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The latest discoveries with love from my friend the interwebs.

Greenfeet.com - The Planet's Homestore

A great site to find the best home composting and other hippie-esque, Earth-happy products and tools.

Tags: green, eco+friendly, environment, home

Insanely Great Tees

Insanely Great Tees sells cool t-shirts for smart humans!

Tags: shopping+tees, t-shirts, tees

RockLove Jewelry :: jewerly for the femme fatale

RockLove Jewelry :: jewerly for the femme fatale

Tags: shopping, jewelry, shopping+jewelry

City Suitcase - what to wear in cities you dig

Cool new site exploring city-specific fashion

Tags: shopping, fashion

mod*mom

Great mod pics for the discerning mommy hipster

Tags: blogs+mommy, family, parenting, stuff

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happykatie daily brain candy

The latest discoveries with love from my friend the interwebs.

Embed Vimeo in Wordpress

Having troubles getting your Vimeo videos embedded into Wordpress? Yah, me too...

Here's the skinny - use this code (in the text HTML view) instead of the regular Vimeo embed code (replacing the #s with your actual video numbers of course):

[vimeo vimeo.com/#####]

Tags: vimeo, wordpress, howto, tech, embedding

CASAURI Laptop cases, Portfolios, Carry-on Luggage, Accessories

I received a free Casauri case at Blogher last year and it is by far my fave laptop bag ever. Highly recommend!!

Tags: shopping, bags, "laptop case"

The Vintage Table - Finding new homes for old tablecloths

With little messy hands (aka Ella) sitting at our dining room table, I really need to find a few cool vinyl table cloths - so as to eliminate re-washing our table cloth everytime we eat together.

Tags: home, shopping+home, tablecloth, vintage

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The latest discoveries with love from my friend the interwebs.

Rotate video with nothing more than QT Pro

I frequently take video sideways (that is, I hold my camera in the 'made sense at the time, sure looks weird on my computer' way to get vertical shots) -- and then desperately regret it later on. Here's how to fix it. YAY!!

Tags: video, production, howto

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The latest discoveries with love from my friend the interwebs.

Gmaps Pedometer

What is this? This is a little hack that uses Google's superb mapping application to help record distances traveled during a running or walking workout. Why? As a runner training for a marathon for the first time, I found myself wishing I had an easy way to know the exact distance a certain course is. Looking at Google Maps, and knowing there was a vibrant community of geeks hacking it, I knew there had to be a way.

Tags: google, fitness, maps, mashup

Megan the Vegan

A great vegan cooking blog I just stumbled upon (after searching for 'vegan samosa recipe' - yummmm.....)

Tags: vegan, cooking, cooking+vegan, health

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YouTube gives me agua de beber

I have a ridiculous amount of love for a certain song - Agua De Beber (aka:  Water To Drink) - as sung by Astrud and Joao Gilberto.  There are few languages that have that kind of sex appeal like Portuguese and few rhythms as sultry as the Bossa Nova -- and this song showcases both perfectly.

So on that gushy note, I am beside myself to happen upon this cute little Spanish family (Los Foulkes) covering not only Ague De Beber in a most spectacular fashion, but also covering one of my fave Billie Holiday songs:  You're My Thrill.  Everyone with me now, LOVE YOU YOUTUBE!!

And in further YouTube awesomeness, I also managed to score a German guitar teacher's lesson on how to play Agua De Beber and the lyrics (which are in their entirety after the jump - LOVE!).

happykatie daily brain candy

The latest discoveries with love from my friend the interwebs.

PlaceShout - quickie reviews

A 'Twitter-esque' place to review restaurants and businesses

Tags: reviews, community

How to Make Great Fresh Mozzarella Cheese - Instructables - DIY, How To, food, home

Okay, so we're really not eating cheese right now - but man I've always wanted to make my own. This tutorial makes it seem pretty easy - awesome!!

Tags: instructions, how-to, food, recipes

Crafting a Green World - DIY for Environmentalists

Do it yourself projects with reused, recycled and natural materials. Knitting, sewing, crocheting ideas for eco-friendly and fashionable clothes, crafts and gifts.

Tags: green, crafty\diy, crafting, environment

NearSea Naturals: Everything you need to sew, Naturally! Sustainable Fabrics and Notions.

Tags: sustainable, green, environment, crafty\diy, crafts, fabrics

VeriFlora - Certified Sustainably Grown Flowers

VeriFlora - Certified Sustainably Grown shows you how to be sustainably grown flowers for upcoming holidays and special occasions. Traditional corporate flower farms pollute and truck/fly their flowers from all over the world - leaving a massive footprint.

Tags: sustainable, green, environment

UserVoice

Tags: users, voting

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The doctor is in: Matthew Wettergreen, PhD

Matt Wettergreen PhD
Originally uploaded by eschipul

Crazy congratulations to the brilliant Matthew for successfully completing the 7-year journey that is/was his doctoral thesis.

He performed amazingly, of course, at his thesis defense yesterday - keeping the audience on the edge of their seats. Okay, maybe not edge, but he actually did keep things interesting for the lay people in the audience even if we were sometimes counting the number of syllables per word on our fingers.

Congrats Dr. Organ_Printer - this was a big one!

Even I cannot dance this well

happykatie daily brain candy

The latest discoveries with love from my friend the interwebs.

Eco-Me

All natural cleaning and care kits for babies, home and everything in between

Tags: diy, cleaning, green, eco

My brother in the news :) Special student, special education

My brother Mark was recently interviewed for a story in their local paper (the Conroe Courier) about his high school career and living with different physical challenges. FAMOUS!!

Tags: family, personal, mark

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Fasting : Nature's Cleanse by Loren Lockman Tanglewood Wellness Center Panama Fasting, Water Fast, Supervised Fasting and Detoxification

An interesting look at how fasting works on a very base natural level - also, this is the first place I have ever seen any mention of why it might not be good to exercise very much when fasting (due to the different ways your body consumes energy, muscle and adipose fat tissue).

Tags: fasting, health, master cleanse

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