Word: plastering
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...Addiction (15 Gough Street) is an ideal fix. Showcasing up-and-coming designers from around the world, it purveys the kind of quirky creations you never knew you wanted, or needed, until it was too late. Look out for things like hand-knitted "creature" toys, ceramic-pigeon lamps or plaster-cast wall hooks fashioned in the shape of disarmingly expressive hands...
...what they would save during a showdown between five of the university's professors, each of whom passionately defended an item dear to their hearts: a mass-produced gouache painting of Mt. Vesuvius, a marsupial mole preserved in formaldehyde, a 1960s toy car, an ancient fragment of painted wall plaster from what is now a London suburb and a collection of Victorian-era death masks. One professor put it best: "These objects don't have an intrinsic value." But each has an interesting back-story. The toy car, for example, belonged to a child who suffered from a condition that...
...that's just e-mail spam. The growth of sites like MySpace and Facebook has opened up a whole new subindustry for spammers, who trick users into surrendering their passwords and then use their accounts to plaster advertisements everywhere. Automated spam programs attack instant-messenger conversations too, randomly generating screen names and sending messages in the hopes they'll find someone on the other end. Bloggers aren't safe, either - makers of the spam-filtering tool Akismet estimate that 93% of comments on all blogs are spam; their software has caught more than 13 billion...
That infamous chore of waking up unreasonably early to plaster flyers around campus may soon end its reign of terror in the Yard. That is, if Souvik Paul '11 gets...
ROLE MODEL: Members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. That’s right. What better way to plaster yourself all over national media than bigamy and über-vintage outfits? And with costumes like these, you’ll be instantly recognizable...