August 30, 2005

MoxBox Bamboo Storage from ModernTots

Use some of the fortune you saved on the Donald Judd changing table to outfit the rest of your kid's nursery--and your whole house, actually--at ModernTots, a new Brooklyn-based online store and design studio that features some familiar Argington and...
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SPY SHOT: Panasonic Field Tests Restaurant Behavior Management System

Right after getting it, I put it my new phonecam to good use when I surreptitiously snapped a picture of this Restaurant Behavior Management (RBM) system being field-tested at the Vietnamese restaurant near our house in DC. Apparently, it's...
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Pervy Miffy

Not a huge fan of the character-laden gear, but I was buying all sorts of amusing lunch stuff for the kid--like perforated seaweed sheets to make the kid's rice ball into a soccer ball, teeny little soy sauce containers for...
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Diaper Disposal Option Breakdown, Ch. 4

So we went from a Genie to a Champ, then we went from a Champ to a plastic grocery bag. Now, maybe it's the dog days of a DC summer, but since coming back from Japan, we can't seem to...
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Hope You Guessed My Name. [Hint: It Starts With An R]

If you were having any doubts about whether you are demographically appropriate for the new Mercedes R-Class, let me clear them up right now: The R-Class is the official car of the upcoming Rolling Stones tour. Meanwhile, I'm sure it'll...
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Circumcision: 'It's the American Way."

Ah, good. Because what the circumcision discussion has been lacking is good old-fashioned, nationalist class rhetoric. The ContraCosta Times takes a look at some of the issues and advocates for and against circumcision. In the covered corner: some peoplel talking...
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Get. Onto. Your. Belly. Fetal Monitors Are Booming

The Wall Street Journal's Ron Leiber discovers a mini-boom of expectant parents buying or renting fetal monitors to listen to their baby's heartbeat at home [I'm telling you people, you should be out partying and going to movies every night...]....
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Sam's Club Wooden Changing Table Saves You Mad Money

At Christie's auction house a couple of years ago, a desk designed by the late minimalist sculptor Donald Judd sold for $300,000. While he never designed a changing table (that I know of), if he did, it would've turned out...
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