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Horse Carriage and Buggy LED Lights P36 Replacement Lamps

Cool!

Nachos, anyone? - Word stories - Oxford English Dictionary

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Boing Boing: Universal Music CEO: iPod owners are thieves
“These devices are just repositories for stolen music, and they all know it,” UMG chairman/CEO Doug Morris says. “So it’s time to get paid for it.”

Pot/Kettle Kettle/Pot.  And how much of this extortion money will the artists actually see, Dougie???

Samba Team Asks Novell to Reconsider
Samba Team Asks Novell to Reconsider

The Samba Team disapproves strongly of the actions taken by Novell on November 2nd.

One of the fundamental differences between the proprietary software world and the free software world is that the proprietary software world divides users by forcing them to agree to coercive licensing agreements which restrict their rights to share with each other, whereas the free software world encourages users to unite and share the benefits of the software.

The patent agreement struck between Novell and Microsoft is a divisive agreement. It deals with users and creators of free software differently depending on their “commercial” versus “non-commercial” status, and deals with them differently depending on whether they obtained their free software directly from Novell or from someone else.

The goals of the Free Software community and the GNU GPL allow for no such distinctions.

Furthermore, the GPL makes it clear that all distributors of GPL’d software must stand together in the fight against software patents. Only by standing together do we stand a chance of defending against the peril represented by software patents. With this agreement Novell is attempting to destroy that unified defense, exchanging the long term interests of the entire Free Software community for a short term advantage for Novell over their competitors.

For Novell to make this deal shows a profound disregard for the relationship that they have with the Free Software community. We are, in essence, their suppliers, and Novell should know that they have no right to make self serving deals on behalf of others which run contrary to the goals and ideals of the Free Software community.

Using patents as competitive tools in the free software world is not acceptable. Novell, as a participant in numerous debates, discussions and conferences on the topic knew this to be the case. We call upon Novell to work with the Software Freedom Law Center to undo the patent agreement and acknowledge its obligations as a beneficiary of the Free Software community.

And if they don’t back out of this deal with the devil then they need to be fourced to quit bundling software that uses the GPL with their distro.

Medieval

Good article on fingerloop weaving with detailed diagrams of the finger movements.

Lots of other good info at this site also.  Article on pavilians being reworked the page states.

Pavilion 2003

Not quite a period design but these folks make a lot of sense.  They have taken and redesigned the entire pavilion to make the stresses flow from top to bottom via straps and grommets. No really heavy sewing required.

Season Shot - Ammo with flavor.

Now this is a shot of a different flavor.  Good idea.  Much better than breaking a tooth on lead shot.

EcoGeek - Technology for the Environment - Water Powered Battery?! No, No they arent.

Water activated, carbon based batteries.  Now that’s a real breakthrough!

Dragonwing - Index of Columns

Piles of info on tent making.  Gonna be pulled down at some point due to a book coming out so get them now.

A Sorta Taxonomy of Pavilions

Good info on the different types of pavilions.

Pavilions

They have some very clear illustrated instructions on flat fell seams and ceiling to wall seams.

Building a Plausibly Medieval Pavilion

Surviving Medieval Pictures of Tents and Pavilions

Trying to collect these links for reference.   Still trying to decide on what kind of tent/pavilion to build.

This planet is crazy: Magnetic man

Now that I have seen it I still don’t believe it but go and see for yourself.  This guy seems to be able to hold all kinds of stuff magnetic or not to the surface of his body.  Weird stuff…

Tom’s Project Notebook

Quite a broad range of projects that fit into the SCA world.  Cool stuff.

By-Products

Check out the benches and seats/garden sculptures.

Zim - a desktop wiki

Sounds interesting.  Gonna have to download it and give it a try.

Spent the day getting bits and pieces of awning and cover down and a porch built on the south side of the compound. Got a mortese and tenion style post and beam wall up with peeled pine rafters every 4 feet and 2×6 perlins on 4 foot centers with16 feet of tin down before the rain hit. Enough for now. Managed to get most of the extra wood and and all of the tools under cover prior to the liquid sunshine attack.

Will try to get pix soon. uprights are cedar aged for several years. rafters are pine cut and peeled last year about this time.

Got enough wood cut and split to keep us warm for another 3 or 4 days. Gotta love living on the edge… ‘;-)

Not that it was a bad day just a long one with very few people spending long green.  We came out with more in our pockets than when we went but not by much.  Paid for the site rental and lunch and left us with (I think) $11.50 at the end of the day.  Cat got another long woven piece done and I made about a dozen brass and copper pieces.  Not sure if the problem was our products are just not right for the venue or what but will try it again next year.

Am planning on doing a lot more of the art and craft shows.  Need to find out what else is coming up this and next month in the general area.

This was our shakedown show and overall it went smooth.  Got to make a lot more product to sell and diversify a bit more too.  Since this show was a tractor show it would have been better with the shaving horse and me shaving stool legs or something simular.  Had one old guy ask me if I made the milking stools and when I said I did he said I should make them for sale.  Which I have been thinking of but hammering out an arrow head (10 to 15 minutes) is a lot easier and quicker than splitting a slab of wood from a log, smoothing it down, boring holes for the legs, tapering the hole (1 1/2 inch hole ends up, in a 3 inch thick seat, tapered to nearly 2 inches on the bottom which takes a bit of arm power) debarking the legs, smoothing the legs, tapering one end of said legs, cutting them to length, trimming the tops if they stick through, and then putting it all together.  I get $5 to $7 for the necklaces, so to make the same (which figures to around $25 an hour on the necklaces) I’d have to charge $50 to $75 for a stool.  Maybe could get it but just don’t know.  I’ll hack a couple out and take them to the next show and see.

Sold one of my old baskets for $5 so will try making a few more of them too.  Should have charged more but the thing had been collecting dust for years.  I think I can do either 2 or 3 in an hour so should sell for around $10.

Cat sold a couple of braclets and a scarf.  Had a lot of interest in the inkle loom but no one seemed that interested in the woven product.  Guess I could build the looms.  Not a lot to them just a bunch of holes and dowels.  One slot.  Need to make one for Cat so we can get this one back to the owner.  Also was interest in the book.  Need to find where we can get them wholesale.
I think in a bigger show more geared to arts and crafts we would do better.  More affluent group looking would help too.

Think I am gonna surf for a bit and call it an early evening.

Just got back from getting the booth set up.  Show starts around 8 am so am gonna try to be there around 7 to 7:30 to get the stuff set up.  Still got to go to the creek and get the bench, tools and stock.  And just saw 2 arrow heads I had made and are laying in front of the monitor.  They are now in my pocket.

Long week as my lower back will attest.  Seem to have a pinched nerve or something along those lines.  Sucker makes me stop whatever I am doing at the time it fires off and hold the position.  Got my support belt on now and had it on since lunch but still quite painfull.  Gonna have to take a day or two off when this is over.  Course the thing at Wetumpka is on through sunday so may try to make that.  Depending on how tomorrow goes.
For now am gonna finish packing stuff up and then take it easy for a bit till bed time.  Which is gonna be early tonight…