It’s like a tale from Worst-Case Scenario:
It’s cold out but the only way to warm up is to have someone let you in the house. No one can hear you knocking in your deluxe faux fur mittens.

You whip out your iphone and try to call your friends inside but the touch screen won’t pick up [...]

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The pain reliever, Motrin, lost a major bonding opportunity by poking fun at new moms who use baby slings and other “close to the body” carriers. A new online and magazine ad was pulled Monday with an apology on their home page due to thousands and thousands of twitter comments by outraged moms and blogs [...]

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Can’t find the exact fabric you are looking for? Never fear. Design and print your own with help from Spoonflower.
Hey, I hate to brag on the creative scene in North Carolina but Mebane is the home of this online service for the ultimate in DYI fabric fun! The crafting revolution is going tech in all [...]

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Ok if you’re addicted to this, then I commiserate. I love global stats and graphs and history… I could spend all day at Gapminder. It’s a beautifully simple way of looking for relationships between important (or weird) data. You can even make movies to show your graph changing over time.  You’ve can plot useful info [...]

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A week ago our friend, and fellow Designbox member, Paul Friedrich (we did a post about Paul’s Skateboard Cowboys back in July) sent out an email titled “A test of your willpower” and it certainly has been a test.
Watching these puppies sleep/play/eat is a great way to distract yourself. There are 6 puppies, 3 girls [...]

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