Noodly appendages
Posted on 11.11.05 by lucia @ 3:35 pm

Touched by His Noodly AppendageNo doubt some recall I previously blogged about the Flying Spaghetti Monster who created the universe.

I recently saw his image, and became possessed with the desire to knit something in his divine likeness.

This desire grew into a compulsion. Last night, I found myself casting on during our guild meeting. I fell into a Zen like trace, and these noodly appendages formed on my needles.

What can this mean?  


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Technorati’s blog ranker.
Posted on 10.11.05 by lucia @ 7:13 pm

Teruterubouzu of And Knitting has noticed a puzzling thing about Technorati’s blog ranker:

Technorati has a blog finder in beta, but it seems seriously flawed. English Cut is listed as the blog that has the “most authority” for the tag knitting Now I’m actually quite a fan of that blog, and have linked to it before, but it seems oddly placed in the knitting category, especially because it doesn’t seem to have a single post that contains the word knitting. It makes me wonder about what other blog finder categories are similarly screwy.

Yes. It’s flawed.

My blog is listed 7th on their Knitting blog list; that’s not too bizarre. But, here’s the really odd thing: I’m 3rd on their list for “intelligent design”!

Why? As far as I can tell, Technorati just counts total links from other blogs with no attempt to see if the other blogs that have linked to you are “about” the same subject. By their reckoning, 70 blogs link to me, and that’s all their blog ranker cares about.

So what that I’ve only blogged about intelligent design something like 3 times. I’m “authoritative”!

I suspect once a fair number of people have claimed blogs and also are using tags, Technorati will figure out they need to only count the blog links from blogs that post on the subject at hand. So, my 68 or so knitting links, and two miscellaneous non-knitting links won’t make me an “authority” on ID just because I discussed the Spaghetti Monster a few times.

Meanwhile, for some reason, Technorati recently stopped noticing my tags when I post. Maybe that will magically fix itself when I upgrade to WordPress 1.5.3? Sigh. . .


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Intelligent Design(ers)
Posted on 10.05.05 by lucia @ 9:04 am

As my readers know, I am convinced: Evolution is guided by intelligence.

As I research the subject, my conviction deepens. As part of my research, I surf blogs. Imagine my delight when I came across an article with the title Stuff at “When Knitting Was a Manly Art”; Jerry’s article included a link to this important New Yorker news story: Intelligent Design.

As a read the New Yorker article, a bright light appeared to me and this thought popped into my head:

The ever evolving wonders and marvels of life on earth must be guided by many hands.

I was then visited this trinity of tangled spirits:

The Giant Spaghetti Monster.

As first revealed to Bobby Henderson; it was The Giant Spaghetti Monster who created the earth and its flora and fauna. He nurtures the plants that sustain us. He ordered humankind to till the earth, sow grains, cultivate herbs and raise animals so we could prepare pesto fettuccini.

We invoke his name each time we eat pasta and slurp the tangly noodles into our mouths. Ramen.

The Rewound Yarn Goddess.

Behold, she who clothes us!

The Rewound Yarn Goddess guided our eyes to see farm animals covered in fur. She taught us to harvest the fur, spin, weave, knit or crochet it into fabric. Textile production lead to higher thought processes, prodding us to envision binary codes and invent nifty things like the Jacquard loom.

Thank the Goddess who, in her infinite wisdom, guided us to develop the basis for computing. Ever may we cross our needles in her honor!

The Jumbly Wire Wizard.

This ever present, silently conducting, sexually ambiguous, and when tightly wound, highly magnetic entity conveys power to servers across the planet. Its appendages permit mere mortals to download pesto recipes and knitting patterns from a far, helping us fulfill the commands of the its sibling deities, the Spaghetti Monster and the Yarn Goddess.

Can we not see how this electrical Wizard magically transforms the binary codes inspired by the Yarn Goddess herself and ultimately brings mortal beings . . . blogs?

Pray this incarnate being electrifies our planet in perpetuity!


As I beheld this tangled Trinity, I had an even greater epiphany: First food, then clothing, and finally, entertainment. Intelligent beings guide who guide our physical evolution also guide our technological evolution!

May it ever be so. Ramen!


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