It’s Friday! Rock on! Which means a little bit of crafty linked randomness for the cubicle-kept and bored…

.check out the work of Fundacion Solidaridad, truly inspiring handcraft from Chile.

.if you ever wanted to learn how to sculpt a Lionel Richie head from clay, this link is for you.

.make your desktop even more badass with Pixel Girl Presents. (Currently the Fury Cow is presiding over my laptop…)

.read about the evolution of hot pants here.

.check out Design is Kinky (Be sure to check out the theory section. To a dork like me, such geekery is hot…)

.read about why my (occasional?) adopted town of Carrboro is cooler than yours in this recent article on zines.

.become as obsessed as I have with Obsessive Consumption.

.learn how to revolutionize your belongings (and get rid of the crap) over at the wonderful DeMaterialiZe. (Who didn’t love the Fugazi lyric “You are not what you own?” Ironically enough, in high school, I wrote that on my forest green Converse…)

.uncover more about the new documentary Jericho’s Echo: Punk Rock in the Holy Land. (More here.

.see how felt is a force to be reckoned with thanks to Hut Up Berlin.

bizarrely, everyone’s favorite fake Russian lesbians, T.A.T.U., has been helping me compile this list. they also helped me get through the last 2,000 words of my dissertation. i don’t quite know what the allure is, either.