July 2010

  • Zirh Introduces a Booze-Soap Line

    By becksta on 7/30/10 12:02am
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    Long Island Ice-Tea SoapLong Island Ice-Tea SoapAt the end of a long, hard night drinking out on the town, it’s likely that you will have at least some alcohol on your body, your top, your jeans,  your purse, your man-bag, your Iphone, your Ipad, or whatever else you might happen to have with you. If you aren’t going out, however, and would like to pretend that you’ve been out for a wild night on the town in order to impress your friends, you can now use Zirh’s booze-inspired scented soaps.


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  • A Clean House Isn’t Worth Breast Cancer

    By sarajean on 7/23/10 9:07am
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    As more information becomes available and more companies produce eco-friendly and healthier alternatives to household products, we’re gradually learning about the risks we face when it comes to the items we buy and fill our homes with. A new study from the journal Environmental Health suggests that women who use household cleaning products on a regular basis may be doubling their risk of breast cancer as they wash, dust, and prepare their homes for the white glove test.

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  • 10 Alternative Ways to Cool Off

    By sarajean on 7/15/10 6:41pm
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    As environmentally conscious as I try to be, I’ve definitely got my faults. One is using too much air conditioning in the hot weather. We’ve been having heat advisories for the past few days, and I’m not sure if our air has kicked off at all. Sure, I have to keep my little girl cool, and being hot makes me super uncomfortable, but there are alternatives to use whenever the weather isn’t this unbearable every day. Here are ten alternatives that we all could try to cut down on our energy use this summer.

    10. Open the Windows

    This one is easy enough to do, if there is a nice breeze going on. Unfortunately for us, the only room that cools off if we do this is the living room; the rest of the windows don’t receive much of any breeze. So if we’re having a rare family evening, we can pretty much do this. If not, well, we’ll have to look toward another option!

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  • The Psychic Properties of Clutter

    By erika on 7/9/10 9:11am
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    Oh clutter, does anyone escape your grasp?  I am considered (both by myself and by others) to be a ruthless, effective, and tireless fighter of clutter.  And yet I can point to six things that belong somewhere else within arm's reach of my keyboard as I type this right now.  

    Clutter propagates in the dark, it creeps in on little cat feet, and can even destroy lives.  Philip K. Dick coined the term "kipple" in his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

    "Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday's homeopape. When nobody's around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, if you go to bed leaving any kipple around your apartment, when you wake up the next morning there's twice as much of it. It always gets more and more."


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