and knitting

Memory & Aging Research and YouTube

I'm enamored with the web, but have to admit that a lot of the interesting projects and tools end up being deployed primarily to promote crappy summer films or metallic tasting new energy beverages. It's interesting to see a center of scientific research find a way to use social media to inform the public about their work. UCSF's Memory and Aging Center has set up a YouTube channel and created widgets to promote their efforts to educate health care professionals and the public about neurodegenerative illnesses like dementia. Someday I will find the strength to write about why research into dementia and Alzheimer's is so important to me.

Knitting News: Alien knitting patterns undo Dr Who fan

More than a wee bit late on this one, but I thought it was interesting...

Alien knitting patterns undo Dr Who fan The Times - May 14 2008

A Doctor Who fan who created knitting patterns for the programme’s monsters and gave them away online has been told by the BBC to stop or face the threat of court action. The action against the licence fee-payer who had produced patterns of the squid-faced Ood and the short, fat, white Adipose for members of her knitting circle has rapidly become a cause célèbre on the internet. The 26-year-old woman, who uses the name Mazzmatazz because she does not want to be identified, said that she was “just an ordinary person who likes knitting” who had been caught up in “a bit of whirlwind”. Lawyers argue that her case shows that trademark and copyright law should be changed.

Wishing and hoping and thinking and praying

Well, at least I've been thinking of knitting. I even picked up some fancy new stitch markers in the hope that I'll pick up the needles again someday. More soon.

Cheers!