a way that she say helps her “make fun of some things and sense of others”

4. The Sartorialist: amazingly lit photos showing varied styles of people on the street

5.  Go Fug Yourself : okay, so sometimes I like a bit of snark.  However, I do like that the women who write this blog are usually snarky and humorous about the clothes but not mean to the people who are wearing them.

6. Etsy homepage: I love checking in to see what is highlighted. I also find the often monochromatic nature of the hand picked items soothing.

7. The Daily Show:  I watch the snippets online.  Oh, John Stewart, how I missed your commentary at the beginning of this presidential race….so glad you’re back.

8. Sundara: I just like to go and gaze at the pretty every so often, even when I know there hasn’t be a recent update.

9. Washington Post:  yup, I like my news. I find their website to be one of the easiest to navigate…which makes sense because they have won awards for it.

10. All the knitty and crafty goodness.  ( I really ran out of items here because the above sites are really the only sites I visit that aren’t knitting or crafting blogs. Considering I normally have between 100-200 posts waiting to be read in my Google reader, those blogs are really my fav part of the internets. ) Thanks for being entertaining and inspiring.