With New York Fashion Week drawing to a close and the onslaught of the rest of the 2010 fall season following—London, Milan, Paris—even the most fashionable can forget their manners. Party after party, litres of Belevdere and Moët sloshing around in the catacombs of one’s stomach and hectic schedules impeded by geographic diversity, it’s no [...]

They say a tradesman never blames his tools, however, I couldn’t even use a shifting  spanner, let alone a band saw so in this incidence, there’s an exception to the rule. That said, after a few server hiccups (*shakes fist at WordPress*) we’re pleased to announce that we’re back after a brief hiatus to give you [...]

One’s offspring can often provide a convincing excuse to skive off work when that post-Christmas party hangover makes it impossible to rise in the morning. “I’m sorry, but little Johnny has gastro” could quite easily be “I’ve been driving the porcelain bus” and an immediate reprieve from office duties without question. For those of us [...]

This decade’s trend of creative baby-naming has been an elitist’s dream and a primary school teacher’s worst nightmare. Multiple ‘i’s and silent ‘ph’s are the hallmarks of aspirational individuality and make buying novelty mugs near impossible. When someone gets a little Hollywood with their naming rights, it’s likely that little consideration has been paid to the international impact a name [...]

As the days heat up (in the southern hemisphere) and the calendar becomes more jam-packed it’s a sure-fire way of knowing that the onslaught of summer festivals is about to begin. In Australia, first up is Stereosonic, which recently attracted media attention when they banned shirtless men from attending the event in a move to make the [...]

Well as they say, dance with the devil and eventually he’ll give you Miley Cyrus. Brandy Westberry of Jacksonville, Florida claims that her daughter’s singing Hannah Montana doll has a potty mouth,  replacing the song lyrics, ‘pumpkin pie’ with something a little more sinister. Judge for yourself: If you ask me, Ms Westberry might be all banjos [...]

Please excuse my sanctimonious acridity, but who didn’t see this coming? The social networking and 140-character display of exhibitionism and self-aggrandisement (I’m guilty as charged), Twitter has taken this year’s top word from the Global Language Monitor. The annual survey of the English language saw that ‘Twitter’, follwed by ‘Obama’, ‘H1N1′, ’stimulus’ and ‘vampire’ were the most popular [...]

At a recent wedding, the groom,  Dana Hanna surprised his new bride, Tracy Page and the entire congregation by updating his relationship status on Facebook and tweeting about his nuptials on Twitter a second after being pronounced husband and wife. Standing at the altar with @TracyPage where just a second ago, she became my wife! Gotta go, time [...]

We all know I’m a bandit for a good stationery (among other things), but this little number tickled my fancy this morning. From present & correct, this giant button card is made from embossed recycled card and is best for telling someone you think they’re cute, and according to their website, “not recommended for giant [...]

Oh happy day! Something that combines my favourite pastime—drinking—with my second-favourite pastime—washing down prescription medication with alcohol. Russian professor Evgeny Moskalev of Saint Petersburg Technological University has invented a technique that can turn alcohol into powder to be compressed into pills. This new method is capable of solidifying alcohol renders it dry to carry around in your [...]