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Build A One-Page Beautiful Website for Yourself or Your Project or…Anything, Fast

An Analog Kid’s Timer Increases Focus and Productivity

The Best of Core 77’s Hilarious Weekly Roast of Really Bad Design

New York Magazine’s Low Lift Home Improvements for Under $100 INCLUDING Improvised Life’s Big Fat Idea

Want to Be a Digital Story Teller or Launch an App or Product? Join Me at Omega Institute’s Digital Age Conference

Beth Moon’s Photographs of Ancient Trees Under Night Skies are Magic

Listening to the Spirit of the Tools We Use (Tim McCreight)

White Sneakers are Your Blank Canvas for Graffiti and Dalmation Spots (DIY)

Chandelier from 1980’s Berlin and Alexander Calder “On the Cutting Edge of Architectural Experimentation”

Give it up. Go bare. Go free. Accept Your Shelf Life As Given (Guest Post)

Shoelaces with Messages (Not Logos) and Where to Get ‘Em

Combine Summer Camp Pleasures with Personal Growth (and Digital Empowerment)

How Wigs Changed My Life (Fran Black)

Video Conference (and Cocktails) with Your Clan

Ecumenical Money Valentine to Give to Lovers AND Friends

Macfarlane’s Remarkable Twitter Feed: Flashes of Illumination about Landscape and the Human Heart

The ‘Delicate Cages’ of A Stranger’s Hands (Robert Bly)

Ephemeral Curtains and Room Dividers Strung on Wires Are Easy to Do

Jocelyn Glei’s Newsletter: Ideas for Finding Creativity and Meaning Delivered to Your Inbox

A Messy Scrap Ribbon Collection Inspires Delights and Inventions

Favorite Gifts I Love To Give

Topography of Tears: Like Aerial Views of Emotional Terrain

Favorite Things: Really Big Cotton Dish Towels

A Simple Way to Make Your Phone Less Addictive: Go Gray

An Invitation to Slow Down with Something Different: James Turell’s Beautiful Skyspace 2 Ways

Taking ‘Keep Warm with Layers’ to a Chic Extreme

Endlessly Useful, Morphable, Stylish Photographer’s Apple Boxes

Your Clothes Embellished with Simple Stitching

Solar Lanterns Make Lunar Magic, Sensual Bubbles and, in the end, Stars

What to Eat When Hiking Naked and Other Essential Info

Simple Ways to Create Private Space with Fabric Room Dividers and ‘Slung Cloths’

Make Your Mark with Sculptural Drawing Chalk

Simple Furoshiki Cloth Becomes a Carry Bag, Apron, Kitchen Towel, Scarf…

Brandless’ Will Deliver Some Seriously Good $3 Bargains, and Ideals, to Your Door

Paper Shades Give a Community Soup Kitchen a Noguchi Touch (That We Love at Home as Well)

Makeshift Mortars and Pestles Make Sublime Walnut Pesto (and Other Delicious Things)

Computer Screens are Hurting Our Eyes; Trees Can Heal Them

How to Stretch Those Too-Tight Shoes You Love (Really Works)

Test-Driving Portable Coffee Systems: Brux vs Makeshift Thermos and Cone Rig

Facebook Made Me Stand in the Corner, Echoing Michael Druks’ Prophetic Artwork

What Writing Scripts for AI Taught Her About Humans and Art

Unique, Cheap, Full-of-Wonder Last Minute Gift: Improvised Life

Improvised Life’s Not Shopping Holiday Gift Guide

Rocks and Stones Make Endlessly Useful Tools and Beautiful Objets

Courage in a Bottle and Elsewhere…

Annals of Bad Design: Bigbelly Garbage Can

Halloween: Inspiration, Scary Stuff, Song

Metallic Makeup Becomes Ephemeral Jewelry

Annals of Everyday Invention: Magnet Pin Cushion Sculpture

Scraps, Wilt & Leaves: Sublime Trash Cooking with a Michelin Chef

Hi/Low: Round Porthole Mirrors for a Haiku-like View

Apparel for Living: Roz Chast’s Survivalist Cargo Pajamas

Live Rose Jackets and Other Lovely Flower Apparal

The Value of Objects I Can’t Afford

Solar Eclipse: How to Experience the Awesomeness + Free Safety Glasses

Beauty You Can Carry on a Bicycle (Loes Heerink, Emily Dickinson)

Unleash Your Inner Beast (Theo Jansen, Ted Hughes, Luo Zhihai)

How to Live Wisely With Your Phone

A Cheap Chic Black Bag to Rival Ikea’s and Balenciaga’s Tote

Honey from a Weed: Simple Rice or Risotto with Dandelion (or other Greens)

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