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Jonathan Stern:


Titus Vineyards

Posted on June 23, 2008 Under Food

Hope you don't mind if I share something personal. I just got back from my honeymoon in Napa (no, I will not be posting photos), and of all of the tasting rooms, wine shops, and California cuisine restaurants, my best…

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Common Threadz

Posted on June 20, 2008 Under Eco

We write about T-shirts a lot on this blog. And, why not? They're in our closet, they fit -- our jeans would be lost without them. However, we're much more keen to write about tees that help African children get…

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GenePak x DNA 11

Posted on June 3, 2008 Under Art

Sure, your genetic code makes up the building blocks of who you are, why you're balding, were never good at sports, and will probably die some time in your mid-forties ... but beyond the science and premonitions of doom, what…

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Virtual Fish in a Virtual Tank

Posted on May 23, 2008 Under Life

Love fish? Hate algae? Indifferent about LCD technology? Then you're a little strange ... but that's good, because you'll also be into this blue whale sized "virtual" fish tank in Bejing. Longer than an American football field, we can't help…

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Brand Tags

Posted on May 22, 2008 Under Life

Let's play a little word association. When we say Noah Brier what do you think of? A man? Yes (we think). A blog? Not bad. A man with a blog dedicated to finding out what word connotations people associate with…

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FadMashion

Posted on May 21, 2008 Under Fashion

Fashion and technology can get along. After all, it was a savvy mind that came up with the sewing machine, Nike's Pump sneaker, and Project Runway. FadMashion has its own ideas on how textiles and technology co-mingle. The goal of…

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Spectra newsreader

Posted on May 19, 2008 Under Life

CNN news crawl, meet your younger, colorful, more animated brother. If you've ever said to yourself, "I hate reading the news. But if it were color coded by topic and then put into a swirling vortex of Flash animation, then…

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db clay: Version 3.1

Posted on May 16, 2008 Under Fashion

Portland's db clay has done it again ... on the eco-friendly tip, of course. Besides the fact that they're handmade (and honestly, who takes such pride in wallet craftsmanship anymore?), the version 3.1 design patterns are fairly off-the-wall. We don't…

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Kluster's Knewsroom

Posted on May 14, 2008 Under Life

Ben Kaufman wants you to work for him. And you. And you. And all those people in that building next to you. We told you about his ever morphing business of crowdsourced product development called Kluster. Now it has landed…

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Penguin UK's New 007 Covers

Posted on May 14, 2008 Under Design

So this morning I woke up in a James Bond kind of mood. Maybe it was the fact I fell asleep reading about how Amy Winehouse and her bouffant were too cracked out to record the theme song for the…

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