news & crafts

newsfangled
x. Recently I read about a group of millionaires in Germany who volunteered to pay 10% tax to help consolidate the budget [@ cnbc blog]; and now, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are requesting all billionaires in our country donate at least half of their net worth to charity, by the time of their death. [@ cnn money]

x. I found a new term for the negativity of fluorescent lighting - electropollution. Sometimes people hear that word and immediately think of people in tin foil hats, but in some cases I believe this is true. Why wouldn't the fact that we're surrounded by electronics constantly somehow impact our health? This article proposes a third type of Diabetes. The tests they performed indicated someone with Diabetes type 3 would walk on a treadmill and have their blood sugar spike, but if they walked outside it lowered. [@ naturalnews]

badass crafts
x. amazing guide to sewing darts [@ sew mama sew!]

x. cute little pattern sizing chart [@ keyka lou]