So hear are some headlines and such pulled from the media and designed to freak you out all week, compiled into one list, so you can freakout and ruin just your weekend: JennyMcCarthyBodyCount.com keeps a running tally of all the...
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May 2012 Archives
May 31, 2012
DT Friday Freakout
WTFantastique: Terrifying French Kids Books
Where the toes have no names. British writer Jenny Colgan's list. is photoblogging her way through the kids' section of the library in Antibes, documenting France's unparalleled selection of terrifying children's books. So far she hasn't found one with...
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Baby Party Ball: Baby Bubble Bed By Lana Agiyan
No one dares challenge my undying love for the plexiglass bassinet. As long as it has a plausible afterlife. Because seriously, people, there is nothing more pointless than a bassinet. Except an expensive, designy bassinet. So really, you need...
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How Am I Even Supposed To Write A Headline After This?
BREAKING: Two U.S. tourists kidnapped near Dahab, home of Baby Yoga. bit.ly/Mbj5Lw via @ghoshworld— Dadwagon (@dadwagon) May 31, 2012 Today may just be Sit Back In Awe At Dadwagon's Awesome Tweeting Power Day here at Daddy Types....
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May 30, 2012
Related By Birth
Wow, yes, wow, this is an incredible video of an elephant giving birth in the Elephant Safari Park in Bali, which, well, wow. But I guess I didn't know nothin' about no birthin' baby videos all over YouTube. Because,...
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Sesame Street Is Brought To You Today By The Letters GTMO
I realized this morning, when I turned off NPR for the third time on the way to preschool, that for a lot of information I want, regular, old linear media is annoying because it's too damn slow. And its...
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May 29, 2012
Moep With A Rope: Ply Nanny Rocker/Cradle By DvanDirk
They have advanced CNC skillz in Holland, and they like to show them off. Or as designer Dirk Ploos van Amstel puts it, "This work is about demystification. The most striking of this designs is that the most important...
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May 28, 2012
Roland Barthes On French Playthings
There's a new, complete translation of Roland Barthes' 1957 Mythologies out. Haven't seen it yet--the Times review is awesome in itself-- but Barthes' brief smackdown of French toys was in the earlier editions:French toys always mean something, and this something...
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Comforter Down!
You know, it's not like the implications of feeding a 4yo extra slices of watermelon were unconsidered at 7:30. It's just....
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May 26, 2012
DT Friday Freakout
A roundup of freakout headlines and news from the worlds of science, health, and parenting, to ruin your long weekend: Just because they're bite-size, kids should not eat the Tide laundry detergent nuggets. [slate] Haha, it's all fun and games...
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Bravemart
Went into the Disney store today and the display of Brave movie toys spoiled the plot.Bastards!— Shawn Robare (@smurfwreck) May 26, 2012 They will never take our freedom--to shop!...
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May 25, 2012
FaceTime With Elmo
Blues Clues and Dora got a generation of kids to think they're talking to the TV, and now those kids are all grown up, and making iPhone apps. Including Elmo Calls, which basically simulates a FaceTime chat with the...
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May 24, 2012
SM Daddy
A very lucky and satisfied Bring A Trailer reader has filed a report on the awesome 1973 Citroen SM he scored through the site a couple of months ago. It's the feelgood 40-yo car story of the day, but...
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May 23, 2012
Mommy War's Over (If You Want It)
You know, it's in the media's and advice book writers' interest to draw the anxiety out as long as possible, but as Mom-101's clear-eyed post explains, the Mommy War is inside you, and it could end right now if you...
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Daddies Ketchup By Paul McCarthy
Sometimes a ketchup bottle is just a ketchup bottle. Though with Paul McCarthy, you can never be sure if this is one of those times. Still, congratulations to the Public Art Fund for erecting this awesome inflatable Daddie's Ketchup...
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Sun Ra X Disney: Hallucinogenic Elephants On Parade
I done seen about everything when I seen Walt Disney outfreak Sun Ra. For the late intergalactic Jazz overlord's birthday, Dangerous Minds points to Sun Ra and the Arkestra's rendition of "Pink Elephants on Parade," which is synched up here...
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Link'em All, Let Tumblr Sort'em Out
When I saw this float by in @starwarsmodern's twitter feed last night, I thought I'd try to track it down and give some credit. [update: It may be from @wallykrantz] But then when DT reader Sara sent along this one,...
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May 22, 2012
Shooting Down 'Baby'
My "baby" is having me committed to a state mental institution. @Huggies: Hey dads: what do you have planned for you and baby this weekend?— Neil Hamburger (@NeilHamburger) May 21, 2012 [via @dadcentric] It's one of the things I've never...
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Big Gulp, Son Of Clone Trooper
Here is a photograph of a Clone Trooper pushing a gun and a Coke in a stroller at the Maker Faire. Really not much I can add to it at this point. Cool Clothes and Styles of Maker Faire...
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Buy These Bugaboo Maxi-Cosi Adapters For Practically Nothing
Regular DT readers know I love nothing more than leaving money on the table. From all the ads and sponsored content we don't sell, to all the giveaways and tweetups and shilling contests we don't run. And now I've...
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May 21, 2012
Endless Extruded Plastic Kids Rocker By Dirk Vander Kooij
Amsterdam designer Dirk Vander Kooij developed his Endless Flow Process for his 2010 Eindhoven thesis project. Since then, he's refined it to the point where his repurposed industrial robot extruder can print a plastic chair out of recycled refrigerator...
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Shibuya Hikarie Underground Breastfeeding Spa De Gozaimasu
Luxurious women's lounges in department stores are nothing new. But I still can't help thinking the six differently themed ladies' rooms on each level of the new Shibuya Hikarie complex, including the curtain-filled breastfeeding spa on B2, is the...
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GOP Anti-JFK Coloring Book
A reader at Talking Points Memo sent along pictures from his grandmother's attic of Republican coloring book that mocked President Kennedy. Basically nothing has changed in fifty years, which at least provides a sort of comfort, a continuity with...
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Chō-Kawaii Tokyo Eclipse Photo By Jean Snow
Tokyo guru Jean Snow's mechakucha-kawaii photo just proves that eclipses are one of the few things to surpass toddlerhood for fleeting awesomeness. "This is my favorite photo of people taking in today's eclipse" [@jeansnow via @camcavers]...
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May 20, 2012
What Do You Expect?
Fine, here's a quote from AO Scott's review of What To Expect When You're Expecting:Food trucks, by the way, seem to have replaced yoga classes as an easy, quasi-hip contemporary reference to be exploited in romantic comedies. Enough already. On...
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May 18, 2012
DT Friday Freakout White Babies Edition
You know, it's been a busy, even crazy week, and my eye is kind of hurting because I swim with only one eye open, when I should really just get a pair of goggles? Anyway, this week's freakout is...
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Bring A Snowboard: 1991 20v Audi 200 Quattro Avant
1991 was the only year the Audi 200 Avant came with a 20-valve, 280hp 5-cylinder engine. And it was also the only year that the 20-valve turbo engine was offered in a station wagon body style. Does that help...
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The Mary Blair Treasury Of Golden Books Is Near
Well, you can stop grubbin' around in library sales and shelling out the Hamiltons on Abebooks. Because a fresh, crisp, digitally remastered copy of A Mary Blair Treasury of Golden Books can be on your doorstep by August:I Can...
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DTQ: Is There A Potty Training Season? If So, Is It Summer?
So I got this product pitch yesterday:Hi Greg, Summer is around the corner and so begins the season for potty training! More than any other time of year, parents tackle potty training during the summer months- when kids are out...
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TGI WTF Friday Socks
You know what'll seem really cute at the time, and may help the kid learn the days of the week, and maybe even start to learn letters and reading? Socks and underwear with the days of the week printed...
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May 17, 2012
The Last Wiggle Standing
The Wiggles have been trying to morph from actual people into mindless, mass producible, perpetually monetizable branded characters for years, even before "Greg Wiggle" got sick in 2006 and was replaced by Sam Moran as "The Yellow Wiggle." And now...
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May 16, 2012
Doug Harvey's Kids Sound Exhibition On The Phone, At 323 Projects
Well I don't know how this got by me. Los Angeles-based artist/curator Doug Harvey organized "The Patter Of Tiny Brains," an exhibition of audio of or by children, for the phone-based art gallery, 323 Projects. Basically, you can call...
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Quick, To The Dadcave
I meant to link to Choire's concerned post about the coming real estatepocalypse in Brooklyn when all the adorably involved dads get divorced, but won't move out of the hard-fought good school boundaries, but I got behind. And a good...
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May 15, 2012
Parenting Without A Neto
In New York over the weekend, I went to my friend Tanya Bonakdar's gallery to see my buddy Ernesto Neto's awesome-looking, new, climbable sculptures, and my buddy Ethan, almost literally the first thing out of his mouth when I...
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May 14, 2012
Avocado + iPhone
Bkln hipster parents with a (lovely) 6mo old baby on my Paris-JFK flight fed her fresh avocado scooped out w/tiny spoon— Rich Mintz (@richmintz) May 15, 2012 Also when the baby cried they gave her an iPhone to hold and...
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I'd Like To Blame Eloise
But I'm pretty sure it was her big sister at the end of her rope who taught K2 the phrase she now uses on everyone all the time it's driving us crazy: "Silence, s'il vous plait."...
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Wairforit
Waitforit would be a pretty awesome middle name.— Guan Yang (@guan) May 15, 2012...
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May 13, 2012
Um, YEAH! Mondo Cane Kid Chairs At Partners & Spade
Oh Partners & Spade, I can't stay mad at you. Let's never speak of Dan Colen again. Instead, let's just do high fives and brohugs about the awesome kids chair exhibit you are putting on in collaboration with the...
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May 11, 2012
This Is How We Roll: Those Little Stick-On Vents Edition
Living near the National Zoo, our DC neighborhood gets more than its fair share of souped up daytripping whips. But I've seen this blingy Honda Odyssey a couple of times now, so this guy's either a neighbor or a...
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Woohoo, Wary Meyers Kids Shop Is AMAZING
The kids vintage world has definitely changed since the day when, as an idealistic new dad, I walked into Allan & Suzi on the UWS, asked if they had or knew of any kids clothes, and was told, "There...
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May 10, 2012
Detachment Fathering
Tear your eyes away from the WTF attachment parenting cover of Time for a minute to read DadWagoneer Nathan Thornburgh's awesome token dad sanity check on the topic:Advocates of attachment parenting might claim that their approach places demands on both...
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These Things We Pray
I know that two days before Mother's Day is arguably an even worse time to bring this up than when I thought about it--in the middle of church, staring at the kids a couple of rows ahead of us--but...
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May 9, 2012
Misaki Kawai World At Children's Museum Of The Arts
Alright, I know: it's hard not to stare at the Bazoombas Bench. But artist Misaki Kawai's also made all kinds of other hipster-whimsical, kid-size furniture for her current exhibition at the Children's Museum of the Arts in NYC. Like...
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So The Jaguar XF SportBrake DID Come To The US After All
Came, shot a commercial, and then flew back to England. Don't let the security scanners hit ya on the way out, guvnuh! Jaguar XK SportBrake launch film [sic] [youtube via dt]...
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May 8, 2012
But Why Are You Hunting Wabbits?
The ending's a little heteronormative, but Bill Benzon's New Savanna blog post is probably the most extensive discussion of myth logic in What's Opera, Doc? you'll find anwhere:At this point I see a pile of questions which I'm not prepared...
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Maurice Sendak Has Sailed Off In His Private Boat
At 83, and given his recent health, it's not like it was unexpected. And I swear I was fine with this until I wrote the headline. Maurice Sendak, Children's Author, Dies at 83 [nytimes] image via inandoutofweeks.com, a project...
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May 7, 2012
Saab Safari: It Was An Ancient Saab 900 Station Wagon, He Selleth One Of Two
Oh, nothing, just the Saab Safari, one of two Saab 900 Station Wagons, kept in a showroom for 20 years and now for sale in the Netherlands for under EUR10,000. I mean, seriously, why has it taken this guy...
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Piles Of Antonio Vitali Toys Traded For Piles Of Money
Well, it's always good to know where you stand. I ended up conducting an experiment over the weekend as I decided whether to post about two separate hoards of classic Antonio Vitali carved wood toys--or whether to bid on...
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Sesame Street X Beastie Boys
I can't, I won't, and I don't stop posting Beastie Boys mashups with kids TV shows. So here is Wonderful Creative's version of "Sure Shot," as performed by the cast of Sesame Street. Sesame Street Breaks it down [vimeo...
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May 5, 2012
Tree Rocking Horse By Hilla Shamia
Well this is rather nice. Israeli designer Hilla Shamia made this awesome rocking horse out of a big ol' slice of tree in 2010. Maybe this is an option for the giant street trees I see getting chopped down...
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May 4, 2012
MCA RIP
Here is Ryan Henry's 2008 mashup of the Beastie Boys' "Sure Shot" and Richard Scarry's Busytown. [funnyordie via eyeteeth]...
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DT Friday Freakout
Some headlines and such from the worlds of science, politics, and parenting, all rolled up into one, weekend-ruining Freakout, a public service of Daddy Types: Yeah, but the problem as always, is the last mile: "1 sperm has 37.5MB of...
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May 3, 2012
@CountVonCount
Seven! Seven wonderful tweets! Ah ah ah ah!— Count Von Count (@CountVonCount) May 2, 2012 1,400 followers in a day for tweeting nothing but numbers! Ah ah ah..ha h I am doing it so wrong....
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That Era Of Casual Abandonment Of Newborn Babies
There are a lot of things I disagree with George Will about, not the least of which is the way his political ideology rewards him for tossing off a phrase like "this era of casual destruction of pre-born babies." But...
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May 2, 2012
Gilty! Maclaren Is Definitely Not Dumping Netto Furniture On Gilt.com
Yes, it's Netto Furniture By Maclaren for sale at around 50% off at Gilt, but the question is, which of Farzad Rastegar's Maclaren shell companies is behind it? And will these Louis cribs and changers and Cub cribs and...
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U.N.C.L.E.
K2 so desperately and hilariously needed to go to the bathroom, but she also wanted to know rightthisminute why they had canceled "that movie," The Man From U.N.C.L.E.. Because we found this coloring book in a box outside the library...
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Volvo Dubs
One last shot of the Volvo XC60. Next up...Nissan Sentra. Definitely not as pretty. pinterest.com/pin/2927346629...— David Thomas (@DaveLikesCars) May 1, 2012 This may be how we roll, but I cannot for the life of me figure out why. Cars.com guy...
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Chris Ware For The New Yorker
Here is Chris Ware's Mother's Day New Yorker cover. It is almost as awesome as his This American Life animation is disturbing. Oddly, no Bugaboos. UPDATE: DT reader GFR sent this awesome rant this morning just as I was...
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