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If She Can, I Can

Over at Ali Purls, she's knitting up a cover for her vibrator. So I thought I'd riff on the same topic. Not the knitting part.

If you're thinking of investing and haven't so far, Come As You Are has a handy dandy guide to choosing the right one for you. They do come in many shapes, sizes, materials and colours.

About has a vibrator quizz. What's your score? Mine was in the zillions.

Also from About, some stats on the use of vibrators and toys:

According to Xandria Collection’s Toys in the Sheets survey, the most common vibrator user was a white Christian married woman, in her thirties, who votes Republican.

It seems that vibrator users are mostly white. That's either a shocking statisticor other cultures and ethnic groups are keeping some big big secrets from us.

Check out the online vibrator museum to see some interesting relics. I'm personally fascinated by the hand crank varieties which seem to have a lot in common with my old eggbeater. Just one more reason to appreciate electricity.

Also take a look at Slate's "A history of the vibrator" complete with slide show.

And speaking of old fashioned vibrators, did you catch the episode of Mad Men when Peggy tried out the vibrator belt?

No need for that now a days, not when there's "the toy":

The Toy is a hi-tech vibrating bullet. Connected to a mobile phone with Bluetooth it becomes an intimate, silent connection between two lovers, regardless of distance. Custom designed for your pleasure, it is intelligent, sophisticated and invented for bliss.

And if you're a masturbating environmentalist who's worn out her rabbit send it back to the company and enjoy a brand new one for half price. Or get yourself get a brand new solar powered vibrator (you can get a 4-in-1 hot dog maker from the same site, should you get hungry).

If you're planning a trip, You might want to check out the San Francisco Chronicle's guide to traveling with your vibrator. Don't put your rabbit in your carry on and take out the batteries of anything stashed in your checked bags. (And remember, the 3 ounce rule for liquids goes for lube, too.)

Okay, go enjoy yourself and remember, just because there's a toy involved doesn't mean you have to solo.

The Knitting Drummer Knits While Playing The Drums

If you've already figured out what you're going to knit, perhaps you'd like to knit it while drumming.

Knitting Projects

If you're looking for new knitting projects like my pal, Ali, check out some of these knit goods. Very cool:

This is the chicken viking hat. You can find a pattern for the baby size at Aloha Misc Media House. An adult sized pattern is on Crafter.

But if you're not really in the mood for chicken, how about hand knit boobs? These are actually used for medical purposes so put that dirty brain of yours back where it belongs. You can find a pattern for them on knitty.com, a source for many wierd and wonderful patterns including felted skate blade covers, a knit wig with curlers and a handknit womb.

Perhaps none of these are quite strange enough for your taste. If not, take a look at what the knitters at knittaplease are doing. For reasons entirely beyond my comprehension, they are knitting covers for everything from car antennas to the Great Wall of China and pretty much anything in between.

Relationship Blogging

My friends Ali and Simon have decided to blog and vlog about their relationship. Not an unprecedented move by any means.
I just listened to a podcast from SXSW 2008 entitled Bloggers in Love: Intimacy and Technology. It features a bunch of blogging couples including Chris Pirillo and Ponzi and Julie Leung and Ted Leung.
You can listen right here:



Blogging couple Mike and Rion have a week old baby. I'm not sure if Ali and Simon will think that's an auspicious sign or not.

Addicted to Scrabbulous?

You're not alone. According to today's New York Times, Scrabulous has over 700,000 players a day and nearly three million registered users.
As you may know Mattel and Hasbro, the companies that own the rights to Scrabble, aren't happy about all of this. They call the online version of the game piracy and are threatening legal action.
And it's true, Scrabulous is identical to Scrabble in a lot of ways. For example, it has an identical board and exactly the same number of tiles with the same point values. And the guys who made Scabulous, Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, are raking in the dough -- $25,000 a month in advertising.
Meanwhile, Scrabulous is insanely popular with many users having a dozen or so games going at any one time. How many Scrabulous games do you have going right now?



If you're looking for new Scrabulous partners, I have two friends who probably have multiple games going right now, but are looking for new challengers nonetheless. Find Ali and Simon on Facebook and challenge them to a game. Tell them the Web Archaelogist sent you.

What To Do With All That Snow?

There's a ton of it out there. If you've got no place left to put it, how about building snowman? Or better yet, snowwoman?
This cold as ice resident of Bethel Maine is 122 feet 1 inch tall with 5 foot wreaths for eyes; 16 skis for eyelashes, 30 ft. spruce trees for arms and 5 red auto tires for lips. Known as Olympia Snowwoman, she weighs in at 13,000,000 lbs.
She's the world's biggest snow person ever, beating out the 113'7 snowman built in Bethel back in 1999. He weighed a mere 8,000,000 lbs.
Check out the SnowWoman blog for tons more pictures. Or watch her on her very own webcam.