The Concrete Jungle: Toy-On-Street Art By Alexis Lloyd

Though she's not the one who gutted the praying plush Christian sheep [nice segue, right?], Parsons grad student Alexis Lloyd was in the school's awesome electronic toy hacking class last fall. But today it's her final project, titled "The...
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By Their Customized Recordings Ye Shall Know Them: Joyful Joe, The Bible-Quoting Plush Hippo

I confess, Joyful Joe has led me into temptation. My spirit is willing, but my flesh is weak. If Joyful Joe, the plush hippo named after one of the fruits of the Spirit [Galatians 5:22] had been hardwired to recite...
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Finally, A Can-Do Lobbyist To Cut All That Red Tape At The CPSC

How can the CPSC get rid of all their onerous and needlessly costly safety regulations without a chairman with lengthy experience lobbying for the very companies stuck under the CPSC's thumb? The short answer is, it can't. Since the last...
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Gnagno And The Organs: Plush Rip-Outtable Guts Included

If the kid's old enough to handle the name of the flower in the last post [bleeding heart, thanks dt reader christine -ed.], she's old enough to play with a plush toy that allows you to rip out its...
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Flowerspotting Question, Or Help Preserve My Paternal Omniscience

When it comes to preserving your aura of omniscience, I would've thought Wikipedia would be a parent's best friend, but no such luck. I'm sure it's partly because I try to tell the kid when I don't know something,...
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Creative Playthings Shape Sorting Toy Now Available In Non-Pre-Chewed Version

So you love everything about a cool, vintage Finnish-designed toy like the classic Creative Playthings Shape Sorting Box except the idea of your kid gnawing on something that's coated with 35 years of slobber and/or basement dust. Well you're...
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Chemobil

Why, viva my Revolucion, it's Playmobil Che! Look on the wall of Richard Unglik's photograph of a typical 1969 living room from his book, La grande aventure de l'Histoire avec Playmobil. Acros from the Playmobil Warhol, next to the...
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Welcome To The Desert Of The Playmobil

You know, I was wondering: What if you, me, this whole planet, the solar system, were just like dust under the fingernail of a giant? Or what if, you know, all of human civilization is not our own, but...
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