They wear whatever they can scavenge at their destination, including Coats of Many Muppets or A. A. Milne character costumes, but I’m getting ahead of myself—

The AIGA Polling Place Photo Project struck me as a particularly smart mix of social application, viral site, and activism. For today’s election, everyone was invited to upload five photos at a time, complete with titles and captions, to the site. The upload required what amounts to a profile in addition to the images, creating, [...]

When a new Williams-Sonoma catalog arrived in the mailbox last week, I hesitated before throwing it away. There was a time when I collected appliances like pairs of shoes (seasonally and for specific occasions), and I own a pizzelle maker, a manual pasta extruder with multiple attachments, and a gelato contraption that works without those [...]