Gay Superhero in June?

According to ABC News in June DC Comics will be releasing the name of the superhero who will be coming out. Check out the article here: Comics Cliffhanger as Unnamed DC Superhero to Come Out of Closet

Awesome Custom Crafts

Beautiful bead work created by Sophies Beads.
One of the many that I ordered from her

The internet has opened the world of geekdom up in a way that was impossible to imagine before we connected. I didn't even know what anime was when I was younger. It wasn't until my first boyfriend in college got me into it that I realized what I was missing. I hear people talk about being fans when they were younger and how hard it was to find anime to watch. Being selective was next to impossible, you were lucky when you could find anything. That's how books in a small town were for me. I read anything I could get my hands on in those days. I have read things that now, in my days of plenty, would make me cringe. Actually some of it does make me cringe looking back on it but I was desperate for my book fix. I'm glad I missed that phase with anime. I love that once I learned about its awesomeness it was so accessible that I didn't have to worry about how I would find the next thing to watch. Though I do regret that I didn't have that in high school, it would have been amazing to have something like that to connect to people with. I have no clue if there were people who watched but I'm sure there were and I was just oblivious. What this was all leading up to is is that these days it is so easy to find people who share your interests and just as importantly people who make the stuff you love. For instance, I am currently making my boyfriend a Mario throw thanks to Carolyn Lisle on Ravelry which is an awesome site for knitting and crocheting patterns.There is also Etsy a great site for handmade or vintage stuff including the awesome book jewelry that I got from Sophies Beads. I also recently found a cool site called Pixel Stitches and the stuff she makes is amazing.

Yoshi in all his knitted glory thanks to the patterns on Ravelry.
I swear it would look better if I had a better camera. My
flash is not my friend sometimes.

Does anyone else know about any great geeky craft sites?

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Little Free Libraries

Little Free Libraries are popping up all over the States. They are little community libraries were you can take a book and leave one or just borrow it and return it. Basically it`s an out pouring of people sharing their love for books. This is an idea that I love. Putting books out there for everyone to share and love. It's the reason that I joined Book Crossing and Book Mooch. I want my books to go to a good home. I don't want to just donate them and hope they survive the selection process, I want to know that someone out there is loving them and using them. I want to build one and fill it up with library discards or the donations that don`t make the cut because those books have so much more reading in them, it`s a shame to see them being recycled. Unfortunately I am an apartment dweller so I have no home for a little library. I have my fingers crossed that someone near me will create one so I can support theirs though.

Amazing Library Statistics

Working at the library I register ALOT of people for cards, enough that I wonder how we haven't managed to register them all yet but apparently we are getting close. One out of six people in the world are registered library users! When you consider how many people there are in the world that number is intense. Of course I feel like that number is not evenly distributed throughout all countries but still imagine how many people that is. Actually no you don't even need to imagine it, I'm just going to tell you. There are 1.1 billion people registered in libraries world wide. Well at least as of 2003 when the report Libraries: How they stack up was created. If you are interested in other amazing library statistics take a look here. I promise that though it is statistics it is not nearly as boring as it sounds, there are pictures and everything. Though really they aren't great pictures. You should check out how libraries stack up against Amazon, I was surprised. 

Pop-Up Library

This is an awesome idea! It almost makes me want to get out there and make one of my own:



Thanks to the Huffington Post  for showing me this awesome idea

Hop Against Homophobia

Wow it's been so long since I've done this that there is a whole new Blogger for me to learn but after reading all the amazing posts for the Hop for Homophobia I can't help but give this another try. The posts I read were amazing and I can't wait until next year! Even though the official dates are over I still urge people to check out all the fantastic posts.