This is a great way to save on clutter and expense. We live in an apartment, so the computer is right where an entertainment center would be anyway. Rather than buying a big, heavy, expensive TV plus a big, heavy, expensive monitor, put all the cash into a nice LCD monitor. You’ll need a TV [...]
Loyd’s basement office sounds like my worst nightmare: At times, it can be difficult to navigate through piles of hardware. With various PC cases littering the floor and every tabletop surface holding heat sinks, CDs, manuals, game boxes, and other assorted small hardware, the basement lab will often look like the Tasmanian Devil just whirled [...]
Anyone know if these little Japanese dishwashers actually work? Also, does anyone know whether dishwashers really save water over hand washing, or is that an urban myth? (Via Engadget)
We’ve started baking our own bread, mostly because it is interesting, and we use exactly the kind of flour we want; it is hard to find good premade whole wheat challah, even at Fresh Fields. RecipeZaar has a decent challah recipe we’re modifying. We make four or so loaves at once, and freeze most of [...]
Bruce Schneier points us to two articles about pointy long kitchen knives being dangerous. Now, as Bruce points out, the call to ban them is ridiculous, but his other comment is more interesting to a minimalist: I do a lot of cooking, and have all my life. I never use a long knife to stab. [...]
We were really disturbed by the non-minimalism inherent in this battery-powered insect smashing tennis racket. Then in boingboing’s followup we learned that electric bug zappers can atomize all the crap (literally) stuck to the outside of whatever you smackzap, and we were really grossed out. Luckily, treehugger comes to the rescue with a much simpler [...]
We don’t have a car, and lugging cat litter home is a major hassle. Plus, it generates lots of waste, and get tracked all over our apartment. I’d heard of this before, but Cool Hunting has a blurb about a device to train your cat to use the toilet. Sound like a potentially messy and [...]