Groupon has four television commercial out right now that are the focus of a lot of discussion and controversy. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, you can watch them on Groupon's site, but before you do it's worth noting that these commercials aired *without* the key piece of information you get when you watch them there. Notably, while ( Read more... )

I'm delighted to read all the commentary on my previous post regarding the "Shop Local" proclamations that are being made this holiday season. The many voices are teasing out some of the complicated issues that have been swirling around in my head, and in many cases voicing them better than I've been able to, or such that I can think about them in ( Read more... )

Shop Local? It sounds good to me, but, wait ( Read more... )

Inman Oasis has drop the temp of their fiberglass tub to a 86deg "Cool Tub" today.

Cool Tub Days ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to share my new favorite on-line bookseller.
I got to them through www.iGive.com where I went and typed in a search for used books.

BetterWorldBooks.com won me over first-off by the fact that on every page for a book there's a link for "search for this book in your local library." How cool is that? They run book drives for ( Read more... )