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Category Archives: Sweet Machine

  • It’s nothing most of our readers haven’t seen before, but Newsweek has a refresher course on the “biggest airbrushing [...]

    Photoshop’s greatest hits

    January 25, 2010
  • As those of you on Ravelry know, I’m kind of an obsessive knitter. I mostly do scarves, hats, and sweaters, but lately I’ve been [...]

    Friday fluff: Tiny crafts

    January 22, 2010
  • Those of you who hopped on our Golden Globe live-blogging adventure on Sunday (which was way, way more fun than I expected — GIVE [...]

    Links: Golden Globes backlash, or This one goes out to the ladies

    January 19, 2010
  • I hate this ad. I stood waiting for a bus the other day while another bus idled in front of me. It had this ad on the side, bigger than life. I [...]

    In which I am defeated by a billboard

    January 17, 2010
  • Kate writes a mash note to Gabourey Sidibe of Precious, who could not be any more fabulous if she was abducted by aliens from the Fabulous [...]

    Links: Ladies We Love

    January 12, 2010
  • The beauty ideal is socially constructed and changes over time. In 1912, Miss Elsie Scheel of Brooklyn, New York, was deemed the “most [...]

    Just a reminder

    January 12, 2010
  • FJ, in searching for something totally different in Wikimedia Commons, stumbled across the following picture: Shapelings, here is your Friday [...]

    Friday fluff: What the what?

    January 8, 2010
  • Please read the post title in a Futurama announcer voice. Welcome to 2010, Shapelings! Have some links. Kate takes on the “no [...]

    Items… Of … Interest!

    January 4, 2010
  • First rule of nutrition: eat or die. Second rule of nutrition: there are no other rules. My mother died two weeks ago. She had been deeply ill [...]

    Notes toward an elegy: In praise of food

    December 27, 2009
  • My first post here was about a radical bodily change I was undergoing (drastic weight loss due to an undiagnosed medical condition) and how it [...]

    The Embiggening

    November 11, 2009

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