Blogs
Sally, The Fearless Knitter, finally uses one of her 2 marudai after 15 years. You’re not alone, Sally!!
http://fearlessknitter.blogspot.com/2009/03/24-cool-beans-after-15-years-of-owning.html

Kumihimo in Mongolian (.mn is the country code for Mongolia)! I would have expected written Mongolian (or romanized Mongolian?) to look different (a little research shows that modern written Mongolian is modified Cyrillic, so this is written in some kind of romanization scheme).
http://michelle.monstudnet.mn/2009/03/06/kumihimo/

Loopykd is experimenting with kumihimo.
http://home-spun.com/?p=427

Things to buy
A piece of hairwork that is extremely reminiscent of kumihimo.
http://www.rubylane.com/shops/timestreasures/iteml/JR-2007-37#pic1