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Dec. 21, 2007 - fluff (dated fluff, in fact) from NY Times â€˜stylesâ€™ / remember that rug??

the ~~zebra~~ cowhide rug has lost its edge
I will never find my post unless by accident, but I clearly remember posting some months ago as an aside something like ‘what’s up with the animal rugs all of a sudden?’, after commenting about a rug in a ($3mm?) loft and a very similar rug in a ($900k?) loft.

The NY Times yesterday announced that I was not alone in commenting on the ubiquity of the ~~zebra~~ cowhide rug, in Flash in the Can, about design trends that “got up and went” in 2007.

The hot-then-out-now ~~zebra~~ cowhide rug is pictured here.

That made me smile.

© Sandy Mattingly 2007

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Nov. 8, 2006 - dreadful irony / demise of a lovely garbage website

I have considered http://www.garbagescout.com/ to be one of the more unusual god-bless-‘em-entrepeneurial sites. They posted tips from folks who saw (or put) ‘stuff’ on the Manhattan sidewalk for trash pick-ups, in some cases starting races for the ‘stuff’ with the Sanitation Department, in special cases starting races between lucky scavengers.

Turns out this ‘garbage’ site (I mean the term with all respect) was done in by garbage (I mean the term with all disrespect): spam! The site couldn’t filter out the spam fast enough to make it worthwhile to keep the site up. Now that’s a garbage problem!

Sorry to see you go, Garbage Scout. While I never used it myself, I forwarded the link to someone just a week ago. Darn.

THX to the Inman blog for pointing me to the news.

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Jul. 17, 2006 - Popularity contests / NYC just cracks list of best “big” cities [caution: parochial rant]

It has been a few years since I paid attention to the annual college rankings in US News & World Report, but I remember the head-scratching that the ranking process engendered. CNNMoney.com brought those memories back with its rankings of the 100 best places to live and the 10 best “big” cities.

The methodology is transparent to the extent that they cite the statistical categories that they rely on to make these rankings (including things such as median household income, median home price, crime stats, and air quality), but these rankings are always a bit surreal.

A national shortage of big cities?

I will not dwell on the minutiae any longer, as the strangest things that struck me about the 10 Best Big Cities is … how small they are. Six of the top ten have populations between three and four hundred thousand, two others are under 750,000. Then there’s San Diego at 1,255,500.

New York City squeaks in to the rankings at #10, right behind Wichita. What kind of list of BIG cities is that??

I guess they like their big cities small out there in America....

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