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Friday, 11 July 2008

Recycle your spam

Posted on 14:00 by Unknown
Forward a piece of spam to the Spamrecycler. Its address is spam@spamrecycling.com.It will send you back a link. Click to watch your inbox-clogging piece of crap turn into something far more interesting to look at. Here's what it made out of mine.
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Thursday, 10 July 2008

Movie star morphing

Posted on 14:00 by Unknown
Two excellent videos by Phillip Scott Johnson. How many faces can you name?Men in FilmDouglas Fairbanks Sr., Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Errol Flynn, Fred Astaire, Clark Gable, Laurence Olivier, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, James Stewart, Tyrone Power, Cary Grant, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Gene Kelly, Burt Lancaster
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Wednesday, 9 July 2008

On yer bike

Posted on 23:05 by Unknown
A bicycle by Chanel. A steal at $13,000.
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Monday, 7 July 2008

For all your fashion news and views

Posted on 03:20 by Unknown
The very fabulous and fearless Patty Huntington has abandoned the shackles of mainstream media to strike out on her own. The author of, most recently, the Fully Chic blog at news.com.au has gone all indie on our ass with her very own blog, [frockwriter].There's a great story about Patty being banned from some off-schedule New York Fashion Week shows a couple of years ago by a megalomaniac PR --
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Sunday, 6 July 2008

Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda

Posted on 14:00 by Unknown
There's a wonderful expression in French, l'esprit d'escalier. It means "the wit of the staircase", thinking of something brilliant you might have said during a conversation – as you're leaving.Its origins come from leaving the drawing room of a grand 18th-century house. (The drawing room, where guests were entertained, was on the first floor – thus Upstairs, Downstairs.)The Germans have a word
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Saturday, 5 July 2008

Mind your manners, please

Posted on 23:16 by Unknown
Having just finished reading a series of books set in the 1920s and 30s filled with details of calling cards and dressing for dinner, I’m currently obsessed with old systems of manners and etiquette. I’ve uncovered some gems, including the English Manners And Tone Of Good Society, Or Solecisms To Be Avoided by A Member of the Aristocracy (1879) and the American Mrs John M. E. W. Sherwood’s
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The Stepford munchkins

Posted on 00:34 by Unknown
Before-and-afters from Pageant Photo Retouching, a service specialising in work for children's pageants. And they're special, all right. I'm warning you: only pop them open if you're feeling brave.More horror here.
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