Software
Erin Weik’s husband made for her an online interactive colour planner for what appears to be the 8 strand kongo.
http://lythastudios.com/123bead/kumiplanner.html

Events
“Coming soon” Instructables will be running a paracord contest. Anything using primarily paracord is eligible. At stake is a custom laser engraved Leatherman (type unspecified). Once the contest gets going, it will be open for 2.5 weeks. The instructable must use paracord, it cannot be done with some other kind of rope with the note “you could also use paracord for this”.
http://www.instructables.com/community/Coming-Soon-Paracord-Contest/

I was working on the main page for the mystic knot and decided that I really needed to have my own illustration of the ru-yi knot (如意, rúyì, halfway between a 장고매듭, jang-go-mae-deup, and a 가지방석매듭, ga-ji-bang-seong-mae-deup).

Things to make
Peter Dekker shares an illustrated how to for wrapping your Chinese sword grips. http://www.mandarinmansion.com/art_files/gripwrap.pdf (336 kb) (via)