The Winter Webb

Super star sun glasses

This morning, a mess of glitter and cellophane strips were all that was left of this Friday's Foo Bar.  Thanks for the party favors Kimmie!

Self serving art

via www.todayandtomorrow.net

This black box is a work of art that continually attempts to sell itself on eBay. The new owner is contractually obligated to plug in an ethernet cable and let the cycle continue...

Lisa's back in SF!

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Kimmie + Lime

You put the lime in the Kimmie, mix them both up!

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Cool weird blocky beautiful

via www.yatzer.com

This is a write up on a cool house in Japan that just finished construction. Its meant as a weekend house rather than a permanent residence. Sitting on a hillside, its got an amazing view of the Pacific Ocean. I'd definitely love to spend my weekends here! Click through for more pictures.

No alcohol or cigarettes, no problem

I had a friend in NYC that I thought could use a little pick-me-up this week.  There's a service in NYC called Max Delivery that works like Kozmo used to back in the day and I thought it'd be fun to give it a try.  It only works in Manhattan, but you can get food from the grocery or a number of restaurants delivered in under an hour.

I found a bakery that had tasty looking cupcakes, added them to my order and checked out.  After checkout however, I got a message that I would need to be physically present with my photo ID in order to receive the delivery.  If I wasn't there, they wouldn't deliver.

However, it went on to say, I could click the live chat button and talk to someone if I knew I wasn't going to be there.  So I clicked:

All customer service representative are currently assisting others. Thanks for your patience. An operator will be with you shortly.

Ugh.  This message repeated itself every 5 minutes for the next 20 minutes.  My delivery window was approaching and I was worried that my order would go out and then be returned.  Not cool.  Finally after almost half an hour I got a response:

You are now being helped by 'Miguel'
Miguel: Hello, can I help you?
Garth: hi my order will go out soon and I won't be there. It says I need to talk to someone here to get this ok'ed
Garth: What do I need to do?
Miguel: Can you hold one minute while I check your account?
Garth: yes
Miguel: Since this is your first order we can't leave it with someone else
Garth: Really? its 6 cupcakes
Miguel: It's is ok
Miguel: we will send it
Garth: Thanks, it would really make a friends day
Miguel: it has no alcohol or cigarettes
Miguel: No problem

I'm glad I didn't try to brighten her day with a 40oz or a carton of Parlaments.

Super Marmite Villain

Graham dipping into the Marmite:

Scorpio plotting world domination:

One and the same?  Discuss.

Tree in a jar

via www.naoko-ito.com

From Naoko Ito's Urban Nature 2009. This is one of those really neat ideas I wish I'd thought of myself.

Beaten!

JoAnn edged me out of zero'th place by grabbing the coveted negative first place!

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Toss those magazines in the basement

via shop.nationalgeographic.com

Time to toss all those saved issues of National Geographic in your basement; the complete set of National Geographic (back to 1888) is now available on 160-GB Hard Drive!