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August 2, 2005
The Truth about the Transsexual Shaving Gel
Last week, the folks over at BoingBoing linked to a fascinating photo set that seemed reveal the true nature of a travel-sized can of Gillette Series shaving gel. The can's label started to peel and revealed an underlying sticker for Gillette for Women Satin Care gel. (Here are the before and after shots.) Had Gillette simply repackaged a poorly-selling female product for the men's market?
Internet
July 27, 2005
The Cowbell Meme
I don't really like the word "meme." It has so many definitions now that Richard Dawkins himself is probably confused. But I do like to see funny stuff on the internet, like this video of a martial-arts exhibition gone awry. (It's the third one down.) As it turns out, appreciating funny-stuff-on-the-internet is a meme, or at least individual funny stuffs are memes. (Like I said, it's hard to go wrong with that word.) At any rate, now that the World Wide Web is in its second decade of existence, it's cool to see which memes have caught on. One that took a particularly interesting route is the phrase "More Cowbell," which I wrote about in this month's issue of Wired Magazine.
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