I've left a tab for this article open on my laptop ever since I first read it.  I wasn't sure if I should just tag it on delicious so it would show up on solecist.net, but you know what?  This is just too damned weird to leave unacknowledged.  For the non-squeamish, (you've been warned!) or just those who delight in the foibles of human nature and/or northern Alabama, read on from this al.com article:

Dearest peeps who read this blog via RSS, did this entry show up in your feedreaders?

Fingers crossed; I think I may have found the problem that caused private entries to not show up in feedreaders.

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I'm lodging this so I have a second copy.  This is a knitting pattern I purchased some number of years ago from a website that is now defunct. Since it was copyrighted, I won't publish it publicly, but I hate the thought of this pattern being entirely lost.

www.richesseonline.com
Copyright © 2003 by Wendy Siera
Permission to make and distribute 10
copies of this pattern is granted to the
original purchaser, so long as this
copyright notice and the “design by”
designation remains unaltered.

Well, I have my initial answer for the quilt design:

From Scott Andrew:

So ... how are YOU celebrating 1234567890 Day?

Need a hint? See this CNET article explaining what today is, and why only dorky sysadmins care.

It's a wholly arbitrary holiday, so I'm thinking I should do something ... random and arbitrary.