Archive for February, 2010
The Dark Arts
27, Feb 2010Etsy.com, the DIY/craft juggernaut, is the go-to place to buy and sell all things handmade. If you are familiar with this phenomenon, you would know that if it’s vintage button earrings and owl-themed stationary you desire, then Etsy has it locked down.
The Etsy craze is so hot right now that it was recently featured in [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Death + Art / Architecture| Death + Popular Culture| Death + the Web
- Tags: crafts, Etsy, jewelry
A Funeral Is Being Held for IE6 on March 4. Browser to Be Buried Without the Body
MG Siegler, Tech Crunch (February 23, 2010)
In response to Google’s announcement that come March 1, it will no longer support Internet Explorer 6, the Aten Design Group is holding a funeral for the much be-loathed, cantankerous old man that [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Humor| Death + the Web| Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: mock funerals
Sexy Coffin Calendar Showdown!
25, Feb 2010Coffin Calendars Are a Sexy Hit
New Poland Express (October 16, 2009)
via Trendhunter Magazine, “Controversial Casket Calendars”
Last October DeathRef tweeted about Italian coffin maker CofaniFunebri, which created a coffin product catalog featuring scantily clad goths. (This did not make the Death Reference Desk proper — while fine with being a sexy goth coffin calendar tweeter, I [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Humor| Funeral Industry
- Tags: coffins, marketing
Dying by the Numbers in Europe
24, Feb 2010Who Dies of What in Europe Before the Age of 65
Elodie Cayotte and Hartmut Buchow, Eurostat (2009)
On the heels of last week’s post about mortality rates in New York City, comes this hot hot hot report on how Europeans are dying. Special thanks to my good friend Gauti for sending it along.
The usual postmortem causing [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Crime| Death + the Law
- Tags: statistics, video
Funeral for the Aints
19, Feb 2010Jazz Funeral to Bury the Aints Nickname
Keith Spera, The Times-Picayune (February 19, 2010)
A short article out of New Orleans caught my mock funeral adoring attention: on Saturday at four, a jazz funeral procession will commence for the no longer relevant nickname, “the Aints.” Saints once more, the NFL team rocked the Superbowl a couple [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Popular Culture
- Tags: mock funerals