The XX Factor : clothes

Recession Entertainment: Watch Other People Buy Things

Kerry Howley — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:37:00 GMT

Via Flowing Data , I see that Zappos.com will now show you who is buying what from where in real time. Thus I can sit in front of my laptop, stare at pictures of shoes superimposed on a map of the United States, and make wild generalizations about regional...(read more)

She Can Do It!

Susannah Breslin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:18:00 GMT

I love this "We Can Do It!" T-shirt featuring Michelle Obama. The original star of J. Howard Miller's iconic poster has been widely misidentified as Rosie the Riveter; in fact, it was Geraldine Doyle. In any case, the first lady makes a suitable replacement...(read more)

Forgetting Sarah Palin

Dana Stevens — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:40:00 GMT

Thank God our country now has bigger and better things to think about than calculating the precise degree of Sarah Palin’s venality, ignorance, and greed. Did she bilk the RNC of $150,000 in her shopping sprees, or was it tens of thousands more? (The...(read more)