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6-23-2010 12-41-30 PM

The End of the Sticky?

A work friend of mine, that shares my office supply fetish, found this very cool device at Brookstone called the Boogie Board. It’s a simple little pad and stylus that you can draw/write on, then click a button and it clears…ready for more notes. There have been many non-electronic version of this over the years. [...]

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Food Relationships

The cleanse or fast is a great way to recalibrate and rethink our relationship with food. Ernie the Attorney wrote an interesting post on his blog about a personal challenge to try ‘The Master Cleanse.’ These extreme fasts are not sustainable, of course, but Ernie points out some interesting lessons learned about our relationship with [...]

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iPhone 4 Has Arrived

Well of course it has. But I just got mine! Yeah! Even with the shipping address snafu, the amazing fedex people and Apple folks managed to fix my oversight and still get the phone to me *almost* on time. First impression: It’s gorgeous! Pretty snappy as well, compared to my old iPhone 3g. (I never [...]

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Pie!

This just looks like fun! Do people still make pie? I’ve never been much of a baker, preferring the inexact art of cooking vs. the exacting requirements of baking. There’s a nice review of the book over at Powell’s as well. Also, love the cover. Enjoy!

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EFF Firefox plugin

The EFF has created a great Firefox plugin, called HTTPS Everywhere, that will use the encrypted option (https) automatically when available. Great idea! Here’s a nice quick review from The Command Line.

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I Am My Own Worst Enemy!

Boy, oh boy! I’m pretty excited about the iPhone 4 finally coming out. I marked my calendar and managed to preorder on June 15th. It took some doing. I wasn’t able to get an order to go through till after midnight, but it was worth it. All excited, I noticed Sunday I had a shipping [...]

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Is there any real news left?

Is there any real news left?

As usual, xkcd is right on!

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Interesting Colors

I love glass bricks. I don’t think they are used nearly enough. Wouldn’t it be great to have a whole wall or room, heck, even a whole house of glass bricks? Some great colors this morning in the bathroom window. The picture doesn’t do justice, but the colors and lines caught my imagination this morning [...]

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Nature’s Air Scrubbers

It’s been a whole week! And I haven’t killed my new office plant yet. In fact, it is doing pretty well. I may have to start thinking of names if it keeps this up On that note, here’s a great post from the gang over at Pro’s Who Know, listing the best houseplants to improve [...]

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Vintage Park Posters

This gallery from National Geographic showing vintage U.S. Parks Posters is pretty darn cool. Enjoy!

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