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10 Jul

Business card mini file cabinet

This Mini File Cabinet is so cute! It holds 750 business cards and also has a little clock on the front.

09 Jul

Dash Smidgen Pinch measuring spoons

Too cute - Dash, Smidgen, and Pinch measuring spoons! No more guesswork, hehe! $4.75 at Spoon Sisters

06 Jul

Book: Dear Valued Customer, You Are a Loser

If you enjoy funny customer service stories, you’ll love Dear Valued Customer. It has tons of stories, from banks crediting random accounts with millions of dollars, to embarrassing e-mails sent around the world. Click to check it out.
Also, right now Amazon has a 4-for-3 deal going on. Add any 4 items to [...]

26 Jun

Folder flash drive

Everyone’s familiar with the folder concept used by PCs… this cute little flash drive that looks like a folder just keeps the theme going. Unfortunately it’s not yet available.
via Apartment Therapy’s Home Tech

23 Jun

How much plastic do you use?

My dad’s been in the hospital with a blocked artery - nothing contagious. Today around 10am, he was moved out of ICU to a regular room, at which point he asked for some water. The nurse’s aide brought him a small pitcher full of ice water, large enough to hold 3-4 glasses’ worth [...]

13 Jun

Coolest baby monitor ever

A mother in Illinois turned on her video baby monitor, and discovered that she was actually monitoring astronauts in the space station. The system shouldn’t pick up anything beyond 150 feet, let alone 150 miles! (The ISS is between 199-215 miles above Earth, according to Wikipedia. Some commenters at Consumerist speculate that the [...]

04 Jun

Partly hungry skies t-shirt

Too cute!

27 May

Knork: A bad idea

This is the Knork, which I’ve seen floating around in a few catalogs, like Harriet Carter. We’re all familiar with the Spork… well, the Knork is a fork where the outside edges of the 2 end tines are sharpened to make a knife. This is so you can cut your food with only [...]

26 May

iPod (eyepod?) Shuffle Case

Too funny! This eye chart iPod Shuffle case is $15 at the most colorful store I’ve ever seen, Pylones USA.

12 May

Snoopy sno-cone maker

I had one of these when I was little, and it looks like they’re making a comeback! You put the ice in the top and crank it (for a long time) and you can use the little shovel to shape the “snow.” You can put the syrup in the snowman. Too cute!
$20 at [...]

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