The Carrot Project

Fun little discussion of toilet paper been rocking for the past week over in the feedback forum.

Timely, apparently, for it looks like we’re not the only ones thinking about wiping tools.

One of yesterday’s posts from the NY Times’s Room for Debate blog is titled Toilet ...

Public beta on the horizon?

Well…

ODE Magazine’s web content people asked me to email them some answers to some questions about The Carrot Project last week. They published them today.

My favorite moment:

If Consumer Reports is a super-efficient, everything-savvy business-mom, The Carrot Project is her smiling, long haired, geeky, idealist cousin.

I actually ...

My favorite moment in Home Alone is when Buzz, Kevin’s older brother, explains his reasoning in three-part list form. A, reason one. 2, reason two. And, d, reason three. It’s pretty much the only way to make three-part lists, if you ask me.

Now that you know that ...

I subscribe to a semi-daily email from Green Thing. I rarely pay attention, usually delete the email without even opening it. But it’s a small online greenspace project, and I feel like I can offer it a little bit of support by being a name on its list.

I ...

Hugh MacLeod, one of my favorite bloggers, posted about acts of futility last week.

He says most of his successes started off as acts of futility. He notes that many other grand successes had act of futility stages too. And he lists some of both in the post.

I reckon ...

Given those strange and non-intuitive percentages you see attached to every comment and every piece of feedback, and given that pretty soon you’ll see more of those strange and non-intuitive percentages speckled all over the site, it’s getting to the point at which we’re going to have ...

An old Beijing roommate and colleague just sent this note to one of his friends:

i sent u an invite to my buddy jake’s project on green buying, responsible consumerism, etc. community driven source of info to people who want to make better choices. i think i mentioned this ...