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All I wanted was a pair of headphones

If Apple’s generic headphones were made any better than a Chevy Cobalt, I wouldn’t have this problem. But I have to get new headphones on a regular basis and it’s frustrating. Especially when you consider the packaging: So many of our electronics products come in this ridiculous “theft-proof” hard plastic packaging;  and then you try [...]

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This can’t be right.

Exhibit A:  Looks like a normal battery for a 17″ MacBook Pro, right? Exhibit B:  Not so much.  This is the old battery from my roommate’s 17″ MacBook Pro.  One day it just … started expanding.  Then she left it in the sun and it … kept expanding. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m all [...]

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A Green Designer’s Happy Place

I recently discovered a new retail establishment that I think we can all get excited about.  It’s called Green Depot, and I bet you can imagine what it sells by its name association with the Big Orange, aka, the Home Depot.  Where the Home Depot sells building supplies of all kinds*, the Green Depot supplies [...]

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