Not sure what's odder, that Dave Eggers did a phoner with Maurice Sendak about the author/artist's first new solo book in 30 years, that he did the interview for Vanity Fair, or that he didn't mention his screenplay adaptation of...
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July 2011 Archives
July 30, 2011
'You're The Kiddie Book Man!'
July 28, 2011
Spain Inventing Nipples As Fast As It Can
These tiny Spanish nipples updates are brought to you courtesy of Hemispheres Magazine, where I read some random, blurbicle about the Salon des Inventions de Geneve while the kid was baking cupcakes on my iPad. [image via] Seems that one...
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Filmore The Ur-Pillow Pet, From Creative Playthings
You know what's awesome? Vintage Creative Playthings toys from the 1970s, mint-in-box. You know what's apparently less awesome? vintage plush Creative Playthings beanbag chair animals from the 1970s. So far, no action at all from the eBay bidding sharks....
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4th Proudest Day Of His Life
Passed a brand new Honda Odyssey, still with the paper tags. Bet that guy hasn't felt this excited since his third kid was born....
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July 27, 2011
Oh, THAT Mez! A Day In The Life Of A Breastfeeding Toddler
From my finance days, I remember this great story about a guy who'd ride his recumbent bicycle to Stanford every day along Sand Hill Road, where all the VC firms had their offices. When he went to interview at...
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Jason Rohrer And The Game Of Life
There was a moment on the plane yesterday where the kids had all the iPads, and I was left to read Hemispheres Inflight Magazine. Which had a nice but kind of bewildering profile of awesome independent video game developer Jason...
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July 26, 2011
Keep Calm And Carry A Stuffed Animal
Among the great photos In Focus published of London during WWII is this one: a small boy hugging a giant, kind of awesome stuffed animal. The simple form of the animal reminds me a bit of Renate Mueller, so...
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July 24, 2011
Clickthrough & Weep: Station Wagons We're Not Getting Here, Vol. CXI
Sometimes it's not the little differences. Carmakers sell nearly 300,000 station wagons in the UK each year, and even the crappy ones on the Telegraph's supposed "top 10 estates" list sound pretty sweet:...a new-found sense of style as well...
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DTQ: Co-Sleeping On The Road?
I fear I discovered DT reader Brett's email too late to help them on their trip, but maybe someone else can still benefit from some advice from experienced traveling co-sleepers:Our family is going on a trip soon. Staying at relatives,...
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Her Kid Could Do That
DT reader Eric's right, Crappy Pictures™ is as funny as it is poorly illustrated. Parenting, Illustrate with Crappy Pictures™ [crappypictures.typepad.com via dt reader eric]...
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July 23, 2011
Enterprise Rodeo Contestant Name Roundup
We took the kids to the Enterprise Rodeo last night, a 3-night, old school, amateur rodeo held in the tiny farm town of Enterprise, Utah [pop. 1,200 or 1,700 or so]. It was packed, and awesome, and it's completely turned...
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July 22, 2011
Plum Trying To Monetize Hand-Me-Downs
The kids can wear the hell out of some outfits, and then barely get one wear out of others before they grow out of them. You can get a ton of free stuff to cover the first few months, and...
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July 21, 2011
Kaleidoscope Dollhouse Wallpaper From Artware Editions
Wow, Artware Editions is swinging for the wallpaper fences. In addition to the artist-designed, roll wallpaper from Studio Printoworks, they're selling Maharam Digital Projects' huge collection of custom-scaled, mural-style wallpapers by dozens of contemporary artists. They look pretty awesome....
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You Have One Week To Reinvent The Diaper Disposal Process
Do you want to get rich and/or get $2,500 for your fabulous invention? Invention management company Edison Nation is looking for the next big innovation in dirty diapers. If it's vaguely eco, that's great, but what's most important is that...
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WTFPlayhouses Of The Glorious Revolution
Now I know a thing or two about inordinately expensive playhouses. And I love Houston. And yes, it's true, I was an Internet pioneer-turned-blogger and have posed for Playboy. So you may be thinking it's hard to tell me and...
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July 20, 2011
Who's Swaggerin' Now? Pharma Targets Yuppies With Costumed Fertility Rap
If you think about it, it'd be impossible not to wince-laugh at the very sight/idea of a sub/urban white couple in their 30s rapping about their frustrations with fertility. So the fact that they're wearing stupid bird & bee...
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July 19, 2011
Belkiz Feedaway Cardboard High Chair May (Still) Exist
When her goddaughter was coming to visit her Tasmanian getaway, and eat while she was there, Turko-Australian designer/visionary Betul Medakbas realized what she--and the world-- needed was more flatpack cardboard children's furniture. And so, with the help of noted...
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July 18, 2011
Mutton Bustin' 2 Electric Rodeoo
DT is reporting from the road, getting ready to take the kids to their first, real live rodeo in Enterprise, Utah. And as soon as I can figure out how to post images from the iPad, I'll do some real...
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July 15, 2011
Harvard Study Shows You Can Be Too Smart For Your Own, Country's Good
Oh, where to start? How about right where we're supposed to, with the headline: Harvard Says July 4th Parades Make Kids Republicans Which, LOLOL, is this the most ridiculous example ever of the media sensationalistically misrepresenting the findings of an...
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DT Friday Freakout: Best Buy Edition
Holy crap, who needs science to freakout over, when there are crazies on the loose? First the 8yo kid murdered by some random stranger in Brooklyn, and now some dude who says he was high on PCP started freaking out...
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Luxembourg Kid Chairs By Fermob
The original garden chairs in the Jardin du Luxembourg were designed in 1923 and made of enameled steel. In 2000, 2002, or 2004, by the invitation? authorization? laissez-faire attitude? of the French Senat, which owns the Jardin, Fermob began...
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July 14, 2011
ID This Steampunked Vintage Stroller/Rider Thing
While prowling the playground, Mike spotted a rather insane, vintage stroller/rider/whatsis that looks like it had been given a suitably steampunky spray job:I saw this old timey child's perambulation device at the park the other day and just about screamed...
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July 13, 2011
Computer Could Start By Removing All The Extraneous Bedding
Computer system designed to prevent SIDS deaths [gizmag via dt reader dt, who also wrote the unimprovable headline]...
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How Her iPhone Saved This Mom's Kid's Life
Our pediatrician's pretty sharp and mellow, but he's also at a teaching hospital. So maybe half the times I mention the Internet, some resident dutifully informs me that any website besides the American Academy of Pediatrics is a dangerous lie....
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The Three Most Important Things For A Kid Are Love And Confidence And Communication..
For a long time, your kid can't actually tell you when something's wrong. Or what's wrong. You have to get smart about figuring it out. Looking for the signs. Learning the kid's language of nonverbal clues. But at some point,...
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July 12, 2011
There Is No Buy: Another Yoda Baby Hat There Is!
Nearly seven years after the first one hit the web, Australian knitter and Etsy seller Knitterkrys has introduced her own design for a Yoda baby hat. And unlike George Lucas's Yoda retreads, this is actually an improvement. Unfortunately, it's...
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Tatt.ly: Awesome Design Tattoos In Short
Oh, Swiss Miss, you have gone straight for Adolf Loos's heart, and I wish you all the best. Here is Loos in his "Ornament as Crime":The Papuan tattoos in short everything he can lay hands on, he is not a...
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July 11, 2011
Desperate, Snacky America Reduced To Begging For Terribly Designed Marshmallows
Oh, America, when did you go so so wrong? Ever since my first trip to Japan, I've worried that the United States might some day fall behind Asia in the marshmallow arms race. But I always took comfort from knowing...
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The Ornament As Crime Nursery
Austro-hungarian modernist architect Adolf Loos is probably most famous for his manifesto, "Ornament as Crime." Unfortunately, Loos had trouble finding a publisher for his sequel, "Non-ornament is Loony Bin." As we can see in the two children's rooms--a nursery...
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Paul Ford Produces Much More Than Words
If there are any genes this world needs propagated more than Paul Ford's, I'm at a loss to think of whose they might be. Fortunately, Paul has tried his hand at producing something other than awesome writing. The Age of...
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The Sun Never Sets On Rupert Murdoch's Vast Criminal Empire
The phone hacking scandal and subsequent investigation coverup involving Rupert Murdoch's News International and British police targeted not just celebrities, and the families of murder and terrorism victims, but the royal family, and now, it turns out, former prime minister...
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What To Expect When You've Got Gestational Diabetes In Texas
Large birth weight is a typical complication of gestational diabetes [GDM], a condition which affects around 200,000 pregnancies annually in the US. According to the NIH, physicians generally screen for GDM at around 24-28 weeks, earlier if there are more...
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July 9, 2011
16 And Naming Babies
There's really nothing I can add except my non-stop tennis applause: 16 First and Middle Names of Babies on 16 and Pregnant, in Order of How Much I Spit Out My Drink When They Were Revealed [thehairpin.com]...
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July 7, 2011
Dallas Loves You For Sale
The East Side's own renaissance dad Dallas Clayton is at it again, with a new hip and heartfelt project to you feel cool and good all over. This time it's Dallas Loves You, a sale of 100 original watercolor...
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Big Cat Sleeping Bags For The Road
Last night we had some station wagon-loving, old-book-loving friends over for dinner, and so of course, I had to pull out the Ford Treasury of Station Wagon Living. Volume 2. And I guess I hadn't noticed before, but the...
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July 6, 2011
Woman With Big Hat And Some Peaches, After Henri Matisse
With the Mall cleared of 4th of July riff-raff--and Johnny Cash impersonators opening for Little Richard wheeled out on a piano gurney? Seriously, America, what the hell??--and a couple of days before we head off for a bit of family...
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July 5, 2011
Toys R Us Is A Battlefield
At her NAFTAstic masculinity marketing blog The Achilles Effect, Canadian social media expert Crystal Smith decided to throw all the ads for boys' toys and girls' toys into the Word Cloud Generator and see what retrograde gender stereotypes came up....
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The Jar-Jar Binks Of PSAs
If being temporarily amused by adorably nostalgic commercials for the autos that are perpetuating our world's petroleum dependency and contributing to the disastrous changes in our planet's climate made by the giant companies which are secretly and actively thwarting...
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Alaskan Snow Baby Collection
Amazing collection spotted at the flea market in Pasadena, and documented, at least a little bit, by Ready4TheHouse, before it disappeared:This collection was incredible, the vendor was intent on keeping it together and not parting it out....it was on...
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They Might Be Chumbawumba
Though singing too much Chumbawumba back in the day probably set back my chances for actually getting someone knocked up by several years, now that I have--and now that They Might Be Giants has covered that damn song as...
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Velo Papà da Milano
Mister Mort interrupted his coverage of PItti in Firenze to post some coverage of the Spring/Summer 2012 mens shows in Milano. And then he interrupted his coverage of the fashion minstrels to post this awesome photo of a Milanese...
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July 4, 2011
Phil & Teds & The Recall Down Under
It looks like the Phil & Teds recall of two models that began its home country of New Zealand a couple of weeks ago has spread to neighboring Australia. Kind of. Actually, no, not at all. Not even close. The...
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July 1, 2011
DT Friday Freakout: Neuroscience Edition
A couple of stories from the world of neuroscience to freak you out over the weekend: [image: newscientist.com/Michael Crabtree] They know when they've been sleeping; they know when they're awake. A study at Kings College London using MRI scans of...
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