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About Us: Dan a.k.a. McFunley

This is a special edition of our About Us series, in which we profile Etsy staff. Today, we're not just getting to know Dan McKinley, a.k.a. McFunley. We're also paying tribute to Dottie, a.k.a. Dottie Matrix, his miniature daschund, in all her speckled glory. Dan, a mainstay in the prickly pear contingent of Etsy's Admin …

Tech Update: Beta Test of New Rearrange Your Shop Feature

UPDATE: We have completed the final phase of beta testing for the Rearrange Your Shop feature. During this final phase, the shops included in beta testing will be available for everyone to view. If you come across one of these shops, you will see that the sort order for the shop's items will say "Custom" instead …

Etsy Finds: Prometheus Unbound

Recently a friend related a tragic story to me: an acquaintance had been struck dead while in the act of teaching in Africa. "What does that mean?" she asked me, I suppose rhetorically. To a steely materialist like myself, one answer is that this event has no meaning. As human animals, we are so skilled at …

Etsy Finds: The Mountain Goats

This is hardly exclusively the domain of males, but on occasions when I have been forced to enumerate my interests, "music" has never failed to breach the top two or three. So let me tell you about my favorite band. "Band," of course, is a peculiar way to describe The Mountain Goats. For all practical purposes, the …

Etsy Finds: Dachshund Combat

It's pet week here at the Storque! Keep tabs on the Etsy Pets featured column for all the cute pet stuff you can handle. Pets, ahoy! With all possible deference to the great Mr. Attenborough, I contend that nature documentary of the present day is disproportionately fixated on megafauna. What wonder and drama …

Etsy Finds: Transportation Alternatives

Yes! It's another bike-related Etsy Find! But this Earth Day, if you will permit me I would like to be serious for a moment. Every Tuesday morning in my neighborhood (Alphabet City, in Manhattan), a few dozen of my neighbors ritually wake up early, get in their cars, relocate them ten feet to the right, and sit there …

Etsy Find: Mutant Guitar Strap

For years I have treated guitars and evolutionary biology as non-overlapping magisteria in my life. No longer! Behold — the Darwin tie strap! I'm a bit skeptical that the pick holder feature can withstand my sustained level of rockness — so it may not replace "tape and the mike stand" as my emergency pick …

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