"We've had people die here, but we've never had people born here."

So says Steve Callendar, Vice President of Resorts Casino in Atlantic City, while on his way to double down on his company's Bus&Breakfast! Nursing Home promotional budget. Seems a penny slots customer, one Nyree Thompson, gave birth in the casino...
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Park Slope Barnes & Noble Bans Strollers

Something had to give, people. The strollers were getting in the way of the smelly old geezers sleeping in the armchairs and the cafe-ful of magazine-thumbing freelancers. Park Slopers fight for the right to shop and race Maclarens [curbed]...
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Gender Mainstreaming Campaign In Vienna: 1916 Going On 1917

As part of their 2007 Gender Mainstreaming Kampagne, the Vienna City Council has put up signs and icons all over the city to highlight the importance of gender equality. There are emergency exit signs with a female stick figure...
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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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Que Lindo! Bunnies From Portugal By Rosa Pomar

So I see these flower-eyed bunnies staring up off the sidebar of design*sponge, and I'm like, "Damn, what? Do I know you? Have I seen you bunnies before? You're from freakin' Portugal!" And it's kind of scaring me, and...
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Springbuck Riding Toy

The kid's got a rocking chicken from Playsam, so if anyone's ever gonna mouth off about a rocking springbuck, it won't be me. Joom is a new South African design firm whose first product was a life-sized, cow-shaped bookcase....
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Punk Love: Photos Of The Early Hardcore Scene By Susie Horgan

Susie Horgan needed subjects for her photography class at American University, so she took a job at the Haagen-Dazs store in Georgetown, and started photographing a couple of punks who worked there: Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye. Here's a picture...
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Chinese Character Plush Toys By Studio Ditte

I've been to Utrecht. Struck me as kind of a sleepy, lace-curtains-in-the-window kind of town. But it does have an edgy design streak in it somewhere, I guess. Studio Ditte is a design agency in Utrecht that created a...
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Matali Crasset Kids Desk For Balouga

Don't talk to me about Philippe Starck right now. I don't know why, but I just don't have the patience for him. I'm happy with the kid's toilet, though, so I'll leave it at that. Matali Crasset, on the...
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