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photo: Doug via flickr Don't expect any action from the Senate on a climate bill until September, after the summer recess. That's the word from Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Barbara Boxer. However Reuters quotes Boxer as saying that "We'll do it as soon as we get back."...
The new TV mirror combo from Fendi Casa Collection reflects the current luxury trend for combo home furnishings among the discerning consumers desiring superior design. Multi-functional and luxurious, this LCD TV Mirror is no exception. Making furniture integral with technological solutions, Fendi Casa offers gorgeous reflective mirrors that appear to be […]
Photo: Core77 The Secret Ingredient is Love Our friends at Core77 know beautiful design, but they're really surpassed themselves with the Dutch Master super-duper-limited edition bike. The goal is to celebrate New York bike culture, and an heritage of local manufacturing. Only 25 Dutch Master bikes have been made, all hand built by in Brooklyn by KT H […]
Photo credit: Jak and Jil The economic caldera we're still digging ourselves up from under has put a whole new spin on the definition of "luxury." (This fall's New York Fashion Week will be an eye-opener for sure.) With consumer spending in the hole, and chi-chi brands like Hermes tightening their croc-skin belts, we might be witnessing […]
As for unique chair designs, BRF offers a modern range of unique chairs you're looking for to accent your home - the Eklipse. A self-confident piece for the user to explore, this chair design is a simple yet ingenious concept. Choose the abstract, artistic form of an oval, or an accommodating armchair complete with armrests. Designs by Sylvia Colomb […]
photo: G8Photos/Ansa The G8 meeting in L'Aquila, Italy is just ripe with quotes for the picking. Unfortunately, apart from statements of agreement that we must indeed hold global average temperature rise to 2°C, most of what was said seems a bit hollow. Case in point: President Obama's talk about the need of the wealthy nations of the world, and […]
Courtesy of the Science Fiction Writers of America, Celia sends us "an annotated copy of the Kindle contract. Based on my decidedly non-lawyerish interpretation of this contract and the annotations, I think it says that Amazon now owns everything it wants to own, and you're out of luck if you don't like that." Publishing contracts are gen […]
Andrew Sullivan has rounded up all the documented major, easily verified lies of Sarah Palin. It's an impressive list, a kind of "portrait of the candidate as a frootbat." Palin lied when she said the dismissal of her public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, had nothing to do with his refusal to fire state trooper Mike Wooten; in fact, the Br […]
Yesterday we saw the short-lived hubbub about Greenpeace draping an Obama poster over Mount Rushmore in order to call attention to Climate Activism by the G8. They've followed up with this vi...
At long last, the New York Times may have figured out how to make money off its website: by charging for it. Bloomberg reports that the NYT is floating the idea of charging $5 a month to access its website in a survey of readers. (It also asked if subscribers would be willing to pay $2.50 per month). Unless anybody has any other bright ideas, this is inevita […]