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Candy lovers rejoice! The Giant Gummy Bear on a Stick represents the most delicious candy confection that man has ever produced. Hand made (with gloves on) in the US, the Giant Gummy Bear is 88 times larger than a standard gummy bear. Each Giant Gummy Bear weighs half a pound and comes on a stick for easy, mess-free snacking.

I’m kind of tempted to get one as a Secret Santa present.  I’m sure gag gifts represent a huge percentage of their sales.

In college a few friends and I decorated the dorm room door of one of the girls on our floor with small gummy bears.  If you bite off the back of the bear, the soft innards have kind of a glue-like consistency that allows the bear to stick.  I can imagine what it might look like if we had these super-sized gummy bears.

Buy it now at Vat19.com

From Fortune.com: GM: Death of an American dream

A look into GM and its problems.  Definitely worth a read.

People Magazine: Real Name of the Stars quiz

This is an impossible quiz.  It’s a little sad that people change their names because their real names aren’t “star” quality.

The most hated player in hockey is a women’s fashion buff.  Pretty interesting profile of the NHL’s Sean Avery.

UPDATE 12/3/08: Avery suspended indefinitely for comments related to ex-girlfriends

Avery was punished indefinitely by commissioner Gary Bettman for using a crude term about his former girlfriends now dating other hockey players. Bettman acted within hours, in time to keep Avery out of the Dallas Stars’ game against the Calgary Flames on Tuesday night.
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“I’m really happy to be back in Calgary; I love Canada,” the Ontario native said. “I just want to comment on how it’s become like a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in love with my sloppy seconds. I don’t know what that’s about, but enjoy the game tonight.” He then walked out of the locker room.

UPDATE: 12/4/08: Suspended Avery apologizes for crude ex-girlfriend remarks

The Field Painter via ObamaArtReport

Read about how this amazing field painting came together! (scroll down)

From TheHuffingtonpost.com: Obama Marriage Body Language: One Aspect We Should All Emulate (PHOTOS)

In an earlier post we commented on positive aspects of the relationship between Michelle and Barack Obama. Fresh from having watched their recent 60 Minutes interview, we’d like to bring to your attention one remarkable bit of body language we can all learn from. Specifically, if you watch their body language carefully, you’ll see that Michelle and Barack communicate with each other in a way that is rare among presidential couples: when Michelle Obama is speaking, Barack makes eye contact with her and listens with interest to what she’s saying.

If you want to see just how rare that is, look at old footage of interviews with Laura and George Bush, Bill and Hillary Clinton and the elder Bushes. Go back a little further and look at footage of Nancy and Ronald Reagan, Pat and Richard Nixon and any others you can find. Here’s what you usually WON’T see: the President looking at his wife when she’s speaking. You’ll see lots of footage of presidential wives listening, usually with an adoring smile locked firmly in place, to their husbands, but it’s rare to see it the other way around. When Michelle Obama is speaking, though, Barack looks at her and listens. When he’s speaking, she looks and listens. It’s a refreshing exception, and a key to the respect that flows between them.

From Huffingtonpost.com: Karolina Kurkova’s Missing Bellybutton Explained (PHOTOS)

Victoria’s Secret angel Karolina Kurkova surprised onlookers with her almost invisible bellybutton at last week’s show in Miami, but there is an explanation.

“She had an operation when she was an infant,” her rep told the Daily News. “It’s a fact and just thank God she’s healthy.”
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So what belly button condition could baby Kurkova have had?

Doctors say it was likely an umbilical hernia.

All I know is if I’m looking at Karolina Kurkova, I’m not looking for her belly button.

Buy the “Legobama” on eBay.  Made of $500 worth of Legos.  The artist also does custom portraits.

Just received from the Barack Obama website the small Shepard Fairey, Obama Vote Poster.  For those of you wishing that it was another print, it isn’t.  It’s an unsigned, unnumbered poster. The paper is much thinner and smoother than the prints.  But overall it looks good! 

The poster is currently sold out on the site.

Mine came in the same type of gigantic indestructible shipping tube that were used for my previous prints.

From NYTimes.com: The “O” in Obama

Q: I have to ask, since many agencies that do political campaigns are simply “doing a job,” did you have strong feelings one way or the other for the Obama candidacy?

A: We were excited to work on the logo and energized by the prospect of Mr. Obama’s campaign. However, we didn’t pursue or develop the work because we were motivated exclusively by ideology. It was an opportunity to do breakthrough work at the right time in what’s become a predictable graphic landscape.

The Obama logo is a brilliant piece of artwork and an extremely important part in the branding of Barack Obama as “cool”, especially to younger voters.

Most political designs before this were generally generic patriotic symbols incorporated with a name.  The “O” logo does so much more, capturing the essence of Barack Obama’s campaign, HOPE.

Having a logo also allowed for more flexibility in creating more attractive signs and logo related products.