Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
So here's the good news
To look forward to. Two whole dozen snowdrops on the way. To be a memorial planting for Irene.
Yesterday's pleasure was to resume this
Too soon to know what it will be. This is the cordage made from daylily foliage and iris leaves, with silk roving added in. To Thrones and Dominions audiobook.
Then the other news. A major talent has left us, but her work survives
I have a weird connection with Hilary Mantel. I read in her memoirs an account of the view from a house she'd lived in briefly as a child, and kept thinking how familiar it all felt.
A bit of detection revealed that in fact I had been in that room in that house. A University friend lived with her family there, and I saw that view on the morning of her wedding from the house.
Handsome Partner was best Man, I was matron of honor, and it was a happy morning getting them all out to the local church.
Considering Mantel's later writing on how houses are haunted by earlier inhabitants and events, it feels oddly significant.
And today's art, art will save us all
In good news, Judge Cannon has retracted the disputed classified document order completely, leaving only the other documents to be examined. The first and probably last big case of her career. Total admission of incompetence.
We need to get out the vote, keep the House, improve the Senate and keep good things going.
Happy day everyone, seeing my knitting buds today
