College football players typically adorn the backs of their helmets with stickers as signifiers of especially good games. Usually, the stickers are miniature versions of the school’s logo, or maybe a symbol relating to the mascot or the team. When players can cover their helmets, they serve as badges of honor during game time. But,…
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Today is the spookiest day of the year. No, it’s not Halloween. It’s the release date of the second season of the critically acclaimed Netflix Series “Stranger Things,” and to commemorate, the Oxford Circus underground station has been transformed into the paranormal space known as the “upside down” on the show. https://twitter.com/TfL/status/922828249234923521 https://twitter.com/OxfordStreetW1/status/922895877039116294 For the…
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“The Walking Dead” has been really killing it with their promotions lately. (Get it? Killing? Please clap.) For the show’s season 8 premier, it’s debuting “Negan’s Sh*ttin’ Pants,” i.e. actual adult diapers. Here’s a little backstory (which I needed, too, because I stopped watching at the third season): The character Negan, who you might remember…
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People looking at a banner for a what appears to be a new miracle drug called Revival might be disappointed that the advertised drug won’t, in fact, help them to “Seize the moment,” unless the moment they want to seize is listening to a new Eminem album. Eagle-eyed hip hop fans might notice that the…
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The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) voted 3 to 2 last week to prohibit children’s toys and various child care items from containing more than 0.1 percent of specific phthalate chemicals…
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There was once a time not too long ago that Samsung Galaxy Note smartphones weren’t welcome on airplanes, and now the company is trying to make that a distant memory by surprising airline passengers flying from Madrid to A Coruña with a Galaxy Note 8 giveaway while on an airplane. This week, Samsung gave out…
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Threadless, the e-commerce apparel company that allows artists to submit and print apparel products, is adding footwear to its product offerings after acquiring Bucketfeet. Threadless works by allowing designers and artists to submit their work, and users vote on the ones they like best. The winning submissions will be printed onto items like T-shirts, bags…
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Companies and organizations in the apparel world, such as Gap Inc., Target, the Sustainable Trade Initiative and the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, have established the Apparel Impact Institute (AII), which will focus on helping apparel companies with…
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Long Trail Brewing Company has somewhat of a litigious past, and it’s taken other companies to court that dared to use just about anything related to the word “hike” or the act of hiking. The latest lawsuit involves Long Trail suing an apparel company called Chowdaheadz, after the company made a shirt that said “Take…
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The Nepalese Election Commission has banned the manufacture, distribution and use of promotional items like hats, stickers, T-shirts and tote bags during the elections to the House of Representatives and State Assemblies. An Election Commission spokesperson told My Republica that the use of promotional items could keep an election from being “free, fair, transparent and…
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