For every Playmobil student protestor set you buy, you'll need 10 of the Playmobil Special Forces Unit sets. You also need a little pepper spray can for, you know, realism. I don't understand, though, why the Tactical Unit Car...
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November 2013 Archives
November 27, 2013
Occupy This: Playmobil Special Forces Unit
November 26, 2013
Some Old Keith Haring Coloring Book
Hmm, whatsat? Oh, just Mondo-Blogo findin' OG Keith Haring coloring books while pokin' around in old studios, NBD. you never know what you will find when cleaning out an old studio! [instagram]...
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Wienermobile Say Drive Safely This Thanksgiving
Whereas the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile fleet and the activities of the HotDogger teams of newly minted marketing/PR majors who pilot them has been an area of investigative focus at DaddyTypes, and Whereas, that includes that one time in 2009...
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Goldieblox Is The Larry Flynt Of Our Generation
image: truckinweb.com Oh boy, it's gettin' real in the Goldieblox vs Beastie Boys media arena. Felix Salmon has an awesome column on Goldieblox, not as an empowering girl toy pioneer, but as an archetypal disruption-obsessed Silicon Valley startup.:Under what...
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November 25, 2013
Thanksgiving Hunger Games
So we have survived the first night of ruthless competition for grandparental attention, only five days and nights to go. Anyone taking odds on when the first cartwheel- or backflip-off-the-sofa-related injury will occur? Will someone get strung up by her...
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November 22, 2013
People Are Just Runnin' Over Kids In New York, And It's Got To Stop
Five kids killed by cars in five weeks, the most recent of which was a 9yo in Brooklyn:Less than a month earlier, on Oct. 11, a drunk driver killed 3-year-old Olvin Jahir Figueroa in Queens. Samuel Cohen Eckstein, 12, died...
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November 21, 2013
Um
$126,500....
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November 20, 2013
Be The 4 Millionth Person To See This Awesome Goldieblox Commercial
I heartily endorse this event and/or product. Which turn out to be Goldie Blox building toys and books. How are these? Would boys like these? [amazon] A COUPLE OF DAYS LATER UPDATE: WTF you have got to be kidding...
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November 19, 2013
Rockytoy Story
M V Gopalan founded a great wooden toy manufacturer in Madras, southern India, in 1942. It was first called Modern Agencies, but it came to be called Rockytoy because they were making rocking horses that everyone wanted. The scale of...
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'An Abstract Gets Close Scrutiny'
A photo from SFMOMA back in the day. These kids are now grown and living in the East Bay somewhere, scratching their heads at real estate prices. [promieniowanie via grupaok]...
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November 15, 2013
Ford Country Squire Dually
My gosh. A 1973 Ford Country Squire Wagon converted to a dually towing machine. With woodgrain painted--not adhered--on the side, and an American flag painted on the roof. Though honestly, with that ground clearance, who would know without Google...
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Jenny McCarthy's Unvaccinated Minions Totally Gave This Lady Whooping Cough
Really, the headline says it all. She's 70 days through her 100 day cough. It sounds terrible. If someone has a Vine of a pertussis coughing fit, I'll add it here. GET YOUR VACCINATIONS DON'T TAKE ADVICE FROM A RANDOM...
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November 13, 2013
McSweeney's Published Amusing Birth Plan
David was surprised that he hadn't seen this funny birth plan published at McSweeney's last year. Me, I was not surprised, seeing as how I don't recall visiting McSweeney's since my Wholphin subscription ran out. But I'm trying to get...
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This. Is. CNN's Ridiculous Paternity Leave Policy.
This case has been brewing for a couple of weeks now, but it's never too late to point out how Time Warner has bumbled its way into an unnecessarily unfair, even discriminatory parental leave policy, and the obvious, right thing...
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November 11, 2013
Goodnight Loon: Make It Happen, People!
OK, this counts as a major scandal, at least in Minnesotan terms. I've seen Abe Sauer tweet about Goodnight Loon, a Northwoods parody of Clement Hurd and Margaret Wise Brown's perennial classic, for a week now, and I just...
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Mother Nature
WOW, I was told not to read Ariel Levy's account of her reporting trip to Mongolia while she was 19 weeks pregnant if I wanted to get anything done today, and I didn't listen, and I read it, and now...
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November 9, 2013
Petit Criminels Entre Nous: Francois Bertillon
François Bertillon, 23 months. Crime: Gluttony, nibbling all the pears from a basket Date: October 17, 1893 19th century Parisian police officer and anthropometrist Alphonse Bertillon is the father of the mug shot. And of the youngest perp, François...
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November 6, 2013
Other Daddies Typing
It's been kind of crazy around the workfront, and the tabs and posts are piling up at DTHQ. Meanwhile, some other dads have been typing up a whirlwind of great stuff: The Atlantic's tech guy Alexis Madrigal is back from...
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November 1, 2013
Improve Human Survival With This One Weird Evolutionary Trick!
Anthropologists from the University of Colorado noticed that in some cultures, kids never crawl; they get carried for a year, then they sit, and just start walking. And that crawling might have only evolved in the last 200-300 years,...
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