February 17 2009
Man Makeup and Other Choice Links
posted by Ana Samways at 10:59 am
Make-up for men: I have no problem if men want to cover a few blemishes or highlight their eyes with eyeliner, but it does amuse me how the male beauty product peddlers are marketing the stuff beyond gay men, to er, “blokes”, using either a military theme or bad sexual metaphors.
Take the Power Face Mask to go with the power suit and your powerful V8 engine. Time Fighter is an anti-ageing cream that sounds like a boxer would use it. There’s a whole range of wares with a war theme — After Shave Mission Balm and Battle Scars Healing Anti-Inflammatory Repair Cream. For a not-so-subtle lewdness, there’s even a mascara called Double Stroke Cream Mascara, “for men who want handsome looking lashes without a “made-up” effect” and the unexplicably named Blo-job Bronzing Powder. Ewww.
Was lost, but now found: Items from London Transport Lost Property include a suitcase of dentures.
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The trilogy meter: A graphic for movie geeks showing the comparative enjoyment level of each movie in famous trilogies. Do you agree?
Picture this: A slideshow of the winners of the World Press Photo of the Year 2008.
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“[It] used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore. Now, anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem fit, forever, no matter what you do later. Want to close your account? Good for you, but Facebook still has the right to do whatever it wants with your old content. They can even sublicense it if they want.”
Video: The hosts of this Canadian Home Shopping channel sell sex toys on live TV, using the same patter they would if selling a step ladder or a miracle sweeper. OMG! (NSFW but utterly hilarious)