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Relaunch

Meredith — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:09:17 +0000

Welcome back to Pink Blog! I was away for a few months because I was working on two theses for college, and then I went to Japan for three months for an internship. I found some cool pink stuff there, and of course I’ll be posting some of it! I’m back now, and this semester will be more laid-back, so it should be easy to keep up with posting. I’ve changed the design to go with the relaunch of Pink Blog. Thanks for reading!

Pink Phones Blog

Meredith — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:16:13 +0000

Just want to point your attention to Pink Phones, a blog about…well, pink phones! It is run by Syuzi and she does a great job of picking up phones I’ve never heard of – mostly those for the Asian market. Happy to have you on my blogroll, Syuzi!

Nobody Knows

Meredith — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:01:28 +0000

This picture is from Picture is Unrelated, a blog about pictures that have no explanation but are definitely weird. I thought this was too cute to pass up!

Microsoft’s Project Pink

Meredith — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:57:57 +0000

I realize the project is probably dead in the water already, but it seems strange that Microsoft was launching a smartphone line called Pink. Let’s be honest here, pink is a gendered color; I know Real Men Wear Pink, but if you take a poll of technology users, it’s going to be the women who buy up the pink ones. I don’t see anything about an actual pink-colored phone being part of the lineup (which is why there’s no picture on this entry), so it’s not like men would be carrying something pink, but they’d still have to say they “just bought a Pink phone” which is going to sound weird. I just find the whole idea weird. Surely there’s more names to choose from!

Lipstick Bail Bonds

Meredith — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:10:29 +0000

This lovely pink SmartCar is owned by Lipstick Bail Bonds, a bail bonds agency owned by – get this – twin female ex-cops. They also do a bit of bounty hunting, as reported by the National Enquirer. They drive pink SUVs and use pink handcuffs. If you like what they do, there’s a full selection of merchandise available.

Pinkwashing

Meredith — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:45:51 +0000

From the Think Before You Pink campaign:

Pinkwasher: (pink’-wah-sher) noun. A company that purports to care about breast cancer by promoting a pink ribbon campaign, but manufactures products that are linked to the disease.

This is an excellent point. As much as we here at PinkBlog (okay, me, there’s only one of me) love that everything under the sun is now available in pink, we really have to admit that sometimes that 1% donation to a breast cancer fund is not at all practical or even helpful. I’ve seen small print where companies say “up to $10,000 will be donated” – which is to say, if enough people buy the pink whatzits, then the rest above $10k is pure profit for the company. You think you’re doing something good, but read the fine print.

On a related note, the Buy (Less) Crap people focus on the (RED) campaign and help you to give money directly without consuming.

Juicy Couture

Meredith — Tue, 26 May 2009 00:31:07 +0000

If you click the thumbnail on this entry, you can read the entire contents of the Juicy Couture “about us” page. I don’t get it either. They sure do have a lot of pink products though.

Dollie

Meredith — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:34:03 +0000

I got bored so I made this dollie at the eLouai Dollmaker!

Search by Color

Meredith — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:55:20 +0000

You can now search Google Images by color! As an example, here is a search for the word “cat” with the color pink applied. I’m kind of surprised there’s not more Pink Panther there. It does a really good job recognizing colors, too – there’s nothing on there that isn’t some shade of pink.

Hello Kitty Pink

Meredith — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:46:07 +0000

Came upon a cute site – Hello Kitty Pink. Seems to catalog mostly Hello Kitty stuff that is mostly pink. Good enough for me!