Monthly Archive: December 2007

Dec
29
2007

Hello Kitty for Men

Sanrio is launching a line of Hello Kitty stuff for men. Wait, those little pencil-boxes weren’t unisex? An Sanrio Co. employee shows Hello Kitty products targeted at young men at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo Friday, Dec. 28, 2007. The cuddly white cat, usually seen on toys and jewelry for young females, will soon adorn …

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Dec
28
2007

2007: Seven Things We Should Pretend Never Happened

So many memorable things happened in 2007. We’d better start hiding the evidence, now.   Seriously, there’s a whole lot of shit that went on this year that we’d rather not have to explain to our children and grandchildren. Let’s do our best to destroy every record of it. If that fails and if you’re, in …

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Dec
28
2007

WhatsItsColor: Find the complementary and primary color

Whats its color is an image-color processing utility that will evaluate an image and give you the image’s primary and complementary dominant colors of an image, how many visually unique colors are in an image, and the top ten visually unique colors in an image.   Extremely useful when creating any type of designs around an …

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Dec
28
2007

Altered Books

Cut the bindings off of books found at a used book store. Find poems in the pages by the process of obliteration. Put pages in the mail and send them all around the world. Lather, rinse, repeat.   This site is a chronicle of a very specific set of collaborations between the artists listed…working on the titles …

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Dec
28
2007

Baby Toupee

Toupees for your baby. Honest.   Check out the Gallery

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Dec
28
2007

We regret the following:

Once again, The Year in Media Errors and Corrections. Correction of the year: “Following the portrait of Tony and Cherie Blair published on 21 April in the Independent Saturday magazine, Ms Blair’s representatives have told us that she was friendly with but never had a relationship with Carole Caplin of the type suggested in the …

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Dec
28
2007

The 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2007

50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2007.

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Dec
28
2007

Death of a Browser, End of an Era

RIP Netscape browser, 1994-2007. AOL, who acquired the groundbreaking browser as part of a $4.2 billion deal in 1998, announced the end today. Good-bye or good riddance?

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Dec
28
2007

James Bond stamps to be launched

The centenary of the birth of James Bond creator Ian Fleming is to be marked next month with six extra-long UK stamps, Royal Mail has said.   Each stamp has been lengthened to show a number of different Bond novel covers, with first-class stamps featuring Casino Royale and Dr No.

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Dec
28
2007

New Jersey to block sex offenders from internet, computer use

A new law in New Jersey gives authorities the right to take away computer and internet access from convicted sex offenders, regardless of whether computers or the internet played a role in their crime. Snip from Ars Technica: According to one of the law’s backers, state Senator John Girgenti, the law makes it easier for …

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