Apr
24
2007
Well, “beads”, actually, but the heading, stolen from Crafty blog, was too good to pass up.
From Flickr:
(aside: does anyone know how to go from a link to a static Flickr image back to the photographer’s page? I haven’t yet figured out how to suss out the photographer’s Flickr info in order to do that)
CuriousJane took a full summer to gather the hair from her cat to create the 13 beads above - I can only imagine how many we could generate from our 4 dahlings over the course of a summer. 
I’m not entirely sure I’d want to actually wear a necklace (or other jewelry type) made of dyed cat fur, but the concept intrigues me.
Apr
24
2007
Nifty. The Library of Congress has started a blog. From the inaugural post:
The Library has in its care more than 134 million items, with 22 million items online. That’s a lot of content, by any measure. More and more people online are looking to blogs to help them navigate and make sense of the content that’s “out there,” to say nothing of the world around them. With some 71 million blogs at last count (or so says Technorati), it’s a conversation an institution like the Library should be a part of.
The Library of Congress was producing electronic content long before the Web even existed, so it’s fitting today that we become one of a (surprisingly) small handful of federal agencies with a bona fide blog.
It’s probably a bit early to come up with some sort of grand “mission statement” for this blog, but it will be in keeping with the spirit of the Library’s mission as a whole: “to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations.”
Cool!
Update: and how fitting, to have their blog open on Library of Congress Day !
(via LibraryStuff [via Steven's tweet, yay!])
