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Artist David Cole uses construction equipment and 20-foot knitting needles for some manly knitting.

This is irresistible.  It’s ironic, self-referential and Simpsony.

From my AARP newsletter, right after I complain about the Xmas Quadoku requiring too much hand-eye coordination:

8. Leave your comfort zone. Getting good at sudoku? Time to move on. Brain teasers don’t form new neural connections once you’ve mastered them. So try something that’s opposite your natural skills: If you like numbers, learn to draw. If you love language, try logic puzzles.

AARP has a point.  If I can solve the sudokus in the newspaper too easily, I’m not not getting as much benefit from them.  However, forming neural connections takes a lot of repetition, and repetition takes motivation.  If the activity isn’t intrinsically motivating, and the sudokuholics out there know exactly what I mean, “leave your comfort zone” becomes “force yourself to do something you don’t enjoy”, and who wants to live like that?  I wouldn’t recommend sudokus to someone who doesn’t like logic puzzles.  Give it a try, sure, why not?  But if it doesn’t grab you, try something else.

Pastor Rick Warren’s selection for the Inaugural Invocation makes him fair game for ridicule.  From The Purpose-driven Life:

… Noah had never seen rain, because prior to the Flood, God irrigated the earth from the ground up.

Right.  There’s no such thing as physics.  Evaporation and condensation are just theories.  Water molecules do whatever God tells them to do.  Teach the controversy!

I never paid much attention to these plants until they started flowering.  I figured that the the green ones were Ti plants (Cordyline Fruticosa) like I see in the woods, and the purple ones were something similar, except purple.  Now I see that there is a range of colors from all green to part green, part purple, to all purple, but they all have the same kind of flowers.  I have to conclude that they are all the same species, but different varieties.

Move your mouse over the image!  This is one of those silly JavaScript things that I saw on the net, so I adapted it to a color sudoku. 

Slightly Warped has a collection of unusual knitting pictures.  There seems to a whole cottage industry of demented textile artists:

• Dissected fiber frog
• Mr. Edless
• Crocheted sandwich
• Hognitive dissonance

On the other hand, there is an intersection between textiles and mathematics, still weird but arguably less demented:

• Hyperbolic crocheting
• Catahedron
• Sudoku quilt