June 27, 2007

Any Car As Long As It's Venetian Green

On the way to dinner last night, the kid and I saw a VW Touareg coming out of a parking garage that was so deep-dark green it was almost black. I decided we had to wait and ask the...
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Cuddle Me Condos: Residential Starchitecture Plush Toys

What becomes a legendary building in an overheated Manhattan real estate market most? Lesser breeds of developers have been known to hire fashion designers to decorate the lobby. To commission Jade Jagger to put her name on the galley kitchen....
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Babblepedia, Little Girl, Is An Advice Site That Babble Wants Parents To Write On. To Write On

The new Babblepedia is a wiki-style advice site for parents--or at least the cool, urban sub-demo--that aims to be an "encyclopedia of parenting knowledge that anyone can edit!" [Or add your two cents to, anyway. Make your contribution funny...
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Kickass Geekdad Ikeahack Problemsolves Topbunk Smackdown

What a great feeling it must be to take a hacksaw to a piece of Ikea furniture. Wired's Geekdad needed an efficient reconfigure for their two sons' room, so they chopped up the bunkbed and bolted it to the...
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DT Retail Scoutabout: Bugaboos At Babies R Us Edition!

A few random retail links that came across my--HOLY SMOKES, THEY'RE SELLING BUGABOOS AT BABIES R US???!! They showed up on the BRU website a few days ago, and in Union Square. I asked a Bugaboo source what's up: 22...
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Will The Other Owner Of The M-B R63 Please Raise Your Hand? Your Car Is Being Discontinued.

It appears Seal's efforts to shore up sales of high-performance Mercedes not-a-minivans have failed. The company announced they are discontinuing the most ridiculous car they've ever offered, the AMG-tuned, twin turbo 503hp V8 version of the R-Class, the R63,...
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