A present for Carolyn, aka "c bird" for Christmas by way of spring in Big Sur..

yarn: Bitty Bunz by Artfibers

The fact that we're even having a network neutrality debate is indicative of the monopoly or oligopoly most of us are stuck with when it comes to internet access.

Also indicative of artificial scarcity, in that there aren't public networks offering high speed net access via fiber, wireless, etc.

rose white's session at this year's 24C3 addressed proprietary versus open knitting, knowledge-sharing and innovation by showing that through history, "guerilla knitting" was actually a subversive craft. in her words, "for decades there have been knitters and other textile artists who are at least as punk rock as today's needle-wielders".

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here are a couple hats i made inspired by jayne cobb's hat from firefly, one of my favorite shows. i added a few loving touches for john (9 yrs) who needed a dragon on his and also a couple hearts to warm the ears...

i love this exercise in geeky knitting from armatie at craftster:

here's a close up of my very favorite piece: a binary code scarf i made for mark, inspired by an infamous 2007 knitty pattern.

I'm always excited about the progressions of geek chic (especially these particularly awesome manifestations of techno-fashion mesh. video here, fun starts around 12 mins..). but while most of us are trying to give our sisters some good wholesome positive props, our half-assed attempts at fierce-ifying geeky girls are totally missing the boat. this is because we still lack the language to understand geeky girls who didn't become hackers by blogging about being grounded for life or their first prom, as related in this NYT article.. the implications are actually just as dangerous as they are infuriating, that women could only be interested in technology via their own superficial interests like glittering their myspace page.