Catching up on Link Stuff.

There's a stack of lovely links to share with you, so you're not getting an "Old Knitting" post today (wait for tomorrow, though...)

Instead, here is other stuff I hope you'll enjoy:

Uppsala University has a new database called "Gender and Work", where you can search and find different sources regarding, well, gender and work. While the title sounds very international, it looks like the database interface and the base itself are Swedish only. Still, if you are looking for sources and can read Swedish, this might be a lovely tool for you.

The next one is definitely in English. I know this, because I have helped making it myself... as you might know, I am a fan of the wonderful Escape Pod, so when I met with Alasdair at LonCon, I volunteered, spur-of-the-moment, to be one of their narrators. Well, though my first story is not for Escape Pod, but for Cast of Wonders (which is a YA podcast, soon to be part of the Escape Artists flock), I'm very excited that it is live now. You can listen to me narrate "Fairy Bones" by Guy Stewart here. (My voice is a little nicer usually, those were the last dregs of the Cold of Doom that had me in its claws for a while.)

If you read German and are interested in material culture of the Middle Ages Roman Age, there's an interesting (and textile-/clothing-related) article at Archaeologik, titled "Von Menschen und Kapuzenmänteln oder Wie kommuniziert eine Gesellschaft mit Alltagsgegenständen?".

You prefer more English? Here you go. There's a long poem listing an incredible amount of weird pronounciation rules (or exceptions) in English, called, fittingly, "Chaos". Sometimes, people attempt to read it, and here's one of the many youtube videos of it:


In final news, I'm hard at work getting the new European Textile Forum pages finished and online. I've kept records of how the old pages did look (which included the programmes, well, at least mostly!) but there was no real, proper archive. This will change now for the better, and it will also make administration and preparation of the Forum easier for me in the future (at least I hope so).