Chief Designer, especially if that’s all you go by, is a pretty good title.

Cheese in a soup? No, cheese is a soup!

Every so often, I wonder what’s hot with spammers these days. Today’s research project has led me to the page of an outfit called the "consumer research corporation," which is recruiting product testers by spamming.

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What does Mt St Helens look like right now?
How about Mt Ranier (just in case)?

The State of Washington has launched their online archives!

Tastingmenu seems to be a very tasty blog/restaurant review site.

So there’s this artist person who re-uses Jakartan trash as shoulder bags. What local trash would make good material? Plastic grocery bags are quite good as crochet material when cut into strips (I recommend 1-1.5 inch strips with a J hook- cut off the top handles and bottom of the bag, then cut as one long spiral). I made the very recursive bag of bags that way. Thrift shop clothing can become quilt squares (I’ve not yet gotten back to my pink and grey wool quilt). Old t-shirts can become slippers (I may someday post the instructions I reverse-engineered).

Any other suggestions?

I used to check the Recent Quake List regularly (it used to usually have about ten entries—Note that they’ve given up on updating it with St Helens data for now; there’s apparently just too much activity). If St Helens is going to be engaging in this kind of nonsense, I’ll have to check in more frequently.

Update: Current news can be found here.

Maybe this will be one of those things where you hear about it for the first time and then see it everywhere: fake trees as cell towers. Even a giant pencil would be more fun than the big green-painted metal cylinder down the street from my house.

If there’s one thing we collectively love, it’s visions of the future from history. Here are some visions of future transportation.