So before you commit to months of building up layers of ink, you can try on intense tattoo works by some of the world’s best artists at yellowman (no not the reggae band). prices range from $150 and go up from there, which is way cheaper and less prickly than the real thing. I heard you should [...]

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Watching NBC’s nightly Olympic coverage of the same three sports and the 4 same people again and again forces huge groans out of me each night. The made-for-TV prime time soap opera is once again so melodramatic and drawn out, that it doesn’t even feel like I am watching sports.
I guess enough of us have [...]

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Bird’s Nest Stadium, designed for the Beijing Olympics, looks pretty incredible - as do many of the other buildings created for the Olympics. But for every building that gets built, there are many ideas that don’t. For the national stadium, China had a competition. Here are some of the other entries (click on thumbnails to [...]

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Aly Khalifa received his 11th patent today. This was for one of our favorite designs: the Teastick!

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I read a lot about the FUWA when they were first unveiled as the 2008 Beijing Olympic mascots about a year ago. Thought now, on this opening day might be a good time to review how the mascots came to be.
According to the Olympic site, each of Fuwa has a rhyming two-syllable name -a traditional [...]

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