Mmm, these.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 2:50 PM on October 8, 2008

Escalate the issue. It'll get passed off to someone else (like me, in my old position at WF), but you should be able to get the hold removed as long as they can verify the funds have cleared the originating bank.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 12:03 AM on September 24, 2008

Ning will allow you to create your own group with discussions and events and such. You could also all sign up with goodreads and run your group through there--they have message boards and reading lists and other goodies geared towards book clubs.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 1:50 PM on September 5, 2008

a little something refreshing by old-school No Doubt.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 12:05 PM on September 3, 2008

I sell jewelry at my etsy shop. And buttons with naked people.
posted to MetaTalk by logic vs love at 7:36 PM on September 1, 2008

Thanks, everyone! Once I've got my requirements together, I'll look into all these great suggestions!
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 12:14 PM on August 27, 2008

SmartSetr will automatically sort sets that you've created through that site, but the sets have to be based on tags or text or dates or something, they can't just be manually created.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 9:40 AM on August 13, 2008 marked best answer

-The Orphanage (it will either give you warm fuzzies or terribly depress you, depending on how you look at it!)
-Penelope
-Millions
-The Fountain
-Simply Irresistible
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 10:32 PM on August 9, 2008 marked best answer

Check out PrestaShop. It's a clean, full-featured, open-source shopping cart program and you should be able to modify it to do what you need pretty easily.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 10:51 AM on August 5, 2008

Rancho Gordo has some great instructions for cooking beans (and other delicious recipes) on their website.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 11:48 AM on August 4, 2008

ferm living
surface collective
apple pie design (my favorite!)
dVider
rouge de garance
les louisettes
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 12:42 AM on July 19, 2008

designsponge has a pretty awesome LA Design Guide. I don't know if this is too obvious since I'm not very familiar with LA, but on my last trip there, I visited Abbot Kinney Blvd in Venice and the shops there were completely inspirational and drool-worthy.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 3:20 PM on July 17, 2008 marked best answer

Thank you for all the awesome suggestions, everyone! This will keep me busy for a while!
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 7:03 PM on July 12, 2008

impress rubber stamps and paper source have a lot of traditionalish stamps, but some cool ones too. And I love the stamps available through the small object.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 1:22 PM on July 10, 2008

In most situations, if the recipient goes into your bank and cashes your check, the teller will decline it due to insufficient funds. If the recipient deposits the check to their own account instead of cashing, then their bank will process the check with this evening's work, and your bank will not receive it until tomorrow (assuming you and the recipient use different banks), at which point you will presumably have the funds and be fine.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 12:27 PM on July 2, 2008

I use propay to occasionally accept credit cards. I don't know the details of your phone, but if it has web browser, you can process payments online. Otherwise, you can still process a payment over the phone through their toll-free number just fine.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 6:13 PM on June 26, 2008

the paper princess
minnie and emma
sugar paper

Also, chronicle books has a fun selection of stationary.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 5:28 PM on June 18, 2008

Something like this would be easy enough to make, and manly enough depending on the details. You can get leather cord, end caps, and clasps at Fire Mountain, and their website has lots of tips and tutorials if you need help putting the rest together.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 3:55 PM on June 17, 2008

If you're looking to sell prints instead of just stock photography, I like imagekind, where you can set the markup yourself on prints/products you sell.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 12:26 PM on June 9, 2008

shade jewelry makes beatiful, similar rings, and I know they do custom orders. Or, if your wife will be in SF with you, it might be fun to make your own wedding rings.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 6:45 PM on June 7, 2008

I feel like half my answers here link to designsponge, but they have a pretty great shower curtain roundup.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 8:20 PM on June 2, 2008

For patterns, burdastyle, built by wendy, and fitz patterns are great.

For fabric, purl soho, superbuzzy, contemporary cloth, crybaby's boutique all offer a pretty good selection of unique fabrics. If you're interested in more high-end designer fabrics, some of my recent favorites are Oliveira Textile, rubie green, michael miller fabrics, and Lara Cameron. The textiles section on designsponge and print & pattern are great for following new designers..... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 11:44 PM on May 31, 2008 marked best answer

If you don't think it's a result of depression, then I highly recommend the book Refuse to Choose... it can be a little cheesy at times, but reading it was the first time in my life where I felt totally okay about the fact that I have crazy interests all over the place without really following through on any of them.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 8:00 PM on May 15, 2008

Yolo Colorhouse has environmentally-friendly paint in a beautiful, well-edited selection of colors. I painted my bedroom walls the water.02 shade and I absolutely love it, but I was equally smitten with their other earthy colors too.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 12:52 AM on May 7, 2008

Oh, and for more inspiration, Domino magazine has a gallery of interior paint colors and palettes, with the paint color and brand of all the colors in the pictures.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 12:56 AM on May 7, 2008

delight is like woot, but for girly-girls.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 2:40 PM on May 2, 2008

These blogs often feature inspiring photos and eye candy, along with DIY projects:
design*sponge
sfgirlbybay
decor8
freshhome
anh minh
desire to inspire
ikeahacker

books:
handmade modern
abode a la mode
$500 Room Makeovers
The New Apartment Book
Home Cheap... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 11:56 PM on May 1, 2008

Tiny Living has a cute chair that folds out into a twin bed (and lots of other great furniture for small places). Also, West Elm has a futon lounger that bends on on the other axis, making it under 45" wide (but quite a bit longer).... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 10:42 AM on April 21, 2008

Paperworks has a decent selection, for instance this 5-1/8x7 card, and many other colors/sizes/paper styles.

Also, Paper Source has a beautiful, if somewhat pricey, collection of flat cards.

And here is 100% post consumer recycled flat A7 cards in bulk.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 6:37 PM on March 12, 2008

Something like this might be good. Apartment Therapy has a post on natural pillow alternatives that might give you some ideas.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 2:48 PM on March 11, 2008

For privately owned property, you're supposed to get a property release from the owner allowing you to use pictures. There is some info here.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 1:20 PM on March 11, 2008

When I was looking into this a while ago, one of the 'hybrid' solutions I found was that many of the ecommerce programs (oscommerce, zen cart, etc) have add-ons where you can have the customer enter their credit card information directly on your site, then the info is encrypted and stored for you to manually process the credit card later (using, for example, propay). The percentage that propay charges is a little higher than full merchant services, but the upfront costs are small and there's no... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 12:02 PM on March 11, 2008

map fridge
blik fridge
felt designs fridge
chalkboard fridge
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 6:37 PM on March 3, 2008

The Linked Table manager was exactly what I needed! Thank you!
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 2:47 PM on March 3, 2008

The Boy Least Likely To.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 4:31 PM on February 29, 2008

Designsponge has a great desk chair roundup with tons of great ideas!
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 8:59 AM on February 19, 2008

Just as another data point, my hp dv6000 does the same thing from time to time, and a simple reboot has always been enough to bring the wireless device back to life for me.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 7:44 AM on February 7, 2008

I've seen some better deals on vayama. You might also want to check kayak which searches all the major travel sites. You can sign up for an alert where they will send you a daily/weekly/whatever email showing the best deals they have found for your particular itinerary.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 10:46 AM on February 6, 2008

Gas station charges are pretty much the most common type of debit/credit card fraud due to the complete lack of verification. Requesting and verifying the zip code of the card being used is a way of trying to avoid that. If there are any fraudulent charges, the gas station will most likey be the ones taking the loss.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 10:57 AM on February 5, 2008

I have a row of the large kassett boxes on my expedit shelf. They fit perfectly inside, there are a few color options, and they look much nicer than the plastic bins.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 11:26 AM on February 4, 2008 marked best answer

Seconding bottlebrushtree. I work in the internet group for a large bank, and the broken cable near egypt was definitely causing some issues. A lot of financial institutions have data servers in India, and connections were not so great for a while (or still, i'm not so sure...).
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 10:24 PM on February 1, 2008

Trashy has some cute, not-too-expensive lingerie, like this or this.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 7:07 PM on February 1, 2008

I'm not sure if you'd be interested, but I lived in France for awhile on an au pair visa... it's a crappy salary, but it will allow you to legally live and work there for a while, and do your own stuff on the side (typically, au pairs works less than 20 hours/week).
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 9:29 PM on January 21, 2008

Were the funds debited from your account (or even ever credited)? If your roommate's bank returned the check (for insufficient funds or a stop payment or something on her end) then there should be stamp from them on the front indicating the reason. Otherwise, it was probably something on your bank's end... having a check made to your nickname instead of your full name can can cause it to be returned, depending on who at the bank was verifying the item and how much they... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 9:03 PM on January 17, 2008

I had a great time at Cabanas Copal in Tulum, and it meets all your requirements. February should be the best time to go, weather-wise, but prices are a little more expensive (still pretty cheap compared to anywhere else). You can spend all day lounging on the beach, or go snorkeling in the cenotes or visit ruins or whatever you feel like. The coast is absolutely beautiful, the town itself is authentic (full of tourists, maybe, but non-cheesey), and the food is amazing.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 2:18 PM on January 17, 2008 marked best answer

Cabinet of Natural Curiosities would have been my first guess too. Taschen has a lot of other similar, beautiful books too. For larger prints, Deyrolle is awesome, (but not engish).
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 6:59 PM on January 16, 2008 marked best answer

As someone who shares many of your interests and often gets overwhelmed by the crazy number of things I would LOVE to do and my complete inability to just chose one, I highly recommend you read Refuse to Choose: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 4:36 PM on January 10, 2008 marked best answer

According to buttonmakers.net, the 2 1/4 BAM button makers actually have a slightly larger die (2 5/16") than the 2 1/4" tecre model, so the tecre button parts won't work correctly for it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 5:16 PM on January 6, 2008

Etsy has some great jewelry designers, many of whom do customer orders, but you have to search around a bit. shade jewelry makes beautiful titanium rings. Most are set with conflict-free diamonds, but you can custom order with any gemstone.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 8:48 PM on January 5, 2008

Decor8's 2008 Calendar Round Up would probably be a good start.
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love at 8:51 PM on January 4, 2008