Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Monday, March 24, 2008

What a waste!

Taken from a posting on Annie Leonard's Story of Stuff Blog, comes this story:

A Package That Lights Up the Shelf

What an incredible waste of resources! The designer will probably win a design of the year award from someone...

Still, there's lots to learn in this article, though. I didn't know about 'tracking', or the advantage some shaving foams have of letting you know where you've shaved already. Mostly odd, mostly designed for marketing. Used to be that the foam just helped that scary old safety razor slide better on one's face and leave fewer gouges and slashes. Now there's a marketing reasons. SWMBO says we should 'nix nxt'...

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