Backyard farming for the digital age. Which came first? The Omlet or the iMac. iMac of course, if your talking about the eglu. Some assembly required, in 5 brilliant colors and comes with chickens…plug and play. If you live near me in Raleigh you will be in good company and possibly the toast of the [...]

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I liked The Bee Movie. It was cute.This blog entry is not about critiquing the movie though, so let me move on after simply saying that compared to other kids movies that have a lot of story interest, humor and visual appeal for the over 12 crowd (i.e. Happy Feet or The Incredibles), The Bee [...]

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Yum. I love the elegance and simplicity of some well designed items printed by Letterpress. Although it’s been all the return-to-yesteryear rage for quite some time now, it’s still difficult to find a Letterpress studio when you need one. Not anymore. Design*sponge has a Letterpress category with recommendations on a host of studios. There is [...]

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So I was at a friend’s house talking about this blog experiment, and she agreed to help me get my ideas all down into some sort of plan.
Search 1, Google.
“blog success”
results: included a disconcerting yet fascinating series of phrases like “monitize” and “optimize” and “leverage the power of the internet.”
Search 2, Google.
“writing a business plan?”
It [...]

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Through one of my favorite blogs, Design Sponge, I learned that the December issue of House and Garden will be the last issue. I must admit, I took the magazine for granted, knowing it as an institution, perusing it with great interest whenever I ran across it, but not supporting it as I now wish [...]

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