In the case of Ruth Baby Ginsburg vs. every other baby Halloween costume in existence, the Court rules unanimously in favor of the plaintiff. There is no dissent. [via dt neighbor sarah]...
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October 2014 Archives
October 31, 2014
Hashtag NotoriousRBG Hashtag Halloween
October 29, 2014
Goodnight Rolling Stone
In the great green room, there was a telephone and a Rolling Stone snorting out of a spoon As befits any Goodnight Moon parody about Keith Moon, this one turns NSFBedtime. And some of the rhymes do make one...
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October 28, 2014
We Are Terrorizing Our Children
Launa Hall, a Pre-K teacher in Northern Virginia, writes in the Washington Post about lockdown drills. There will be a longterm psychological, emotional, and political price for these lockdowns, what Hall calls, with righteous outrage, "rehearsing our deaths," and it...
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Tripe Too Delicious To Factcheck
1952: 'Win the weight of your baby in tripe!' pic.twitter.com/cqR6k4lsMz via @Colvinius #austerity— Hari Kunzru (@harikunzru) October 28, 2014 Not everything was better in the old days. Take parody book marketing campaigns, for instance. "The Tripe Council was originally...
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October 24, 2014
A Is For Activist, The Boardbook Of The 99%, Now Available In Spanish
A is for Activist is the alphabet boardbook "for the unflinching progressive with a child/children in your life." And by now, I assume he or she already has it. So now we'd like to open it up to the...
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BMW E39 M5 Touring Unicorn Conversion
Interesting. Here is a 2000 BMW E39 540i Touring, which has undergone an M5 conversion. It has the M 6-speed manual transmission, M brakes, hella dropped springs, cambered rear wheels, wait wait, I think we got off track here....
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200,000 Evenflo Infant Car Seats Recalled For Sticky Buckles
Evenflo has recalled over 202,000 Embrace 35 rear-facing infant carriers, which were manufactured between Dec. 2011 and May 2013. See the affected model numbers at Evenflo's site. The carriers are still safe, crash-wise, but the buckles and harnesses become...
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Facebook Don't Know Nothin' 'Bout Pictures Of Birthin' No Babies
Facebook has removed images of a couple of women giving birth and temporarily banned the group that posted them, the Postive Birth Movement. But not to worry, The Guardian is on the story, and has the pictures ready and waiting...
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October 23, 2014
This Post Is Entirely Unrelated To The Previous One
A+ advertisement trolling by AirBnB, here. RT @mik3cap: Really? Really?? #trolling pic.twitter.com/BylsAY1SMU— Alastair Coote (@_alastair) October 23, 2014...
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October 22, 2014
Snohetta Dollhouse, For SFMOMA
The Norwegians-in-Brooklyn architecutre firm Snohetta are doing the new SFMOMA building. So when the museum leaned on them to donate work to a fundraising auction last year, they put up a dollhouse. It is an insane, psychedelic wunderkammer of...
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October 21, 2014
The Least Surprised I've Ever Been: Marcel The Shell Has New Video, Book
A new Marcel the Shell video has appeared, just in time to promote the release of Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp's new Marcel book, The Most Surprised I've Ever Been. This kind of marketing synergy works, though it would...
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October 20, 2014
Adorable Dutch Urchins Wearing Garbage, By Ed Van Der Elsken
Halloween costume production has kicked into high gear around the DTHQ; ideas were locked down weeks ago, followed by concept, design and shopping, and this weekend, sewing/construction. [Legolas and a poofy ballerina witch, btw.] But the point is, this...
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We Are Amused: Princess Victoria Baby Tooth Brooch
Wow, as if the royals weren't weird enough. Here is a brooch made in 1847 from the baby tooth of Princess Victoria, the 7-yo daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. The princess's dad pulled the tooth during a...
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'We Do Not Accept Immunized Children': @LosFelizDayCare
Tweeters who liked @HonestToddler and @JennyHolzerMom also liked @LosFelizDayCare: We always practice mindfulness, especially when some of the kids' Amazon pilots get picked up and others' don't.— Los Feliz Day Care (@LosFelizDayCare) October 17, 2014 We NEVER overpraise. When our...
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October 18, 2014
Small Child Photographe Not Looking At A Pollock
Pollock, Bench, Child, 1959, Hans Haacke Hans Haacke was an art student in Kassel when Documenta 2 opened in 1959, and he decided to "document Documenta" with his camera. His series of photos were included by Open Eye in...
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October 17, 2014
The Godfather Meets The Crazy Uncle
Here's Robert Duvall talking about his new movie, Wild Horses, which he directed:Matthew McConaughey's nephew, Miller Lyte McConaughey, is 8 years old, and he's terrific in it. He has that wacko streak that that whole family has.Robert Duvall is not...
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October 16, 2014
Fashionable Children Of The Revolution
I don't care if I take heat for it, I'll tell you right now: I'm generally opposed to child labor AND communism. That said, kids back then sure knew how to dress. Check out the awesome pattern matching in...
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October 15, 2014
Overparenting's Overparenting, Except They Call It Le Overparenting
those curling parent pants! image: today.com I think my favorite thing about this NYT column about how parents around the world1 need to step back and take a little me-time, and save themselves and their kids from the perils...
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October 14, 2014
Toddler's Laser-cut Cardboard Fighter Plane Costume, NBD
Oh hai, blogger here! Long weekend! I hope it's not too late for us all to feel woefully inadequate about our kids' Halloween costumes. Because over at Sparkfun, guestblogger dad Aidan Chopra has written about making a motorized WWII-era...
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October 9, 2014
Damn, NIGO, That's All You Had To Sell!
"I WANTED TO HAVE AN ESTATE SALE OF MY OWN BUT OBVIOUSLY I COULDN'T GET ANY ENJOYMENT FROM IT MYSELF IF I WAS DEAD. SO I DECIDED TO DO IT NOW." Bathing Ape's in that awkward phase of a brand's...
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October 8, 2014
Doppelganger Ace Bike, The Adjustable Japanese Pushbike
The pushbike space has been looking pretty stable lately, with the OG German plywood Like-a-Bike being rather completely surrounded with Chinese knockoffs in dozens of variations. Hundreds, even. But this is pretty interesting. It's the Ace Bike from Japanese...
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October 7, 2014
Tuesday Freakout: WASH YOUR HANDS EVERYBODY EVERYWHERE Edition
OK, let's face facts: the report of the 4-yo boy in New Jersey who died of Enterovirus 68 in his sleep after not seeming that sick at bedtime is pure parental terror. I found myself not even able to recap...
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October 3, 2014
DT Review: Zingy Chili Lime Goldfish
We've seen this sort of thing before. In order to drive more consumption, to expand the brand, to capture new "eating occasions," and to hold onto linear feet of shelf space in grocery stores, cracker people introduce a whole...
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October 2, 2014
Your Brand Here
.@darrenrovell Announcing birth of my son Brand Product Lund. Hospital says 1,000 RTs will get us a free iPad. Help! pic.twitter.com/sLct49kXKZ— Jeb Lund (@Mobute) October 2, 2014 Mazeltov, though I hope you didn't sign away the kid's naming rights completely....
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Teapot Dome
via someone on Twitter, I have no idea rn....
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