Why the sudden interest in “feather braids”?

Feather, braids, and beads
Feather, braids, and beads

Anyone know why there’s been a sudden spike in searches for “feather braids”? I’ve seen a big spike in views on a photograph I took at the UMM Powwow back in 2007 (see the plot below).

Views on Feathers, braids, and beads
Views on Feathers, braids, and beads

When I drill down into the search terms, it’s clear that lots of people are searching for “feather braids”, “how to do feather braids” and the like. When I search for “feather braids” on Google, my photo on Flickr is the fourth link, which is presumably why there have been so many hits all of a sudden. I can’t find anything that would explain this flurry of searches, however. Anyone out there in the Hive Mind know what’s driving this?

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I love our students (alumni edition)

Two cool tweets from two cool alumni :-).

_eli at MICS 2007
_eli at MICS 2007

These two tweets, each wonderful in their own way, just showed up back-to-back in my Twitter stream:

The joy of programming is taking a crappy piece of code, full of hacks and bad practices, and rewriting it to be better in every way. — LynnKale

for a moment I couldn’t think of a word for “thing to tell me how to do other things,” googled ‘how to’ and figured the word (documentation) — _eli

It’s gems like this that make my day. Both authors are UMM CSci alum, now off doing cool stuff. It’s neat to be able to stay in touch on-line.

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