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Today's product of the day comes courtesy of Boing Boing: Anyone remotely familiar with CSS should get a good chuckle over this mug, which can be purchased at Zazzle. (On a related note, I can personally attest to the quality of Zazzle mugs...

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Monopoly, Repackaged

Jul 23. 2009

I admit it - I am a total boardgame whore. I much prefer having friends over for a feisty round of Cranium over many other activities of the non-geek variety. Visitors to my house are always amazed by my collection of boardgames, and whilst I thought The Devil Wears Prada was an over-hyped, unextraordinary book, I loved the fact that the main character left her parting message to her ex-roommates on a Scrabble board. I have owned no less than a dozen different versions of the classic game Monopoly over the years, but at the time being there are only three (the horror!) editions in possession: the Deluxe Edition; the Nintendo Collector's Edition; and the Star Wars Limited Collector's Edition, complete...

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Memo Clock

Jul 22. 2009

Today's product of the day comes courtesy of Engadget - the Memo Clock by DesignOne: With a rewritable ceramic surface, you can leave notes for yourself and others on an attrative and functional object that is sure to be noticed by all. Check out the other featured items on the TheHaki blog - they're outright adorable! I love Korean design aesthetics! ...

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Ink Bleed Calendar

Jul 21. 2009

The Geek in Heels' cool design product of the day is Oscar Diaz's "Ink Calendar": "Ink Calendar" make use the timed pace of the ink spreading on the paper to indicate time. The ink is absorbed slowly, and the numbers in the calendar are "printed" daily. One a day, they are filled with ink until the end of the month. A calendar self-updated, which enhances the perception of time passing and not only signaling it. The ink colors are based on a spectrum, which relate to a “color temperature scale”, each month having a color related to our perception of the whether on that month. The colors range from dark blue in December to, three shades of green in spring or oranges, red...