Kitschy crochet
Since I’m currently enamored with Jessica Polka’s sculptural crochet creations, I’ve been bookmarking all kinds of not-your-grandma’s-style needlework. My most-recent find:
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Get seedy
With spring just around the corner (literally—the season starts next week, folks), anyone with even a slightly green thumb is itching to get back into the garden. But if it’s still too cold to plant outside where you live…
Free vocab/rice
How do cramming for the SATs and ending world hunger relate? Through a not-for-profit online game, of course. Launched in October of 2007, FreeRice has two objectives: to help you beef up your vocabulary and to end world hunger by providing free rice to hungry people…
Step away from your computer screen
What’s your worst tech addiction? Do you find yourself obsessively “keeping in touch” with people on Facebook and MySpace? Zoning out in front of the tube, watching hours of HGTV? Following link after link…
Traveling? Offset the carbon footprint with Terrapass
The explorer inside me always seems to be at odds with my greenie conscience—all those flights and car excursions add up to a lot of carbon emissions, and that’s not good. Now there’s a new player in the carbon offsetting game…
Forget me not(es)
In my continuing quest to stay organized, I found FutureMe. The low-tech site allows forgetful folks to write a reminder and have it e-mailed to them on a (future) date of their choice…
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