Dine. Travel. Design.

I didn’t have the best of days today and coincidently heard a short report about Sarah’s Smash Shack on the radio during my drive home this evening! Too bad it’s all the way out in San Diego, CA. But what a great business concept! Choose from a “menu” of breakables and go into the “Break room” to express your emotions, whatever they may be or just go in to have some fun that you wouldn’t at home Plus broken glass and ceramic is donated to local mosaic artists.

aah, knowing that this place exists makes me feel better already!

YouTube Video Report and YouTube Fun with Photos and more at CNN.com

I joined Twitter a few weeks ago..

So far, I’m just tweeting to myself, but just came across this article from BusinessWeek. Now, just gotta learn to do it right My feed is on the right-hand navigation column. enjoy!

Pros + Cons of Twitter from BusinessWeek and Graphpaper’s blog thoughts

Nothing short of awesome.

Dutchland Drive-thru in West Bridgewater, MA
For snacks, goodies, and all your convenience store necessities.

A couple weeks ago I made a new friend and found out about Green Drinks. Last week I attended my first gathering. Get together with friends and strangers alike at a pre-determined location (that changes each meeting, so make sure you’re on the local email list!) Talk about things-green (or not green) and meet some interesting people over food and beverages Simple and fun.

Check out the very simple, yet necessary information at the Green Drinks site. They have groups worldwide!

These are my 3 favorites:

See all 70 here
via designverb

Great ways to live with locals while traveling. Though I’ve not yet tried either of these services, it certainly sounds like an interesting trip!

air bed and breakfast

couch surfing

I’m not one to follow on politics much, which is what intigued me about this site called Glassbooth.org. Through a series of questions, it rates which presidential candidates have values most like yours and address the issues most important to you.

Seems like a great way to get unbiased info on the candidate and really understand what these people stand for.

The site is rather well designed too!

Ho Chi Minh City aka Motorbike City (at least that’s what it seems!)
You just can’t hesitate when crossing the street and trust that the drivers will maneuver around you.

And so colorful!

First off, Hulu is a site for streaming TV shows and movies.

Earlier this week, I checked out the site for the first time and decided to watch a movie, just to check out how ‘well designed’ this site really is. I’ll admit, not only is the simplicity great to navigate, but the streaming of video was nearly perfect. No commercial interruptions over 30 seconds- Probably about 6-10 throughout the whole movie. Not bad at all. There was no jumping or ‘buffering’ during the stream. Great new site to watch videos and TV shows!

check out some articles:
BusinessWeek
Wired