It's apparently NPR Bad Decisions Day around here. After her slightly quirky, mid-day news/talk show "Day To Day" was canceled, West Coast radio host Madeleine Brand found another gig: momblogger. She is leading the LA Times' new blog/podcast hybrid, Parenting...
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Category archive: web
November 18, 2009
Madeleine Brand Thinks That Tree Should Just Stop Giving, It's Only Encouraging Him
November 16, 2009
Jim Coudal's Pro Dad Tips
Pro/dad Jim Coudal's been sprinkling his Pro Dad Tips into his agency's awesome linkblog stream to great acclaim. Now they've been gathered into one, delicious Twitter feed, it's like bacon you don't have to clean up. I give it...
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November 3, 2009
A Is For Anvil: Spectacular Dutch Childrens Books Online
Het ABC voor Holland's Kleintjes met 156 Plaatjes, by Daan Hoeksema, 1923 Bibliodyssey's found another incredible trove of vintage children's books, this time at The Memory of The Netherlands. The digitized collections of libraries and institutions spanning 160 years--including...
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October 29, 2009
Have You Seen Me? Vintage Mystery See-Saw At Grain Edit
There's probably a long German word for the kind of suffering that comes from not knowing where a cool vintage toy ad came from. And another one for the annoyance of scanning something and forgetting to make any reference...
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October 28, 2009
But The Spider Didn't Answer
Glad to see NPR funnyman Peter Sagal wasn't too busy not painting his house to put up his Halloween decorations. [via @petersagal via boingboing]...
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October 20, 2009
Moose And Zee, Can I Talk To You Outside For A Minute?
OK, I'm still trying to grapple with the fact that Noggin is now officially nick jr. So I'm not ready for the kid--who's home sick again with a fever, but who is NOT watching TV--to wander up and ask to...
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October 19, 2009
LIFE Magazine Not Just For Photos Anymore
Sweet digitized Xanadu, Google has released the entire archive of LIFE Magazine--through 1972, anyway--online. It begins in 1936, and the fifth issue, Dec. 21, has this awesome pram photo with the surprisingly creepy caption, "Lord Beaverbrook's granddaughter and friend."...
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October 16, 2009
Let The Studio-Sponsored Rumpus Start
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Wild Rumpus: Yahoo! Canada Photo Booth, originally uploaded by BunchFamily. If you're a movie publicist...
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It's Just A Planet
He drives my actual astrophysicist wife crazy, and rightly so, but I still can't help but feel a little thrill that this Carl Sagan video, with special guest star Stephen Hawking, composed by John Boswell, is K2's very first...
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October 14, 2009
No Dads Were Harmed In The Making Of These Babble Thinkpieces
I've had these nice Babble essays in my browser tabs now for over a week, and I've been looking for an excuse to mention them, even though they're so chicky. [Disclosure: I wrote a couple of things for Babble when...
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October 9, 2009
HAHA, Gap Casting Call Turning Into Mall Mom Version Of Survivor
Given that they're all wearing all the same clothes from the same two stores, you'd think I'd have an easier time recognizing This Country Of Mine, America. A post about the Gap Casting Call on the popblog Bumpershine has become...
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October 7, 2009
Will Make Kid Work For Gift Card: Gap & Disney Launch Child Labor Contest
Gap Kids and Baby Gap have launched their 4th annual "casting call" in partnership with Disney Family.com to find the new faces for its February 2010 in-store ad campaign. What a perfect marketing campaign for the new depression: giant...
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October 2, 2009
Pet Shop Boys Babies Are Fackin' Fine, Thanks, And YouTubing
Welcome to another in Daddy Types' ongoing series of reports on how babies in music videos turned out: We have it from unassailably authoritative sources [*cough* YouTube comments] that at least three of the nine rent-a-babies the Pet Shop...
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September 24, 2009
DT Monday Mommy Mailbag: Puttin' The Uhhh... In Bump Edition
Normally, I'd throw a press release like this into the pile until an actual Monday, but since it's time sensitive...Hi Greg, Today, TheBump.com launched its first "The Bump Mommy Blog Awards" and I wanted to see if you might be...
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September 21, 2009
Home Birth A Plenty Valid Excuse For Not Blogging
Congratulations to Jason & Meg, who have the best reason of all not to blog for a little while: their second kid and first daughter, Minna, was just born at home [!] in Manhattan. It's the wave of the future,...
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September 20, 2009
Sartorialist Temporarily Screws Up Arthur Elgort Camera Ready Market
In 1997, fashion photographer Arthur Elgort published Camera Ready: How to Shoot Your Kids, an awesome and inspiring collection of eleven years' worth of his best photos of his own kids, combined with wise, useful, not overly technical advice....
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September 19, 2009
Maybe Because She Wanted A Show On E!
Welcome to the world, Montana Tessa Newsom! A confirmation message has been sent to your email address. Click on the link to activate your own Twitter account!...
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September 13, 2009
I Hope A Dad Wins The Hell Out Of That Free Orbit Stroller
For future reference, the weekend our Disposall eats a Pyrex bowl and explodes, I doublebook a parent's party for the kid's kindergarten with the ABC Kids Expo, and we spend five hours at an outlet mall keeping K2 from...
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September 9, 2009
You Know, It's Funny
This is Merrill Markoe talking here. She created the David Letterman Show , among many other things, and is really damn funny and insightful:The stuff that happens in early childhood, before you're three years old, you know, that's who you're...
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September 4, 2009
Honda Crosstour Gets Sideways With Facebookworms
I know they're called "friends" or "fans" or "followers" or whatever, but Honda's new not-a-wagon, not-an-X6, not-a-Murano, not-an-Impreza, the Crosstour, is not feeling much love on Facebook. The complaints run the gamut: that thing is fugly, it looks like an...
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August 27, 2009
When Max Eggers Got A Wolf Suit: Media Dad And Gay Socrates Debate WTWTA
I didn't mention the excerpt of Dave Egger's novelization of his screenplay adaptation of Maurice Sendak's Where The Wild Things Are which ran in the New Yorker last week, mostly because I barely managed to read the magazine's publicist's email...
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Playgrounder Comes Out To Play
Before the kid was born, and I had a hard time finding any baby gear I could stand to live with, I thought I'd keep a list, so the next guy Googling around for an industrial-style changing table could use...
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August 24, 2009
DT Monday Mommy Mailbag
It's been a while since I've dumped a mess of mommy marketing material on here. At first, I thought I was in trouble because I wasn't getting as many tone-deaf, gender-ridiculous press releases; what would I mock on the blog?...
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My Name's Doug, And My Cool Trick Is Painting Starbucks Cups
Here's a modern craftywork project from Our Gen X Ambassador Douglas Coupland: Something "kids can do by themself [sic], or maybe grandparents need something to do." Or Gen X'ers who look like grandparents. [youtube via dt reader chris]...
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August 21, 2009
Let's Panic About Babies!: What To Really Expect When You're Expecting
So awesome, even if the only mentions of dads are the "Is your partner an Insensitive Jock or a Deadbeat Dad?" poll and the "10 things to do with your partner instead of even pretending to be interested in having...
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August 13, 2009
365 Photos About 365 Kinds Of Diapers
You know those videos where a guy takes a photo every day for a year, and he looks the same in every picture, except that his hair grows out? This is not one of those videos. Happy birthday, Lex....
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August 11, 2009
Twitter's Dad
Looks like the guy who helped conceive Blogger and Twitter is getting ready for his own v2.0 to drop. Good luck, kids, don't sell this one to Facebook, either!...
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July 31, 2009
Every Dad Thing Is Terrible
Wow, I'd never thought of it before, but the WTFound footage cesspool/paradise Everything is Terrible is also the most important parenting resource ever! Hi, I'm Yogi Ogi Dogi?? And my yogic black rooster friend Rasta? Dadaerobics? This video is barely...
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Mombody Puts Daddy In A Corner
Were you actually the one doing the knocking up? Has Baby helped you learn the kind of person you want to be? Do circumstances have you looking for something to do?We're Looking For Dads, Guest Bloggers! We'd love Do you...
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July 30, 2009
The Details Guyde To Fatherhood
Which one do you think wants the SNL audition the baddest? Also, chain wallets for babies are a serious choke hazard, yo. [via the awl]...
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July 23, 2009
Daddy Talks--With The New CEO Of The New The Right Start
I admit, I was caught off guard by Liberty Media's purchase of the assets of The Right Start and babystyle at a court-supervised bankruptcy auction a couple of months ago. What interest could John Malone, aka the Infobahn Warrior, have...
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When Harry Bit Charlie. Or Charlie Bit Harry
Yeah, I love that some baby video can have over 100 million freakin' views on YouTube and I've never heard of it. Finger on the pulse here. [via dan meth]...
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July 22, 2009
Ahh, Soothing Okinawan Aquarium
"load this video up in HD, full-screen, let it buffer, and then just watch for awhile. You'll feel right as the mail." Amen, Brother Kottke. couldn't have pointed to Jon Rawlinson's video of the Kuroshio Sea at a better...
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July 14, 2009
Daddyblog Made The Web Radio Star
If you missed Jason from Dadcentric's guest spot on the Nupoppa Radio podcast a couple of weeks ago, no worries. He just announced that he's going to be the new co-host on the show, joining founder Doug Zanger every Thursday...
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July 13, 2009
DT Monday Mommy Mailbag Supréme
Good morning, ladies! What's being marketed to you this week? Large crates of diapers, now with an accent aigu!We've got good news for Mom! Kirkland Signature Supréme Diapers are here with great improvements! Soft, breathable outer cover, wraparound stretch, comfortable...
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July 9, 2009
Just A Little Something To Start The Day
I've got meetings out all morning, but I know that sometimes a guy just needs a fix, amiright? So here's a video of a 2-year-old Chinese kid smoking a cigarette. [liveleak thanks dt reader sl]...
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July 7, 2009
I'm So Glad I'm Not In Preschool, Boss
Sorry for the delay in posting today; we were off--far, far, far away from any cable news or liveblogging whatever--researching foam playgrounds. Oh, and trying to find a union official to comment on this 3-year-old in an Oompa Loompa...
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June 29, 2009
DT Monday Mommy Mailbag: 'We Know The Profile Of Your Readers' Edition
Mull over this mad melange of momtastic marketing messages moldering in my malebox!Hi, I just wanted to follow up with you on this item to see if you might be able to include. A hot new website is changing the...
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June 25, 2009
DadCentric On NuPoppa
Damn you sports camp carpool lane gridlock! I missed Jason from DadCentric's interview on NuPoppa, the, uh, dad-centric podcast for, uh, new poppas, hosted each week by Doug and Ted. The wife's out of town this week, so I'm soloing...
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June 11, 2009
La Plus Ca Change: Yet Another Murakami x Vuitton Anime
Once you get the elements in the computer, you can remix them any way you like, year after year after year after year after year after year! Happy 6th anniversary Murakami x Vuitton mashups! [via felix] Previously: Louis Vuitton,...
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June 5, 2009
Bluntcards ROTFLMAO
I don't know if anyone would actually ever pay money for them, and you'd have to know for double sure you that you wouldn't look like a total dick if you send them, but I'm still laughing and glad...
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May 18, 2009
Thankyouveruhmuch, Social Security Administration!
I bet you didn't realize that when you named your kid Emma, you agreed to let the Social Security Administration use your kid's name in its kooky, Quiznos-like, Elvis-impersonatin' viral marketing videos for Medicare and prescription drug benefits. Read...
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May 15, 2009
Where The Wild Sweater Things Are
Hello, crazy Dutchman Koos Van Der Akker, who made those Cosby sweaters that sent dad fashion completely off the rails for most of the 1980s! Hello, awesome blog named We Love You So about all the crazy inspirations and...
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April 19, 2009
And Others Have Googly Eyes Stuck Upon Them
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } collette, originally uploaded by Laser Bread. From Brock Davis's "Born With Googly Eyes" series. [via...
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April 9, 2009
He's Right There In The Chair, Dear, Don't You See Him?
K2 doesn't know what a holiday is, and the kid figured out who the Easter Bunny was two Christmases ago, so CaptureTheMagic.com will not help us dupe our kids--about the Easter Bunny, anyway. That said, if they'd let me use...
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March 25, 2009
Click Here, Or Some Other Baby Gets It
An important part of being around pregnant people is knowing when not to ask questions, and just do as you're told. So I'm posting this photo and telling you to all go vote for this nice pregnant lady's belly...
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March 23, 2009
Baby Remember My Name? Mystery Mid-Century Artist Pool
Can you identify the source of this photo and the artist who lovingly decorated a concrete box in the forest for his kids to play with? Andy posted it to his Reference Library flickr stream last spring, but he...
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March 17, 2009
You've Come A Long Way, Baby Science
It's funny. At first, you see the title of the lone 1932 silent film, Comparative Tests On A Human And A Chimpanzee Infant Of Approximately The Same Age, Part 2, and it seems like too little. But by the...
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Sudden Birth: Berkeley's Finest Cops Are Also Berkeley's Worst Actors
Unlike most of the digitized educational films in the A/V Geeks' vast library, Sudden Birth was almost certainly not rescued from a school dumpster. The training film was commissioned by the California Peace Officers Association in 1966 so that,...
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March 11, 2009
Plush Your Mother: Grass Mud Horse Dolls In China
Long Duck Dong, freedom fighter! The NY Times has a report about a fascinating protest movement that's sweeping the Chinese internet. In response to a massive political crackdown by government censors, ostensibly targeting vulgarity and porn, millions of net...
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March 9, 2009
Gang Sign, Backup In A Blogfight Provided
DadCentric is looking for a dadblogger. Who's also on Twitter. Though I suppose you could email. Grandpa. [dc]...
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February 22, 2009
America's Stupidest Home Videos
Funny home video, until you realize it's as staged as all that crap that Bob Saget used to try to get America to laugh at back in the day. At which point, you're left with the realization that it's...
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February 20, 2009
DT Friday Freakout: K2 Edition
You know, because K2 chose this week to basically challenge Death at every turn, I've had a hard time freaking out over anything the hyperbolic science reporting industry can come up with, but I'll try: The NY Times reports that...
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February 10, 2009
Granta: The Fathers Issue
The February issue of Granta, the first to be edited by Alex Clark, is a collection of writing on the subject of fathers:One of childhood's most furtively treasured games is to imagine how life would be if other circumstances had...
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February 5, 2009
Can You Say Hydrophilic?
Stephen McNeil is a chemistry professor, a dad, and a smartass. Or at least a Canadian. It took me a couple of days of reloading, but I finally got to read his miraculous story of reaching the end of his...
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February 4, 2009
A C'est Pour Antipathie: Grand Alphabet Amusant
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Grand Alphabet Amusant (Morel) ABCDE, originally uploaded by peacay. Nice. How Peacay keeps finding these...
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February 3, 2009
This Is My Son On Drugs. Any Questions?
Kid on way home from dentist, totally high: "Is this going to be forever?" Dad: "No, [at least not until I put it on YouTube.]" David After Dentist [youtube via boingboing] Novocaine sold separately: Buy a Flip Mino video...
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February 1, 2009
The Schoolhouse Rock They Don't Want You To See
Sure, "they" claim this "Conspiracy Rock" expose' on the JFK assassination is just a parody created by some comedy troupe at Emerson College in 1991, and animated--by hand, no less!--by Jason Scott of textfiles.com. But I can't believe it;...
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January 7, 2009
One More Reason To Learn Photoshop
manbabies.com Considering I found it via some wacky artist's Best of the Web list, I was worried it'd be about creepy old dudes wearing diapers. But it's not....
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December 19, 2008
Richard Nixon, New Dad
Sorry for the low quality, but I can't find the original of this picture online. It's Richard and Pat Nixon with their first daughter, Tricia. Which makes this the summer of 1946. Nixon was 33, just discharged from the...
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December 11, 2008
There's A Twitterparty In My Tummy
Dude's working on a wearable belly sensor for his pregnant wife that posts to Twitter every time the baby kicks. Maybe if he adds a little techno sound chip, Safety 1st will help him market it to gullible pregnant people...
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December 7, 2008
WTF? WTFstralia Arrests Guy For Uploading WTFistani Babyswinging Video
Yeah, so that insane video of that random foreigner guy swinging that baby like a rag doll that was posted to YouTube for a couple of hours? The guy who originally posted it, a liveleak.com user with the name biggles9,...
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December 3, 2008
A Pacifier Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Lost City is offering a free t-shirt to whoever can explain the presence of hundreds of pacifiers in a street tree in Borough Park. If the new Ikea hadn't shifted Brooklyn's Swedish neighborhood to Red Hook a few months...
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November 28, 2008
Giuliani Time Of His Life
Isn't it interesting how some politicians always seemed to have a Life magazine photographer handy when their children were born? You'll be wanting to check out the full set of Tad Thai's maternity ward fashion/photoshoot with then-US Attorney Rudy...
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To Shop: Reference Library @ Kiosk, Nov. 28 - Dec. 7
If you shop at only one blogger-curated pop-up store this holiday season, make it Andy Beach's Reference Library Mini-Exhibition at Kiosk in SoHo. Despite his fame as a retail artist/design guru/dad/ex-DT guest blogger is probably best known for his...
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November 20, 2008
M-I-C C Is For Cigarette
Wait, he's only two and he's reading Mickey Mouse comic books? And wearing French cuffs? That's so advanced for his age! A 2-year-old smoking, 1959 for Life magazine by Michael Rougier [images.google.com via daringfireball]...
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November 19, 2008
JFK: President Elect, New Dad
I never realized that JFK Jr. was born a few weeks after JFK won the election. Life photographer Al Fenn had a series of crowded candids with the president-elect and new dad in the hallways of Georgetown Hospital in...
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Life Is Good. Pappy's Pram
Another awesome find from the freshly digitized photo archives of Life magazine. This is a closeup from a 1943 portrait by Frank Scherschel of the crew of "Pappy's Pram," a B-26 Marauder bomber from the 322nd BG, which flew...
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November 18, 2008
To Life! Orthodox Hipster Dad Strolls Through Promised Land
Another sweet find from the archives of Life magazine: John Phillips' 1949 picture from Israel of a hip-looking Orthodox Jewish dad out for a walk with his kid: Full size image: Orthodox jewish man pushing a pram with his child...
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Such Is Life! Harold's Club's 1949 Silver Dollar Buick Super Estate Wagon
Google just opened a high-res archive of all the photos from Life magazine, and it's pure surfing gold. But the first awesome thing I found was silver. Harolds Club in Reno was the first themed casino in the world,...
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November 17, 2008
Twitstorm Erupts After Motrin Ad Mocks Babywearing
So you leave the office Friday from your job as the account exec of the Motrin online account, and you think things are going fine. Then you get in Monday to find out that a mob of Twittering mombloggers has...
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November 11, 2008
Muppet News Flash: Sesame Street Coming To YouTube, &c.!
Hi-ho, Kermit the Frog here: Sesame Workshop announced that clips from Sesame Street will be uploaded to YouTube. Seriously. While you're processing that stunning development, they also announced that clips would be available on NBC's YouTube competitor Hulu.com. And...
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November 5, 2008
A Place Full Of Babies Called Hope
My sense of Twitter is that it's perfectly suited for the fleeting thoughts that rarely made it out of your head, much less onto your blog. This theory is only supported by the multiple, simultaneous appearances of the Obama Baby...
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October 30, 2008
Quirky International Adoption Countries Have Own Complications, Laws
International adoption has been booming of late, and it turns out to be a complex, ever-changing landscape fraught with cultural differences, legal and ethical dilemmas, and emotional trials. So naturally, the best way to understand this phenomenon is through the...
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October 29, 2008
Brooke Shields: The Sally Struthers Of The Routan Generation
Uh, wow. I can understand how tough it must be to sell a rebranded Chrysler Town & Country minivan as an actual, German car. " But if I were in Volkswagen's marketing department, I probably would have gone the, "Technically,...
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October 25, 2008
WillDrawAnything.com Will Draw Anything Like, Say, A Nerdy Birth Announcement
That's what new dad Ryan Parr got for his two bucks. Here's hoping he also gets a hefty chunk of equity in the social networking site his daughter just launched. Will Draw Anything 458: New Born starts social network [yirmumah...
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October 20, 2008
How Your Hipster [Sic] Baby Name News Is Made
The magazine, book publishing and TV show didn't work out, so ex-New Yorker editor [seems so long ago] Tina Brown launches a website, The Daily Beast, which "sees itself as a must-read for hipsters in news, politics and pop culture."...
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October 13, 2008
That's Eye Candy We Can Believe In
I like context, backstory, credits, and yes, the occasional "put in shopping basket" link, so I don't like random web collections of sheer eye candy. But for this 500 image-and-counting flickr pool, I'll make an exception: This artist, Ric Hugo,...
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October 6, 2008
Obama X Cute Overload Mashup
He'll fix the economy and health care; rally the nation; end the wrong war and take out the terrorists; rebuild America's standing; restore the Constitution; hell, he'll even bake us all a loaf of his grandmother's bread. But not...
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September 29, 2008
All We Like Sheep
Wow. Just, wow. Look what was caught in the glare of the spotlight on this Metafilter thread about the 1980's Christian ska band Sonseed and their jawdropping music video, "Jesus is a friend of mine." Besides the John & Yoko...
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September 23, 2008
DT Plush Toy Nerddown: Sluggy Freelance Bun-Bun Vs. Higgs Boson Particle?
Alright, Maybe I should be scouring flickr for photos of dads taking their infant children to the Yankees-Orioles game. And maybe I will. But for now, I'm too confounded by the nerdiness of these plush toys to do anything else....
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September 22, 2008
Finally, JPMA Gets A/The Dads' Point Of View
I'm kind of slammed today with an offline work project, but I don't want to let this milestone in baby product innovation history go by unremarked. For the first time in the history of the JPMA Innovations Awards, which were...
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September 11, 2008
I'm Blogging, Thanks for Asking
Dads are blogging, Tots are spotting Grandparents caring what moms are sharing, tiny baby details; hey, the kids are Twittering, too [Well, just pretending the baby's sending; it's really mom, but whatryagonnado?] Times reporting on babybook hoarding. A trend's afoot,...
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September 10, 2008
Laughing Babies Not Just For YouTube Anymore Last Year
9/17 update: Whoops, not so funny anymore, is it, AIG? Yeah, I lost count of laughing baby videos on YouTube, to the point that I didn't know AIG had licensed a few of them to use for an ad campaign....
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August 25, 2008
Inhabitots Looks For The Right Cloth Diaper
Did you know the classic ecotrend blog Inhabitat just had a babybloig? Mazeltov! So cute. So far on Inhabitots, the most actively discussed topic is Andre McCann's extensive roundup of the best cloth diaper options: pocket, one-size, pre-fold, g-Diapers,...
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August 20, 2008
Webkinz, I Need To See You In My Office.
Because it's getting out of control. I understand that the social networking and community aspects of virtual worlds based on real world plush toys are quite powerful draws, especially for the youngest, least marketing savvy consumers who are your targets....
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August 18, 2008
At Least 7 Kid-Friendly Apps For The iPhone Generation
Bah! Kids and their dads' iPhones! Back when I was a boy, the phone was on the wall, and we weren't allowed to play with it. We had a toy phone made of wood, that made some ringing noise, and...
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August 15, 2008
Is BabyTracker:Nursing The Only Decent Baby App On The iPhone?
Darren Andes' Baby Tracker: Nursing is a tap-friendly iPhone app that allows moms to log their breastfeeding activity, whether it's to keep track of how much and how long the kid's eating, or just to remember which side the...
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July 28, 2008
The Ancient Art Of Baby Balancing
So I saw this old photo on c-monster, which got me wondering just how long this balancing a baby on one hand thing has been going on. There are over 800 "balancing baby" videos on YouTube at the moment....
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July 21, 2008
Awe. Some. Baby's First Internet At The Morning News
Wow, The Morning News is back from vacation, and how. As if in answer to my offhand Facebook Generation [sic] question, Kevin Fanning and Kean Soo have created Baby's First Internet, a boardbook in slideshow format. It is awesome:...
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July 16, 2008
Hmm, Lots Of Vintage Video Clips In This New SesameStreet.org Screenshot
According to the dutiful Times article, the new & improved Sesame Street website will be previewed at BlogHer this weekend. Seeing as how I'm not going, I will just wait patiently to hear the reviews. But judging from the...
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July 15, 2008
From Sweet Juniper To Sesame Street: Feist Hits The Big Time
That's the power of dadblogging for you. Before Jim linked to her homemade music video on Sweet Juniper, Leslie Feist was working behind the counter of a Tim Hortons, with no prospects for fulfilling her two lifelong dreams: having...
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July 11, 2008
Funny Or Die's Not Dead Yet! Three McConaugheys and a Baby
Three Matthew McConaugheys and A Baby [funnyordie.com via radar]...
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July 4, 2008
"Dad: Dude or Dud? Which One Are You?"
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Dad, Dude or Dud?, originally uploaded by agfachrome25. Lord knows. And if you have either...
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July 1, 2008
DTQ: How Do You Manage Your Kid's Online Info?
You know, it seems not enough to just say, "There can be downsides to blogging about your kid." The WSJ's parentblogger Cybele was specifically worried about what happens when they post pictures of their kid on flickr [though apparently not...
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WSJ Momblogger Worries, Blogs About Kid's Privacy
On The Juggle, Wall Street Journal momblogger Cybele Weisser worried in print this morning about all the photos of their kid she and her husband post to flickr. By the time I got around to posting about it tonight, the...
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Child Evangelical Fellowship Loves The Little Children, All The Little Children Of The Slope
As the Oklahoma-based Child Evangelical Fellowship teaches us:Preschool children are everywhere-in playgrounds, parks,shopping centers,high-rise apartments, churches, day cares, and more! Authorities tell us that the preschool years are the most important years in a child's life. That's why we need...
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June 20, 2008
The Internet Laughs At The Same Jokes And Has The Memory Of A Gnat
At least judging by the number of people who've sent this to me and the many places I've seen this discussed. And it's not like I'm pretending to be the first person to notice these Lego snacks; I only...
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June 16, 2008
Kids Twitter The Darnedest Things
Finally, a perfect use for Twitter. DT reader Ben is documenting his 3-year old daughter's words of wisdom in less-than-144 character bursts. Here are some samples, nearly at random: "Astronauts don't ride motorcycles. They fly in the sky. They come...
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June 7, 2008
D'Oh, They Moved The Grange House Without Us
I realized this morning as I was showing the kid the NY Times' animation of how the National Park Service is lifting Alexander Hamilton's 206-year-old country house up and over the church next door, then driving it around the...
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June 1, 2008
Blogger Dude Gives Dude's Perspective On Etsy
It's becoming nearly impossible for me to surf Etsy anymore; there's just too much stuff, and too much of it is crafty schlock [different strokes, I know, but hey.] Fortunately, dad, cyclist and blogger Matt Haughey met Bre Pettis, who's...
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May 20, 2008
DT Headline Roundup: Peace & Love Edition
From the Boston Globe's profile of early childhood development researcher Nancy Carlsson-Paige, all I can figure about her new book, Taking Back Childhood: Helping Your Kids Thrive in a Fast-Paced, Media-Saturated, Violence-Filled World, is that kids should cut back...
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May 14, 2008
Boston Likes Its Local Parent Sites The Way It Likes Its Baseball: Totally Nutless
You gotta give them credit for sticking to the concept; when the Boston Globe created its local parenting website/community, they named it "BoMoms: for moms in Boston & beyond." And damned if it isn't the girliest girl talky girl...
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May 8, 2008
Some Parenting Is Local
I don't know if it's a trend, but I do seem to be hearing more these days about very local parenting blogs, sites, and communities being sponsored by the hometown paper. I just got a tip about The Miami Herald's...
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April 29, 2008
That CrazyTrendy Flickr Collection, With Kids, And Now 80% Safer For Work!
Maybe 75%. Mister Jalopy calls the mmk_kobayashi's 4,000-strong collection "the best flickr stream ever." [uptone at the end, there: "ever?"] Also, tasteless, hilarious, and "sporadically NSFW." Well, I was selflessly pulling out kid-related links last night, when I realized...
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April 28, 2008
WryBaby's Safe Baby Pregnancy Tips
David & Kelly Sopp's Safe Baby Pregnancy Tips has been around almost as long as their Safe Baby Handling Tips. But sometimes it takes someone posting damn near the whole thing online before it really sinks in. Though it's...
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April 21, 2008
Wired Spots Startup Baby At Startup School
From the sound of things, the real takeaway for startup baby and his/her startup dad from Saturday's Startup School '08 at Stanford should be David Heinemeier Hansson's talk. Hansson's a partner at 37signals.com and the creator of the Ruby...
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April 6, 2008
SF Chronicle Has The Balls To Name Parenting Channel "Bay Area Moms"
Let the record show that in the year 2008, the San Francisco Chronicle, the newspaper of record for the capital of galaxy [or at least The United Federation of Planets], decided that the best name for it's "big page...
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March 29, 2008
Hey, Now Turn Parentblogging Into A Lucrative Career! Until You Quit In Frustration
Check it out, Parenting.com is looking for an editor! If you can "generate lively, crisply written, accurate parenting stories...on tight deadlines," and want to "Work with Parenting and Babytalk editors to generate and showcase collaborative features and campaings that exploit...
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March 25, 2008
Blogpile! Marion Bataille's Pop-Up ABC3D
Popup by Marion BatailleUploaded by jacques_faciale I swear, when I posted about "V is for Viagra: An ABC Pop-Up Book" yesterday, I had no idea that the design/geek blogworld would be getting so aroused at that very moment over a...
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March 24, 2008
BPA A-to-Z, Including TXT @ Z Recommends
While the CPSC sits by and does nothing, and the consumer and environmental activist groups go for the big, legistlation-changing headlines, parents who actually want to do something about exposing their kid to Bisphenol-A (BPA) are left in the lurch....
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March 19, 2008
Recovered: Matt Jones' Unofficial History Of "Pinball Number Count"
Back in 2003, British blogger Matthew Jones pieced together an early unofficial, but informative history of "Pinball Number Count." While the details of it have mostly been incorporated into the Wikipedia entries for the song; the animators at Jeff Hale's...
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Nickelodeon's ParentsConnect Useful For Dads With No Other Humor Outlet
So I pointed out yesterday that Nickelodeon's executives described "moms" and kids "on mom's lap" as two prime targets for their new $100 million, 600+ games, online marketing push. Which is a little lame, but mostly, it's fine, and not...
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March 18, 2008
Thanks, Nickelodeon! Another Website Dads Need To Know Nothing About
NickJr.com with Delta/AmEx ad, for when you're feeling not so fresh, I guess Viacom division Nickelodeon unveiled the first of 600 new online games designed to strengthen "the brand affiliation" and to deliver young eyeballs to advertisers, including the...
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Hey, Ladiiiiees!!!
This just in from DT advertiser--and pudgy baby nixer--Cookie Magazine:Moms are the real experts, so we know that the most trusted advice is the Word of Mom. Tell us what the best products are for you and your family!This...
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March 10, 2008
Wow. Russian Winnie The Pooh By Fyodor Khitruk
It's like Winnie the Pooh, without the rampant capitalism. Literally. In 1969-1972, Fyodor Khitruk, who is considered the pioneering figure of post-Stalinist Soviet animation, made three short films about Vinni Puh, based on the Russian translation of A.A. Milne's...
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March 7, 2008
Child Learns Calligraphy, Also That Most Letters Start With A Fat, Vertical Line
This has been making the designweb rounds. Apparently, getting shirtless on camera with your uncle the calligrapher is a timeworn tradition in Amsterdam. Bonus monosyllabic Dutch naming bonanza from the credits: Gradus [the kid, admittedly polysyllabic], Job [the uncle]...
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March 1, 2008
Gravitation, The Work-Family Video Game, By Jason Rohrer
I am so glad stuff like this exists; it's really spectacular, in a quiet, off guard way that I never would have imagined. Jason Rohrer created Gravitation, his latest autobiographical video game [?!] out of the sudden, overwhelming response...
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February 12, 2008
Movietone Presents The Prams Of The Future Of The Past--Also, Wonderbaby
Andy Baio found the Movietone Digital Archives, a collection of over 48,000 newsreel stories dating from before the 1930s to the mid 1970's. With a free, instant log-in, you can see all the clips in Quicktime; ordering broadcast quality video...
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February 9, 2008
DT's Our Dad In Chicago Checks Out The Auto Show
Publicists from a couple of auto makers had been eager to get the daddy types to come to the Chicago Auto Show for some reason. But I don't get the kid out of bed for less than a payola-mazing Audi...
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February 5, 2008
Nerds Reproducing IV: A New Hope
Congrats to b3ta.com member Afinkawan, who announced the birth--and the conception and gestation, for that matter--of his son daughter [d'oh -ed.] with a lovely piece of Star Wars Photoshoppery [excerpt above]. It sure beats bullseyein' womp rats back home....
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January 2, 2008
DT's New Year Resolution #1: Faster With The YouTubes
So as I was thinking of doing a Greatest Daddy Types Hits of 2007 post last year/week, I was scrolling through the archives and going, "like, what's so great? Posting about 1,500 Philippine prisoners dancing before they did 'Thriller'?...
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December 31, 2007
Is It Just Me, Or Does This All Look, Sound Familiar?
So after Choire's tip about Tom's baby-in-Beijing article, the next email I opened was from Amazon, something about a baby sale. And I swear, that's the same kid in the stock photos. Am I right? I say, am I...
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December 27, 2007
If I Were Tron, Could I Drive CWW's Virtual Wagons?
How weird am I? I'll give you a hint. After getting stuck with two family cars in succession at 16--a 1977 powderblue & woodgrain decal Chevy Caprice Classic wagon and a 1983 Honda Civic, I swore off both wagons...
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It's The Circle Squared Of Life By Todd St. John
I was a little wary about showing the kid Circle Squared, Todd St. John's stop-action animated short commissioned by The New York Times Style Magazine. When is a kid ready for the whole life-and-death, food-chain, circle of life thing,...
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December 12, 2007
I Count Only Ten Naked Folks In eBoy's Awesome New Tokyo-Themed Nursery Poster
Actually, it'd probably be the couple of lewds rather than the run-of-the-mill nudes that'd make the Tokyo eCity poster NSFN [Not Suitable For Nursery], even though they're less than an inch high. It adds an air of realism that...
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December 4, 2007
The Boyms Put The Babel Blocks New Yorker Dolls On The MySpace, The YouTube
Babel Blocks are New Yorkers, each unique in his or her religious and cultural affiliations, but underneath, they're all the same: i.e., made from wooden blocks. Get it? Just like we're all the-- Also, they all have a MySpace,...
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Read The Whole Book Online With Lookybook
Obviously, it's no substitute for an actual sitdown with a real book, but it might be a nice way to watch the computer together. And it though it doesn't have the selection of an airport bookstore yet, much less ye...
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December 3, 2007
Baby Gear Swapping Start-Up Attempts To Skip Brand Recognition Phase, Head Straight For Brand Dilution
Instead of eBaying or Craigslisting the baby stuff you don't need anymore, a couple of Bay Area start-up guys want you to Zwaggle it:Privately funded Zwaggle, based in San Francisco, was founded last year by two guys who don't have...
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November 27, 2007
Hello Kitty Hell Is Other People's Hello Kitty
I'm not posting this photo of a Hello Kitty car seat because I think anyone should get it. [Besides, I can't find the product info, which has something to do with Guardian, according to that brochure.] No, I'm posting...
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November 24, 2007
Azuuuuul! La Familia Lucha
Heart KB's family portrait, photographed by Ray Zimmerman is one of the most popular mom photos on flickr. Considering it was taken in August 2003, I expect they don't need a baby-sized El Demonio Azul mask anymore. But keep...
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November 19, 2007
The Racings Snails Of Thingamababy County
On the subject of snails, I'm neither here nor there, unless they're roasted in garlic butter, then I'm all for them. AJ, on the other hand, is to snails what Mark Twain is to jumping frogs. We have no...
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Hmm. Dadblogs Available For Subscription On The Amazon Kindle e-Reader
Hello, slightly random-looking, e-ink-based, wireless, e-book reading device from Amazon. Amazon wants to sell you a Kindle for $400, then sell you digital books and subscriptions to magazines, newspapers, and blogs [?!] to read on it. The content is delivered...
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November 6, 2007
If You Were Still Wondering Why To Take Your Son To The Museum
Because your dad might have picked up your mom there after listening to the sixth track on Eric Weber's 1975 album, Picking Up Girls Made Easy!: "Van Gogh? Who's that? You see, I don't know much about the Impressionists; I'm...
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November 5, 2007
"Like Zoids Or Transformers Or Maybe Even Bigger"
That Mr. T mention got me itching to see Nizlopi's JCB Song video again, which still makes me cry, 2.5 years later. It also reminds me that Michael Bay is not worthy to scrub the road grime off of...
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November 3, 2007
Sorry About The Ximphids: Paul Ford's 100 Ways To Say, 'I Love You'
I really hope working for Harper's doesn't somehow disqualify Paul Ford for the MacArthur Fellowship, because he is our official Genius Of Love. Of his 100 ways to say, "I love you," the dad-specific ones are Nos. 36-40, 64 ["Say...
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October 30, 2007
Plush Companion Cube [Non-Weighted]
Some noob with awesome sewing skills posted a picture of this sweet, plush Companion Cube [from the X-Box 360 game Portal] to the papercraft/origami section of rambunctious anime fansite 4chan, where Kotaku picked it up. The result: a foul-mouthed...
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October 23, 2007
Are You Feeling Horny, Dad?
An ad from Canadian Club's Office of TMI [adrants via coudal]...
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October 20, 2007
DT flickrfind: Parisian Dad Watching Tirailleurs Drives A Maclaren!
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } army and papa, originally uploaded by toog. The blue, red & gold kepis on these...
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October 19, 2007
Got A Dadblog? What Is It?
Nothing against the fine folks in the DT sidebar, but I really want to read some new-to-me dadblogs. [And if I keep up the vaccination flamebaiting, I'm sure many other folks will be wanting to read a different dadblog, too.]...
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October 18, 2007
WTD: Parent Blog Sks Design Blogger 4 Publicist 3-Way
Babble's looking for a design blogger:...The writer (ideally a parent) should be obsessed with new and beautiful design, and be able to keep readers up to date on the latest design breakthroughs in everything from European strollers to organic baby...
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October 10, 2007
Sliced-Through Predator Plush, This Time As Slovenian Performance Art
Wherever there's video of plush bunnies being extracted from a giant plush predator, I am there. Regine posted about a recent performance/sculpture installation in Ljublana, Slovenia which eerily--and kind of hilariously--echoes Lizette Greco's adorable See-Through Predator video just featured on...
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The Animated Nutshell Library By Maurice Sendak
My mom gave the kid Maurice Sendak's Nutshell Library for Christmas last year, and at some point, it totally clicked with her. Not just because of the stories, but because of the scale. They're a box set of tiny little,...
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Baby Ubuntu: Geek Dad-To-Be Needs An OS For The Kid
Hahay! So BoingBoing, &c's Cory Doctorow and his girlfriend are expecting a girl in late January! Congratulations, good luck. As dt Jay pointed out, Cory announced the big news just as any other guy would: in his weekly podcast. And...
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Little Bobby Tables
I don't get this kid naming joke from the web comic Xkcd at all, but I showed it to some of the guys in IT, and they cracked up. Good enough for me. Also, Cory at boingboing linked to...
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October 8, 2007
See-Through Predator Plush
See-through Predator from robertogreco on Vimeo. Bwahaha, medical ethics and bodily integrity implications aside, this is awesome. See-Through Predator is a wolf whose teeth were removed so he wouldn't bite his prey, and whose stomach was replaced with a...
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October 5, 2007
Eames Elephants On Parade
In the family tradition, professional grandson/filmmaker Eames Demetrios has made A Gathering of Elephants, a stop-action animated short film to commemorate the going on sale of the 1,000-limited edition plywood elephants Vitra made to commemorate the 100th birthday of...
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October 1, 2007
DT Headline Roundup: Cold Medicine, Zimbabwe, Sperm Banking & Photostealin'
Part of me feels like I've gotta clear these browser tabs, but part of me feels everyone can read the NY Times on his own: Slow-mo Infant Cold Medicine Ban Rolls On--Slowly: Instigated by pediatrician activists in February and finally...
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September 28, 2007
Reference Library's DT Linkbait
And the answer to Andy's question is yes, I will gladly link to a shamelessly self-promotional photo from his recent trip to the woods. Also, Shehaqua just made our naming shortlist. [update: it's off. someone just told me Shehaqua...
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Gawker Hates On Cheese-Snobbing Alternakid
It's hard out there for a kid, yo. When Gawker's Josh mocked Neal Pollack's cheese snobbery by calling Elijah, his little cheese snob-in-training, names, Neal was understandably pissed. I mean, what's the point of offering up an easy target for...
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September 25, 2007
Hell Hath No Fury Like A Dadblogging Lawyer Copyright-Infringed
When my picture of the kid holding her handknit iPhone was making the rounds this summer, I licensed it a few times for commercial use, and let it go for free a few times. Then one day, I ran across...
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September 14, 2007
There's A Story Here, But Because It Happened On Their Property, Disney Owns The Copyight In Perpetuity
The Chronbloggers at The Poop recently posted some tips for making your toddler-equipped trip to Disneyland as entertaining as possible. I have one to add: make sure you're on Main Street for the Pluto Kid-Chasing & Mom Smackdown Parade. Holy...
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Penguin And Rabbit Doing Melbourne Shuffle
Honestly, I have no idea what this is, but it'd probably keep a kid happy for a minute or so. And it's no weirder, really, than posting a plaza full of Reykjavik tots being entertained by a giant Plushie...
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September 4, 2007
YouTube Is The New Birth Announcement! Omedetou!
For families who are spread out across the globe, why NOT use YouTube to share the video of you waiting to hear about your kid's birth [down the hall, around the corner, in the shoe-free zone of the Japanese hospital]?...
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September 2, 2007
The Japanese Tradition - Sushi: Hilarious Deadpan Videos By Rahmenz
OK, it's more than a bit random, but Japan Culture Lab has put out a series of really funny, deadpan instructional videos called "Nihon no Katachi/The Japanese Tradition," starring the comedy duo Rahmenz. Some aren't subtitled, so unless you...
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August 28, 2007
BP Loves Children And Wants To Fill The Earth With Flowers.
Giant corporations exploiting adorable, emotionally manipulative fictional characters to suck every last dollar out of our wallets, while making outlandish PR claims that are totally at odds with accepted science and the dismal reality on the ground got you...
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August 25, 2007
WHOA, FULL STOP. Spongmonkey Plush Toys???
Have you ever had one of those moments where you suddenly question the way you've lived your life and all the choices and assumptions you've made, and you just stare in baffled rage at your reflection in the mirror, wondering...
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Freakonomicist Teaches Rock, Paper, Scissors, Not Bedtime Stories. NYT Makes Quiznos Commercial About Same
My second reaction to Freakonomicist Steven Levitt's strategy of focusing on teaching his kids the things they won't automatically pick up at school, like creativity, instead of math and reading: brilliant. [Note: for purposes of Freakonomics, "Creativity" is defined...
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August 22, 2007
Craigslist Brings Sperm Donor Model To Lactation Industry
Spotted on the Birmingham, AL Craigslist:young mom needed for special job need lactater. want to make $100 on a regular basis? I want your milk. no other contact necessary. clean discreet environment, or I will come to your location.A hundred...
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August 17, 2007
FOUND: Documented Evidence That Babble And Alternadad Are, In Fact, Different
You know how, around the beginning of the year, Babble was launching at the same time Neal Pollack's book was released, and Babble's reviewer kind of threw a hissy fit, as if there was only one seat left in the...
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August 16, 2007
Pish Posh, It's Just An Air Raid: Blossom, The Brave Balloon
During WWII, the Royal Air Force deployed thousands of barrage balloons over British cities and factories to run interference with low-flying, divebombing German fighter planes. In 1941, someone decided a bit of backstory might help English kids understand what...
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August 12, 2007
Louis Vuitton & Takashi Murakami Love The Little Children
Superflat Monogram [2003], Murakami Takashi's magical, animated tale of an adorable little girl named Aya and her keitai phone teaches us one of life's most important lessons: Louis Vuitton is a lovable, selfless panda with a heart of gold...
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August 4, 2007
Vintage LA Strollermodding: Ladera Park Baby Show
From the Prelinger Archive, we learn that parents gathering in parks to show off their kustom strollers didn't start with pinstriped Bugaboos or AT-AT Walkers. But since the only mentions of the Ladera Park Baby Show are to this...
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July 31, 2007
MOO Stickers Are As Slick As I Expected, Also Slicker
I am not a sticker person. The kid is. She's not the only one, either, as the William Randolph Hearst of the sticker industrial complex, one Mrs. Grossman of Petaluma, California, who swims every morning in an Olympic-sized pool...
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July 25, 2007
And Then They Put Their Kids Into Their Bugaboo Bees And Drove Away
The extraordinarily limber Ross Sisters singing about potato salad in a 1944 MGM Musical [youtube via foryourentertainment via boingboing] previously: Bug Bee Berkeley: Bugaboo Bee Music Video Now Online...
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July 24, 2007
The Babies Of Otakon 2007
Over the weekend, DT's Asian Culture Correspondent Haniel and I headed to Otakon 2007, the giant Anime and Japanese culture fan convention in Baltimore, to scout out anime artists [stay tuned for a roundup of the sweet finds]. We...
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July 23, 2007
Dad: Wii Kid Actually Laughs Like That
Wired has an interview with the Baby Theo's dad. Theo's the kid who laughed like a possessed demonchild at his dad playing Wii Golf. 34 seconds of good stuff. FWIW, in five months, Theo's accumulated 2mm YouTube views. the...
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Bug Bee Berkeley: Bugaboo Bee Music Video Now Online
Praise the Lord, and pass the Cirque du Soleil extras, people: the Bugaboo Bee music video is now online, and a chance to see the Bee in motion is the least of its offerings. Whether it's too [check all...
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July 20, 2007
1,500 Philippine Prisoners Practice 'Thriller'
OK, if I ever go to prison, my only hope is that I'll be able to do my time wisely. Perhaps learn a trade, a skill, a talent. Maybe there'll be a choreographer with a varied repertoire of numbers...
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July 8, 2007
Nazonazo Uta: Japanese Counting Word Game Anime
Another random find from what's feeling more and more like the smartest kid's TV show in the world, Japanese publish broadcaster NHK's Pythagoras Switch. With 5,000 kanji and 102 phonetic syllables, it's no surprise that spoken Japanese has a...
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June 28, 2007
Pearl Retires After Getting Will Ferrell To Confess
to confess to three murders, that is. The perpetrator of this worn out joke that was funny for like five seconds in the first place, meanwhile, remains at large. Good Cop, Baby Cop [funnyordie.com via dt reader mark] previously:...
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June 27, 2007
Babblepedia, Little Girl, Is An Advice Site That Babble Wants Parents To Write On. To Write On
The new Babblepedia is a wiki-style advice site for parents--or at least the cool, urban sub-demo--that aims to be an "encyclopedia of parenting knowledge that anyone can edit!" [Or add your two cents to, anyway. Make your contribution funny...
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June 20, 2007
Star Wars Baby Fun From Celebration IV
The AT-AT stroller mod was apparently just the tip of the Star Wars baby iceberg at Celebration IV a couple of weeks ago. Here's a quick compilation of other photos from various flickr groups: Not surprisingly, there were lots...
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May 25, 2007
Sick Photoshopped Children's Book Covers
It doesn't happen often, but every once in a while, I kind of wish we were all a bunch of sick, high, funny, dorks with mad Photoshopping skillz and too much time on our hands. Scrolling through these wildly inappropriate...
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May 23, 2007
Jim Henson? Crazy, And Thank Heavens For It
No word on whether he was vegan, but the evidence is incontrovertible: Jim Henson was crazy. A crazy genius. Who else would go on The Johnny Carson show with three rubber bands, a roll of Saranwrap, a slide projector, and...
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May 22, 2007
Bitter? I Hardly Knew Her. DesignUberBlogger Says 'Sorry, You Misunderstood.'
Note to self: if you've just cleared 500 B&W press kit photos of designers in way too serious poses from your gmail, take the kid to the park and clear your head before visiting any designblogs. Alissa at Unbeige felt...
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May 21, 2007
Another Entry In The Sad-Funny Clown Lit Canon
I've never been able to look at party clowns the same way since reading Gene Weingarten's long, too-revealing, can't-look-away article about The Great Zucchini in the Washington Post. Fortunately, Bill Goodwin's first-person tale of birthday party clowndom is more self-aware...
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May 19, 2007
Sir Ken Robinson At TED2006: "Gillian Isn't Sick, She's A Dancer."
Let me preface this by saying I haven't ever seen Cats or Phantom, but I'm sick of them. And even I was choked up when I watched this. The British education expert Sir Ken Robinson spoke at TED last year...
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May 15, 2007
Tips For Travel With Kids, Nos. 1, 10 & 495
NOTE: unless you can't read, there is no reason for you to click on either of these videos. You hear me? NO reason. at. all. 495] Hold the damn kid's damn hand, dammit. That's why they call it Times Square,...
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May 9, 2007
TVisqatsi, Or The Preponderance of Evidence
Before you even ask, the answer is, "No, there IS no ominous Philip Glass score that filmmaker Godfrey Reggio won't lay on top of a wordless montage of over-extended, over-aestheticized, over-seductive pseudo-critiques of our over-industrialized, over-mediated, over-networked society." For...
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May 3, 2007
On The Existential And Quantitative Implications Of Yo Gabba Gabba Going Prime Time
Gen-X dads in Orange County flee the mainstream TV industry and team up to make trip hoppy indie kid's show? DJ Lance Rock looking like he left Fat Albert for Dee-Lite? Clips and trailers pop on the YouTube? It's...
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May 2, 2007
Are Toys From Y2K Really Vintage? Gus Gutz, Harry Hairball By Rumpus
Rediscovering the forgotten kid-related awesomeness of the past is a favorite pasttime here on Daddy Types. But waxing nostalgic about a long-lost toy collection from 1999 makes me uneasy, like we're veering too close to VH1 territory. And yet, there's...
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April 27, 2007
Alec Baldwin Calls Dora The Explorer
Anyone who's seen South Park: The Movie knows that the Baldwins are the Archduke Ferdinands of the Apocalypse, and anyone who's seen T-2 knows that kind of foreknowledge can really weigh you down and mess with your head. Who's to...
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April 24, 2007
Insane Katamari Damacy Wallpapers Collection
Detail: Katamari turtle, baby, and keyholder Day-um, it's as if Namco rolled a giant ball across the art world, and every cool artist stuck to it. Back in the day, Namco apparently published 82 Katamari Damacy wallpapers [for your...
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April 19, 2007
David Askevold's Enlightened Symbols
The kid's favorite magazine is actually "the airplane magazine," the safety information card that she pores over and demands to have read to her repeatedly, with a fervor that would probably startle even the most jaded-but-secretly-attention-starved flight attendant. Her fascination...
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April 17, 2007
Dad Builds PBSKids.org Kiosk
We've expended an enormous amount of energy keeping the kid from touchscreening our laptops, so we're already doomed on this one, but maybe it's not too late for you. A dad named John loaded Firefox onto a surplus point-of-sale...
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"The Landlord": Dad Films Daughter Swearing At Will Ferrell
The Landlord is Adam McKay and Will Ferrell's latest project. [They've worked together since their days on SNL; McKay wrote/directed Talladega Nights and Anchorman.] In the mean time, they've both had kids, who have obviously provided them with endless...
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April 16, 2007
The Red Balloon @ Wooster Collective
Awesome. [woostercollective.com]...
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April 11, 2007
Strudel Mountain? T.T.T. Austrian Art Theater For Kids
T.T.T. is a Pancake Mountain-like troupe of Viennese artists and jazz musicians who perform slightly dada-ist multimedia theater for kids. They're also one of the few hits on YouTube for Antonioni. Frankly, they seem more Antonin Artaud, but other...
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Dad Back On Market, Kids Don't Convey
Curbed is always so good with the Corcoran real estate ads that populate our fair city with arty pictures of bankerspawn crawling across high seven-figure parquet floors, cent pk vu, triple mint. Or in the case of these two...
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April 9, 2007
Salvor-Palooza At Cool Hunting, Kiosk, &c.
Cool Hunting just posted a video visit to the studio of Salvor designer Ross Menuez. Turns out the company's named after his daughter and muse [well, her middle name, anyway. It's Icelandic.] When it came out a couple of...
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Lucky Boy & "Auspicious Mobile Phone": Beijing Opera Flash Anime
So do you really need a Mandarin-speaking nanny, or is it enough for your kid to internalize the cartoons of her future Chinese bosses? These awesome-looking anime-style renditions of characters from the Beijing Opera turned up on BoingBoing, only...
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March 30, 2007
So What Makes/Breaks An Infant/Toddler Day Care Setup?
Whatryagonnado? Here's a quote from Emily Bazelon's article about what the results of the latest NICHD day care study really do and don't mean[study author Margaret] Burchinal points out that on average, day care for infants and toddlers is worse...
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March 21, 2007
Kids These Days
Growing up Mormon, we knew an above-average number of large families, up to the "Hey, now you can field your own football team!" variety. On a completely unrelated note, here's a candy bar commercial from England. [youtube via neatorama]...
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March 13, 2007
Berlin Hipsters Transform Playground Equipment Into Musical Instruments
For his thesis project at the University of the Arts in Berlin, Richard The created Playful Parasites, a set of Bluetooth-enabled sensors that transform traditional playground equipment--slides, swings, climbing toys, bouncy ride-ons--into an data-transmitting interface:The system is designed to...
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March 10, 2007
That Praftalling Baker On Sesame Street
You kind of forget the multitude of clips that have been retired from the 'Street for one reason or another. Kermit, for example, was set free from CTW's nominally non-profit pen as part The Muppet Show spinoff [Did you know...
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Sesame Street Counting Yogi Now Complete, Available In Spanish
For a long time, the version of this classic clip floating around YouTube of the transmogrifying, four-armed, counting Swami from Sesame Street was missing the first part; it started counting at four. But thanks to the efforts of a...
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March 8, 2007
"I Wish They Could See Him With Children [Instead Of With That Tramp He Left Me For]"
Awesome. Here's a campaign commercial from 1993, when Rudy Giuliani was trying to soften his image. A little less Il Duce, a little more Il Papa, if you will. And yes, enough New Yorkers were fooled for Rudy to win...
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March 7, 2007
PsychoEnfants, Qu'est Ce Que C'est?
Bwahaha, there's a French baby magazine called PsychoEnfants. I wish they had logo merchandise. Unfortunately, their website is really skimpy [the first third of the "breast or bottle?" article is just reciting a bunch of hypotheticals and myths, while...
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March 5, 2007
Help The Police, Help, Help, Help The Police
Time was, having a kid meant you could only sing along to your gangsta rap when you were driving alone. But after seeing comedian Adam Buxton's real-time-edited rendition of NWA's "F**k the Police", I'd say the times are a'changing....
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February 28, 2007
Quick, See Neo-Mickey Before His Lawyers Do
Come To Daddy, indeed. The DT jury may be out on the Disney plush toy sofas, but this sweet, little remixing of Mickey as a trance-happy space alien from the planet Murakami is AWESOME. Not clear what the impetus...
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February 27, 2007
Baby Got Back, Live & Unplugged By Jonathan Coulton
Dude recorded a whole Jonathan Coulton concert on his cell phone and posted it to YouTube. All I've heard so far is Coulton's acoustic folk cover version of Sir Mix-A-Lot's classic, "Baby Got Back." Jonathan Coulton in Seattle -...
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February 20, 2007
Soft, Smooth, Stop-Action Felt Video For DJ Klock
If you're ever in need of a five-minute music video to mellow the kid out a bit, there's always DJ Klock's "Theme." Klock is a hard-to-classify turntablist with a slight jazz overtone and an appreciation for the offbeat and...
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February 19, 2007
LOL (On The Inside): Ben Weber Dad Videos
You know how you fall asleep with public radio on, and when you wake up, it's Joe Frank, and you're tired, but you're also too transfixed to turn it off? Ben Weber's YouTube videos are kind of like that, only...
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February 16, 2007
No YouTube For A Week
ouch. [flickr via daddyinastrangeland]...
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February 14, 2007
Should You Watch The Manny's YouTube?
If you want to see him giving the blowup killer whale a reacharound and hear his folk songs about buttsex, then duhyeah. Being quick-on-the-draw with an improvised lyric is a priority in any childcare professional's life, not just the...
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February 13, 2007
Vids4Tots
Dutch has taken a stab at it by assembling a rather long and esoteric list of video clips. Daddy Types has gone about it piecemeal, just throwing a NatGeo African watering hole cam up here, a Patt Smith there, a...
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February 9, 2007
That Smell? It's Not A Diaper; It's Pheremones.
If you have Jane Jacobs on your babyname shortlist, you'll love reading Steven Johnson's take on urban parenting in Babble. Johnson's been writing thoughtfully on urban, connective living for a while, but now that he's got a few years of...
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February 8, 2007
Apartment Therapy: Now For The Nursery
Apartment Therapy, the site for people with neurotic apartments whose apartments just have a few issues just like what they like, you gotta problem with that? The door's right over there, the chartreuse one--I know, but we thought it might...
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February 6, 2007
Road Warrior, Come Out And Play-ay
I've really got nothing to add to this photo. [mehretube's flickr stream via hustler of culture]...
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February 4, 2007
Not The Image I Had Of BMW Bikers
via DT reader zach [daddytypes flickr photopool]...
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February 2, 2007
Telly Has Four Mamas, Four Hot Mamas
I wasn't going to post this 1975 video of Telly Savalas--it outcreeps anything from William Shatner's spoken word song oeuvre--but then a BoingBoing reader named Jon added the following explanation of the weird beer goggles camera effect, and well,...
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January 31, 2007
Richard McGuire's Random Popeye Generator
Since they haven't grown up, much less grown up with the old cartoons, kids won't get the conceptual elegance of Richard McGuire's P+O shapes, abstracted reworkings of Popeye & Olive Oyl's distinctive profiles. But that doesn't mean they won't...
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January 25, 2007
"Warren Harding. William Taft."
These kinds of stunts are always great. When she was one, I taught the kid "Rauschenberg" and "Ellsworth Kelly" so she could freak people out at MoMA. Baby knows presidents [youtube via dt reader jason]...
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Canadian Critic Harshes On Hipster Parent Buzz
CBC arts critic stopped watching Much Music long enough to dump a Diaper Genie II full of hate on "hipster parents," which this week means Neal Pollack's Alternadad and Nerve.com's new parenting website, Babble.On several occasions, Pollack rhapsodizes about his...
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January 9, 2007
Yawaraka Sensha Teaches Futility, Cuteness Of War
Translated variably as The Fragile Tank or The Soft Tank, Yawaraka Sensha is a Japanese Flash animated series on Livedoor, a big Japanese site run by a guy who thinks he's Mark Cuban. A bunch of cute little tanks...
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January 1, 2007
Kid Steps On A Tack, Freaked Out Mama Calls Back
Consumerist got a report from Brady, a dad in Burlington, Vermont who works nights and stays home days with his 14-month-old son during the day. Turns out Brady & Son went to Playdate, and indoor gym-type deal at the University...
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December 21, 2006
Tis The Season To Kill Time Clicking Through Scared Of Santa Photo Galleries
Dumber than a sacka hammers? Funnier'na gallery of Scared of Santa photos. The LA Times has gotten in on the tradition started by the Chicago Tribune and added to by the folks at SouthFlorida.com, by getting their readers to...
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December 4, 2006
Dude, Check Out Those Bassinets! Lucky Little Bastards
The caption on this photo from the LA Public Library's online photo archive reads:Unmarried teenage mother-to-be tries to reach a decision about her future. She wanders up to the nursery at St. Anne's Maternity Hospital on December 17, 1958,...
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November 30, 2006
Coochicoos' Completely Cuckoo With Giveaways In Demember
Just as soon as Sparkability's anniversary-celebrating giveaway ends [Nov. 30th is the last chance to win $100 or $1000 gift registryful of stuff!], another takes its place. Coochicoos, the ever-stylin' baby design blog, is giving away a thing a day...
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November 28, 2006
The DT Interview: Bboy Booginsroc's Bboying Dad
After seeing the amazing breakdancing moves of 2.5-year-old Bboy Booginsroc, I thought I'd drop a line to his dad, who was not only the source of his ill moves, but of his old school funk and motown education before...
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November 27, 2006
Whats-His-Name Cops A Feel On Whats-Her-Name
Yeah, I don't really have a category for this photo, but I will say I hope that kid's mom has some disinfecting wipes for his hand. No telling how many people have touched that thing. [img via dt reader...
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November 24, 2006
Bboy Booginsroc Has Ill Moves
The story about how, back in the day, when he was a baby, Frank Lloyd Wright's mother got him a set of Froebel blocks, which helped him develop his sense of architecture, geometry and spatial clarity, is well known. The...
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October 21, 2006
Hey Microsoft, LamerDad.com Is Still Available.
So for three+ years, GamerDad.com has been a leading independent, pioneering resource to help parents get involved with their kids' video gameplaying. Started by a tech journalist and at-home dad and edited by parents and gaming enthusiasts, it's a...
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October 18, 2006
Playground Series Handscreened Cards
Some day I'll stop prefacing every post of some kind of cute handprinted paper product with, "I don't do much crafty cute paper around here, but..." but that day is not yet. Nevertheless, this Playground Series of notecards by...
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Dutch Chatbot Baby Grows Up In Six Days, Demands Much Virtual H&M Clothing
Eccky is a giant marketing platform disguised as a social networking game, where Dutch folk sign up, pair up [if you didn't bring a partner, one will be "Love Matched" to you], and birth a virtual baby. The baby, called...
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October 17, 2006
Nineteenth Century Funerary Photographs
One of the scenes that stays with me from Daniel Raeburn's New Yorker essay about how he and his wife dealt with the stillbirth of their daughter was the photographs. A nurse had assumed they would want to take...
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October 16, 2006
Text-Based Adventure Game/Baby Anecdote Hilarious For Some
I will wager that the delicate machinations required to steer a 1-yo birthday party conversation to the NFL pale in comparison to bringing up a youthful appreciation of text-based computer games:My son just turned two, but about six months ago,...
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October 5, 2006
Is Elmo Talking To Elmo? Martin Scorsese's Sesame Streets
Not sure why Morgan Freeman is doing the voiceover for this, but it's pretty damn funny. Watch it when the kids are asleep, though, unless you really want them to hear Elmo talking like that to the fish. Sesame Streets...
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From Mattel's Top Secret TMXXV Elmo Motion Capture R&D Lab In Bangalore
Of course, when they finally release the doll here, the PC police will probably make them cut the bit at the end where he fires up a butt... "Little Superstar" [youtube via deadspin, of all places] dude on sofa: Rajinikanth...
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October 4, 2006
"Actually, 'Guest Blogger' Is My Middle Name."
Somehow, when he's not daddying his 1-yo daughter, helping his wife design up some sweet kid's clothes, conspiring to start his own design and vintage toy store, sharking around on eBay for vintage gear--and plotting his own blog--DT reader and...
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September 28, 2006
"Invisible Baby" By Ze Frank
It's apparently not the normal babies that freak Ze Frank out at street fairs: it's the invisible ones. Ze Frank's The Show [zefank.com]...
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September 26, 2006
Only Gay Dads In The Village Post Family Picture Online
I felt bad that I wasn't coming across many things to post for the 'gay dads' category lately, but now I realize it was because I wasn't surfing Gaydar, the British gay personals site. The Daily Mail was, though,...
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September 25, 2006
Bootleg Ballet Video
The kid's been on a ballet kick [sic] lately. However they emerge, it's interesting how gender coded interests are probably reinforced and encouraged by parents almost without thinking. Would she stay as interested in ballet if we didn't respond so...
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September 20, 2006
Is Gawker Pregnant Or Something? Sheesh
Three baby-related posts in one day? It looks like someone at Gawker is trying to break into the $1,860-and-growing baby blooging market: A positively gushing report on the re-launch of Cookie Magazine's website [cookiemag.com] A toddler reading The New Yorker...
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"You Wanna Make $14 $1,860 The Hard Way?"
DT reader Helena asked if this craigslist posting was me. Until my new underground software arrives in the mail, I confess, it is not. But I am definitely thinking about registering the domain name, bloogingbaby.com right. now.Hidden Secrets To Earning...
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September 19, 2006
Moo Flickr MiniCards: I Just Made New DT Cards With These
Oy, I wish I would have known about this before Las Vegas. When I first whipped up some business cards [and I use the term "business" lightly] before attending the JPMA Convention in the spring, I tried to make...
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September 18, 2006
You'll Know It By Its Giant Advertisers: Nickelodeon Launches ParentsConnect.com
Who'da thought? Nickelodeon not only bought GoCityKids.com last winter [$1 million, if you're keeping score at home], they've launched what the NY Times all but calls a MySpace For Parents, but what the rest of us might call a hosted...
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September 16, 2006
See Something? Say Blog Something!
And so we come full circle in the whorl of surveillance-media-consumer-parenting society. I Saw Your Nanny [isawyournanny.blogspot.com] wants you to send in your sightings of inappropriate nanny behavior, and "if you are able to capture a photograph of the nanny...
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September 15, 2006
Brooklyn: Our Own Magic Kingdom
Just like Disney World before it, Brooklyn is divided into different "neighborhoods," each with its own, unique theme. Graphic Evidence Park Slope & Gowanus are Different [curbed]...
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September 10, 2006
We're No. 2! We're No. 2! USA! USA! USA!
FLASH: In a stunning upset this morning here in Las Vegas, the USA was eliminated [sic] in the first round of the Potty Training Video World Cup, a sidebar event at the ABC Kids Expo. The hopes of the US...
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September 5, 2006
Taba Naba: "And Have A GREAT Time!" 4,890 Times.
This YouTube clip only shows it's been watched 4,890 times, but I swear, we've watched it that many times this week. And it's only Tuesday. "Taba Naba" has consistently been the kid's most requested video clip when she wants...
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September 2, 2006
4 Teletubbies + 1 Chainsaw + Flash = 3 Telet-, Er, 2 Teletubbies
Needless to say, this Flash game, wherein the player kills Teletubbies with his choice of a chainsaw, a pistol, or a rifle, may not be appropriate for babies or young children. Also, I only sampled it with the sound off,...
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August 30, 2006
Dialectics For Kids
In the remarkable new film Half Nelson, Ryan Gosling stars as Dan Dunne, an idealistic history teacher in Brooklyn who might have more luck finishing that children's book on Hegelian dialectics if he wasn't spending all his free time passed...
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August 24, 2006
Barney's Lawyers More Annoying, Entertaining Than Barney
The EFF filed a suit against Barney's lawyers, who have spent almost five knuckleheaded years threatening a guy named Justin Frankel [Dr. Justin Frankel, thank you very much], making dubious claims that his online parody about "The Enemy's" true nature...
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C Is For Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie: Jazz Alphabet Flashcards Videos
The kid's screen media consumption consists of at least 50% YouTube and other online videos. They're usually short, they're under control and on demand, and it means we watch them together. Besides, there's approximately one million better things to watch...
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August 16, 2006
At The Politically Incorrect Alphabet, C Is For Cannibal, Cigarettes, Cripple...
Designer/artist Mark Jones started making his Politically Incorrect Alphabet images after visiting his wife's elementary school classroom and finding the "I is for Indian" picture he remembered from his youth had been replaced. Inspired by the clean, modern lines...
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"My Baby Looks Like..." Series At The Poop
The Poop: the SF Chronicle's new parenting blog. Let's stare a little bit longer into the metaphorical toilet bowl that is SFGate.com, shall we? Not because we want to see how long corn takes to go through the blogging system...
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August 10, 2006
The Daily Show: Yeah, Birthpangs!
Daily Show Mideast correspondent Aasif Mandvi:Like the Secretary said, we're going through some "birthpangs" here. And you know how people tend to scream things they don't mean when they're in labor. Nonsense like, "How could you do this to me,"...
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August 4, 2006
Before I Forget, Here's A Plushie Puffin Entertaining Icelandic Children
I posted this to flickr when we got back from Iceland, but I'd meant to post it here, too. On the country's National Day, everyone showed up in Reykjavik to eat insane amounts of sugar [lollipops and cotton candy,...
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Speak To Me, Brotha Elmo
Tavis Smiley, or as he likes to be called, The Charlie Rose for Black Folk, talks to Kevin Clash, the man who spends his waking, working hours living inside Elmo's furry red head. Much mutual "my soul brother"-ing ensues. [Or...
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August 3, 2006
Read DaddyTypes.doc At Work
Little known fact: One of my early inspirations for Daddy Types was the IBM Selectric II typewriter--aka the typewriter with balls--which ushered in a workplace revolution. With the IBM and the word processors and computers that followed, typing was no...
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July 27, 2006
Clearly, I Was Wrong About The Angels
I am so sorry. I hope those who might have taken offense at my dismissive tone this morning about the popularity of angels will forgive me. You know me, I was just shooting my mouth off without knowing all...
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Mothers Plug For Feed
Sure, it's from Mother's Day 2005, but I don't doubt there are still around 10 million moms and 13 million kids going to bed hungry in the US this year, too. And if I'm wrong, hey, you've raised your...
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July 25, 2006
Safety Tips From Stick Figures In Peril Photopool
There are over 4,000 photos in the Stick Figures in Peril photopool on flickr, including the above image of an exploding pram, shot by dan in deutschland in Paris. Narrowing the pool to baby-tagged images yields a manageable number...
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July 18, 2006
Kid Got A Problem With Eggs? "I Love Egg" Will Help Or Hurt.
As if intent on proving that Japan doesn't have a lock on Asian Video Weirdness, some egg loving Koreans created this Flash animated song about, well, loving eggs. If your kid has a problem eating eggs, this cutey cute...
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July 16, 2006
No Actual Children Were Harmed In The Creation Of These Characters
For all my paranoia about being subjugated to the tyrannical rule of Disney Princesses, and my ongoing efforts to keep Elmo and Barney and Spongebob and Dora and Thomas and Pooh and Hello Kitty from brainwashing our kid, I...
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July 11, 2006
Worth1000.com: Pop Culture Not-For-Kids Photoshop Contest
March 2: Penguins vs Predator, a scythe-wielding, blood-covered Jiminy Cricket, the always-popular Crack Ho' Barbie. They're all wildly child-inappropriate spins on pop culture, to be sure, but for the new dad, they're also all several years off, in the...
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July 5, 2006
Daniel Raeburn's NY'er Essay, "Vessels," Now Online--With A Followup
In the two months since it was published, I've probably received 300 requests from people looking for a copy of "Vessels," Daniel Raeburn's extraordinary New Yorker magazine essay about his and his wife's experience with their stillborn daughter, Irene. So...
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June 26, 2006
The "Throw Your Kids In The Air!" Photopool On Flickr
It's just what it sounds like. Throw your kids in the air! [flickr via dt reader christy, who assures me there was a pile of leaves in this picture, you just can't see it.]...
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June 10, 2006
Hippopotamus For Christmas, Elephant For Father's Day
This ad from the World Wildlife Fund was running on Treehugger:"An elephant’Äôs powerful trunk is strong enough to rip up whole trees, yet is gentle enough to lovingly caress a calf. Strong and powerful, yet tender and caring--remind you of...
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June 6, 2006
The Phone Number Of The Beast
In New York, of course, 666-6666 is not the number of The Beast; it's the number of Carmel Car Service, which slots in somewhere between an actual, corporate, voucher-based car service and a scary-lookin' liquid air-freshener-filled gypsy cab. But in...
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May 31, 2006
Danish Kindergarten-in-a-Bus
No. way. This is so cool. But why do they only go to the forest every day? Couldn't they go to factories and gas stations and malls and construction sites and stuff, too? Lunch at Ikea? Buggi Bjorn kindergarten...
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May 18, 2006
Nerve.com Sks LTR, Wants To Settle Down, Have Kids
That old adage about the ones you date and the ones you marry may get reworked into "the ones you hook up with online and the ones you have kids with." At least that's what Nerve.com kingpin Rufus Griscom is...
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May 17, 2006
Little Mac Has His Father's Nose
This McDonald's ad from India totally weirds me out. I am definitely swearing off the golden arches for me and the kid for. ever. Unless they have those cherry pies with the uncommonly flaky crusts like the ones at...
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May 5, 2006
"Me no monster. Me OK guy. Me OK guy who eat cookies."
COOKIE MONSTER SEARCHES DEEP WITHIN HIMSELF AND ASKS: IS ME REALLY MONSTER? [mcsweeney's]...
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April 30, 2006
While Daddy Types
daddytypes_feb_05 Originally uploaded by reptilica. Great picture tagged with fathers and babies and daddytypes. Reptilica writes that an agency licensed the picture for a Visa campaign. That was a year ago; does it look familiar? When the kid was...
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April 23, 2006
Maker Faire 2006: Most flickr'd Event EVAR
Popping Balloon Originally uploaded by Bob Lee. The subtitle of Make Magazine's first gathering of DIY'ers and technogeeks, the Maker Faire 2006 should have been "flickr powerusers unleashed." The booths are barely being broken down, and there are already...
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April 20, 2006
Maddox Who?
several things make this kid awesome Originally uploaded by trixiebedlam. Check out the sweet lid on this kid. Yes, that is a phoenix emerging from his polo shirt collar. trixiebedlam's photostream on flickr [via robotwisdom]...
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April 17, 2006
"Jennifer: Status: EMPTY!"
Whenever I feel like I should be covering celebrity-related baby news more fervently, a quick trip to the newsstand reminds me that no one does it better than Uterus Weekly. [From the publishers of American Gentrifier Magazine.]...
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April 16, 2006
Other Daddies Typing: Special Baby Roadies Edition
Zac and Matt are both dads-to-be who were shocked--shocked!!--to find that, now that they've finished inseminating, the Baby Industrial Complex has no use for them. So they launched a blog called Baby Roadies. [The term comes from Henry Rollins; the...
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April 11, 2006
As Seen On The Streets Of Greenpoint
daddytype - 41 Originally uploaded by flynturnip. This awesome photo of daddy type, baby, and Greenpoint street art just showed up in the daddytypes pool on flickr. Says flynturnip, "props to the person who created the grocery ad graffiti....
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April 9, 2006
Other Daddies Typing: I'm A Total Slacker Edition
A roundup of highlights from dadblogs that, while admittedly incomplete, serves to demonstrate my own utter slackitude on the useful and entertaining information front lately: First things first. I felt proud, even a little groundbreaking, when I did the DT...
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April 7, 2006
Michigan State U. Parent & Internet Study Wants YOU
MY research shows that approximately 100% of geeky folk musicians and backup singers from Michigan use the Internet to disseminate false imformation about their parenting status. No doubt as an attempt to refute my study's devastating findings, researchers--OK, he's a...
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April 6, 2006
GoogleMapped Goodness: Rebel Dad's SAHD Playgroups GMap
LOL, awesome. Unless you've actually given birth to one yourself, you cannot fully appreciate the pain and the exhaustion that a customized Google Map can bring. But then that first day, when you bring it home to your blog,...
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April 4, 2006
Other Daddies Blogging: Baseball, Beans, & Babies
Even if I didn't have a huge work deadline looming over me, this list of highlights from the dadblogscape would still be incomplete: Even the second time around, The Hospital Tour's entertaining and informative. And when it's Berkeley, they double...
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April 3, 2006
Baby/Daddy Photos, flickr, And You. And Me.
Originally uploaded by moominmolly. You may have noticed that I've added some photos to the sidebar on the main page of Daddy Types. Right now, it displays the latest additions to the "Fathers and Babies photo group, a snuggly...
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April 2, 2006
I-- Wow. Ultraman Drives An Aprica.
Taking me out . Originally uploaded by My Ultraman Daddy. When we were in Japan last summer, I tried to find some books from Tatsuya Miyanishi's Otousan wa Ultraman/ Daddy is Ultraman series, but only ended up with Daddy's...
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March 31, 2006
And To Think That Dutch Saw It On Clement Street
Whoa, I mean, whoa. This flickr photoset that Dutch and Wood took along San Francisco's Clement St--It's somewhere between Chinatown, Russian Mafiatown, and Mos Eisley, from what I can tell- is like warpedest Bugaboo Daytrip EVER. AND a good...
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March 21, 2006
Are You Listening To The Dad Podcasts?
USA Today had an article about parenting podcasts, which mentioned several dadcasts and dad-and-momcasts. Some dad-involved podcasts include: Who's Your Daddy?, Aaron Johnson and Cliff Knopik's show which has been mentioned here before; The SG Show, with Steve Gershik and...
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March 20, 2006
Other Daddies Typing [At Dadcentric]
Wherein I point out a couple of sweet posts of late in a feeble attempt to assuage my guilt and deflect any criticism for not posting anything lately at the site I've been so generously invited to participate in: Oh...
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March 19, 2006
Other Daddies Typing: No St. Patrick's Edition
A roundup of sober posts, observations, and experiences from the dadblogosphere: A 24-yo baby daddy of two in Pittsburgh, Anwan Wesley is putting the 'hood in fatherhood. Or the father in the 'hood. Or--whatever, the man's publishing a magazine for...
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March 16, 2006
Party's Over
"BUY THIS STUFF 1 large box of maternity clothes and one kegorator. $50 for both or $25 each. Call 434-XXX-XXXX" Charlottesville Hook classified ads [readthehook.com, via dt reader Carolyn]...
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March 14, 2006
"No Papa Writing"
I wrote to ask SAHD Christoph Meyer if I could republish this excerpt from his excellent zine, 28 Pages Bound Lovingly With Twine. Well, the bastard hasn't written back to me yet, so I-- just kidding, he actually sent a...
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Blurbodoocery
Heather B. Armstrong and Jason Kottke gave a keynote discussion Sunday at SXSW in Austin. Both uberbloggers are well-known for "going pro" this last year, and supporting themselves their sites. Jason did a 3-week fundraising drive, and Heather and her...
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March 13, 2006
Other Daddies Typing: The Han Solo Edition
An irregular, incomplete survey of some of the interesting dadblog posts out there [can I get any more equivocating than that?]: But if Parentbloggers are the new, annoying Sports Dads and Pageant Moms, exploiting their children for their own glory,...
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March 11, 2006
Wow, Trixie Tracker's All Growed Up
Ben Macneill's geek-heavenly Trixie Update was a formative introduction to impending fatherhood for me. Not only did Ben transform the daunting, inscrutable cycles of a newborn's food, sleep, and poo into funny, startle-your-friends! charts and graphs, but he actually teased...
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March 7, 2006
Bloggers And The Cheerios Effect
Last year two Harvard physicists published a breakthrough paper on the Cheerios Effect, which states that "Objects that float at the interface between a liquid and a gas interact because of interfacial deformation and the effect of gravity. We highlight...
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February 26, 2006
Other Daddies Typing
A feature so irregular, I almost want to massage its lower abdomen gently with two fingers and pump its fat little legs to its chest. Anyway, here's what some other daddies typed about this week: Clueless rough-housing or nefarious kiddie...
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February 23, 2006
Vintage Photos Of Kids As Cowboys
Finally. photographic evidence that the trend of dressing up like a cowboy did not start with Brokeback Mountain. Vintage Kids as Cowpokes Photo Pool [flickr via boingboing]...
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February 19, 2006
The Blogfathers: It's Strictly Parenting Business
For someone with Laid Off in his name, Doug's sure keeping busy. Looks like the teeth have come in at the Opinionated Parenting joint he does for Oxygen!, and this week he [joined the newly] launched The Blogfathers, a group...
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February 18, 2006
Live From The Westminster Hair Teasing Show
This dog's name, some of you will be pleased to know, is Ch Bugaboos Big Resolution. See more of Eliot Shepard's photos from the Westminster Dog Show at the NY Observer. Seriously. [observer.com]...
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February 17, 2006
Blogging Your Way To A Nobel Prize?
Looking past the glare of the NY Times spotlight last week [fyi, the article was apparently just republished in the Chicago Tribune, in case you don't want to give $2.95 to the Times to read about me going to the...
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February 14, 2006
Neil Young Opening For Dooce At SXSW?
I saw this photo on Matt's blog a few days ago, and it read like Neil Young is the opening act for World's Most Famous Parentblogger Heather Armstrong. Now Jason's got more info: Kottke and Dooce will be conducting a...
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February 12, 2006
Photoshop Contest: Bad, Bad, Bad Idea Toys
The Marlboro Reds Transformer; the spiral slide with razor blades embedded in it; Poledancing Barbie; Mister Pot Head; My First Ouija Boardbook. You'll understand why of all the entries in Worth1000.com's Photoshop contest asking for toys that are just...
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February 6, 2006
Made How? Who Knew?
Why, I don't know, since there's no branding, and just a handful of Google ads, but the site howmade.com, published by info giant Thomson Gale, has compiled information on the background, development, and manufacturing processes for hundreds of complicated things,...
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January 30, 2006
ART: Ministeck Portraits By Norbert Bayer
Norbert Bayer, an artist who goes by the potentially [you'd think] pigeonholing name Mister Ministeck, creates works out of Ministeck, a plastic mosaic toy that's like the secret German love child of Legos and LiteBrites. Bayer's work has been praised...
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January 27, 2006
Children Of The Cornmeal
Exactly what it sounds like: a gallery of terrifying spokeschildren. This one's screaming, "More, Mommy!" [plan59 via tmn]...
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January 26, 2006
To A Child, There Are No "Strange, New Worlds"
After the Miss USA pageant, the flamers at Fark.com Googled up an old DT post about baby beauty pageants and creeped out, retouched glamour photos of innocent Southern children whose mothers won't face the reality that Designing Women is off...
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January 25, 2006
A Baby Walks Into A Conference Room
Dilbert had two versions of yesterday's baby-and-breasts strip: one for nervous editors, and one for online. Personally, I think the nervous one's funnier. Jet Lagged Baby [the dilbert blog via dt reader cam]...
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January 23, 2006
What The Chinese Nanny Taught Him?
A 3-year-old smoking. I hope that's incense, not butts, in the ashtray in front of him. [via boingboing]...
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January 22, 2006
Praise The Lard
lolol. Utah accent. [dooce]...
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January 19, 2006
What E'er Your Part Is What You Art? [huh?]
Edward Castronova is a college professor and serious student of virtual worlds. On the gamer group blog Terra Nova, Castronova expounded his theory that choosing to play evil characters--such as the orcs and trolls and such who make up The...
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January 18, 2006
Brangelinadilla on ebay
No sign of Angelina Jolie's ultrasound pictures on ebay, but. I did find is this: the so-called Brangelinadilla: "Could this silhouette that was burned onto my tortilla actually be the first image of Angelina Jolie, and Brad Pitts' baby???...
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January 10, 2006
The Morning News Dads Roundtable: Yep, They're Still Dads
The over-literate dads of The Morning News have reconvened for a Dads Roundtable that touches on talking children, blogs, dads' relationships with their dads--and whether there are any more children in the pipeline. That last one makes me think the...
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Another 'Puter Movie: "Flickr"
There's a small town in the mountains, where the streets are wide and still. There are children making angels in the snow. A sunset paints the sky at night. An old man paints by candlelight. A tiny baby smiles...
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January 7, 2006
Come On Down To Big Joe's Strollers Today
"This. Is A Child. Children. Sit. In These Things." This. Is A Dad. Making A Cheesy Stroller Dealer Commercial. In A Home Movie. In The Seventies. Big Joe's Strollers, 1m19s, posted by MD Davis [google video]...
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January 5, 2006
Parenthacks, Babygadget
Here are two new websites that look like they'll be well worth some regular visits: Parenthacks is an open-eyed, practical parenting blog [first suggestion: BUY A TIVO!!!] run by a mom named Asha. I'd worry more about the name, but...
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Dad Goes Home, This Time With Kids
Over Christmas, writer Anthony Doerr took his family from Idaho--the part without chicken coops anymore, apparently--back to his childhood home in Novelty, Ohio. He wrote about it, and about retracing memories and history, for The Morning News:Lines sharpen, contours deepen....
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January 4, 2006
Iron Maiden - Spongebob Mashup
Is this how you remembered those album covers from elementary school? Hans Claesson's Wallpaper & Graphics [ kebawe.com via coudal]...
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January 3, 2006
They Grow Up So Fast: Brownstoner's First Birthday
It's true that every guy moving to Brooklyn these days is [pick at least two]: a hipster, a dad, a blogger, a banker. Brownstoner's all four. Right before Mr and Mrs Brownstoner had their second kid, I found out I...
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December 29, 2005
What I Like Best: No Elmo
Just as we'd been making progress on pronouns [how do you explain "I," "me," and "you" to someone totally new to the concept? It's tricky.] we were introduced, thanks to a presumably well-meaning gift in the mail from a dear...
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December 20, 2005
Moving For The Schools. To Tribeca
Hats off to Curbed for reporting on a print ad for Tribeca Green, a new rental building in the much-praised PS 89 school district, that read: Jack and Ellen met at Goldman Sachs. Now they're taking their kids public. Let...
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December 6, 2005
Getting Mistaken For The Manny? Seriously?
Maybe it's an East Coast thing, or maybe it's because I look a lick or two over 18, but I've never had anyone mistake me for the manny. In fact, I've never seen a manny in the wild. Or if...
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I Want A Kid-o Bib: A Must For Christmas
Not only a Kid-o bib, of course, will do, but I'm just saying. That all-too-familiar frustration with the horrible design of most baby gear probably intensifies when you open an awesome baby store, because Kid-o has introduced quite a...
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December 5, 2005
T or A: Dads And The Etymology Of The Touchdown Celebration
Carolina Panther Steve Smith may have more touchdowns and completions than his fellow receiver, Cincinnati Bengal's Chad Johnson, but Johnson's got the better--or at least the more buzz-worthy--end zone dances. So what's up with that? After watching "change the baby's...
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December 1, 2005
The Squirrelly, Asst Vice President Of Alphabetizing
So Matthew reports that The Squirrelly has learned almost all 23 letters of the alphabet:Yes, only 22 months old and he's already mastered life's most basic skill: the ability to fake his way through things that he doesn't entirely understand....
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November 29, 2005
Angelina Jolie Gets A Manny
Details are sketchy, but it looks like Angelina Jolie has hired a manny to take care of the kids while she's on humanitarian visits to earthquake victims in Pakistan and whatnot. [images via justjared] Related: The Manny FAQ...
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November 16, 2005
Park Slope: Raising Tiny Killer Lesbians Since 2001
From Overheard In New York: "Little girl: I'm tired of thinking about ponies! Now it's time to kill!" And the lesbians? Metrodad explains that one on Dadcentric in a little post he calls "Tykes & Dykes."...
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November 13, 2005
Other Daddies Typing, Vol...Whatever - Buying
Here's a round-up of what the blogs are buying--or talking about buying, anyway: Buck got, loved 5starbaby's signature baby-announcement-as-movie-poster. [bucksmith.org] To anyone thinking about getting me candy cane pajamas for Christmas: Um, can I see you over here for a...
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Other Daddies Typing, Vol...I Forget
It must be getting old, this "I'm so far behind on other peoples' blogs" schtick. This time, I'm breaking this roundup into categories. First up, Required Reading: If a Sweet Juniper falls in the forest and 100 million AOL users...
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November 10, 2005
Crying For, At Art
Art blogger Todd Gibson recently took his 8-month-old daughter to see a video art piece by Shirin Neshat. The kid sat, transfixed for a while, and then suddenly started wailing. [He took her out immediately, btw, without prompting from any...
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See? Pink Kitchens Aren't Retro
The JJ family found this little picture game in the Retro Kid photo pool I linked to yesterday. By asking "Which of these are things your mommy uses? Which are things your daddy uses?" it's proves more open-ended than Pottery...
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November 9, 2005
Retro Kid Photo Pool on Flickr
Did you know there's a Retro Kid photo pool on Flickr with nearly 400 scans of classic and mid-century modernist children's art and book illustrations? Did you know that it includes some scans of Mary Blair's work, the great Disney...
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November 8, 2005
The Peanut Archives Arrives
Trust me, I'm not spoiling it for you when I tell you this is the installment of The Peanut where Danny Gregory's wife finally gives birth. Great stuff:I feel tremendously guilty, darting between both sides of the room, splitting my...
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November 1, 2005
Other Daddies Typing, Vol. 5
See how far behind I get in my reading and posting?: The Bean's Dad had a breakthrough in group: the moms at the playground are actually talking to him, despite that whole SAHD shower schedule [come on, you know the...
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October 31, 2005
This Is Your Child's Brain On Dancing Badgers. Any Questions?
"badgerbadgerbadger.com has had an absolutely mesmerizing effect on my son since early on. Even at 14 months it still captures his attention. He just sits there, entranced by the looped flash animation and song. I'm not sure if it will...
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October 27, 2005
Children, Reviewed In The Believer
I wonder if little October Adelaide* Eggers Vida will get reviewed by her parents' magazine. So far, on its website, The Believer has published reviews of seven children, ranging in age from four to thirteen. Here is an excerpt from...
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October 25, 2005
BabyCage
It's really self-explanatory: the Internet's one-stop shop for all your baby caging needs. BabyCage.net via metrodad Previously: Atelier Van Lieshout's 'Bad Furniture' Crib...
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October 20, 2005
Pimp Thy Stroller
I think we may have uncovered the reason the West Coasters of L.A. Rush went with the lame, faux British "Pimp My Pushchair." Because "Pimp My Stroller" was already taken by the East Coast crew Rhett and Link, who Crusade...
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October 17, 2005
Other Daddies Typing, vol. 4
First, apologies for being slow with the ODT, but I had to wade through my 1-week backlog [198 posts (!!)] from the new blogajillionaires at BloggingBaby.com. Seriously, people, aren't you due for some slacking off, or hasn't that fat AOL...
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October 11, 2005
Celebrity Baby Has Big Box Of Crayons, ASD
The kid doesn't have crayons; because they make me nervous. The table, the walls, the art, I see the kid having a blast playing with crayons, and I don't think "Awwww, maybe she'll be an artist someday. Let's put these...
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October 10, 2005
"If Found, Call This Number" Temporary Tattoos
So the idea behind Tattoos With A Purpose is that they're an unlosable, unobtrusive way to attach your emergency contact information to a kid. Like any other temporary tattoo, TWAP's go on in seconds and last up to 7 days....
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October 6, 2005
AOL Buys Daddy Blogger's Posts, &c. For $25 Million
25 million subscribers, ostensibly the most family-centric of all the big Internet companies, publisher of the biggest parenting magazine in the world, and yet you could fit all their dad-focused content in a Take & Toss cup, and even then...
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Danny Gregory On Impending Fatherhood
The latest installment of The Peanut Chronicle is out. The surprise baby shower didn't go well [Danny plays it down, but word to the wise on that one]. And they buy gear--big gear--but what struck me was this passage, which...
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October 5, 2005
Baby Peace Anti-Vietnam War Ad
In 1970 USC film student Randal Kleiser shot "Baby Peace," a one-minute ad to protest US involvement in the war in Vietnam. He got Jon Voight, fresh off of Midnight Cowboy, to do the father's voiceover. It kind of...
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October 4, 2005
Other Daddies Typing, Vol. 4
Even though AJ has come up with a whole bunch of swanky, convenient, stylish, or fun options, when it comes right down to it, I have to side with the Simpsons: "This leash demeans us both." Still, his research...
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October 3, 2005
NatGeo Watering Hole Cam Brings The Zoo To You
We happen to live a block from the zoo in both NYC and DC, so the kid's been going to see the animals a couple of times a week since she was like two weeks old. [Not to rag too...
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October 2, 2005
Danny Gregory Goes Shopping For The Peanut
In his serialized account of his wife's pregnancy, artist/writer Danny Gregory is closing in on the last few anxious weeks, which are full of gear-buying, surprise baby shower-organizing, L&D touring, and increasingly anxious anticipating:Time to get more paraphernalia. We visit...
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September 29, 2005
Parenting and Kid Gear Search Engines
Nabeel at Startup Dad writes:So, there's a cool new website called Rollyo and it let's you search a fixed set of sites... Two that might be of interest to Daddy Types readers on the hunt: Dooce created one focused on...
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September 26, 2005
Other Daddies Typing, vol. 3
In the whirlwind logistics of getting out of the house in the morning, disaster strikes: Duckies, Bobo, and Pillow don't make the trip. But is it Jason's fault? [hint: if you find yourself quoting George Bush in your explanation...
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September 23, 2005
Umm, Got Issues? My Father, The Architect
Until she was three years old, Julia Eisenman was dressed exclusively in white, at the insistence of her father, Peter Eisenman, the theorist/ringleader of the neo-Corbusian architectural clique once called the "New York Five." And it wasn't just her--all the...
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September 17, 2005
I Feel Pretty. Pretty Cranky.
Peter Merholz on the death of user experience: What people not call "user experience" used to be called "design" (by the Eames generation). The term "user experience" was necessary because "design" had become associated almost exclusively with the way something...
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September 15, 2005
Other Daddies Typing, Vol. 2
There's so much good stuff out there, I might have to pick up the pace on this daddy blog roundup thing: It's cheating, I know, but I gotta start with a little meta. Metrodad gives Props For The Pops,...
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September 14, 2005
Ah, The Good Old Days Of Prospect Park
It seems like it was just yesterday when Prospect Park--hell, when 2/3 of New York City--was sketchy and dangerous, and people would set fires in garbage cans and in parked cars just for fun, which would eventually burn itself out,...
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September 11, 2005
Don't Take These Matters Into Your Own Hands
Sure you could do it yourself, but why not visit DrSnip.com before deciding? [update: after all, he's cut such famous vas deferens as The Zero Boss's. Check out the firsthand account from Jay's book.] Dr Snip Vasectomy Knife [finkbuilt.com,...
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September 7, 2005
Round-up From The Daddy Blogs
While it could be worse, I've got a work deadline that's killing me, so posting's going to be a little light today. In the mean time, here are some useful things I found while catching up on some daddy blog...
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September 2, 2005
Geek's Wife Having Baby Right Now in UK
Itís happening. EEEK! Posted on 02.09.05 by Paul @ 10:43 am Since 5:30 AM the wife has been in labour. The contractions are now about 4-5 minutes apart and last about 20 seconds... Just saw this tagged on Technorati, from...
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August 29, 2005
LOLOL: Parents Behaving Badly Blog
It starts with the dad who broke his 4-month-old son's leg, supposedly because the kid's incessant crying harshed his "cannabis" buzz, and it goes down(or up, depending)hill from there. It's Parents Behaving Badly, a new blog by Jay Allen of...
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August 26, 2005
The Angelina Adoptathon Continues
lolol: "Having undergone the necessary preparations, Natalie Portman readies herself to be adopted by Angelina Jolie." [gawker]...
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Latest Installment of The Peanut Chronicles at TMN
I missed linking to a couple of artist/writer Danny Gregory's bi-weekly accounts of waiting for their first kid, The Peanut, to be born. They're all archived here, so read back and get caught up with me, why don't you? In...
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August 24, 2005
Architect: Send Your Diapers To Holland
Not sure where to classify this; I don't have a hardcore conceptual architecture category yet... Core77 reviews the recent Rotterdam Architecture Biennale, which includes a hypothetical proposal by Niall Kirkwood of Harvard's GSD for to help manage/develop a floodplain along...
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August 19, 2005
I'm Sure You're Kid's Cute, But...
Is your kid as cute as these baby porcupines hedgehogs? [via boingboing]...
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August 16, 2005
NYC Streets To Stroller Pushers: How'm I Doin'?
Well, almost. Transportation Alternatives, a non-profit advocacy group for NYC's oppressed and downtrodden masses, aka pedestrians, cyclists, and other street-using types, is asking City residents with strollers to grade their neighborhood streets for stroller-friendliness. "We've launched the survey to collect...
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August 11, 2005
Muji Summer Camp
Muji's crossing over into cult territory, but at least it's a happy, well-designed, logo-free, ecologically sound, economical cult. Muji Summer Camp has two sessions, and you already missed one. [The next one is Aug. 23-25, 3 days/2 nights.] It sounds...
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August 3, 2005
'Japanese' Babies: "I Must Collect Them All!"
So Dan finds this giant collaged image on his server called "japanesebabies.jpg," only he doesn't know how it got there. Oh, and they're Korean babies. Translations of the captions are in Dan's comments, but I don't know how accurate they...
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July 31, 2005
This B2C E-Commerce Portal Will Have A Critical Mass Of Compelling Content
WelcomeMrBaby.com, the retailer with the [insert regional name here] Nania car seat/stroller, was new to me, so I surfed around a bit to see what else they had. Two things jumped out at me: 1) The site seems to have...
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July 25, 2005
Funny Pages & Not-So-Funny Pages
Wow, a fascinating article about how father-son relationships play out in the work of cartoonists and graphic novelists.Now in his mid-50s and happily married, Brian Walker has replicated the lifestyle enjoyed by his father [Mort, creator of "Beetle Bailey, Hi...
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Put Your Dad Blog Links Here
I've been working on an updated design for the site, adding some more categories, etc., but so far the only functionality the new design has is as an excuse for my not updating the dad blogroll in the sidebar. If...
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July 16, 2005
Should You Read The Nanny's Blog?
The nanny's pursuing her PhD in late Victorian lit, and no one saw this melodrama coming? Helaine Olen writes in Sunday's NYT about the increasing discomfort she felt as she read her nanny's blog. Mostly, it was of the self-pitying,...
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July 11, 2005
Report From 'Heath Ledger''s Buy Buy Baby Registry
I guess if I were Heath Ledger or Michelle Williams, I probably wouldn't use an alias to create my baby registry, either. But I probably would check with my publicist to see if Bugaboo just happened to drop off a...
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"Because Daughters Are...Angels With Attitude"
Congratulations to Angels With Attitude February Overall Winner Zoe [l] and 19-35 Months Winner Alli Beth [r], who most successfully represent "a total package 'glitz' child" without falling back on photos which are "extremely or overly retouched." They will...
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July 10, 2005
Dog Disguises for Kid-Threatening Breeds
Are you fed up with all the angry, frightened stares from other parents when you take your kid and your doberman to the park? Don't feel it's right that you get fined for taking your so-called 'dangerous' breed dog outside,...
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July 5, 2005
Excellent News From FatherWorld Magazine
So while everyone's staring at the nipple, it turns out Fathers Direct has uncovered some very promising findings about dads being more involved with raising their kids. The findings were published in FatherWorld, a magazine-format roundup of research and projects...
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June 26, 2005
So Tom, What Do You Think About Thimerosal?
Because based on your vast experience with the history of psychiatry, I really want to watch you talk about it Cruise and Lauer on Ritalin [sic], the illustrated version [you can't make it up, via everybody]...
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June 23, 2005
"That is just precious. Kids are so funny and they don't even know it!"
OK, "precious" is not the first word that came to my mind. One toddler's inadvertent R-rated utterance. [via robotwisdom. R-rated? Isn't this what got Last Tango in Paris an X-rating?]...
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Time Magazine: 'No Nuts, Please'
Congratulations go first, to Heather, whose site, dooce.com, was recently named Coolest Motherhood Blog of 2005 by Time magazine, and to DotMoms, who gets a shoutout, too. To all those dad bloggers who didn't win this year, Time's editors remind...
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June 19, 2005
Sans-Serif? Sans-Any Sense of Decency or Responsibility!
If you've been hanging out at the mall a lot and wondering just what the heck has gotten into kids these days, because they're so out of control and their parents never seem to care, and this country's goin' to...
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June 3, 2005
The Peanut, by Danny Gregory: The Cruise
In this chapter of The Peanut, writer/illustrator Danny Gregory's serialized saga of impending fatherhood, he and his wife Patti meet their new OB and go on a Christmas cruise with their extended Jewish family. No Chinese food is mentioned, but...
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May 25, 2005
The Gourmet Baby Crisis
Nine-month old Eric is typical of a phenomenon that has come to be known in the popular media as the "gourmet baby." He has two educated, professional parents who have delayed childbearing until their early thirties. He has all the...
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May 17, 2005
The Peanut Series, Vol. 4: It's Short For "Jacuzzi"
In the latest installment of Danny Gregory's The Peanut Chronicles, he and PL tell the Ohio relatives about the pregnancy--antics ensue--and contemplate names:We already have three Jacks. Jack Waldman was a friend of Patti's, a musician, who died just a...
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May 16, 2005
The New Yorker: How To Overdo It On The Ugly Kid Thing
Paul Rudnick, normally one of the funniest writers anywhere, has a very long, very tedious, one-joke piece about how to raise an ugly child, based on that Canadian grocery cart research: "I did, however, begin to read to Lisa, and...
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May 6, 2005
Rebel Dad On The Motherhood Project
Over at Rebel Dad, Brian unpacks someone's supposedly groundbreaking research about parenting especially which--surprise!--turns out to conveniently support their organization's pre-existing political agenda. And then he makes breakfast! Rebel Dad looks at The Motherhood Project findings [rebeldad.com, "posted at 6:01AM"]...
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April 24, 2005
Unborn Patriot Ornament
From MissPoppy.com, an online store for "spending your TRUE Christian dollars, where even your money is saved!" comes the Unborn Baby Ornament - US Troop Model:What if the fetus you were going to abort would grow up to be a...
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April 22, 2005
moby's birth announcement
It's the same "look like a 'father type' to attract women" strategy as rentmyson.com, but a whole lot less skeevy. By opening his latest teany book & tea shop with, "i have a birth to announce...," and "the proud parents:...
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April 21, 2005
From A New Dad's Diary Of His Book Tour
For some reason, this little paragraph really moved me. It's from Kevin Guilfoile's report from the road for The Morning News. He was on tour to promote his awesome (and awesomely reviewed) first novel, Cast of Shadows.In the late afternoon...
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April 20, 2005
I'm Sorry Figurine
Item Number: 114011 This figurine is of a boy waving a white flag. The words "I'm sorry" are two of the most difficult words to say. Let this figurine speak for you. This piece stands 4.5 inches tall. Price: $30.00Meanwhile,...
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April 19, 2005
Announcing PopeTypes.com, The Weblog For New Holy Fathers
Actually, I just registered the domain name yesterday, and I haven't even had the time to come up with any new material. Any one's free to suggest ideas for content--especially if you've recently named your kid Benedict. Unfortunately, there's only...
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Danny Gregory's The Peanut, Ch. 2
The second installment of writer/illustrator Danny Gregory's fatherhood saga is up at The Morning News. I won't give away the ending, but here's a brief excerpt:In mid-September, we light votive candles. We drink Dewarís. We play John Coltrane and Johnny...
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April 18, 2005
Rent My Son. Dot Com.
Name: Zach Age: 9 Location: Miami, FL Make Reservation/Get Quote About Me: Zach enjoys playing in the park. He has gone on several afternoons with single men trying to attract women by looking like the "father type". He also has...
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From The Gospel According To People Magazine
I'm on a work-related deadline, so posting may be a little light today. Fortunately, The angels have blessed the comments section on Daddy Types with the heartfelt stylings of Ms. Vivian Taube. Since she speaks so eloquently for herself, I...
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April 15, 2005
Daddy Blog Round Up
What, not posting enough for you? Thn check out the action on these other dad blogs, including a couple of new finds that I'm adding to the daddy blog list at right: Trixie Update: "...As if changing tables weren't disgusting...
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April 6, 2005
Norwegian Street Art from Wooster Collective
Awesome stencil art by Dolk, in Bergen, Norway. [wooster collective, first spotted on w-m-m-n-a]...
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April 5, 2005
Oobi Drive Nail In Daddy's Brain
Did I mishear the opening song, or were we actually about to watch a show with characters named Kegel and Boobie on Noggin on a Sunday morning? No, no, no, it's Oobi, and the website says his best friend...
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April 4, 2005
How Much For The Leetle Girl??
Oh. Well, how much for her name, birthdate, and mailing address, then? GrowingFamily.com will give you a free newborn portrait in exchange for the right to sell your kid's vitals to their Network Partners (i.e., anyone they want). The pitch...
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March 25, 2005
From The Brick Testament, John 19:23
I guess I'm one of those Christians who only reads The Brick Testament on Christmas and Easter. The Crucifixion, from The (New) Brick Testament [thebricktestament.com, reminded by studio360] Equal time for you Passover fans out there, from Exodus Ch....
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It's Funny Because It's True
From the Wall Street Journal, which everyone should subscribe to, and whose archives you should buy many articles from, via DT reader and dad-to-be Eric....
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March 24, 2005
Blame Canada
I hope you're sitting down, conservative readers. The Belgian Public Health Dept. not only promotes the use of contraceptives by teenagers to prevent unwanted pregnancy, it pays for them. They even created an elaborate campaign to shock girls into using...
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March 23, 2005
"Did you get that?"
A couple of people have asked why, since I'm this filmmaker and all, I don't post more about shooting video, which is, after all, one of a dad's traditional responsibilities. I could go on about breaking that mold, but the...
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March 20, 2005
"Are you allowed to use one of the kids to wield at other kids like a sword? "
"It is not hard at all to swing them around, and if so, then i have a feeling you could just swing around in a little circle and knock them all out as they get close to you." How many...
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March 17, 2005
Read'em Roundup
A few things to read in your copious free time: [via Rebel Dad] one letter writer to the Washington Post finds their Style section homage to hometown girl Judith Warner and her overprogrammed groupies much less compelling than the incredible...
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March 14, 2005
Other People's Baby Photos: Anderson Cooper by Diane Arbus
styling credit: billy bob lips A Diane Arbus [that's DEE-ann, fyi, at least according to MEE-chelle Norris's network, NPR] exhibition that's been traveling around the country just opened in NYC at the Metropolitan Museum. She's known for her engrossing,...
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February 19, 2005
Separated at Birth?
Anne Geddes'Matrix-like babies-in-flowerpots photo All the Dutch babies in the The Tummy Tub video...
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February 18, 2005
Microsoft Helping Orthodox Hackers' Parents Since Ten Days Ago
In "A parent's primer to computer slang," published two weeks ago by Microsoft, Orthodox Jewish parents can finally answer the question, "We thought AOL would help him. Where did we go wrong?":Non-alphanumeric characters may be combined to form letters. For...
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February 14, 2005
Formative Childhood Memories on Metafilter
Gee, no pressure. Where to start on this Ask Metafilter thread about people's formative childhood memories or experiences? It shouldn't be surprising but a lot of the comments people are making involve something their parents did, for better and for...
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February 11, 2005
Daddy Blog Group Hug at Metrodad
Metrodad writes about trying to find some like-minded, involved dads like himself, who don't trade in the family jewels for a Family Truckster. His first stop(s)--in the multitude of pregnancy classes--goes amusingly badly: "...for the most part, the only thing...
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February 2, 2005
Win Giant Prizes In BabyChic101.com Contest
Let me get this straight: While there are contests with all sorts of glamorous prizes over on the fabulous side of the kidternet, at Daddy Types, we've got mohels with herpes? What's wrong with this picture? Don't worry about me;...
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February 1, 2005
Celebrity Baby Takes One Nap/Day
Ben posted an analysis of Trixie--yes, of the MSNBC and NYT Trixies--Trixie's shifting nap patterns, which is pretty cool, even if it does mean he doesn't get to shower anymore. While I don't have any empirical data or sweet infographics,...
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January 30, 2005
iPodcast, Therefore iAm Rebel Dad
Brian has just launched Rebel Dad Radio, his inaugural experiment with podcasting. If your first response is, "Podcasting, what's that?" it's time to move into 2005, people. Podcasting is audio content--often from a blog--that your iPod can automatically download. It's...
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January 24, 2005
Celebrity-Babies.com Turns 1, Parents Throw Party
It seems like just yesterday when I was cringing at the thought of a whole magazine devoted entirely to forcing its surreally materialistic vision of celebrity parents on the world. And that's just People! Turns out there's Us, InTouch, InStyle......
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January 21, 2005
Breast Milk/Astronomy Factoid
I guess it's Breast Milk Week around the Daddy Types offices.The story of the Milky Way, as it appears in Greco-Roman mythology, concerns the feeding of baby Hercules, son of Zeus. Because Hercules' mother was mortal, Zeus put Hercules to...
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Breast Milk Taste Test
While not as scientifically rigorous as, say, the Daddy Types baby formula taste test, Steve at The Sneeze conducted a Breast Milk Taste Test. Actually, he spends most of the time talking about the containers. His breakthrough discovery: breast milk...
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January 18, 2005
On Going Into Overtime
More Diapers is a new dad blog, or at least it will be; at the moment, it's still a dad-to-be blog, since Eric's wife Jen is now a week overdue. But hey, who's counting, right? If this has ever happened...
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January 16, 2005
The Blanket Fairy
The book Be Prepared recommends not letting anything irreplaceable or one-of-a-kind become your kid's security blanket-thingie, and goes on to suggest that you keep a couple of spares around so the kid won't have a meltdown when it inevitably gets...
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January 13, 2005
Bzzzpeek.com: What The Cow Says In Swedish
Never mind that he says "wan wan" in Japanese, we've already run into problems where the dog says "woof" in one book and "bow wow" in another. Now we can turn this problem into a game of its own, with...
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January 12, 2005
Because It's Not How You Sit, It's WHO You Sit For
At least that's the strategy of one CosmoGirl research director, who advertised for a once-a-week babysitter ["Stay-at-home dad needs a break!"] on the CraigsList journalism grad student discussion section. Hey! I, too, would like to employ an eager, over-educated, over-qualified...
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Bugaboo Daytrips
We just recently began turning the kid's Bugaboo seat around so that she now faces forward, instead of looking at us the whole time. I have to say, it causes a bit of separation anxiety. Now she's facing the whole...
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January 10, 2005
Rock Star Baby Pictures
Yeow. Sometimes you just don't know how they'll turn out. That's Bono. There's Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Manson, Gwen Stefani, Gene Simmons... Isn't it weird how The Edge looks the same, though? Bebes do rock part I Bebes do rock...
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December 19, 2004
The Scared of Santa Photo Gallery
What do you expect? Some of those Santas are pretty damn scary-lookin'. Scared of Santa photo gallery [southflorida.com, via metafilter] Funny (and also a little scary, and also from metafilter): Christmas letters to Christopher Walken...
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December 17, 2004
Geek Christmas
Just wanted to post this gingerbread motherboard. There's more Christmas geekery at BoingBoing. Related: T-shirts and Creepers for Geek Babies...
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December 16, 2004
Damn, But There Are Some Fine Daddy Blogs Out There
[via Rebel Dad, who's obviously nominated] There's Best of Blogs competition on, and there are a ton of cool-reading blogs nominated in the Best Daddy Blog category. Oh, and Daddy Types is nominated, too [thanks, Elizabeth!]. While I already had...
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Love For Sale
After reading Caitlin Flanagan's New Yorker article on the topic, Atlanta PhD candidate and savvy father of two David Morgen is shocked, shocked to find consumerism running rampant in the parenting world. I'd agree, but I don't know what credibility...
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December 11, 2004
Booking Santa
If you're not going to visit Mall Santa, maybe you could get Santa to visit you. RealSantas.com directly represents over 100 "real bearded Santas" around the country (most are in Southern California, though), and has contact information for over 400...
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Visiting Mall Santa
Modern day dad posts about that time-honored American tradition, you remember from your own childhood: visiting Santa at the mall. Funny stuff, even for you New York snobs who have no intention of getting your kids within 10 miles of...
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December 8, 2004
Words To Live By
Posting may be light today; I've got an offline writing deadline. In the mean time, let's all stare at this street sign from Shenzhen. [via TMN]...
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December 1, 2004
Ringing The Bell For Babystyle
If just 999,993 more Daddy Types readers do their holiday shopping at babystyle.com, I'll be able to pay for the kid's first year at Harvard in 2023. [Of course, she's dived off the bed so many times already, she'll be...
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November 29, 2004
"To protectbaby form bitting by mosquitoes and files"
Technical Standards sponsors an annual Worst Manual Contest, intended to find the most incomprehensible instruction manuals in the world. Last year, the Xingshiji Baby Bed won Honorable Mention. Scroll down to see a reproduction of their directions. If that bed...
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November 28, 2004
This Man Wants Into Your Child's Head
"I feel like Bo Derek in Tarzan, where she says: 'I don't know whether to laugh or cry,' McKee said." Of course, I posted about that very clip once on my other weblog, so, like I've got a lot of...
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November 22, 2004
[Another] MoMA Dad
This would be my Daddy Types banner if it didn't belong to someone else. Youngna Park shoots some excellent photos of people, art, and architecture at the new MoMA. [thanks, Jen!]...
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New Fathers Roundtable II: Electric Boogaloo
Not since Infinite Jest, which David Foster Wallace famously wrote in one marathon, Metamucil-deprived bathroom sitting [1] has so much literary talent and education been put into the service of poo. Put the kid in the crib with a bottleful...
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November 5, 2004
American Gentrifier Magazine
Gawker has the lowdown on Brooklyn's latest magazine, coming soon to a Starbucks near you: American Gentrifier. The first [sic] issue includes feature articles like "Bed Stuy: Still too black?" and "When to start the kids on antidepressants". You'll enjoy...
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October 13, 2004
MUST READ: The Unhip Parent Manifesto
Brian hits it out of the park with his scathingly conscientious response to the Mary Elizabeth William's weary hipster parent essay in last week's NY Observer. I know it sounds disingenuous coming from a guy who flogs $800 strollers, but...
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October 11, 2004
Gawker Stalking Jon Stewart
MEMO FROM: Jon Stewart TO: Self SUBJECT: Move! Cf. the two most recent Gawker Stalkers:Oct. 11: Jon Stewart walking with his wife on 12th st. and 5th ave. A baby was strapped to his chest in one of those snuggly...
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Howto: escape the consequences of your random acts of violence
A funny, if inexplicable flash-tutorial for how to wreak patriarchal havoc without getting in trouble. [via Anil] Dad's Home [safe for work, but watch the volume if there's a sleeping kid nearby]...
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October 10, 2004
Odin now rules his personal Asgaard, or an Extreemie goes home
Eric Snowdeal IV has left the building. After 95 days in the NICU, little Odin went home, just a week shy of his original Oct. 16 due date. Congratulations and continued best wishes to Odin's parents, who might like to...
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September 6, 2004
Harper's Magazine: A Child's First Impressions of Death
"Lessons learned from the deaths of poor Frank and little Mary, who had the canker-rash. Originally from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. 64, iss. 384, pp. 822-824, May 1882. By William H. Beard." Two quotes: There had been some hills...
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September 1, 2004
Google, Babies, and Evil
While exploring the resilience and deeper meanings of of Google's motto on Ftrain, Paul Ford reveals a handy parenting tip: "If I had a colicky infant daughter, I know I could leave her with Google, and she'd be okay." The...
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August 24, 2004
Celebrity Baby Product Placement #3
Odin, the famous extreemie , the little man who puts the IV in Eric Snowdeal IV, has been squaring off in the NICU with his latest gift, an Ugly Doll. Check out Eric III's rather incredible day-by-day report from his...
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August 20, 2004
Rocky Flying with The Squirrelly
Over at Defective Yeti, Matt has a typically wisdom-packed, comedic account of a cross-country flight with his son, aka The Squirrelly....
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August 18, 2004
Kodomo no Kuni: 1920's Japanese Children's Magazine
[via waxy] Kodomo no Kuni was a remarkable magazine for children which was emphasized art's ability to expand kids' imagination. It was published in Japan's Taisho era, a short-lived period marked by liberalism, westernization, and modernism that flourished starting...
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Am I A Sinner for Wanting a Remote Control Mobile?
I found this while I was searching (in vain, so far) for a cool/decent crib mobile with a remote control (the only shortcoming of the Pottery Barn Kids bunny-mobile we got as a gift, which the kid suddenly LOVES, but...
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July 29, 2004
Put Down That Digital Camera
Internet Collapses Under Sheer Weight of Baby Pictures [via The Onion]...
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July 27, 2004
Famous? And Who's Your Daddy?
Someone should map this out. Who's your daddy lists parents and relatives of people you didn't know had them. Did you know Moby (Richard Melville Hall) is the great-great-grand-nephew of Herman Melville? The nickname's been with him since birth. [thanks,...
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July 25, 2004
A service for traveling to LA with kids
Gotta hand it to Los Angeles, they have a highly evolved service economy. One hotel I used to stay in had overnight dry cleaning which, if you think about it, everyone should have, but they don't. (Thank the film industry...
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July 24, 2004
AU: A call for dads-only childbirth classes?
A recent survey funded by the Australian government found that men were put off, confused, and intimidated by most parenting and childbirth information because it was targeted so clearly at women. One suggestion that came out of the questioning: men-only...
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July 15, 2004
2: the magazine for couples
Those self-effacing Canadians have done it again, launching the most Google-proof magazine in history. 2 comes from Toronto, and it promises to "engage 25- to 34-year-old young urban couples by capturing their many interests in one distinctive editorial package. It...
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The LEAST Warped Photo in Vice Magazine
I almost didn't post this. If they ever read the skate/skank badboy Vice Magazine before the kid came, how many dads are still checking it out, right? Except in Brooklyn. I found Vice stacked on the shelf of a...
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July 2, 2004
Famous in Japan
The Trixie Update was featured in Taguchi Gen's url of the day site, 100shiki.com, resulting in veritable busloads of Japanese traffic. That's useful information for our upcoming trip to Japan. If we get in a jam, I'll just say, "Do...
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July 1, 2004
Some new (to me) dadsites
Just found The Special Project, a funny and thoughtfully written weblog from Tim, a dad-to-be any day now. [via livingroom] DadTalk: news for serious parents. A "news source that looks at the world through dad-colored glasses." littler bear is by...
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June 30, 2004
Stroller Companies: 'You Are Celebrity Pram-Chasing Lemmings'
I can't top this, so I'll just link and quote a lot:Lists of the nation's top celebrities are being scoured by PR consultants for names of glamorous stars. They must be young, beautiful and - most importantly - have a...
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June 22, 2004
Ikea, therefore I am.
Happiness is not reaching your goal. Happiness is being on the way. It is our wonderful fate to be just at the beginning ... The word impossible has been and must remain deleted from our dictionary. -- From The Testament...
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June 21, 2004
A Great Father's Day Tribute from Dooce
Jon Armstrong (he of Blurbomat fame) gets an inspiring First Father's Day shoutout from the ladies....
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June 20, 2004
US Marines, New Dads
MarineParents.com, a support and community site for families and spouses of US Marines, posts announcements and photos of kids born after their fathers have deployed. Happy Father's Day, guys. Come home safe and soon....
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June 19, 2004
Since Daddy Types aren't easily grossed out: The M¸tter Museum
Since we're talking comfortably about sucking the snot out of our kids' noses &c... When I was in grad school, I lived a block down the street from the M¸tter Museum for a year before I realized it was there....
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June 16, 2004
Yet another baby site, BloggingUncle.com
It seems the New York blogging elite have tasted the sweet milk of baby-related blogging, and are now forming a writhing scrum to get more. Witness the launch of Andrew Krucoff's BloggingUncle, which promises to "be a resource for...
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June 7, 2004
Programming and Parenting, from Slashdot
This thread's so tame and polite, you'd hardly know it's Slashdot. A programmer expecting his first child wondered if writing code and being a dad are incompatible. The responses and experiences are applicable to parents well beyond the IT department....
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May 29, 2004
Father's Day Gift List Roundup
Here are some father's day gift recommendations from around the web: Pokkadots, a cool mom's cool online store On the list: several cool diaper bags--including Chris Martin's camo Diaper Dude bag, for wannabe rockstar dads--massage oil for after the kid...
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April 28, 2004
"Wild Babies"
Harper's Magazine has been publishing selections from its archives online. Last week, they posted an essay on childrearing among American Indians which made the then-bold assertion that "the baby born to-day in the shadow and smoke of savage life...
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April 23, 2004
Someone invite you to be on reality TV recently?
If so, maybe you should slap them around the head and neck. A UK-based production company is looking for a few "UN-Manly men" [emphasis theirs] for an upcoming reality TV show. Possible qualifications:We want to hear about any guy you'd...
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Gawker Stalker: The Daddy Edition
Today's Gawker Stalker sports two celebrity dad sightings: John Leguizamo playing with his kids in Tompkins Square Park, and Paul Bettany stuffing his kid's face at Balthazar....
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April 8, 2004
Other Dad Blogs: Trixie Telemetry
I've been surfing for dad weblogs lately. Before I could post a one, I got a heads up on the single most mindboggling baby blog by any parent, The Trixie Update. Programmer/new dad Ben MacNeil created the site in part...
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April 2, 2004
UBWatch: Noise
Whether a wife or a (Mass. residents only) husband, your partner thinks you make too much noise. You're annoying, and it's waking up the kid. Here are your loudest offenses, according to the posters on UrbanBaby: -- "dropping stuff" --...
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UBWatch: Sex
Advice on sex, from the message boards of UrbanBabyWatch: -- About 6-8 weeks after the kid is born, a market can develop, wherein you trade nighttime feedings and help around the house for sex. But don't get confused; it is...
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Introducing UrbanBabyWatch
Urban Baby's message boards contain some very useful pieces of advice for dads. But they're like leaves, floating along on a giant river of estrogen. Woe to the man who tries to keep up with the flood of over...
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April 1, 2004
Sign Language for Babies
We just received this great-looking book from some forward-thinking friends. Turns out sign language for hearing babies is quite a cottage industry. [Kindersigns is just one of many programs online.] The basic concept: babies as young as 6-7 months...
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March 29, 2004
From the Bone-Chilling "Celebrity Baby Blog"
Gawker dug up the Celebrity Baby Blog this morning, which, even though it has a couple of dad-related things, is more like the Celebrity Pregnancy Blog. Or the "I read People and Us so you don't have to" Blog. Anyway,...
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March 26, 2004
Breastfeeding in a Restaurant: A Formula (heh)
I never pegged him for a breast man, but Choire Sicha has just released his patented, formula for calculating when it's OK to breastfeed in a restaurant. Basically, you factor in the type of restaurant, the age of the kid,...
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March 18, 2004
Boot Camp for New Dads
Boot Camp for New Dads is exactly what it sounds like, a practical, hands-on program where "veteran dads showing rookies the ropes, with babies adding a serious dose of reality." It operates through over 180 locations around the country, primarily...
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March 16, 2004
Modern Seed: way modern design for kids
Although you'd never know it from most baby/kid stores, kids and good design don't have to be mutually exclusive. And Modern Seed is an online-only shop that proves it. There are classic design toys like House of Cards by Ray...
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