We’re in the “even more official” Spreadshirt blog. At blog.spreadshirt.net. Starting, erm, now.

Today’s feature: behind the scenes with FuggyFuggy’s creator.

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thedraw.spreadshirt.co.uk
myspace.com/the_draw

Dell is recalling lithium batteries with a tendency to explode.

In other retractions: Walmart pulls out of Germany, having a hard time competiting with the discount giants Aldi and Lidl -the question: does this mean that smaller, more widely distributed stores function better in Germany? Or will the new buyer, Metro’s brand fill larger discount stores?

Bebo’s managed to push ahead of Myspace in the social network races. According to the article “only just over a year old, already attracts 3.5 billion page views a month, and people spend an hour on the site at a time”. This was published August 11, 2006. But, as siliconbeat reports, Bebo said the same thing in February. And they are targetting bands, with unlimited content uploads (vids, songs, etc.) and letting users create playlists. It’s stripped down, and has less of the advertising that’s overwhelming Myspace. But is less customiseable, and although killer in the UK, less internationally successful than the old mspace.

Oh, and a brilliant title for those still myspacing, from the fantastic mashable.com: Browster 2.0 Makes MySpace Suck Less

the pixel mightier than the sword…
a new project from spreadshirt (and la fraise, and the london design festival). more soon.

atm, we leave you with: http://www.myspace.com/the_draw
enjoy le week-end!

The only thing that seems particularly clear about this current Lebanon situation is that it is a terrible situation for the Lebanese. Sounds like double-talk, but the more stories you hear about their economy just being rebuilt after years of conflict, finally getting in tourists, and the infrastructural damage being caused, someone needs to be looking out for them.

In comes Raf* Bey who has made up some “Lebanon will Stay” shirts. As he writes:

i have some issues with quite a few of those in the “anti-war” crowd since they are opposing the israeli way of seeing the world in a black/white fashion by using their own. so i thought about a slogan that would be entirely positive, not connected to any particular political group, and do something about the PEOPLE, not the political leaders or military.

He gains no profit on the shirts, just wants to raise awareness for the cause and to raise awareness about the aid groups: www.saveleb.org and www.lebanonrelief.org. For a longer explanation of the design read his blog entry.

I laughed aloud at 9:49 this morning, thanks to David, winner of last month’s newsletter competition. This is an amazing feat, made my day. Republished, then, our correspondence in full:

David:

I know this I know this I know this! “Down By Law”
Question: How awesome is that? Answer: quite very awesome indeed.
Thanks,
David, from that little tiny country in the middle of Europe that has great chocolates and pedophiles (Belgium).

Sarah:

I’d love to send you an icecream, but Ben and Jerry’s doesn’t really exist in that small chocolate & pedophiles country. Mes apologies.
Let me know if there’s a (spread-)shirt you’d like, and I can send that over instead…

best,
Sarah

David:

Aww, that’s just too bad. I’ve been waiting here like this in anticipation of consuming some of that great alternate-phase food:

As you can see, I took out the Great Spoon of Doom^TM in order to devour the icecream in a more productive way. Hooray for capitalism meets consumerism (is that last one even an -ism?). Note that in the meantime I grew a beard. Kind of. Also note that yes, I have Lucky Luke and the Daltons on the wallpaper in my room. Sue me.

Kisses & Lollipops,
David

If I’m gone, you know where to look for me.

Published on my birthday, that riotous day: How I Blog: Sarah Falcon part of the sometimes amusing (see this), sometimes interesting (see this) sometimes technical (see this) “How I Blog” series from The Blog Herald.

Insider views, drinking habits revealed!

It’s high time I wrote: it’s been a crazy few weeks, jet-setting across countries and getting back in Leipzig in time for my birthday. As you may have read in last week’s post. Which turned out to be a premonition. Remember that part about the sore throat? Well, it turns out I left work, went to the hairdresser and mid-trim managed to pass out, get hauled out by the ambulance, and into the hospital. They were afraid it was epilepsy, it turned out to be tonsilitis.So the next few days of last week I spent reading the inside of my eyelids, and watching Mike Leigh movies (the man’s a genius). But now I am fully recuperated, even baked a cake for my lovely co-workers as is the custom in Germany (lifted, by the way, from Chocolate and Zucchini).

And spent the weekend appreciating being back in Leipzig, and you know, upright. Took some photos. Lordy, I love the city. And even work in the area that I remember thinking was so striking back in 2001, when I first visited the city. It’s a specific aesthetic, it’s good to appreciate industry, and falling-apartness which I happen to… And it’s cheap (so surprising!). Rent is cheap, food is cheap (though, I won’t even try to compare it to Sicily).

I’ve lived here for two years, not so long really, but run into people I know like all the time. But to the credit of all foreign newcomers: it’s a lot harder without much German (there was a lot of nodding along to conversations for the first 6 months), and without a connection to the local scene. But, having arrived back, I’m remembering it’s a great place to live.

Especially, if you like scenes like this:

So the 3rd test started today and no one in Germany realised, im pretty certain I am the only one in the office who has been keeping an eye on the score. As of 4:33pm (english time) we have recovered nicely but I would like a score of 400 to be safe.

I asked some of the office what this sentence meant

‘1349: Gul serves up a lollipop and Collingwood smites him over square-leg for six.’ taken from BBC.co.uk

Most of my co-workers wasn’t sure if it was english

Well im going to the German version of the charity shield tomorrow (Premiere Ligapokal) which is between Werder Bremen and Bayern Munich so I will have some pics for you next week

Have a good weekend