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To those who feel that it's necessary to remark sarcastically: who said anything about 'installations' (artistic, political, sociological, architectural, landscape...) having to be uniquely disconnected from other 'realities'--be they sublime, fanciful, natural, even mundane or ugly? Not all installations or statements need to (or should) be as blunt (or populist) as, say, Robert Indiana's LOVE. To make a statement on the essential value of material and its natural decay (physical, chemical, sculptural) or to simply exploit the fact that each pile has a unique color, texture, rate of settlement, etc. is actually quite brilliant in a society possessed with the need to process, manufacture and consume at an enormous rate.

To make a separate but related point: Why bother carving Michelangelo's David when 'pretty much the same thing' can be seen simply by disrobing in front of a mirror?

Best bottle opener: another bottle. Ok, maybe not the best, but it's fun to do and more fun to teach.

I'm not quite sure whether this was an issue of the syrup going bad or being contaminated 'in situ' but a few months ago I went to use some pure first-run syrup (purchased by the gallon a few seasons ago) and found that it was black. Like, Black Gold, Texas Tea black. And it smelled like a smelting furnace. My hypothesis was that the steel jug had rusted/oxidized/whatever and contaminated the syrup either with tiny mold spores (enough to make light amber syrup look like Guinness) or the color was due to the rust itself. In either case I had to dump about a quart of expensive syrup down the drain...

Oh, I LOVE rambutans and though I associate them with Malaysia I suppose Vietnam makes as much sense. I have only ever seen them once in the states, though. mmm.

An absolutely brilliant small-space solution. I love the bed scrim (though I would probably opt for a flat screen-on-wheels for my entertainment needs) and the dining area pendant is wonderful (I'm a sucker for bare-filament).

But it all comes together so well that's a frivolous task to pick out each great detail (I'll try though: Eames chairs, sofa fabric, kitchen tech hide-away, vintage Kenwood, conversational living room and of course, the desk/media cabinet)

this looks great, but you know you can soften [old] brown sugar just by putting a fresh slice of bread in the container for an hour or so. It'll soften right up.

Huh. I must be one of the luckies. I've never had this issue and it never even occurred to me that others did.

@barbidahll
MK went under?? When was this? Where'd you here about it?

90 dB is "approximately the same as a jet engine airplane"? What are we really talking about here?

First of all, sound pressure levels are dependent on distance from the sound source. Are we talking inside the jet airplane at take-off? Standing 25 feet away on the tarmac as it idles? Fly-by at an air-show?

As it pertains to jet engines, 90 db would be about equivalent to a fly-by at an air show. A more accurate description of 90 dB would be standing in the middle of a four-lane highway. Loud, but not even truly harmful when experienced for short periods of time. Riding a Harley or mowing your lawn is louder. And a French Horn player like myself can easily be exposed to 90 dB while playing almost anything by Berlioz.

Where's delicious in all of this? No installation, works on any browser (including mobile devices and Chrome--which you left out of your 'any browser' list) and includes all of those great networking and community-oriented features of Xmarks. And looks much better doing it all.

Oh, and what about the Opera browser itself!? Though by definition it doesn't work on all browsers, the [built-in] My Opera features allow you to sync your bookmarks, speed-dial (the original 3x3 grid that has now popped up on all the other browsers) and even your personal settings.