From the monthly archives:
Some last minute news on a great event: From Concentrate’s David Oliver will be presenting his Drawing Pod (which I’ve written about previously) tonight at Pecha Kucha.
What is Pecha Kucha?Pecha Kucha is a worldwide series of events for architects, designers and technologists. “Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds [...]
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Just in time for spring (despite the dreary weather, spring is just around the corner), Paper Cloud is offering 20% off all flowers designs.
Choose from pillows, lighting, journals and cards that are hand-made using all natural materials, including linen, water-based inks and recycled paper.
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After writing about how good dropps are, I’m giving you a turn to tell me what you think.
The kind folks at dropps have offered to send one lucky winner a complimentary 20-pack of dropps detergent. In return, I would ask the winner to write a brief review of their opinions of dropps. Good, [...]
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60 years ago, eastern Massachusetts primarily consisted of an industrial city surrounded by sleepy farming towns. Fast forward to today: eastern Massachusetts is one of the nation’s epicenters for technology and defense. That change is largely due to the growth of the suburbs.
I grew up in those suburbs. Burlington, MA is two towns away [...]
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mod*mom emailed me to let me know that I won her one of her Valentine’s Day giveaways! I am the lucky winner of a Roxio Toast 8, a suite of CD, DVD, and Blu-Ray burning software.
I’m not just writing this to boast, but also to let you know that you can win one of [...]
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Reader Beata tipped me off to HZL, a new line of rugs from Swedish firm Calle Henzel Studio.
HZL by Henzel is built upon a foundation of creativity and a desire to make rugs a key element of interior design. Today HZL work closely with the world’s leading architects and interior designers on special projects. [...]
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Biology based Valentine’s Day cards by Nasty Papercut. (via girl in the green dress)
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For all my talk about sustainability, I think it’s about time I mentioned at least one household cleaning item.
Fact: “Most traditional laundry detergents are 75% water; even the new ‘2X concentrates’ are 50% water”. So when we add laundry detergent, we’re adding mostly water to… water.
Enter Dropps, a new type of laundry detergent. Well, [...]
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How much would I love to see my blog win an award?
Earlier today, I got word of the Blogger’s Choice Awards, an event where you can nominate a random blog for a “Best of” award in one or more categories. Feeling hopeful and a little adventurous, I nominated designboston for Best Blog About Stuff [...]
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Every year, the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury holds the Winter Juried Show, a highly competitive show that attracts a number of very talented artists. This year, Autrefois, a painting by Eli Cedrone (whom I wrote about last month) was one of 100 works chosen from a field of over 500 entries.
The initial reception was [...]
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