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Rhodia Webnotebooks, and Clairefontaine Life Unplugged Roadbooks are also worth mentioning - they use very nice paper that takes fountain pen ink without bleed through or feathering.

@jpb - Magic Erasers are a melamine foam and contain no bleach.

That should be $2,000, not $1,000, btw...which I know is a lot of money, but I just thought to mention it since I've known people to spend that on a receiver. If you're in the market looking to spend that much, might as well know your options, right?

@funstraw: If you are using a work computer, or if you have installed any kind of software package needed to connect to the company network on your own, you shouldn't feel that safe when even when using SSL

Encrypted traffic represents a tunnel through any content filtering, virus scanning, or other firewalling that IT might feel is essential to network security, so don't be surprised if your company uses SSL filtering.

Such filtering means HTTPS connections are in reality first made to their proxy, which decrypts the traffic, probably scans it, then re-encrypts it and passes it on to wherever it was originally headed.

Something to keep in mind.

Good to have some alternatives to investigate - the shipping for a Besta unit I've been wanting is over $500, but the unit itself is only $350.

I wouldn't mind knowing more about the sectional there.

The chair pictured in Jen's office is not an Eames. It is either a Lider from Zuo Modern or one of the several rebranded versions from Eurostyle or Italmodern.

Apartment Therapy authors consistently mistake the Lider for the real thing, but my main point is that if you're going for Jen's look, there's no need to spend $1700 on the real Eames when the pictured chair is a $300 Lider.

I've tried to use CFLs a number of times, but I just cannot stand them. I can see them flicker, and I end up with a nasty headache if I have to spend too much time around any florescent. At work, I can get up and talk a walk outside when I feel one coming on, but I'll be damned if I have to get out of my own home because I'm forced to light it with something that gives me a headache.

The light from CFLs also seems very unnatural, and I have yet to have one last anywhere close to the advertised burn time. I've had some incandescents last for over 2 years, but the longest I've had a CFL last was about 3 months, and that was a $10 Sylvania rated at 7 years.

A friend insisted I would absolutely not be able to pick out CFL bulbs from incandescents in a blind test, and to this day tries to test me almost every time I visit. I have never even once missed a CFL or mistaken an incandescent for a CFL. Not even once. Even when he tried to trick me by putting once CFL in the middle of a tall, cylindrical floor lamp that used 3 bulbs. I picked out that middle bulb as a CFL and the two around it as incandescent immediately.

Well, as a result of this, I will switch to oil lamps powered by baby seal oil.

The coffee table looks like it might be Adrian Pearsall.

I believe the sofa is the Jane bi-sectional sofa.