Category Archive: Home
- Design My Room - 01/18/2008
Wow. Tell us this isn't both useful and entertaining — Design My Room allows you to upload a photo of a room and then design it, right there online.
The website also has "community" — discussion forums — where you can share information, get tips, and … design.
This is a terrific use of the Web […] - The Egyptian Cotton Sheets - 02/12/2006
We are so bad. We were in the midst of studying HTML (website coding) when we somehow ended up at Overstock.com. Where our eyes almost popped out of our heads (an ugly look for a female, particularly in so visuals-conscious a town as Los Angeles).
What caught our attention?
The 600-thread count pure Egyptian cotton […] - Mission-Critical Mugs - 10/18/2005
It's a crazy week, but we couldn't let it go by without mentioning copywriter Nick Usborne's fabulous anti-marketer jargon coffee mugs. We've run into our fair share of this type of marketing-speak. Yick!
Tell us it's not boring. Meant no doubt to make projects-at-hand sound better than they may be, one possible comeback to […] - Dyson Vaccuum Cleaners - 06/28/2005
Like our search for the perfect mattress, our discovery of Dyson vacuum cleaners was long in the making.
Our experience with vacuum cleaners with bags: ever want to vacuum your home — even feel energetic about it? But some time into the vacuuming process, all the pep runs out. Our guess is that it's […] - Shower Water Filters - 06/02/2005
Shower water filters for the bathroom — especially in Los Angeles — are as much a luxury as a necessity. Really: run a bathtub full of water and you might notice a colored tinge, whereas we live in the hopeful belief that water probably ought to be, well, colorless. And without chlorine, yes? […]
- McRoskey Airflex Mattresses - 05/01/2005
I'll preface our coverage of McRoskey Airflex mattresses and the McRoskey company by being the first to admit that we've shopped for a lot of mattresses in our time. We started out with a double mattress of indeterminate age on a platform; we remember it as very comfortable but just a bit small for two. […]
