October 25, 2005
From the comments on Geraldo's alleged Bugaboogering:Sound off on BIG strollers (LA's South Bay) Tell me what you think of the pricey ($700), supersize of strollers these days. With names like Bugaboos and Stokke Xplorys - some are calling them...
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When his kid was born, Jeff Sabatini ge gave up his Miata, his motorcycle--and his job, because his wife makes more than he did. So who's he left with? Besides the kid, I mean? His Mazda M5 space wagon, er,...
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I forgot to post this last week--and judging from the press releases, Whole Foods apparently doesn't want dads to know anything about it--but the Whole Foods at NYC's Columbus Circle has a big sign announcing a Whole Baby store will...
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According to a recent study by researchers at SUNY-Buffalo, the sperm of men who smoke are weaker and have a harder time breaking through the egg's protective outer layer, called the zona. These smoked, weak-tailed sperm are "up to 75%...
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Grandma just got the kid this little Noah's ark set from a company called Pockets of Learning. It's not flooding the world with excruciating hand-made craftsmanship--most of the designs are printed onto the polyester fabric pieces, which are then machine...
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Because, what with the crocheted Yoda hats and hand-knit robots and such, it's apparently handicrafts week on Daddy Types [is it too much to ask to be cc'ed on these memos, people?], here is a contemporary Swedish rocking chair...
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Check this out. It is important to know that Marjorie, the DT reader who sent this in, was into Phil & Ted's waaaay before Jon Stewart made them cool:a fellow phil & ted owner in downtown manhattan reports being stopped...
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It may look like the folks at the Guardian took a few months to read and digest that Wall Street Journal article about the African study showing significant reductions in HIV infections among men who were circumcized. But the Guardian...
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"The red/blue state schism is far less severe than the schism between 'with kids' and 'without kids'...because you are now protecting someone." - Jon Stewart doing audience Q&A after a standup at George Washington University last weeekend, as reported in...
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My years of fawning over Ann Hulbert's writing has finally paid off. Slate has published the first chapter of my dissertation on stroller-buying. It's about 10,000 words, and--I hope you're sitting down for this--less than half of them are "Bugaboo."...
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It's true that no other gorilla lamp company donates 5% of their sales to wild gorilla conservation organizations, so I don't want to sound like a whiner. But if gorilla-saving is really your priority and not just a feel-good sales/publicity...
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CreAtiles are big, soft, yet rigid panels and pieces that fasten together in a variety of ways to make a house, a boat, whatever. More importantly, and despite what their name might imply, they make your kid a WINNER in...
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It's really self-explanatory: the Internet's one-stop shop for all your baby caging needs. BabyCage.net via metrodad Previously: Atelier Van Lieshout's 'Bad Furniture' Crib...
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I mentioned an infant gas pup tent (as opposed to a gas mask) which is in the MoMA exhibit "Safe." [That tent has been replaced by a half-body gas hood get-up that allows you to change or feed a kid...
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