Baking holiday sweets. Candy cane smash… my favourite part.
Baking holiday sweets. Candy cane smash… my favourite part.
My latest simple indulgence: chunky handmade soap bricks. It’s the raw-ness, craft and simplicity that I love about them.
The $8 trillion internet economy: By the numbers
Since the first website debuted 20 years ago, the internet has become a daily reality for nearly a quarter of the world’s population, revolutionizing the way we work, socialize, create, and share information. In an attempt to quantify how much the internet is worth, a new report from McKinsey Global Institute focused on the online economies of the G-8 countries, plus those of China, India, South Korea, Sweden, and Brazil. McKinsey slotted internet activities into four categories: Private consumption, private investment, public expenditure, and trade. Here, a by-the-numbers look at the “internet economy” …
» via The Week
I have been sporting my 2010 AndroidTO t-shirt all day today and it’s getting me excited for October 26th. www.androidto.com (Use discount code ‘thirdocean’ for 50% off ticket cost)
When I was assigned with taking care of dessert for Thanksgiving Dinner - ideas immediately started brewing. I knew the dinner menu was probably going to at the least consist of turkey, crazy amounts of stuffing and sweet potato mash - pretty heavy stuff. I can feel the tryptophan work through me just thinking about it. Anyways, I was going to make homemade pumpkin or pear pie - but I wanted to go light this time around and so I instead made pumpkin ice cream and dark chocolate cherry and nut bark. I’m always a stickler for presentation (of which I probably got from my mother) and so I served the ice cream in baby pumpkins with graham crackers (pumpkin pie anyone?) and broke the chocolate in sharp glass-like pieces.
The reviews? Absolutely raving.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
– Steve Jobs (via designcloud)
I’d eat more hotdogs just so that this can hang out in my drawer OR how about we replace ketchup + mustard with sriracha sauce + dijon mustard?
We know that Facebook has been THE largest photo sharing service but how does it compare to other photo libraries/online spaces?
Great choreography + the history of East London fashion.
It’s really easy to cause a whole lot of great motion. Progress towards the set direction and objective is what counts: THAT’S when you’ve earned a cookie.
– me
