8 thoughts on “fur”

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   September 18, 2003 13:57

   patricia

   hmm. Have to say making little furry covers never occurred to me … but if we replaced the apple with a heart, i could see maybe taking on the project. 😀

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   September 18, 2003 15:25

   christian

   I bet there is an overwelming number of women using ibook. Just because the colors are so nice, or they match their new sofa and curtains. oh yes I would kill for a lightblue pc with a teddybear painted on the chassis. 😉

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   September 18, 2003 15:39

   Henning

   Can’t say I want this for my iBook. Or my reputation. Anyways, think I read a piece in Wired online about Japanese communities for modifying the appearance of macs.
   […surfing…]
   Ah, here’s the link:

   http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,56085,00.html

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   September 18, 2003 16:46

   Mark H

   Right now I’d be happy if I hadn’t dropped my son’s monitor on my iBook keyboard. There were tears. Although the furry stuff might have helped comfort me through the trauma.

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   September 18, 2003 16:48

   Matt K.

   Those hirsute guys in ZZ Top used to play fuzzy guitars:

   http://www.kochanowicz.com/zztop.jpg

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   September 18, 2003 23:56

   Jill

   Actually, it reminds me of Meret Oppenheim’s furry cup from 1936. I remember being shown that slide in an art history lecture when I was about 22 and being shocked when the lecturer said that it was an explicit sexual statement and caused an uproar, especially coming from a female artist. Concave, furry, see? Obvious in retrospect, and I’m surprised, really, that none of the commentators here today have raised the sexual connotations of a woman adding fur to her iBook.

   And of course there are no colours on new iBooks. They’re white, straight-edged and slim-lined and would only go with a minimalist sofa. Unless you paint them or fur them.

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   September 20, 2003 17:29

   Rorschach

   Concave, furry, and sexual? I read the link but I couldn’t assertain whether the artist acknowldged that it was a sexual statement. After seeing the picture was the uproar caused by a man with an overactive rightousness complex or did the artist say, “Yes, it’s supposed to be a sexual innuendo?”

   I like the idea of adding fur to my Powerbook though. Nothing sexual — I think it might protect it when my son and/or daughter (or I) drop it. I don’t think I’ll do pink though …

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   September 23, 2003 23:01

   Jill

   My ancient bronze powerbook recently survived a straihgt drop from two metres onto hard, cold concrete. The CD-player’s kind of loose but still works, and everything else is fine. Slow, but it’s been slow for ages.

   I’m impressed, I have to admit.

   And fur’s not necessary, it seems 🙂

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