These birch bark tubes are pretty, though I hope no birches were harmed in their making.

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This HTML color HEX code list looks useful.

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Entertaining post about the locavore debate at Manolo’s Food Blog.

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La Coquette on American French in À bout de souffle (Breathless).

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I sure would like to use the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin. Too bad activating it triggered a fatal error.

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A really cool photo of a step well in India. Reminds me of some scenes from the charming, beautiful Hindi film Paheli. This excerpt from the film has some cool footage of another well like this. Funny enough, the subtitles are French.

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83 Beautiful WordPress Themes

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Joe and I love WNYC’s Radio Lab podcast.

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amethyst & 24k Thai gold vermeil necklace, originally uploaded by Rachel Tapley.

I was too enthusiastic about this necklace to bother to take a professional-looking photo. Look at those amethysts! I almost can’t say […]

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Another day without an arrêté.

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