Walking the Wall

I am not a woodworker by any stretch of the imagination, but due to ordering some watchmaker cases (for beads), I now get the Lee Valley & Veritas
catalogue in the mail. I have to say that I actually get excited when I
see it in the mail because it is full of the most interesting
tools.  Many of the tools give a little bit of history and point
to a time when furniture making was a craft, not a factory assembly
line process. The thing that caught my attention in this issue was the Bird’s-Mouth Joinery Bits. 
These bits take seperate pieces of wood and create special joints that
allow the pieces to be connected together in a circle that is stronger
than a normal mitre. Basically, it makes the pieces of wood
interconnected and those interconnections make a stronger product
(historically used for masts).  This is interesting to me as I
have been doing research for a paper for my Writing, Style, and
Technology class aboug blogging and cyberculture. What I have found is
that blogging, for most people, allows for a stronger sense of
connections to the web and the people populating the web. Looking at
the picture of the interconnected circle of the wood in the catalogue
during a break from writing my essay made an odd connection with the
circular connected pattern of the internet and blogging. Go figure.