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Old-World New Technology: The Ceramic iPhone Gramophone →  November 15, 2011

They say everything old is new again, and if that’s indeed the case, then I’m feeling very new. Or fresh. Or new. You see, I’ve decided to try a little social experiment where everything that would normally be referred to as ‘fresh’ is actually ‘new’. New bread, new fruit, a new breeze. You get the [...]

Skitch in the Closet: The Skeleton-Shaped Coat Hanger →  November 1, 2011

If you were to survey at the very least 100 people, chances are that around 98% would own up to having skeletons of some description in their closets. The other 2% are lying—possibly 1% have actual skeletons in their closets and the other half keep theirs in barrels in the basement. No matter how scurrilous the [...]

In A Pickle: The Brooklyn Brine Pickling Kit →  October 27, 2011

In these austere times sometimes it’s worthwhile returning to Dickensian practices in the name of survival. Or then there’s just being a hipster. Fresh fruit and vegetables are just so mainstream now. Like, organic—who eats organic these days? Potatoes aren’t underground enough. You get my point. Now, if every you’ve ever had the desire to [...]

A Hand in the Kitchen: The Kitchen Stand and Stylus →  September 26, 2011

One of the best things about rifling through thrift stores is finding old cookbooks, yellowed by time and caked in flour from Country Women’s Association members’ bake sale contributions. You just know that some old dear by the name of Pat, Bev or Eunice has slaved her last arthritic energy into stiffening egg whites to [...]



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