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Give a special someone (plush) VD for Valentine’s Day. Syphilis, anyone?

Fractalspin just added some hilarious gifts in time for Valentine’s Day–plush venereal diseases by Giant Microbes. Choose from chlamydia, herpes, and syphilis. If you don’t feel like sharing a disease, there’s also sperm and egg plushies for a more traditional…

Liz
January 17, 2013

Cool stuff, Geek, Opinions, Technology

RollingJubilee.org: Crowdsourced debt reduction for the 99% by the 99%

Banks sell debt for pennies on the dollar on a shadowy speculative market of debt buyers who then turn around and try to collect the full amount from debtors. The Rolling Jubilee intervenes by buying debt, keeping it out of…

Liz
November 15, 2012

Chicago, Cool stuff, Design, DIY, Fashion & Jewelry, In the news, Liz McLean Knight, wtf

Charlotte the Pitbull: Third Place for Best Costume at Wicker Park’s Boo-palooza

Aka “Pitbull in a Tutu,” Charlotte won third place at Wicker Park’s Boo-palooza, and we took home a sweet gift basket of dog delishiousness. She then had a vet appointment and then amused many people over in Retailland (Logan and…

Liz
October 27, 2012