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...minutes in, Wikler quickly abandons the trusty masking tape method for a mini-stapler he bought at the Coop specifically for postering. When the mini-stapler malfunctions, Wikler is non-plussed...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stumped:Candidates Go the Distance | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...writing tends toward the literate side, but it's boring. The personal revelations are clinically detached and dull ("I walked around naked...I had sex in a car..." and so on, making you expect "I had sex in an outhouse...when I was 12 I masturbated with a stapler" and so forth), and the other intellectual material is less than insightful. The most interesting article on the site at present: Dmitri Nabokov's essay on copyright laws and his father's Lolita...

Author: By Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Touching a Nerve.com | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

ISIS, THEREFORE I STAPLE: The Egyptian goddess Isis put her torn-to-pieces husband back together--big shoes for a stapler to fill. But Julian Brown, the British designer of Isis, has a history of creating ambitious office supplies: he gave us Hannibal, the similarly spiffy tape dispenser. When stood on her nose, the front-loading, translucent Isis ($68) rocks gently back and forth, making her the ideal accessory for the desk of the overpaid but underworked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Object Found | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...Standup Stapler An idea you grasp right away. The last time the stapler got serious thought was in the 1930s, when objects were streamlined for the machine-age imagination. In the ergonomic '90s, when we design for the body, the Boston stapler still keeps a nice contour. It's as grip-friendly as a handshake, as squeezable as a teddy bear, and better looking than most public sculpture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST DESIGN OF 1997 | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

...thanking The List everyday for advising my mother to buy four cans of deodorant and 400 pens. After all, I am so far from civilization that should I ever run out, I'd be doomed. Thanks to The List, I am the proud owner of my own stapler, staple remover and package of 5000 premium quality staples which would come in handy if I could remember where I put them...

Author: By Sarah D. Kalloch, | Title: I Knew I Forgot Something | 10/16/1996 | See Source »

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