Technosexualready Been Done

in this awesome video Seth Aylmer interviews the founding technosexualicist, owner and proprietor of technosexual.org who, as it turns out, is quite pissed about the Calvin Klein piece.

Much on the web is recycled and re-featured. This stuff comes and goes in cycles, and thats to be expected when things like permalinks make permanent record of all content on the web. But this trend, as written about in the New York Times is just weird. Essentially, in a ploy to attract the demographic known as "millenials," Calvin Klein is reaching out to the generation defined by technology in a not-so-subtle way. A quick blurb:

“We have envisioned this as the first fragrance for the technosexual generation,” said Mr. Murry, using a term the company made up to describe its intended audience of thumb-texting young people whose romantic lives are defined in part by the casual hookup.

About a year and a half ago Gizmodo was writing about this (which inspired Seth Aylmer to make this video for Current.tv). Others were, and are still writing about it.

What bothers me is that beyond usurping this term and this culture for their own marketing needs, Calvin Klein has gone out and bought the fucking trademark.

Last year, the company went so far as to trademark “technosexual,” anticipating it could become a buzzword for marketing to millennials, the roughly 80 million Americans born from 1982 to 1995.

Now they own a term that has been used, popularized, filmed, forgotten, and now remembered -- in association with a brand. Its both wrong and clever.

[via THE WHOLE INNNERNETS]

They're real, they're spectacular and they're made from assfat!

The BBC is reporting (and Buzzfeed is aggregating) stem-cell technology has finally provided a result. Taking sample tissue from your ass, thighs and generally unwanted parts of your body, scientists are able to grow breast tissue for implants. Gross and kick-ass! From the DailyMail:

They say the result gives a more natural look than many of the synthetic implants used by showbusiness stars like Pamela Anderson.

Ouch and kick-ass!

::: related DailyMail
::: via buzzfeed.com ]

Even Cowgirls Get Tired

I found this whilst trolling the ever abundant archives of Buzzfeed.com (which, by the way, supplies me with almost 90% of the traffic on this site thanks to this post.) It turns out there is a little known cafe in Seattle dedicated to coffee, tea and T&A (pun, not mine)...

The shop is part hooters, part Starbucks, and mostly sexual frustration. You order your coffee, watch the barrista bend over to change the filter and struggle to make it to your nine to five where you dwell on your failing marriage and how much you hate the dog your wife/girlfriend just bought. Or something. Its called Cowgirls Espresso; I'm in love.

[via "i forgot"]

Surfboard Dwarfed By Denton's Head, Others Frightened

I'm not going to spend alot of time with this one. Firstly, its embarassing that I'm this big of a web troll, and secondly this is just weird. So I'll just lay out my path. Kottke links me to a bit of BuzzFeed press over at Oliver Ryan's CNN Money blog . Having never read this little gem I go ahead and google the authors and find myself to a flickr page and a seemingly defunct domain (among many other things.) I ended up here, at Nick Denton's head and I'm done now. Its weird. Seriously, look at it.

Buzzkill

Buzzfeed is an interesting, if not alltogether fresh, way to look at the collected opinions of the growing blogosphere. It resembles many of other recent endeavors in blog aggregation, but is geared specifically towards trend spotting. The effort here is to determine the level of chatter on the innernets that a specific topic is getting, and conequently, to bring all of the chatter to one place. Blah blah blah. It'll be interesting to see what trends pop up in the next coming months. From the about page:

We automatically detect new buzz by crawling 50,000 of the very best web sites, blogs, and news sources. Then our technology crunches the raw data from these sites to identify new buzz that’s just starting to spread. We developed the technology to find new things just when they start accelerating in popularity and provoking interesting conversations. Our technology is also supplemented by a network of human taste-makers and tips submitted by BuzzFeed readers. These savvy humans can spot subtle trends our robots might miss.

Its designed by Chris Johanesen (with help from Jason Kottke) and produced by Jonah Peretti and Kenneth Lerer