Oh man, do you know the freakoutiest kind of Friday Freakout story from the worlds of science and health and parenting and politics and just general freaking out? It's the kind with "unpublished data." Because with unpublished data, you get...
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February 2014 Archives
February 28, 2014
DT Friday Freakout: Yet Unpublished Edition
February 27, 2014
Area Man Didn't Work On His Base Tan
I dreamed a dream my life would be so different from this hell I'm living. Also, I that they paid retail for that Bugaboo and Maxi-Cosi combo. image: rocketing around twitter I don't even want to know don't tell...
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February 26, 2014
Dadtown & Z Girls
Dark Roasted Blend's got a huge, motley, but all-around entertaining historical survey of WTF kid photos, check them all out. But the one that hit me is right here: a dad from the 70s taking his kid on his...
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February 25, 2014
Here Is A Baby Being Born In A Save The Children Ad
OK, here is an ad for Save The Children UK that is basically a woman giving birth, and a properly trained midwife helping keep the baby alive. It is for a campaign to end half a million first day...
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Antonio Vitali Creative Playthings Family Ahead Of Their Time
It's always nice to see an Antonio Vitali Creative Playthings family come up for sale on eBay. It's especially nice to see one come up with a superlow starting bid; it always makes for good action. And when the...
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Where Do 'Designer Babies' Come From?
So there are FDA hearings on an experimental gene splicing technique that involves replacing defective mitochondria in a woman's egg with healthy mitochondria from another woman, either before or after fertilization. And the fear surrounding this process is, as it...
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February 24, 2014
Bayerische Manual Wagon
DT's favorite car shark DT spotted this impressive Vader Wagon on Craigslist Milkwaukee: it's a 2011 BMW E91 3-series M-sport wagon, the last of the 6-speed manuals. It has just 25k miles, warranty coverage through 2015, and is "in...
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February 22, 2014
Would You Could You On A Plane?
Two tweets, from the same company, less than 24 hours apart. This is why so many women struggle with #breastfeeding. pic.twitter.com/hQMTFibqQ7— Kelly Kautz (@kellykautz) February 21, 2014 I totally get Kautz's point here, which goes right to the heart of...
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February 21, 2014
DT Friday Freakout: Testicular Time Bomb Edition
Time has you by the balls, gentlemen! Cut the DT Friday Freakout intro nonsense, and just read this New Scientist headline! Testicular time bomb: Older dads' mutant sperm Basically the spermatogonium, the stem cells that produce sperm, mutate all the...
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February 20, 2014
Skip*Hop Stroller Handle Handy
Well this looks handy. Skip*Hop's new stroller handle loops onto a stroller, but it could just as easily loop onto a bag or a belt. The only catch is that to get the most benefit from it, your kid...
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February 19, 2014
McSweeney's McMullens Kids Books Look Gifty, Promising
McSweeney's has created a children's book imprint called McMullens. Except for an egregious non-adherence to standard usage rules for apostrophes, McSweeney's McMullens books look well-done, thoughtful, and like they would make great gifts. McSweeney's certainly thinks so, because they...
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The World Of Sid & Mart Krofft Sounds Like It Sucked
I hated HR PufnStuf as a kid. That show creeped me out. ? f you have no idea what I'm talking about, imagine a dark, slightly sadistic, acid-laced mashup of Barney, Yo Gabba Gabba, and live action versions of...
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February 18, 2014
Malebøker Is Norwegian For Coloring Books
Norske Malebøker is a gorgeous-looking anthology of vintage Norwegian picture, activity, and coloring book illustrations, assembled by Einar Økland from his own collection. 50 Watts has a typically amazing selection of images in a rich and beautiful variety of...
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Volvo V60 Polestar Is Smurftastic
La la la la la la, la la la la la. La la la la la la la la la la la. Volvo Shows Off 345-hp S60 and V60 Polestar [autoblog via dt reader nathan]...
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February 17, 2014
Daddy Pillows
I'm just going to post the screenshot Jessica Suarez posted on her blog--she said she stumbled across it while looking for a set of sheets for her guestroom--and leave it at that. It's all too mindblowingly sad to handle...
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Mutton Good Time, By Patrick Smith
Sometimes you bust the mutton, and sometimes the mutton busts you. Congratulations to Maryland freelance photojournalist Patrick Smith, whose photo of little Sadie Bezzant getting crushed by a sheep at the 2013 Strawberry Days Rodeo in Pleasant Grove, Utah,...
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Skip Ad
Mosaic/Netscape founder Marc Andreessen's been tweeting examples of Our Digital Native Generation's touchscreeny precociousness. They're inspiring, amazing--and occasionally downright depressing:@pmarca my 2 year old nieces first words she put together were 'skip ad', in reference to YouTube— nik cubrilovic (@nikcub)...
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February 14, 2014
Chestburster Onesie By Mike Dougherty
From writer/director/drawer Mike Dougherty: At my first baby shower. Designing a onesie. pic.twitter.com/emSVnleKsg— Mike Dougherty (@Mike_Dougherty) February 9, 2014 Kind of think this should've been a maternity t-shirt, though....
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February 13, 2014
Wu-Tang Is For The Children
Some Swedish snowboarder throws the Clan sign in the "kiss and cry zone" in Sochi. Nice work....
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Audi A4 Avant Dazzle Camo Wagon
Olsson's camo Gallardo with ski box, photographed on my old skateboarding hangout, Larvotto in Monte Carlo. Where there is no skiing. You may know Swedish skier Jon Olsson from his X Games and Red Bull stunt marketing work, but...
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Modern Primitives Baby Chair By Aranda\Lasch
Looking around Johnson Trading Gallery for something slightly less utilitarian than $20,000 plywood bookcase sculptures, I found this: the Modern Primitives Baby Chair by Aranda\Lasch. The New York-based architecture practice produced the Modern Primitives series in collaboration with Fendi...
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Furniture Dealers' Kids Always Have The Best RO/LU Plywood Shelves
When you're a pioneering vintage and art furniture dealer, your kid can't fill up just any shelving with her baby swag. It's gotta be special. That's why Paul Johnson of New York's Johnson Trading Gallery stuffs his kid's stuff...
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February 12, 2014
The Runaway Bunny: No Escape
Mallory Ortberg's insidious rewrite of The Runaway Bunny is so terrifyingly awesome, it might finally break that damn book's treacly stranglehold on our culture. Deep down, I know Margaret Wise Brown would approve. You KNOW Clement Hurd does:"If you...
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Flappy Bert Will Doom Us All, Starting With The Sesame People
You know the real problem with Flappy Birds wasn't everything; it was that the bird wasn't carrying a Muppet in its talons, making it 4x taller and more unwieldy. As for Sesame Workshop's problems, well. Flappy Bert [sesameworkshop.org via...
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February 11, 2014
Mazeltov, The Nightlight Is Mostly Here!
Finally/So soon! It's Here!/It's almost here! I don't know quite the best baby birthin' metaphor to use for The Nightlight's soft launch today: was it born a little premature, and needs to spend a few weeks in the Kinja...
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February 10, 2014
More Vintage Music For Expectant Fathers
It's been quite a while since Fontanna's smooth 1957 orchestral novelty album, "Music For Expectant Fathers," first turned up on Daddy Types, but I still haven't found any audio from it. I did hear from the daughter of the guy...
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Frank Rohloff Cradle At LA Modern Auctions
This beautiful walnut cradle was made in California by Frank Rohloff. Rohloff was active in the studio furniture movement, which sought to bring classic craftsmanship together with modernist design in the 1950s. Rohloff's pieces were exhibited in shows at...
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February 9, 2014
This AOL Distressed Babies BS Really Pisses Me Off.
I've had several friends and colleagues I admire deeply who have worked for AOL over the years, but I passed on at least three opportunities to work there myself. When AOL people kicked around Daddy Types early in the blogging...
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February 7, 2014
Wine Sippy Cups Exist
There are days when I wonder why I keep going with the new dad angle, and then someone will tweet about wine sippy cups, and it all makes sense again. The lids are colored Merlot and Party Pink! Stroll...
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Are You The Ciao! Manhattan Baby At Max's Kansas City?
Here is rare footage of Max's Kansas City, the Park Avenue South hangout for the New York art world in the 1960s and 70s. It was shot by David Weisman, probably in 1967, as B-roll for Ciao! Manhattan, which...
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February 6, 2014
McDonald's Shows You How The Canadian McNuggets Are Made
Daddy Types has long taken an editorial interest in the contents of McNuggets, which are an occasional part of K2's occasional McDonald's diet. Now we see that McDonald's Canada has invited us into Cargill's chicken factory, to see the...
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February 5, 2014
Silence, Glass Crib By Mona Hatoum
Was at MoMA today and saw Silence, a 1994 sculpture by Mona Hatoum. The wall text says, "Made of glass, this life-size crib threatens any child in its care with shattering collapse and inevitable injury." And if that weren't...
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February 4, 2014
Amazing Hippie Crochet Bunting Thing You Must Buy Now
Holy smokes, if one of you hippies doesn't buy this crocheted 70s afghan bunting at Wary Meyers today, I swear, I'm gonna buy it myself. And then I'm going to steal a baby from Trader Joe's and keep it...
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February 3, 2014
Minnesota Nice Mutton Bustin'
I understand that there's not much to do in Minnesota this time of year, especially for kids who aren't old enough to get drunk ice-fishing. So yes, in theory, a World's Toughest Mutton Bustin' Competition would a nice evening...
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10, 7, 5
Those are the ages of Philip Seymour Hoffman's kids, roughly the same age range as mine. Beyond anything else, this is what tears me up about his death: the loss his family is experiencing, and the pain and difficult times...
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February 1, 2014
Aging Punk Hoons Little Tike
After a virtual garageful of head-scratching, WTF projects, a couple of Oxfordshire hoons have finally hit upon the crazy, one-off car mod that's destined for viral greatness: they've built a full-size, street-legal version of the Little Tikes Cozy Coupe...
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