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Stickley’s #603 Taboret

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Design
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...g my own copy of Gustav Stickley’s #603 Tabouret. I could be writing a new book or magazine article, replying to emails, paying bills, lining up contractors for overdue home repair projects or filing the stack of papers growing around my computer. Tabouret in progress awaiting sanding, glue-up and finish. Instead, I’m taking a tip I learned from some of the creative people I’ve worked for and known in the past. Their work habits, if you call them...

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On the 100th Birthday of Our House: The Past and Future of Housing in the U.S.

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Design
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...oing grocery shopping, while dishes or clothes are machine washed). In the book, The Overworked American, 1991, Juliet Schor suggests that “U.S. employees currently work 320 more hours–the equivalent of over 2 months–than their counter-parts in West Germany or France.” This American lifestyle demands convenience, and that demand is exercised both inside and outside the household. So the differences between our 1920s bungalow and the average U.S. h...

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No Tweets Just Cats

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Animals, Cats
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...an experimental one month digital detox as suggested by Cal Newport in his book Digital Minimalism. During this period I’m giving up the Twitters which usually forms the basis of a set of links I post on Saturday. Twitter has devolved into a way of monetizing people yelling at each other and I’m not missing it. I may look at it again, or I may figure out another way to do the link feature. At this point, I don’t know. But I’m happy to report my at...

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Pegu Club: The Perfect Summer Cocktail

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Food, Recipes
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Don’t you hate those internet recipes with the book length introductions? So let’s get straight to the point. It’s hot, there’s a lot too worry about in this world and you need a cocktail. You need to make the Pegu Club your official summer libation. Pegu Club Cocktail 1 1/2 ounces gin 3/4 ounce orange curaçao (or Triple Sec if you’re cheap like me) 1 teaspoon lime juice Dash bitters Shake with crushed ice, strain and serve in a martini glass wit...

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Our Hot Streets Are an Opportunity

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Appropriate Technology, Bikes, Design, Transportation, Water and Power
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...a more radical alternative to business as usual. As Mark Fisher says in a book everyone should read, Capitalist Realism Is There No Alternative?, The long, dark night of the end of history has to be grasped as an enormous opportunity. The very oppressive pervasiveness of capitalist realism means that even glimmers of alternative political and economic possibilities can have a disproportionately great effect. The tiniest event can tear a hole in t...

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