June 28, 2007

Freeway-Shaped Miles Carpet By Big-Game

In their interview with MocoLoco, members of the Swiss design firm Big-Game explain that each object in their new Plus Is More collection is created using a simple strategy: "We never use shapes as a starting point, always ideas."...
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Total Veggie Booty Recall Issued After Salmonella Reports

The FDA and Robert's American Gourmet have issued a recall for Veggie Booty after 51 cases of salmonella in 17 states were possibly linked to the snack food DIETARY FOUNDATION AND SOLE SOURCE OF POWDERED KALE FOR 99% OF AMERICAN...
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Renault Espace F1 Concept: French For "All You Got's A Hemi?"

Just like the Edison/Lumiere debate about who invented movies, Americans and the French each think they invented minivans. The Renault Espace came to market in 1984, a year after the Dodge Caravan, but the design predates the US Chrysler...
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Stuffed US Map Travel Puzzle

When I was little, I learned the states from the hand-painted map on the neighbor's camping trailer, which they filled in every summer: "All Lower 48!" it said. Also, I had a beat jigsaw puzzle, where Rhode Island was...
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Daddy Types Not Too Fat For PC World Magazine

Thanks to the folks who've emailed, and thanks to the demonstrably virile editors of PC World. Seems Daddy Types has some fans in ol' cubefarm; it was the only parenting- or kid-related title on their list of "100 Blogs...
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Your Kid's Nursery Needs A "Dope 5-Headed Star Wars Themed Mural" ASAP

iPhones are yesterday's news; the drop you really want to make tomorrow is the Plasticgod Ningyo at SURU, the indie toy temple of dope on Melrose. In advance of the release party, reports Vinylpulse, Pgod "spent four days transforming...
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Pearl Retires After Getting Will Ferrell To Confess

to confess to three murders, that is. The perpetrator of this worn out joke that was funny for like five seconds in the first place, meanwhile, remains at large. Good Cop, Baby Cop [funnyordie.com via dt reader mark] previously:...
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