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Posted by on Mar 10th, 2008 | 2 comments

HBO, models, hookers, bums

In 1982 were you wondering about HBO’s new intro video with the model city? Check out this documentary about it. Evidently its the most accurate model city ever built, if you believe the narrator. Like the song says, pay close attention to the details. Theres, according to the narrator, a working light bulb in every room of every building. It even has a...
Posted by on Jan 19th, 2008 | 0 comments

When is a Dalek not a Dalek?

When is a Dalek not a Dalek?
When its a coffee maker! You coffee aficionados (you know who you are) ought to check out this Venus Century 100 Year Anniversary limited edition coffee maker by Victoria Arduino. There were only a hundred made with number one given to number one himself – the pope. Ringing up at $19,932.00 USD, you know this makes a mean cup of coffee, plus as an added bonus it looks suspiciously like a Dalek, so it just may...
Posted by on May 15th, 2006 | 0 comments

Big brother brings comfort – Part 2

It just may turn out that the best thing to watch on television is the world just beyond the room containing said television. Some people have figured out the virtues of neigbourhood CCTV and you know they aren’t just spying for the latest jewel theif and generic malcontents. Personal sponsorship may become the new product...
Posted by on Mar 14th, 2006 | 0 comments

Romanticizing a profession

They’re on the hunt for the next bachelor for ABC’s (apparently) popular show ‘The Bachelor’ and speculating the possibility of targeting architects. Can they capitalize on the perceived attractiveness of the profession? It seems as though some disagree and this is sparking a bit of a debate. Of all the women’s shoes, the ones most bought are prada shoes, where as steve madden shoes and...
Posted by on Aug 19th, 2005 | 1 comment

Made in the USA

As popular as our boy Karim Rashid has become, he’s a long way from Mississauga. You never thought it would happen but unfortunately I must inform you that Karim Rashid has his own reality show coming to the USA network (sorry, rest of the world). Ironically it’s being called “Made in the USA” … go fig. Oh, it’s also – according to the network –...
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