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Love the use of typography for this, won't be putting anything with Paris Hilton's name on it in my living room. So I guess "That's NOT hot." Yeah I know corney, but true.

posted by MonsterMash on November 1st 2007 at 11:57am
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I agree with MonsterMash. :p

Paris Hilton is one of those things about this decade I'd rather forget.

posted by blackdaisies on November 1st 2007 at 12:22pm
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You "not" people are so boring. Conceptual AND functional! Stupidly expensive, yes, but this is the stuff that "new art" is made of!

posted by frontiersperson on November 1st 2007 at 12:23pm
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The thing to do with these is buy them and then put them in storage for 5 years or so. Once no one remembers what any of the search terms mean they'll be way cooler.

posted by vagary on November 1st 2007 at 12:25pm
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Not hot for $120. $45? Hot.

posted by Cindy on November 1st 2007 at 12:28pm
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I wish they would have used a better font...

posted by gretchen on November 1st 2007 at 12:29pm
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It's something I would feel embarrassed owning in 2009.

posted by jems on November 1st 2007 at 12:45pm
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To puzzle your grandchildren when they dig up your very plush time capsule.

posted by Mella DP on November 1st 2007 at 12:59pm
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"You "not" people are so boring. Conceptual AND functional! Stupidly expensive, yes, but this is the stuff that "new art" is made of!"


PLEASE contact me so I can give you a steaming pile of my finest work and I'll overcharge you since that's what you like. I'd rather be boring than someone like you.

posted by Djluckyonline on November 1st 2007 at 1:29pm
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I like it. It's very "We Didn't Start The Fire" -ish.

posted by kristin in portland on November 1st 2007 at 1:44pm
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As a single pillow, I wouldn't want it, but I think it would be fun to have a decade full of pillows like that. However, it wouldn't be "$120 per pillow" fun.

posted by harlie on November 1st 2007 at 1:45pm
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Just don't find it relaxing to look at something like this in my home.

It's dated in the blink of an eye, and then it just becomes a $120 blob of clutter in your life.

posted by gekko on November 1st 2007 at 3:56pm
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First thoughts... Ummm... Hmmm.... If I actually wanted that for my living room, I could probably make it myself for far far far less than $120.

posted by nikkiana on November 1st 2007 at 3:58pm
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Yep, wrong typeface.

posted by charlenemcbride on November 1st 2007 at 5:31pm
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Martina Hingis, my little Swiss Miss. I love that pillow. I love to squeeze my . . . face to it every night. The negative press my little Swiss Miss got today, just makes her hotter. Hingis doing cocaine . . . very hot!

posted by Pierre on November 1st 2007 at 5:39pm
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that pillow is only worth about $14.99 and even than I wouldn't put it in my home.

posted by iceblink on November 1st 2007 at 7:34pm
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I think the searches themselves are pretty astonishing. My lord, are we really that shallow???

posted by Charlotte on November 2nd 2007 at 1:49am
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Honestly, I never heard of Mrs. Hingis until 2 days ago. But seriously... there is something KIND of conceptually intersting about capturing the ephemeral quality of the randomness of internet searches to grab a piece of the zeitgeist and take it home.

And really, if you think about it, a throw pillow is a fairly changeable piece of decor, so it's not really that far off.

I really would like to see a different typeface, though. Like... maybe Courier New?

Still, it's really not every home this would look good in. I agree with both the person who said that it would eventually be a piece of clutter to get rid of, and the person who liked the idea of a whole collection of them showing various periods.

posted by Curtis on November 2nd 2007 at 3:07am
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I think the typeface (Helvetica) is supposed to be part of the pop culture statement. So not hot ... autism, cancer and Hurricane Katrina as decoration? I don't think so.

posted by robyn on November 2nd 2007 at 3:38am
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Horrible. Shows no sense of taste, style or imagination. Coupling Paris Hilton and autism on a pillow? Sorry, but not amused.

posted by SMM on November 2nd 2007 at 3:59am
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robyn, that's Times, not Helvetica. helvetica's a sans serif font.

posted by ridge_van_winkle on November 2nd 2007 at 4:14am
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D'oh! I didn't finish my post ... I meant to add that it would've made more sense to use Arial such as google actually does, rather than Times.

posted by ridge_van_winkle on November 2nd 2007 at 4:17am
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Im sure everyone has at least one friend who tries way too hard to be hip and cool. I have one of those friends, and I would not be surprised at all if this shows up in her living room.

posted by SleepyDweller on November 2nd 2007 at 4:46am
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ridge v.w. Thanks for the info, I read on another blog that it was Helvetica (I know nothing about fonts!).

posted by robyn on November 2nd 2007 at 5:06am
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Hot... I like it. It's social commentary on a pillow. And if someone collected several years' worth, it would be even hotter.

posted by shani-o on November 2nd 2007 at 5:23am
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It's a great conversation starter. See above.

posted by Mason on November 2nd 2007 at 6:19am
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PLEASE contact me so I can give you a steaming pile of my finest work and I'll overcharge you since that's what you like. I'd rather be boring than someone like you.

Wow, DJluckyonline. Getting personal...so classy.

posted by frontiersperson on November 2nd 2007 at 7:29am
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The problem isn't the design so much as the subject matter. If google had been around for a hundred years and we could pick and choose from a less depressing list of statistics, maybe it would be better. A 1920s pillow with "talkies", "Model T", and "speakeasy" would be kind of charming; a recent pillow with Britney Spears or Paris Hilton, not so much.

posted by dancingspring on November 2nd 2007 at 8:51am
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I think this pillow should include a self-destruct timer set to 15 minutes.

posted by hejiranyc on November 2nd 2007 at 9:31am
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This would be great for a nursery. I think it would be cool for a baby to have a pillow of hot topics from the year that they were born in!

posted by KBinBC on November 5th 2007 at 6:26am
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