You can look at it one of two ways: Method was ahead of their time, or right on time. I tend to lean towards the former, because with a clear mission, a clear conscious, and a clearly obsessive attitude towards branding and design, the environmentally amicable cleaning products were progressive in nearly every way. They didn't smell like future bouts with cancer, they didn't scream “Earth Mother,” and — whaddaya know — they worked. Additionally, were one to “absentmindedly” leave ones cleaning products out, maybe in effort to say, “That's right, I clean, and I'm so eco.” and “How jealous are you of my supreme perfection,” it suddenly seemed kind of sexy to do so. Rain drop-shaped, Sweet Water-scented sexy.

We love Method for their environmentally responsible approach, their non-gag inducing aromas, and their effectiveness. But most of all, we love them for making us feel good about buying them. We wanted to share our love with Danny Alexander, an industrial designer at Method, but he seemed apprehensive about letting us stick our tongues down his throat (obsessively clean, Danny?). So we just settled for a heart-to-heart.

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Thanks to Jellio now you can design the room of your five-year old dreams. Bumping kitsch up a notch by mixing clean, modern design with the gadgets and toys of your childhood, Jellio's designs aren't so much a throwback style as a literal interpretation of childhood memories as furniture and art.

From Lite Brite and Rubik's Cube tables to a selection of juicy looking multi-hued GummiLights, the inspiration behind the designs is direct and literal: they're childhood indulgences brought to adult-sized life … the kind of adult life where you need to buy furniture. Newly released items include the Button Bench, a rounded white acrylic bench covered in pliable plastic button candy dots, as well as their first foray into fashion and accessories — the Slate Bag. This Etch-a-Sketch-inspired messenger bag (and its companion, the iSlate) comes complete with a stylus and writing pads to doodle on the flap. When you're bored, wipe it away and start over. Fun!

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Remember how we told you a few days ago that we turned 4,000 (posts that is), and we were going to give you a free iPhone 3G if you could guess the number of jelly … er … comments we had up until that point. Well it’s still going strong. If you haven’t placed your bet, now is the time to do it, because we’ll be announcing the winner Monday morning. No hints!

When someone like you is in need of a sweet new T-shirt design you can always count on People Like Us. No, not us. You know JS.com is always good for it, but we’re referring to our buddy Jeremy Somers. His label has recently released three hot new designs for the summer swelter (although technically it’s winter where he lives). Their fresh looks come courtesy a trio of talented artists including Somers (Beautiful Squid), Swiss artist At-elier (Lovecraft), and Paris’s Théo Gènnitsakis (God’s Explosion).

Paper or plastic? Whatever you choose, the bags are inevitably getting tossed in the garbage. The fashionably eco-conscious minds at Ameico think it’s time you and everyone else got a brand new bag — or two. Their line of TwoBag vinyl shopping bags (available at Velocity Art and Design) give shoppers an alternative to wasting valuable resources. The unique design includes an outer bag that shuts completely with the help of a pair of hooks, and an inner bag that secures with a double hand grip. Plus it’s vinyl, so you don’t have to worry about the bottom falling out and dumping your month supply of Hungry Man dinners all over the floor. Not that that’s happened to us.

Between morning talk show pundits, party canvassers, and New Yorker covers, we don’t know who to vote for in the next election (for the purposes of this post). If only there was a candidate who represented nothing, will work for nobody, but is endorsed by a hot clothing company with a 30% Off sale going on. Rex Vanderwoodsen is Attus Apparel’s nominee for the White House, and he wants you *finger pointing* to buy a shirt. Just enter the promo code: REXFORPRES and he’ll hook you up. That’s just how the next leader of the free world rolls.