“You should probably buy a shredder today. I get a heck of a lot of credit card applications in the mail. A bunch for Visa, quite a few from Mastercard and tons of them from American Express. I almost always tear them in half and throw them away. Sometimes, if I am feeling particularly paranoid, I’ll tear them into little bitty pieces. Is that good enough?”
“Please settle our office dispute. Which is better for the environment: real or fake Christmas trees? Some believe that cutting down juvenile trees, displaying them for two weeks, then throwing them in the garbage is destructive, wasteful, and highly unfriendly to the environment.”
“This post begins an archive of news and resources to help designers devastated by Hurricane Katrina from the New Orleans and the surrounding Gulf States area. As more news or resources become available, I will update this post. Please use comments section to add more information. Our readers should remember that Design Observer has 100,000 site visits a week: let’s use our online community to help at least a few people, and to share information with others who can help.”
“Hi, my name is Matthew Baldwin. I write a blog called defective yeti, I am a contributing writer for The Morning News, and now I’m trying to write a book. Maybe. As with all great endeavors, this one began with a birthday clown…”
“People have known for years that making a list of goals is the best way to achieve them. Why is that? First, getting your goals in writing can help you clarify what you really want to do. You might find you have some important and some frivolous goals. That is OK. You’ve got space for 43 Things on your list. Not every one of them has to change the world (but save room for the ones that might).”
“A day of tying up loose ends, little things that need doing. Replacing cards from the wallet that got stolen while I was away, I believe while J and I were having dinner on a patio. I decided to make myself a new wallet out of old magazines and packing tape, since there is nowhere to purchase a wallet in town here…”
“Hey, what’s Dropcash? It’s a simple way to organize a fundraiser. Are you raising money for a charity, a trip overseas, a family gift for mom, or to pay off a surprise hosting bill? DropCash lets you set up a page so everyone can follow your progress as you near your goal.”
“Online conversion calculators, conversion tables and metric formulas.” Includes temperature, length, distance, measurement, area, volume and weight conversions.
“This is the place where houses are planted, chairs are watered, tables are pruned and fences grow taller and stronger as the years sail past. Extreme trees planted and shaped by Arborsculptor Richard Reames. Arborsculpture is a unique art form that has been called the ultimate branch of topiary with the potential to save the environment. Their are other words and terms that are used to describe this art. Pleaching, permaculture, tree trunk topiary, botanical art, botanical architecture, biotechture, living art, visionary art, and really weird.”
“Shrink the Earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing remaining human ratios remaining the same, it would look like this…”
“Using Locations, Using Pictures to Represent Numbers, List of Words, 60-digit Number, Names and Faces, 60-digit Spoken Number, Deck of Cards in One Minute, 20 or 30 Decks of Cards in an Hour, 2000 or 3000 Digits in an Hour, 400 Digits in 5 Minutes, 150 Words in 15 Minutes, Binary Numbers.”
“Designologue began as a means to pass the unemployed hours of Fall 2001. Originally called k.os Cricket (a nod to the original conspirator and an uninformed attempt to relate it to a similar sport Coudal’s Photoshop Tennis)…”
“‘I went to a flea market, and there was a huge record collection there, at least 20 boxes,’ [Dori] Hadar said, recalling the morning of the discovery. “I was going through that very happily when I came across this box full of strange hand-painted album covers. I realized they were fake and was about to put them back, but then I looked at them more closely.’ Pulling the records out of the sleeves, he was surprised to find that they were made not of vinyl but of cardboard. Each had been cut in the shape of a record, with grooves and a hand-lettered label painted on. Nearly all the albums were credited to an unknown black musician named Mingering Mike, and dated from 1968 to 1976.”
“Everyone loves to get free stuff. Free After Rebate will point you to stores that sell products that end up being free after you send in for a rebate. Youíll have to pay for the item up front, then submit the rebate materials. Some time later (usually six to eight weeks) youíll receive a rebate check. We only list products with 100% rebates, but those rebates usually donít reimburse for shipping and sales tax.”
“Morning Craft carries a range of charming, well crafted accessories, art, and items for the home made by a selection of talented artists, designers and crafters. Everything is handmade on a small scale. We are always on the lookout for a few good artists, crafters, and designers.”
