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Pimp my Breakfast

What do you like on your toast? If you said Swarovski crystals and you’ve got $300 burning a hole in your pocket, you’re in luck! Neiman Marcus is showing off their toaster studded in over two hundred Swarovski crystals by Russell Hobbs. Hopefully you have some nice bread (both literally and figuratively). That golden goose egg will surely go nice with this, Aesop style. They’re only making five...
Posted by on Jul 21st, 2007 | 0 comments

Italy and the ecology of casual fridays

The Italian health ministry wants businesses (in Italy at least) to ease up on the dress code a bit. The reasoning here is that they think that if people dress more casually (read: comfortably) they won’t need to waste as much energy to compensate for the discrepancy between formality and comfort. If you can dress for comfort then maybe you won’t need as much air conditioning for instance. This seems to...
Posted by on Jul 5th, 2007 | 2 comments

Prius people posing presents possible problem

This is possibly a tough thing to realize but it turns out that most people buying a Prius hybrid automobile do so because of the statement it makes about them and how it makes that statement. It is a kind of status symbol. In lieu of actually having a conscience it is in fact more important to these people to feel like their piers believe they have a conscience and are responsible humans. Sadly only a quarter of...
Posted by on May 14th, 2007 | 0 comments

Cowboy Construction Caps

Cowboy Construction Caps
Have you ever wanted to visit a construction site but want to maintain your cowboy image? Short of finding steel-toe cowboy boots, your problems are over. You can now get this hard hat shaped like a cowboy hat. You can even get it in a variety of colours to match your truck, if thats your...
Posted by on Nov 7th, 2006 | 0 comments

Peer to peer fashion

Have you ever spotted someone so fashionable you were just dying to know how you could pull of a similar look? Social networking is coming to the rescue and now you can share your trendy styles with the internet while simultaneously checking out those of others and fill up your trend-spotting notebook without the voyeuristic thrill/guilt of snapping camera-phone photos of hipsters on the street as you people-watch....
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