Yesterday, I finished a project for Geek Girl, Inc. A simple website built on Wordpress.org: mysweetgeek.com. I had no idea how much fun it was to play with Wordpress. It is a great CMS, super easy to use for clients who want to be able to maintain their websites. I created her own Wordpress private theme. I also created the illustration n the homepage but the entire idea came from Geek Girl, Inc’s head.

This made me want to start to offer web development services to others. This is it. We shall see where this takes me… You can find more information on my web development service page. My company is M.B. Works. Cara came up with the name without really thinking about it. I like it. It’s simple.

Hi again. Now I am selling a USED Marcio Zouvi Sharp Eye 6′2″ Surfboard with a Dakine board Bag and a leach. Buy-it-now-bundle for $150 or bid on it.

Marcio Zouvi Sharp Eye 6′2″ Surfboard: Has a few bumps but great deal.
+ Dakine Board Bag: New. Fit longer boards too.
+ Leach.

Below are more photos.

Hello. I am selling these boots, as shown above. Condition new: I wore them once or twice. They are way too tight on my feet. They are really nice alpine boots, U.S. size 5. I bought them for around $300 2 years ago.

You have 5 days to bid on them or to buy them now for $60.

Here are additional photos. If you’d like to see more photos, just ask me.

I haven’t gone to all these places, so unless I add a note to it, I cannot speak for the quality of the cuisine.  If you know a place that is not here, let me know. This is a raw draft, I will enhance this as time goes by.

Enjoy!

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Few weeks ago I found out about this Eco-Friendly shoe brand: Terra Plana. They design and produce shoes using recycled materials, stitching techniques (instead of using glue), local suppliers, etc. They look at the entire shoe making process and try to make it as energy efficient as they can. And the shoes look amazing and feel ultra soft and comfortable.

Pictured above is the Maplow, a woman shoe. Isn’t it so rare to find women shoes that look like this? It is. Other shoes I like: the Aqua, the Lucy and the Hadea, although this last one would look a little too feminine on my feet.

According to their twitter feed (@terra_plana), they are offering a 25% sale this week for Thanksgiving. If you’d like to try the shoes before, check out their store in Soho (254 Elizabeth Street, between Houston and Prince). They’re nice there.

+ I recently bought Ethletic shoes. You might want to check these out as well. They are organic, recycled, fair trade and comfortable too.

Happy Holiday and Responsible Shopping!

I just discovered this New York brand through the inner web: Wataah. The company produces “premium bottle water” for kids. Why? Wataah is the solution for parents who have no control over their children and need help making water look cool. It would be so much simpler to teach children that water is fun, is and tastes good and that the best things on earth don’t come in a colorful bottle. ;)

Update: My point was why not use glass or metal bottles (with fun and cute designs) and refill them with filtered water, instead of wasting more plastic? (Sigg for instance has cute bottles for children)

Here is the preview of a documentary launching in January 2010, about the making of a parkour playground. It looks so beautiful and I look forward to watching it. Learn more at Kaspar Astrup Schröder’s.

This video shows how we can make things that are usually not fun, fun, through simple design. I do wonder if people would get bored at some point and I think this one action is a little expensive for pushing people to move themselves. This is a great inspiration for creating useful products and services. Watch the makeof.

The Fun Theory is a website that offers a series of videos, among this one, and a contest: submit an idea, including description and design/prototype, that will change people’s behaviors. Contest ends December 15th, 2009.

The goal is to prove that “fun is the best way to change behaviour for the better”. Fresh!

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