For me it was all about defining space - A cool Japanese screen will go a long way towards partitioning a room. I bought a wood one with 9 spaces for pictures on the cheap. Painted it matt black, and filled the frames with black and white images I took of ducks and antique spoons and the like. Everyone oohed and aahed…

To avoid having the same bedding as everyone else in your incoming class, avoid Bed and Bath Beyond Nick & Nora ("Clouds" pattern of 1999, anyone?)

I'd wear it over a sassy Mario sweater vest to to get hipster-cred!

@tothemax: "Embarrassment" was reported through surveys and focus groups. The observation in-store was to observe how long people lingered in front of product displays and if people shopped around after picking up that embarassing product. Most made the embarassing product the last item picked up in-store and then the…

@GunwallsLizzie: From this image it looks like they want you to stick a variety pack of highlighters up the wazoo.

For a Consumer Behavior class as part of my MBA, my group and I put together a study on embarassing product purchase that is super relevant to the package design above. We first observed the following consumer behavior through focus groups and slinking around grocery stores and observing (creepy!)

Did anyone else think Holly was using her spell/potion to invoke a spirit which would then possess/inhabit Arlene's baby? She seemed awfully eager to help out.

A while back there was an article about parents wanting one sex much more than the other. Don't know if this would be the ideal venue to find out unless you had no preference whatsoever.

@j-dubz: Very "6 Feet Under"

Sounds a tad bit like Stephen King's "The Long Walk" to me.

My vagina tree only plays Keno. Sads.

Moving around the US never really seemed to make things better/different, but moving internationally (to Australia) sure did.

@pantsless: I thought "gaggle" as well. This blog put it nicely.

@slf72: My favorite book ever! I just got her new one "Packing for Mars"

I'm OK with a vegan wedding, but is it wrong I get more disturbed by the thought of attending a alcohol-free wedding?

@magicwaffle: I'm sure that happens As well. I think immigration reform is in order

@FroderickFronkensteen: It doesn't, but in the effort to keep the family unified, it does present a way for some women and other family members to accelerate the immigration process. Like it or not, it can be a way to manipulate the system.

@NatalyMor: As a fellow Jew, if a Christian came to a Jewish magazine, was interested and informed in Jewish culture, and was writing say, about entertainment or design, I see no issue. If they were pushing Christian views and hired to write a column about their experiences as a Jew? Doesn't work. I see it was about…

@Thalia Al Ghul: Joe Zee is the creative director of Elle and he is an Asian man, Patrick Robinson is the creative director of GAP and I believe he is bi-racial, and Robin Givhan, the fashion editor at the Washington Post, is black. One might argue that many of these have a heavy caucasian consumer base. I get the…

@girl_talk: Disagree when you say white people helm Vogue. Yes, many of them are white. But what about Andre Leon Talley? He's an editor-at-large for Vogue, but he's black, gay, and a man, so how can he give advice to white women? Yet his experience and savviness give him expertise and credibility. Why is he OK and a…