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Friday, 15 August 2008

Happy finish

Posted on 14:00 by Unknown
Aveda stoops to conquer with this poorly named product.

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Thursday, 14 August 2008

This monkey pants

Posted on 13:35 by Unknown
Finally, something on eBay I actually need. "It's offered to your attention the 'space pants' for macaque small monkey to wear it during the experimental space flight. This pants has been used for animals (monkeys) experiments in 1950s & 1960s in the USSR Institute of Biomedical Problems (IMBP, Moscow). This monkey's 'space pants' are designed with many clasps to fit bigger or smaller monkey."I
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Saturday, 9 August 2008

Life. Be in it. v2.0

Posted on 14:00 by Unknown
Without any apparent irony, the commercial television association Free TV Australia is running community service announcements telling us to “live life”.This message is being hammered home in almost every ad break by sportbots like Grant Hackett and Giann Rooney.Hackett is a particularly inappropriate choice to be telling anyone how to live. In the past year he has only seen his parents once and
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Friday, 8 August 2008

"I'm just coming into the stadium now."

Posted on 14:14 by Unknown
I slept through the Olympics opening ceremony -- actually, it put me to sleep -- but I saw highlights this morning.The Australian team looked good in their shiny blue jackets and silver caps, but did they all have to be chatting away on mobiles as they came in to the stadium? It looked like they had somewhere else to be.
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Tuesday, 5 August 2008

警警 and 察察

Posted on 22:18 by Unknown
Meet Jingjing and Chacha, the adorable mascots of the Internet Surveillance Division of the Public Security Bureau of the People’s Republic of China. In other words, the internet police.The bureau employs more than 30,000 people to monitor the internet, ensuring that anything to do with the Falun Gong, police brutality, the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square, freedom of speech, democracy,
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Monday, 4 August 2008

Flirty dewy petaly floralcy

Posted on 20:30 by Unknown
I love the press releases for fragrances. They try so very hard. Here are some highlights from a six-page press release for an upcoming Mariah Carey fragrance.Endowed with the gift to bring her art to life, with heart-stirring music and lyrics to alluring fragrance, Mariah unveils a heavenly side of herself with the launch of her newest fragrance, Mariah Carey’s Luscious Pink.This brand is a
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008

Nord e Sud

Posted on 21:08 by Unknown
A wonderous dinner last night at the Park Hyatt, with a menu designed by Giovanni Pilu, from Sardinia, and Alessandro Pavoni, from Brescia. The two brought elements of their local cuisines – the mountains and the seas – together for a memorable meal. Here’s the menu with matched wines.

Thinly sliced swordfish served raw with grapefruit and Sardinian bottarga with capers
2006 Sella and Mosca ‘
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