Archive for 'happiness'

xeni’s tibet tech trek

Posted 08 August 2006 | By | Categories: culture, happiness, interconnected, observations, passions, people, technology, travel, video | No Comments

Xeni Jardin of Boing Boing, trekked across India, Tibet and China to explore how technology is changing the lives of Tibetans inside and outside their homeland.Her blog links to each of the radio, print, video and online reports she’s filed from the trip along with all the how-tos of life on the road and reviews of the production hardware and software she tested. Fabulous project!

the sublime pleasure of chocolate and peanut butter

Posted 07 August 2006 | By | Categories: consumerism, emily approved, food, happiness, health, nyc, passions, senses, taste | No Comments

for making chocolate covered peanut butter cups simply impossible to resist…. so delicious, covering creamy peanutty butter in petite 6o calorie size cups.

links for 2006-08-05

Posted 05 August 2006 | By | Categories: culture, design, emily approved, fashion, happiness, interconnected, links, love, senses, shopping, taste, typography | No Comments

Love Made Visible blog highlighting beautfiul things and priya’s exquisite taste in design (tags: design blog fashion art shopping style trends) OrangeBeautiful lovely letterpress and bookbinding (tags: stationery letterpress paper invitations design print) SCENT of Colors japanese photo blog organized by colors, mostly floral and botanical (tags: pictures flowers colors photoblog blog plants images photography)

on the love that dare not print its name in helvetica (or god forbid, arial)

Posted 01 January 2006 | By | Categories: ask emily, consumerism, creativity, culture, design, emily approved, gardening, happiness, health, movies, passions, typography | No Comments

Hilarious little article in the NYT today on type anachronisms in film, “Good Film, Shame About the Helvetica,” featuring link to Mark Simonson’s Typecasting article. (Note also the ongoing notebook of sightings.*) As one who can’t help recognizing and calling out the name of the typefaces in the world around me, I’m not ashamed to [...]