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Organic Gourmet Coffee

You Want Gourmet?

You want gourmet coffee? For many people the answer to that question is a resounding, ‘Yes.’ Furthermore, there are a variety of reasons why some people are loyal gourmet coffee drinkers. The following are a few of those reasons. First, gourmet coffee is made by people who truly care about their product. For instance, they [...]

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Replacement Windows Meridian

Window Designs

If you’d like to change the look of your home and to also save a little money on your heating and air conditioning cost, consider replacing your existing windows. If you’re loosing cool air in the summer time and warm air in the wintertime, you may need new windows in your home. View Point Windows [...]

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Understanding How Reward Credit Cards Work

How many times have you bought an item using your credit card instead of paying for it in cash because of the reward points you get from using your card? For all the times you’ve used this card solely for this reason, how many times are you sure that you actually benefited from using your [...]

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Internet Essentials – Top Gadgets and Accessories

Technology is changing all the time. It was not too long ago that dial up connections were the only way to get online. Web pages were almost entirely text based and you listened to music on disc or tape. Now things have changed drastically – Broadband speeds in some locations are available at over 10 [...]

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Boise New Homes

Dream Home: Boise Idaho Real Estate

Boise Idaho Real Estate In the past, the only way to find a home in a new subdivision was to get in your car and start driving. You could spend hours locating new subdivisions and then learning about building lot sizes, lot prices and home values within each community. Your search also included touring homes [...]

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And degourget is back

Sorry for the delay, we managed to exceed our bandwidth limit for the month and went down temporarily. The good news is the site is back to normal, the bad news is that it has loaded an older backup. We’ve lost some posts – but I will rewrite and repost them as soon as possible. [...]

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Handmade Recycled Beer Glasses

Handmade Recycled Beer Glasses

Drink beer. Save the World. I’m usually not that excited by recycled homewares, but I do like well designed novelty goods, am a fan of handmade things and I certainly like things related the alcohol consumption.

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LIP Watches – Retro french horology

LIP Watches – Retro french horology

The French brand LIP has been around 150 years but have been hard to obtain anywhere outside Europe. Now, under the watchful eye of Lip’s new design director Prisca Briquet they have now reissued some of their most important models from a modern collection that remains as visionary today as when first launched 35 years ago.

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RAVAGE and save (back in USB form)

RAVAGE and save (back in USB form)

Back the in 80′s Soundwave transformed into a playable micro casette player, more recently Optimus Prime is available as a ipod dock, in the near future RAVAGE who was a character based on a transformable micro tape who was a Soundwave minion will take a step into the present in USB form.

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KANYE VISION: See the world like Kanye

KANYE VISION: See the world like Kanye

Us non-Kanyes can’t even begin to understand the fabulousness of the life this man lives. How can we? The concept of waking up surrounded by Louis Vuitton, bathing in Veuve and then having to decide which lambo to drive which bank stuffed with our milions is so far removed from our frame of reference that we don’t stand a hope in hell of ever understanding what Kanye has to go through every day just to be Kanye. Asking us to understand Kanye is just too hard and arduous a task.

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NBA Europa Design

NBA Europa Design

It’s NBA playoffs right now so a hoops junkie like me doesn’t really need any extra basketball related distractions in their life but the NBA Europa design concept managed to cut through the endless LeBron and Kobe highlight reels to pique my interest. Put together purely as a concept by a graduating senior at the [...]

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Hard Graft – handmade gear bag goodness

Hard Graft – handmade gear bag goodness

Do you yearn for a sexy laptop case? Are you one of those people who need to have their phone surgically attached to them? Or are you just frustated by failed attempts to keep a pen near your moleskine at all times? Fear not vain and/or incompetant airhead trendsetter, Hard Graft are here to make [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-13

Tomy LumiPAD glowing message board actually looks really cute! http://tinyurl.com/f9xx9 # Best little (and I mean little) concept shop in Sydney. VA Concept – http://www.viaalley.com/ #

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Adversity brings out creativity

Adversity brings out creativity

Supposedly this great period of financial turmoil will be a boon to the arts and self expression as  we all try to make sense of this new paradigm into which we’ve been plunged. Can’t remember where I read that but I’m pretty sure that was the gist of one of the many ‘it won’t be [...]

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Character – LED Sign Goodness

Character – LED Sign Goodness

I’m a sucker for neon signs and the like. I coo like a childless female in her late 30′s who’s just been confronted with a adorable young tot every time i see a cool one in a design or antique store. I’ve been known to drool in public as I gaze in wonderment and envision [...]

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