Word: customizers
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...luxury, each dining hall received custom-made waffle irons that imprint Harvard’s Veritas crest on waffles...
...China's most remote ethnic groups, the Dulong, has just got a shortcut to the rest of the world. Numbering about 6,000, the Dulong were once known for tattooing the faces of their womenfolk (a custom designed to discourage neighboring Tibetans from kidnapping them as slaves). That practice has long ceased - there is only a handful of tattooed women left - but other aspects of their way Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting...
...lets you design your own graphic note cards--a box of 25 is $35 ? Carrot & Stick Press carrotandstickpress.com offers more than 30 designs of vintage-style letterpress-printed note cards (8 cards for $16) ? At the Monogram Shop themonogramshops.com) you can order rugby-striped note cards with custom monograms ($70 for a 25-card...
...should beware of the patronizing notion of the Noble Savage. Many abandon the old ways through choice, while others are eager to exploit them for their commercial and tourism potential; some distort custom and tradition to their own advantage, political or pecuniary. It is not for the outsider to pick over these ancient cultures and decide what should be preserved, but for as long as they survive they are tiny windows, slowly closing, on how we all once lived...
AMAZON JUST BOUGHT A CUSTOM-PUBLISHING FIRM. ANY CHANCE YOU'LL DO YOUR AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND PUT IT OUT YOURSELF? Wait and see. It's still chapter one for Amazon. I think there'll be more happening on the Internet over the next 10 years than in the last 10. Over the next decade, the raw materials--technology, computers, disc space, bandwidth--will get cheaper and more powerful at a very rapid rate. Our job is to figure out how to layer invention on top of those raw materials to make things that actually matter to people...