Dish Rag Tag: the Sequel sign-ups are officially closed at 289! Follow Yarn Miracle to stay current on Tag related events including next year’s race.
Dish Rag Tag sign-ups are now at 266! Will there be 34 more people before noon tomorrow? Stay tuned to Yarn Miracle to find out!

In the meantime:

Michael and Don are ready to alpha launch their latest endeavor. You’ll like this. It’s all about connectedness. Who you know, who you follow, who knows you. They need some test users to sign up and get their Divvs Rating. It’s free, painless, and oddly fun.

Here’s the text from the front page of Divvs:

Our primary service is the Divvs Rating. We analyze your connections to other people across all the social networks you share with us, do some Complicated Math, and come up with a simple number that represents how connected you are.

It’s perfect for Craigslist or web forums where you want to keep your personal details private, but want to prove you’re a real person, with real friends. You can share your rating anywhere you can add a link to an image, and you do it without disclosing anything personal.

Think credit score, but social not monetary. Sign up for fun and to help test the system.

**Just for fun (I just thought of this and DRT has made me a little contest happy), comment on this post with your rating before midnight (central) Sunday August 10, and I will throw you in the pot to win some sort of knitty goodness. This is an anywhere in the world contest by the way! There is also a skein or two of Socks That Rock to the knitter who manages to knock the top rated user out of his slot.**

Right now I have a 74 out of 100.

This might not be a 74 anymore due to Wild Fluctuation (see below).

Not bad, but if you all sign up, it would get better! Once you’ve finished that process, and have become obsessed with your rating, run over to the support site and give a thumbs up to adding ravelry! If there was a Plurk user out there that wanted that network involved – open a support ticket*.

Just so you know, since this is the “alpha launch” the ratings will Fluctuate Wildly as more people sign up. Feel free to obsess as much as I have and check your Divvs Rating many many many times a day.

*How cool is Get Satisfaction? I love that you can say how requests and answers make you feel with smilies!
P.S. It’s my Blogaversary! Thank you to Beth for reminding me.