Some more stuff, while I am prepping for Bielefeld in the background and still trying to get on top of the heap...
Here's a free
Dragon Lace pattern - for you knitters among us. The really fun thing about it is that its creator, Naomi Parkhurst, uses a special method to encode a word into a knitting pattern - and in this case, it really looks like dragon heads...
If you prefer to be creative in a totally different way, there's a competition thingie run by the EU parliament. Your goal is to
de-bunk one of the EU Myths (such as "cucumbers have to have a certain shape to be able to sell them") in a comic or caricature. The page I found is German only, and it seems it originates from Austria - but if you read German enough to understand what you can do, you should be able to join in, I think. It's the EU, after all.
If you are using Twitter and have received the note about a change in the TOS, and are now wondering about said changes - a kind soul has made a
difference check that you can see here.
EscapePod, my favourite science fiction story podcast of all time, has put up a list with a few
suggestions for new listeners... so in case you need a story or two, that might be a place to start.