Monthly Archives: February 2011

Dear Rosanna, I am living with a slob who leaves stubble in the sink, the toilet seat up, wet towels on the floor, dirty mugs in the living room, clothes on the bedroom floor and who cuts his toenails in the kitchen.

Rosanna says:

(Initial paragraph: sympathy, importance of hygiene, necesssity of sharing household chores. etc.)

Turn up the music, dance around the Hoover, and dress up as a sexy French maid! Encourage him by making housework less of a bore.

Oh Rosanna. Is there any problem that can’t be solved in the style of a 1970s British sex comedy?

Dear Rosanna (Herald.ie)

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(Ta, Eli)

Uli Westphal’s Mutato Archive is a collection of fruit and vegetables which display weird variations of shape: not as a result of pesticides or GM, but thanks to the natural vagaries of nature.

‘The complete absence of botanical anomalies in our supermarkets has caused us to regard the consistency of produce presented there as natural. Produce has become a highly designed, monotonous product. We have forgotten, and in many cases never experienced, the way fruits, roots, and vegetables can actually look (and taste).’

Long live agri-diversity! Just a Pot Noodle for me, please.

View the entire hi-res archive here.

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Elderly armed robber Gregory P Hess boosts a convenience store in Seattle.

After taking $300 in the raid, Hess, already known to the FBI, was identified from the CCTV footage and arrested.

He said he was ‘very, very sorry.’

‘Polite Robber’ suspect once known as ‘Transaction Bandit’ (Seattle Times)

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As part of their Everything’s A Remix project, Kirby Ferguson and Robert Grigsby Wilson take a slick, extended look at how Quentin ‘Kill Bill’ Tarantino pays homage to cinematic history.

You may not agree with every juxtaposition, but most of them are undeniable.

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