Items by greg

• Look, Anyone Can Teach Any 2-YO 'Hamlet'

  —Daddy Types

  I really don't like just reposting random things. I like to be able to add a little context, a little more useful info where I can. And I'm very wary of just posting other peoples' random kid videos or...' [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2009, 11:53am EST
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• Barbour Hunting Jacket With Diaper Pocket

  —Daddy Types

  Here's an awesome report from our man-from-London-in-Paris, DT reader Wesley:I recently purchased a Barbour Beaufort jack [from Harrods but they have the same thing at Orvis.] Although I didn't know this at the time, the "game pocket" in the...' [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 12:24pm EST
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• All You Want For Christmas Is A Crawligator?

  —Daddy Types

  Let me suggest that if you really had a Crawligator on your kid's Christmas list and you haven't picked one up already, you'd do well not to quibble over the high opening bid on this one. Instead, just count... [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 12:12pm EST
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• 2nd Grade Kid On A Cross, People! What's Going On In Christmas City?

  —Daddy Types

  Though we know here as America's Capital Of WTF Dad Stories, the official unofficial nickname for Taunton, Massachusetts is "The Christmas City." Which makes it all the more ironic [read OUTRAGEOUS ATTACK ON FREEDOM] that an 8-year-old boy was suspended... [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 10:18am EST
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• DTQ: Anyone Know How To Say 'Snow Fencing' In French?

  —Daddy Types

  So we're getting ready for our Christmas trip to France, should be gone a while. We've got the kids' new suitcases, the kid's bringing her recurring ear infection ["amoxycillin's amoxycillin, except they call it le amoxycillin."], and K2 is as...' [...]
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  Posted: December 15, 2009, 7:49pm EST
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• Uh, No. Unicorn Taxidermy On Etsy

  —Daddy Types

  The last two times we've been to Costco [Sorry, Jim, I'm weak!], the kid has fixated on a horrible, awful, giant piece of crap toy horse that looks like the Budweiser Clydesdales. It doesn't rock, it doesn't look like... [...]
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  Posted: December 15, 2009, 4:11pm EST
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• 50 Million Roman Shades Recalled In A Day

  —Daddy Types

  Wow, and I thought the crib recall was epic. The CPSC has issued the biggest recall ever. Basically every Roman and roll-up blind and shade on the market, 50 million units at least, are being recalled because they pose a... [...]
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  Posted: December 15, 2009, 1:28pm EST
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• Thomas The Tory

  —Daddy Types

  Just heard this on the CBC, but the incredulous tone of the UK's Daily Telegraph is a bit more entertaining: Prof. Shauna Wilton, a Canadian political scientist, recently presented an analysis of Thomas The Tank Engine, at a conference. Did... [...]
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  Posted: December 15, 2009, 12:08am EST
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• Baby Püppi By Martin Kippenberger

  —Daddy Types

  That's a bronze cast of a pig's leg there in the stroller. According to Luhring Augustine Gallery, in Baby Püppi, the late German artist Martin Kippenberger was acknowledging that his work, not kids, would be his legacy. To me,... [...]
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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 11:42pm EST
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• Blue Xmas By Bob Dorough & Miles Davis

  —Daddy Types

  I think my list of Edgiest Christmas Songs just got one track longer. "Blue Xmas (To Whom It May Concern)" was Miles Davis's only Christmas song. He recorded it in 1962 with Bob Dorough, who was still a decade... [...]
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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 11:22pm EST
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• A Very Special Monday Mommy Mailbag

  —Daddy Types

  So what vital information do publicists have for you parents/ladies? Toys"R"Us Helps Take The Worry Out of Holiday Shopping for Moms With its Annual Toy Guide for Differently-abled Kids Last-minute holiday season can be stressful for moms, and particularly so... [...]
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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 5:28pm EST
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• Big Old Wheel

  —Daddy Types

  This is the 2nd coolest Big Wheel in the world--after the one you had as a kid, of course. 1940s steel & aluminum circus tricycle/big wheel, $435 [modern50.com]... [...]
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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 11:42am EST
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• Playsam Dollhouse! By Eva Schildt

  —Daddy Types

  Wow, look what I just found at Noojii, the baby gear shop DT reader Sven runs in Hamm, Germany [midway between Dusseldorf and Hannover]: a Playsam dollhouse by Swedish designer Eva Schildt. At just 30 cm high, the dollhouse... [...]
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  Posted: December 13, 2009, 9:19pm EST
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• Na Zha Gun Stroller By Shi Jinsong

  —Daddy Types

  And to think that just a few weeks ago, we were getting all worried about a few stroller fingertip amputations. In 2006, the Chinese sculptor/new dad Shi Jinsong showed Na Zha Baby Boutique, an "outrageously unsafe line of baby..." [...]
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  Posted: December 13, 2009, 8:45pm EST
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• Diznee? Dizknee?

  —Daddy Types

  I heard this kid-on-the-street interview about The Princess and The Frog on NPR last night on the way to the gym. If ever there were a group of kids for whom the phonetic approximation of their names was not enough...We... [...]
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  Posted: December 12, 2009, 5:38pm EST
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• K-E-Y Why Is He Hanging Like That, Daddy?

  —Daddy Types

  The dad in this picture was the hands-down winner of Hyperallergic's Art Basel Miami Beach Parenting Award. I figured it was awesome enough to mention even though I haven't yet figured out the artist or gallery. I'll get it... [...]
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  Posted: December 12, 2009, 5:23pm EST
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• Self Portrait, The Kid, 2009

  —Daddy Types

  .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Self Portrait, The Kid, 2009, originally uploaded by daddytypes. So that's what they mean by... [...]
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  Posted: December 12, 2009, 10:59am EST
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• Time Out Of It

  —Daddy Types

  I'm a little slow to this, but my grandmother only saw the article at her doctor's office this week. Time Magazine has one of those big trend-calling pieces, "Helicopter Parents: The Backlash Against Overparenting," about how This Generation of Parents...' [...]
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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 11:21pm EST
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• Baby Is Mentioned In The Caption

  —Daddy Types

  "Gunshots shattered the windows of a store called Broadway Baby." photo by John Marshall Mantel for The New York Times Look, I'll be straight with you: the fact is, this is an awesome photo, which accompanies an awesome piece...' [...]
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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 11:04am EST
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• I Pity The Cool

  —Daddy Types

  Now don't get me wrong, I like Cool Hunting, and I always will. They're like blogfamily, we go way back. So it's not that I'm pissed to see the Babyplus Prenatal Education System, the pregnancy industry's most thoroughly bogus...' [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 11:40pm EST
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• Kermithacktivism

  —Daddy Types

  This is awesome, so of course, it's not official, just what happens when you sell millions of puppets of your puppets. It's Not Easy Being (a) Green (Revolutionary), by Jeff Horwich, for MPR's "In The Loop" podcast show [youtube... [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 1:59pm EST
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• Jumpin' On The Dadwagon

  —Daddy Types

  Sorry it's been kind of quiet around here. Work's been kind of crazy, the kids have the Swine Flu, but I still had to do my shift at the Book Fair, Christmas shopping is going full-- Oh, who am I... [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 1:14pm EST
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• Through The Enchanted Gate: MoMA's Kid Art TV Show

  —Daddy Types

  I've worked with MoMA in various ways for almost twenty years now, but I only really became aware of the incredible legacy of Victor d'Amico since having a kid. He oversaw the education programs at the Modern for decades,... [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 2:25pm EST
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• FLASH! Dadslapping At Brooklyn Starbucks!

  —Daddy Types

  War? Depression? Global warming conferences? Serial, cross-country exploitation of a special needs child to sell a fact-challenged book? If ever there were a time this country needed fewer objects of righteous outrage, this is it. And yet here we are:... [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 7:23am EST
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• Babyphone, By Koert van Mensvoort

  —Daddy Types

  Dutch artist Koert van Mensvoort used this image, Babyphone, to put out a call for propsals for Next Nature a conferetition he organized in 2008:Nowadays, children know more corporate logo's and brands than bird or tree species. The average... [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 1:50pm EST
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• Is Santa Real?

  —DadCentric

  Number of comments: 7
  I was hanging with my boys the other day when I heard my youngest, a lackadaisical 6-year-old who was with his older brother cruisin' the net for JabbaWockeeZ videos on YouTube say, "Google 'Is Santa Real.'" Oh shit. Here we... ' [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 10:02am EST
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• 9.000 Rucksäcke By Ai Weiwei

  —Daddy Types

  For his exhibit at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, the China's most famous contemporary artist Ai Weiwei ordered 9,000 custom-colored children's backpacks. When installed on the facade of the museum, they spell out the phrase, "She lived happily..." [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 8:45am EST
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• So How's The Google Reader Now?

  —Daddy Types

  Folks who follow Daddy Types using Google Reader have been emailing the last few weeks to say that images don't show up. Thanks to some sharp analysis by DT reader Chris, I finally think I've fixed the problem. If... [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 4:46pm EST
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• IDGI

  —Daddy Types

  This makes less sense than all the Family Circus comics combined. Does anyone know what it means? Baby Blues [arcamax via jeremy of daddy dialectic]... [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 2:17pm EST
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• Finally, Secrets Of The Cardboard Play Dome Revealed!

  —Daddy Types

  And here, all this time, I thought the secret to making easy, awesome cardboard play domes was the Esko Kongsberg i-XL24 die-less cutting and creasing table. [Actually, I knew that something was missing. Thanks to veteran domologist Tom Camilli's...' [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 7:27am EST
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• Quirky Canada Has Own Laws, Stay At Home Dad Videos

  —Daddy Types

  I assume that since everyone follows DadCentric's Twitter feed, you've all already seen "Stay At Home Dad," the hilarious music sensation by Canada's second most popular YouTube star after Corey Vidal [the Star Wars acapella lipsync guy, remember him?]...' [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 10:33pm EST
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• A Very Bowie Christmas

  —Daddy Types

  How can a country like the UK have so many surveillance cameras and government databases, and yet keep such incredible secrets from me? On Christmas Eve 1982, the newly formed Channel 4 premiered The Snowman a wordless, beautifully animated version... [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 7:44am EST
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• K2 H1N1

  —Daddy Types

  Mild, should be fine by Monday, but still, not much comfort at the end of a long week.... [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 8:18pm EST
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• ASTM? I Barely Knew'em!

  —Daddy Types

  As the massive baby furniture and gear recalls keep coming, and the voluntary ASTM safety standards regime the Baby Industrial Complex has fought long and hard to maintain is proving to be useless and even dangerous, the Juvenile Products Manufacturing... [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 4:53pm EST
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• DT Friday Freakout: Mall Santa Edition

  —Daddy Types

  Even though a trip to any mall is enough to ruin your weekend, we'll expand the reach of the Freakout a bit, just to make sure: While the terrorist elf who threatened to blow up Mall Santa in Georgia has...' [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 12:05pm EST
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• Actually, The Sun Is NOT A Mass Of Incandescent Gas

  —Daddy Types

  Things were all so simple then, in April, when I brushed aside They Might Be Giants' energetic 1993 cover version of, "The sun is a mass of incandescent gas." The song was written by Hy Zaret in 1950, for Space...' [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 7:37am EST
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• Pas Disponible! Citroen CX Wagon Diesel In The US

  —Daddy Types

  So this Malaise-era Citroen CX Wagon Diesel is either from 1980 or 1983. There are plenty of stories about where it's been [Middle East, Western Canada, &c. &c.], but next to no paperwork. What matters, of course, is where... [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 12:05am EST
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• Smart Baby Case Concept Study: Wheelie X Stroller Mashup

  —Daddy Types

  I'm not a huge fan of unrealizable concept studies, but this so-called Insane Stroller Week is fast coming to an end, and James Frey's Bugaboo is still the craziest thing around, so here goes... Tehran-based designer Pouyan Mokhtarani created...' [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 10:53pm EST
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• Oy! Neil Diamond Sings 'The Chanukah Song'

  —Daddy Types

  I had to check, but this really is Niel Diamond covering Adam Sandler. It's from his new Christmas album [sic]. Unbelievable. [via @cynicaldad]... [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 1:50pm EST
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• Tres Awesome French Children's Books

  —Daddy Types

  At A Journey Round My Skull, Will has an incredible collection of scans from French children's books of the 1930s and '40s. There are some great-looking titles like Je Fais mes Jouets avec des Plantes [I Make My Toys...' [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 1:20pm EST
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• Meat Industrial Complex, Baby Industrial Complex, Dadbook Industrial Complex

  —Daddy Types

  Meanwhile, from the yuppie rabbit hutches of Park Slope, Brooklyn: When I thought it was just a passive aggressive manifesto of smug vegetarianism, I was happy to let Jonathan Safran Foer's new book, Eating Animals go by with nary a... [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 11:59am EST
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• DTQ: The Right Age For A Sheep Slaughtering?

  —Daddy Types

  A question from DT reader DT:We have a sheep to slaughter on Saturday, and I'm wondering how old is old enough for butchering? I know it isn't age 2. I seem to recall reading that a lot of hunter-gatherer cultures... [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 11:09am EST
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• Mazel Tov, Give That Kid A Camera!

  —Daddy Types

  Max promptly sneaked out of the delivery room, through a hole in a fence, and started taking pictures of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Congratulations to Jake and Karen!... [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 7:13am EST
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• Behold, Then Bid! The Edcom Systems E001 Hexagonal Cognition Crib

  —Daddy Types

  It's always the same: you think you're gonna have Crazy Stroller Week, and then suddenly an Absolutely Insane Crib crosses your path. Hold your horses and clear your loading dock, because an Edcom E001 Hexagonal Cognition Crib is for...' [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 8:02pm EST
  by greg

• Designers We Ripped-off, D'oh! We're Repentant!

  —Daddy Types

  Haha, in the middle of the reporting for Fast Company's long, devastating takedown of Design Within Reach, their screwed up CEO--the one who opened all the unprofitable stores and began proudly and systematically knocking off designers in pursuit of a... [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 5:04pm EST
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• Here Come The Frey BC's

  —Daddy Types

  The Freygaboo auction just went live on eBay. No free shipping. Giving it the Frey sign: Closeup, I think that's Klingon on the left there: Hmm, is the seat fabric painted, too? If only I'd stayed involved in this publicity...' [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 10:06am EST
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• Customi(ZED) James Frey Bugaboo (RED) To Be eBa(YED)

  —Daddy Types

  I think this is going to be a week of stroller insanity, starting right. now. Bugaboo announced a couple of months ago that they were joining (RED), the giant, corporate fundraising effort to fight AIDS in Africa. As part... [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 12:09am EST
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• First, The Good Autism Treatment News

  —Daddy Types

  Even though it's small, a new autism study from the University of Washington published in Pediatrics is being hailed as a "landmark." It finds that early diagnosis--as young as 18 mos--and intensive socialization therapy can "vastly improve" key ASD-related symptoms... [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:12pm EST
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• As Like-A-Bike As You Can Get

  —Daddy Types

  It's taken a few years and a pile of knockoffs, but Kokua has reached the ontological limits of the Like-A-Bike: Inches in Germany? Like-to-Bike 16-in. children's bike, by Kokua [liketobike.de via dt reader nelson] Update/flashback: BMW's walking bike has a...' [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 10:17pm EST
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• Changing The Changing Table: Kalon Studios Changing Trunk

  —Daddy Types

  First things first: I love Kalon Studios. They came up with beautifully made bamboo cribs with excellent detailing a couple of years ago, and they're still at it. And they've expanded. The IoLine Changing Trunk. Not a table, a... [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:09pm EST
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• Molto Richard McGuire!

  —Daddy Types

  Longtime DT readers and early New York club music aficionados will know of our abiding interest in the work of Richard McGuire. It's one of the mysteries of children's book publishing that even as the artist's signature illustrations were... [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 1:31pm EST
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• Whatever Floats Your CLC Cradle Boat

  —Daddy Types

  After hearing that several customers were scaling down the plans for the Eastport Pram to make little rowboat cradles, the fine boat kit builders at Chesapeake Light Craft decided to make an actual cradle kit available. Should take you... [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:11am EST
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• Nothing, Officer, Just Carrying This Here Stool

  —Daddy Types

  K2 is now actively looking for trouble. She is casing the joint. She wanders the house with her stool pressed to her chest, scouting out things--jewelry, watches, medicine, iPods, remotes, pipe cleaner unicorns, modeling clay unicorns, unicorn drawings--that have been... [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 7:32am EST
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• Locking Kids In Trunk Is The Least Confounding Part Of This Story

  —Daddy Types

  From Boston's local station, WTF-TV:Fall River police said Michael Monahan, 35, put his kids, ages 3 and 6, in the trunk of his Pontiac Trans Am for several minutes Tuesday morning while he went inside a sailing shop.Seriously, what... [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:22am EST
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• Avenue Q: The Other Furry Bible

  —Daddy Types

  Funny things happen when you look for a fur-covered book. You get the one Sarah Palin was "reading" to her son during half of a TV news interview, Tiny Bear's Bible, which, it turns out, is not real bear... [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 12:18pm EST
  by greg

• 'We Can Give Him To Grandma Now If You Want To'

  —Daddy Types

  From the back cover of the fur-covered Tiny Bear's BibleTiny Bear's Bible is a warm, fuzzy reminder of how God loves his children--in a format that kids can cuddle. Together with their friend Tiny Bear, children discover eleven Bible... [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 10:45am EST
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• Sleepin' With The Grizzlies

  —Daddy Types

  Not only do bears drive our cars and come into our kitchens to make themselves a sandwich, now they are officially certified by the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association as an infant sleeping device! Z Recs has the scoop:The Juvenile... [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 10:27am EST
  by greg

• 'Children Don't Know What A Tauntaun Is.'

  —Daddy Types

  Rob Walker writes about ThinkGeek's awesome Tauntaun sleeping bag for the NY Times Magazine. I guess sometimes being blatantly targeted for your own childhood memories isn't so bad after all:The actual bag is adult-size. Parents, Liotta says, are the real...' [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 10:52pm EST
  by greg

• Happy Thanksgiving To Everyone Not Involved With Network Television!

  —Daddy Types

  While the wife was baking an apple pie, the kids and I curled up in front of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC, which turns out to be an awful steaming infomercial of a mess. So we started toggling... [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 11:05am EST
  by greg

• So You Think Your Kid Can Count

  —Daddy Types

  So the other day, I'm listening to the episode of WNYC's manneristic funhouse show Radiolab about numbers, where mad-rad new dad Jad Abumrad is talking to some developmental neuroscientist or whatever about how even babies' brains have an innate sense... [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 2:58pm EST
  by greg

• New Muppets Cover Bohemian Rhapsody

  —Daddy Types

  You've probably already seen it, or at least you think you have. Much of the Muppets' version of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" video is as good as the Henson-era Muppet Show. So you might even have moments where you feel... [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:25am EST
  by greg

• More Eames Molded Ply Animals

  —Daddy Types

  In 2007, the Eames Office and Vitra produced a limited edition molded plywood elephant that was based on a 1940s prototype Ray and Charles exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art. [There were originally two elephants made--see above--but only... [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:00pm EST
  by greg

• It's Just A Childhood Autism Treatment

  —Daddy Types

  A family in Sacramento is seeing great results treating their son's autism with a teeny, tiny kid-sized daily dose of medical marijuana. This seems like an autism story even Jenny McCarthy could love. [via andrewsullivan] Could do without the Ooh,... [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:57pm EST
  by greg

• You Put Melamine In Chinese Formula, And'll Kill Ya

  —Daddy Types

  Wow, it was a bad week for convicted Chinese baby formula tainters. China executes two over tainted milk powder scandal [bbc via dt reader dt]... [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:01am EST
  by greg

• Holy Smokes, Holy Folks!

  —Daddy Types

  Here's the first stop on my search for plush Ten Commandments: Holy Folks. Aren't they adorable? Their little hands are magnetized to hold their accessory--and to pray. And their beady little eyes look like they'd choke an unimmaculately conceived... [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:13am EST
  by greg

• Knockoff Ripoff Within Reach: Plan Toys Walking Elephant

  —Daddy Types

  Somehow my thorough ignoring of what DWR's up to caused me to miss this: a ride-on, walking elephant made from molded rubberwood ply. It's different enough from its obvious inspiration, Ray and Charles Eames's molded ply elephant [which DWR... [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 6:54am EST
  by greg

• Vintage Illustration Auction Finds: Sendak, Ungerer, Stein, Hurd

  —Daddy Types

  So what could be better at an illustrated book auction than five children's books with drawings by Andy Warhol? Glad you asked. Lot 308: Good Shabbos, Everybody, published privately in 1951 by the United Synagogue Commission on Jewish Education, which... [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:14pm EST
  by greg

• If It Was Only The Plush Mohel Scissors, It Would Have Been Enough

  —Daddy Types

  Ah, Hannukah, you're almost here. One of DT's favorite Jews, Marjorie Ingall, has compiled a list of so-wrong-they're-almost-right Hannukah gifts, for the Jewish life & culture magazine Tablet. It is awesome. Check it out. The ten plagues finger puppets, we... [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:07pm EST
  by greg

• Stork-Craft Recalls 2.1 Million Drop-Side Cribs Of Doom In US & Canada

  —Daddy Types

  DT's favorite crib guru Scott said it would be big, and now we know just how big the biggest crib recall in history really is: it's as big as the whole freakin' North America, that's how big. The CPSC and...' [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:10pm EST
  by greg

• Andy Warhol's Other Children's Books

  —Daddy Types

  The upcoming illustration auction at Bloomsbury New York includes some very interesting stuff. Least interesting among them: a collection of some of the children's anthologies from the late 1950s which include stories illustrated by Andy Warhol. Warhol was still... [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:53pm EST
  by greg

• DT Friday Freakout, Meet DT Monday Meltdown

  —Daddy Types

  Yeah, the weekend slipped by with nary a Freakout to be had. Fortunately, these crazy stories from the worlds of science, safety, and parenting can still ruin your Thanksgiving holiday: By now it's [week-]old news that in addition to all... [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:26am EST
  by greg

• C Is For Colby Poster Printing Co.

  —Daddy Types

  It's like all you can eat, this Shrimp Shop! ABC poster by Andy Beach/ Reference Library, printed by the Colby Poster Printing Co. [via ready4thehouse]... [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 11:03pm EST
  by greg

• Shrimp Shop Blog Bait: High Chair By Ramsey Conder

  —Daddy Types

  I think Ramsey is a brother type to South Willard shopkeep Ryan Conder. I also think this high chair is totally awesome. Shrimp Shop: South Willard X Reference Library, kicking off this very second at 8038 W. Third St.,... [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 5:47pm EST
  by greg

• Muji Washable Coloring Book

  —Daddy Types

  How about some international Muji awesomeness you can get shipped to the US? The exchange rate may kill you, but the Muji UK online store ships to the US and Canada, no sweat. Fortunately, this washable cloth coloring book... [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:58pm EST
  by greg

• So What Else Isn't Muji Bringing US For Christmas?

  —Daddy Types

  I know I should wait until after Thanksgiving, but I can't. It's a DT Nov. 21 tradition! Take a look at some of the Muji Xmas 2009 Awesomeness--that is only available in Japan: Blackboard matryoshka dolls, chalk included, Y1200. Wood...' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:43am EST
  by greg

• Muji X Lego Papercraft Colabo

  —Daddy Types

  Just in time for Kurisumasu! Muji x Lego had a genius product breakthrough: combine cut paper with Lego bricks to make--whatever you want. Muji designed four play sets, complete with pre-cut paper and all the tiny little bricks needed... [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 7:55am EST
  by greg

• Bojesen Auction Awesomeness

  —Daddy Types

  See that, learning a new vintage toy is just like learning a new word: now you notice when they start turning up. Take this beautiful for example: the rattan doll pram Kay Bojesen designed in 1949 for Wengler, which... [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:55pm EST
  by greg

• Good Googly Moogly, Tiny Tim Singing To Real Children

  —Daddy Types

  When all is said and done, and we're all dead, and all the history's written, I suspect the people who are now called Gen X will be known as the lucky, unscarred-childhooded few who were too young for Tiny...' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:10pm EST
  by greg

• On Not Quite Grasping The Concept

  —Daddy Types

  K2 just came running into the room. "Mommy come help! Wow Wubzy stuck in car!"... [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:55pm EST
  by greg

• Whoa, The Awesome Leander Crib Is Available In The US!

  —Daddy Types

  I was just surfing through Inhabitots, thinking to myself, "Day-um, I sure don't cover the emergence of every single piece of shiny, new eco-blahblahblah baby gear like I used to," when I saw that the Leander Crib/ Toddler Bed/...' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:13pm EST
  by greg

• Tell Your Army Of Adorable Mask-Wearing Pandas To Stand Down, IKEA!

  —Daddy Types

  I'll buy the little alien helmet mask. And the plush, Ikea-colored viking helmet. Oh, what's that? Someone's rifled through the bins like a bowl of M&M's in a Van Halen dressing room or a box of marshmallow-less Lucky Charms,...' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:44am EST
  by greg

• ЯIP: Gunther Kilsheimer, Creator Of Toys R Us Logo

  —Daddy Types

  No way, did you know Toys R Us started in Washington DC? It began as a baby furniture retailer in Adams Morgan [in fact, the original store is now a blues bar called Madam's Organ. All the Baby Boomers raised... [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:48pm EST
  by greg

• It's Always Summer, They Never Get Cold: Oilily Reopens With Bankruptcy-Era Overstock

  —Daddy Types

  Is there a better place or time to shop for deluxe summer ragamuffinwear than on the North Sea in November? No, no there is not. Oilily, the crazy, Dutch, more-is-more, rich hippie baby clothing company which went through a convoluted... [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:54am EST
  by greg

• Madeleine Brand Thinks That Tree Should Just Stop Giving, It's Only Encouraging Him

  —Daddy Types

  It's apparently NPR Bad Decisions Day around here. After her slightly quirky, mid-day news/talk show "Day To Day" was canceled, West Coast radio host Madeleine Brand found another gig: momblogger. She is leading the LA Times' new blog/podcast hybrid, Parenting...' [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:10pm EST
  by greg

• Goodnight, Keith Moon

  —Daddy Types

  The rhymes are a little rough in spots, but one thing's for sure: Bruce Worden and Clare Cross's parody Goodnight, Keith Moon is better than the idea of The Who performing at the Super Bowl. Go see it before... [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:21am EST
  by greg

• Working Mother Fans Sexist Hysteria Over Child Custody

  —Daddy Types

  Wow. I am just blown away by the incredibly sexist premise and alarming tone of Sally Abrahms' article in Working Mother magazine about supposed changes in divorce and family law. The magazine considers dads' increased involvement in parenting to be... [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:21am EST
  by greg

• Hey You! Go To Shrimp Shop This Saturday In Los Angeles

  —Daddy Types

  Andy from Stork Bites Man and Ryan from The South Willard are having a colabo joint for kids starting this weekend. It's called the Shrimp Shop. Here's just a taste of what to expect:Boro Pants Ceramic Mobiles Creative Playthings... [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:32pm EST
  by greg

• Doris Duke's Leftover Thai

  —Daddy Types

  Doesn't this pile of Thai lounging pillows look like it belongs in a playroom? Except that you'd always be having to dig your keys, half-eaten apple slices, and Cheerios out of all those little nooks, they'd be awesome. The...' [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:27am EST
  by greg

• The Fageol Walkee Tricycle On eBay, Tetanus Shot Not Included

  —Daddy Types

  Wow, this looks incredible. Vintage industrial kid gear. The Fageol Walkee Tricycle takes its name from its inventor, Christopher Walkee. Haha, no. William B. Fageol and his brother Frank built the first bus. Their company, the Fageol Motor Company,... [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:07am EST
  by greg

• Announcing The Daddy Types Footmuff & Fleece Emporium

  —Daddy Types

  The nights are getting colder, K2 is getting bigger, and we're getting leaner, at least gear-wise. I put a few choice, fluffy pieces of gear on eBay last night. Here they are in order of brand-spanking newness: Here's a set...' [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:41pm EST
  by greg

• DT Monday Mommy Mailbag: Feng Shui Edition

  —Daddy Types

  Haven't gotten any really great crazy-sexist marketing pitches lately; The DT Monday Mommy Mailbag must be working! And for that, I am thankful. So to help make your holiday party the most harmonious ever, here are some handy tips to...' [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:05pm EST
  by greg

• Dude, Where's My Car Service?

  —Daddy Types

  Once like four years ago, Disney invited me to a blogger lunch meeting in New York and sent a car service to pick me up. At the last minute, instead of her coming across town to playbysit, I dropped the... [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:09am EST
  by greg

• Jim Coudal's Pro Dad Tips

  —Daddy Types

  Pro/dad Jim Coudal's been sprinkling his Pro Dad Tips into his agency's awesome linkblog stream to great acclaim. Now they've been gathered into one, delicious Twitter feed, it's like bacon you don't have to clean up. I give it... [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:57am EST
  by greg

• Take Me To Your Little Brother's Homemade Spaceship On Etsy

  —Daddy Types

  Ah, what are older brothers for? For selling the insane flying saucer playhouse your dad or whoever spent 8 months straight building for you on Etsy for ten grand, that's what. The one with the removable dome, the reclining... [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 11:23pm EST
  by greg

• From LIFE: Junior NASA Astronaut

  —Daddy Types

  Just fantastic. Andy posted a couple of great b&w photos of this "Young Space Pioneer" taken by veteran photojournalist Arthur Rickerby in 1962 the same year John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth, but the entire... [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 2:36pm EST
  by greg

• Heh, Baby Weinstein

  —Daddy Types

  I was just building bookcases, listening to WNYC's weekly radio show, On The Media, minding my own business. Then this bit on Disney's Baby Einstein refund story came on, and I laughed so much, I could no longer operate... [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 11:59am EST
  by greg

• DT Friday Freakout: Home Alone Edition

  —Daddy Types

  While the whole family's scattered to various grandparents for the week/night, I'm freaking out about how well the lacquer on the new radiator cover will take the heat. For you, how about some hyperbolic science and parenting headlines to freak...' [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 7:49pm EST
  by greg

• Uh, No. Playdate By John Waters

  —Daddy Types

  Look, it's not that I don't think John Waters is a great artist. It's just that I think his best work is in the medium of film, not art world art. But as a filmmaker who also hangs out...' [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 2:51pm EST
  by greg

• Tom Otterness Playground Comes To Hell's Kitchen South

  —Daddy Types

  I really prefer none, but if I have to choose, I guess I like my Tom Otterness playground sculpture tiny, variegated, slightly political, and in Battery Park City. And in that respect, Larry Silverstein, the tiny real estate developer,... [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:51pm EST
  by greg

• Ceci N'est Pas Un Caketopper. Custom Wood Doll Family

  —Daddy Types

  You know that NY Times article about custom wedding cake topper artists? Me either, but DT reader Eric did, and that's how he found out that Fancie Fannies also makes non-cake topper dolls, with kid-safe non-toxic paint. So he... [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:43pm EST
  by greg