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Teenage Engineering Just Released a $250 Toy Car
Gizmodo,
Teenage Engineering, the Swedish electronics firm, is known for its beautiful but pricey products—the bulk of which amount to functionalist art. Need a $1600 aluminum desk? TE’s got you covered. How about a $2,000 set of singing, wooden dolls? Again, the company is there to serve. We also wouldn’t have the Nothing… Read more...
Man not happy with a bear's remodeling job on his front door (video)
Boing Boing,
A bear broke into a home not to sleep in a bed, break a chair, or eat any porridge. Instead, it went straight to work on a remodeling project, bending and reshaping the screen door into something fresh and exciting. Or so the bear thought. — Read the rest
This 1984 TV ad takes us back to a grime-covered Manhattan with Lou Reed and Honda scooters
Those who harbor nostalgia for the soot-smudged, graffiti-covered New York, the one that predates Rudy Giuliani's Marie Kondo writ large act, will delight in this 1984 TV advertisement for Honda scooters featuring Lou Reed. To say Reed stars in the commercial would be a misnomer; his inscrutable visage, obscured by aviator sunglasses with lenses as opaque as a welder's mask, only flashes briefly onto the screen once or twice. — Read the rest
Tim Burton just wants you to leave The Nightmare Before Christmas alone, OK?
AV Club,
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Dominic Monaghan on The Lord of the Rings Cast’s Matching Tattoos
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For the first time in 20 years, Family Guy is leaving Fox’s Sunday lineup
A shockwave has just ripped through the world of broadcast television, and things will… never… be… the… same. In fact, you should check on your TV right now and make sure it hasn’t burst into flames at the shock of what has just happened. And while this all may seem absurdly over-the-top, we assure you that this is… Read more...
Adams keeps blaming Washington for budget woes amid his own troubles
Politico,
The federal investigation hasn’t kept Adams from asking for federal money
The Free-Market Fundamentalism of Argentina’s Javier Milei
The New Yorker,
The President-elect, a right-wing populist with authoritarian instincts, has been compared to Donald Trump, but his radical views on the economy set him apart.