Archive for August, 2008

Last weekend, we had media passes to the Outsidelands festival, a multi-day, outdoor concert in Golden Gate Park. The passes were courtesy of Crowdfire, a Web app that makes it easy to find out what people are saying about an event by aggregating attendees’ Twitter, Flickr, You Tube, and Facebook feeds. Useful, yo.
Anyway, Hank had […]

So. What can I say about being burglarized that’s constructive?
Well, first off, none of us were hurt. The thief broke in in the middle of the day, and we all (oddly) happened to be gone. So the burglar got our stuff, but the baby is safe. It makes me feel better just to type that, […]

So remember when I told you that most women’s underwear makes me want to stab people? I asked the universe where to get comfy yet stylish underwear, and 105 of you ponied up.
As a thank you, here’s a round up of the cutest and most oft’ name-checked undies in the all of Mightyland:
Adorable Enough to […]

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
by Susan Faludi
I read this in college and it completely changed my worldview. A feminist is a person who believes in equality between the sexes — so it turns out I am a feminist. This came as a surprise to me at the time. Also, it looks like there’s […]

My favorite story from a series of small vignettes by phone sex workers.
(via Designer-Daily)

I just finished a new article for The Morning News: Writing My Twitter Etiquette Article: 14 Ways to Use Twitter Politely.
So, you may be asking yourself, “Why should I change the way I Twitter to satisfy a bunch of whiny tweetards who don’t even know how to use Twitter anyway? They can just unsubscribe […]

-Bag of Chips
-Ivory Soap
-Ping Pong Ball

My last piece for JC Penney’s is about my inexplicable lust for pretty dishtowels. I also did a roundup of the ones I covet most on Etsy. So if you like cool dishtowels, we should have a party together where we use wasteful paper towels to wipe up any messes.

One of the very best things about Buenos Aires is the robots in the architecture. These are some photos I took while I was there because I wanted to show you guys the robots. See?

In conclusion, robots are for me.

-Guest Editor Evany Thomas of Evany.com is underway at Mighty Goods, and she is awesome. Check back over the next couple of days to see all her picks.
-Back to School Guide at Mighty Junior, featuring astounding gummy bear pencil sharpeners, and lion backpack so adorable that I’m trying to justify buying it for myself. (Rawr!)
-Lunchbox […]