Link: CraftyChica’s homegirl laptop sleeve

That fabric is so awesome. See the previous link (St Theresa’s) for the source. Not quite a design I want to copy, but that fabric would make anything six times cooler…

Link: St. Theresa Textile Trove

I could drop a lot of money here… :)

Link: THE ALUMINUM GROUP

Based on one song (“Headphones”) these guys are really good. I like. And they’re named after furniture by Charles and Ray Eames!

Link: IPBlock - Graphical IP Blocker (7 Jan 2008)

iplist allows users with no or basic knowledge of iptables to filter (e.g. to block) network traffic based on (automatically updated) lists. These lists have various formats and are sorted by different categories (e.g. countries, adware, corporations). Full Story

We’re very much obliged to Oz’s ABC News this morning for clarifying something which has been bothering us for some time: do frozen dogs present an explosion risk?

Oz crematorium menaced by exploding dog | The Register

Link: Daring Fireball: Where Keyboard Shortcuts Win

Link: Mulle kybernetiK – iTunesFS

Dude has created a MacFUSE filesystem for iPods. I’m thinking this is worth installing.

Link: Can You Count on Voting Machines?

Clive Thompson in The New York Times, with a comprehensive look at electronic voting machines:

The earliest critiques of digital voting booths came from the fringe — disgruntled citizens and scared-senseless computer geeks — but the fears have now risen to the highest levels of government. […]

This has created an environment, critics maintain, in which the people who make and sell machines are now central to running elections. Elections officials simply do not know enough about how the…

Link: Ideal Bite - Bite-sized ideas for light green living