Missy and I have launched the new Hello, Burrow site. This is our labor of love where we post sustainable design for your home.
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We think it’s pretty badass, and we’re working really hard to find great stuff, we hope you’ll like it.
I couldn’t have said this better. We’re spending too much money on products that don’t last when there are better options that have been available all along.
This is a binder clip. You can buy 60 of them for $4. If you, at any time, have more than 60 open bags that need closing you’ve opened too many bags. They are stronger than any clip you’ll buy specifically designed for that purpose, and they’re made out of metal, not plastic, so they’ll last forever. You can buy this one box of clips and never need to buy another clip again.
http://www.thesundaybest.org/2010/05/keep-it-simple.html
See also: http://lastyearsmodel.org/ I’m as guilty of upgrading my phone as anyone else, but my last phone was an original iphone, so it lasted almost 3 years until I got the Nexus One. I’m getting better!
I’m playing with tracing some lettering from these old V8s a friend found at a car show. They made nice stuff back then.
My friend Paul has just released his book of ABCs with fantastic illustrations.
It’s available from http://paulmcdougall.com/ and there is also an iphone app available at http://itunes.apple.com/app/abc-by-paul-mcdougall/id369308143.
The iphone app profits go to providing the book to children’s hospitals and libraries. You can’t get much more important than a children’s hospital, so buy the app and the book both.
A question I’ve been asking clients has been “Why an iPhone app?”
A lot of people have been caught up in the swell of iPhone apps being launched, and for good reason. It’s a fantastic way to get a solid user experience right in their client’s hands. I want those people to take a step back and ask themselves how many of their customers have an iPhone compared to other mobile devices.
Can we come up with a better solution by making a mobile optimized site? An Android app as well as an iPhone app?
In March 2010, according to AdMob, US Android web traffic surpassed that from the iPhone. Let’s think about this for a moment instead of creating a kneejerk iPhone app.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/27/admob-android-passes-iphone-web-traffic-in-u-s/
