Modernhood - Parenting with style

Try to land

Thomas Porter — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:18:31 +0000

Laptop webcam CCTV stickers

Thomas Porter — Mon, 24 May 2010 20:50:39 +0000

Stick one of these over your laptop’s built-in camera as a reminder that we are all – constantly – under survelience. Particularly kids in the US, unaware that their ‘assigned’ school laptops can be accessed remotely by spying teachers. Unfortunately, that’s a true story.

CCTV Stickers (via Boing Boing)

Bart Simpson’s blackboard

Thomas Porter — Fri, 21 May 2010 20:08:35 +0000

There are 463 episodes of The Simpsons. During the opening sequence, Bart writes on the blackboard 288 times. There’s an electrical socket in front of Bart’s knee in every season except for season 1 and 21. That is all.

Bart Simpson’s blackboard (via Kottke)

Baby paw prints as stamps

Thomas Porter — Wed, 19 May 2010 21:04:21 +0000

As if that little collage of grubby finger prints on your French doors wasn’t enough, for about £60 Tokyo designers Rezon will carve an engraved rubber stamp of your little one’s hand and foot prints.

Otete & Anyo (Japanese for hand & foot) (via Notcot)

Dalek propaganda

Thomas Porter — Sat, 01 May 2010 19:20:47 +0000

As seen on the wall of Winston Churchill’s underground war room during the Blitz in the latest series of Dr Who. The BBC has thoughtfully made it available as a free PDF download.

(Via Retro Thing)

Boy Scouts introduces Video Games badge award

Thomas Porter — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:22:57 +0000

I earned my fair share of badges during my stint in the Scouts – knot tying, rabbit skinning, camp survival level three… What I didn’t do, however, was earn a badge for completing Sonic The Hedgehog. The Boy Scouts Of America, you see, has introduced the Video Games award.

Hardworking boys can earn the ‘Belt Loop’ for ‘explaining the importance of a rating system for games’, ‘creating a schedule to fit gaming around household chores’ and ‘learning to play a new parent-approved game from scratch’. To earn the full Video Games ‘Academics Pin’, they must complete nine more tasks, my favourite of which is number six: “Play an appropriate video game with a friend for one hour.”

That’s tough.

On a serious note, it’s heartening to see that the Scouts (an organisation I very much admire) is attempting to move with the times.

Boy Scouts introduce videogame badge, other badges ask ‘Really? (Via Engadget)

Dark Side Of The Moon underwear

Thomas Porter — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:00:30 +0000

Firstly, if you’re not familiar with South African ‘rap-rave’ marvels Die Antwoord (Afrikaans for ‘The Answer’), knock yourself out. At my day job today, I tweeted about the band’s perplexing mainman Ninja’s choice of underwear during Die Antwoord’s live US debut at Coachella music festival. NOTE TO RELATIVES: Christmas or birthday, wrapped boxer shorts of this calibre have never been so appealing.

Dark Side Of The Moon, indeed.

PHOTO CREDIT: Dave Bullock

(Via MusicRadar on Twitter)

Giant Lego furniture

Thomas Porter — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:41:59 +0000

Fantastic Lego-esque stack-able bricks called LunaSoft, made by a fantastically-named French company called Lunatic Construction.

Lego-esque modular furniture (via Make)

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Jigsaw Puzzle Stools

Thomas Porter — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:47:00 +0000

I’d like about 10 of these, attached to form a giant table. Then, depending on how many kids were roaming the house, I’d detach as appropriate for stool use at dinner time. The novelty factor would far outweigh the slightly bothersome fact that the table would be the same height as the chair.

Jigsaw Puzzle Stool by VivaTerra (via Inhabitots)

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BadParent: Stationery Of Horror

Thomas Porter — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:39:44 +0000

Stationery Of Horror is Jacques Pense’s “bloodthirsty corporate design for Germany’s most famous crime and horror channel”, 13th Street. It’s also the ultimate inappropriate back-to-school gift for ‘colourful’ young minds.

Horrifying stationery (via Boing Boing)