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While this image may look new to you, the name will not be. This is actually a McDonald's restaurant in Tokyo that's been reworked. The store sells two items - a Quarter Pounder with Cheese meal, and a Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese meal, and nothing else. And according to American bloggers who've visited the clownless counter, they are indeed Quarter Pounders; they just get served to you in a black and red nightclubbish sort of room. Apparently, this little experiment has become a huge success, and it's the first time we've seen a global brand strip (or rather, de-Americanize) itself of the expected trappings, while keeping the core product intact. Even the website for the store has been left devoid of everything arch-y.

http://www.quarter-pounder.net

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As stores around the world release their fabulous holiday gift catalogues, we couldn't pass up the chance to talk a little about the most fabulous of them all - World Vision's 2008 Christmas Catalogue. It's an amazing concept; choose from dozens of ways to help those who are most certainly in greater need than you. For instance, $110 will buy 4 hens and 2 roosters for a family, providing them with up to 300 eggs a year, or for $75 you can help a Congolese child soldier get restored to a life - as a child. Goats, alpacas, text books, blankets, medical vaccinations, counseling, soccer balls, a beehive - the list is not only impressive; it's outstanding and just may make you rethink how badly your next door neighbour really needs that fruitcake this year. These life-changing gifts start at just $25.

https://catalogue.worldvision.ca/gifts/Forms/Home.aspx?mc=3221603&lang=en

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Well the temperature is dropping slowly, which means that my appetite is starting to wake up again, and it wants comfort food. The people at Smitten Kitchen have found a way to lure you into staying home on a Sunday afternoon and cooking. By signing up to their free food blog, you'll receive to your inbox, periodic little e-feasts, replete with gorgeous photos and the accompanying recipe for the featured item, which today was Mushroom and Barley Pie (pictured). Smitten we are.

http://smittenkitchen.com

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This image comes to us as part of the collective visual identity for the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Throughout it all, athletic power and human might are shown ornamented with water and vegetation motifs to represent humanity within nature's forces - and done so quite appealingly. The result is a set of dynamic images that will adorn the various Olympic sites throughout British Columbia when the world's fastest and strongest convene, just over a year from now.

http://www.vancouver2010.com

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Holiday shopping is upon us again, and what better way to say, "I'm scarily obsessed with you" than to have commissioned a life-sized replica of your stalkee by American artist Nathan Sawaya. Coming in at around $60,000 USD, Sawaya's sculptures are among the less expensive gift ideas in the 'WOW' pages of Neiman-Marcus's new holiday catalogue.

Those looking to spend a little more might consider some of the other wares in this wish book supreme, including a $110,000 Harlem Globetrotters Playing Experience or the $1,000,000 custom, three-hole golf course, designed by Jack Nicklaus. (Construction and property costs not included, but the Golden Bear himself will stop by to play the first round with you.) Glad tidings indeed.

http://www.nathansawaya.com

http://www.neimanmarcus.com/store/sitelets/christmasbook/christmasbook.jhtml?_requestid=57434

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Dutch designer Jonas Samson wants to shed a little light on the world, and he strives to do it beautifully with this wallpaper that doubles as a light source. When turned off, your walls will appear to be covered with - well, wallpaper, but when turned on, they'll look like that. The inclusion of tiny LEDs in the paper will ensure your room inspires those within, which of course, turns us on.

http://www.jonassamson.com

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While this image may look new to you, the name will not be. This is actually a McDonald's restaurant in Tokyo that's been reworked. The store sells two items - a Quarter Pounder with Cheese meal, and a Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese meal, and nothing else. And according to American bloggers who've visited the clownless counter, they are indeed Quarter Pounders; they just get served to you in a black and red nightclubbish sort of room. Apparently, this little experiment has become a huge success, and it's the first time we've seen a global brand strip (or rather, de-Americanize) itself of the expected trappings, while keeping the core product intact. Even the website for the store has been left devoid of everything arch-y.

http://www.quarter-pounder.net

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As stores around the world release their fabulous holiday gift catalogues, we couldn't pass up the chance to talk a little about the most fabulous of them all - World Vision's 2008 Christmas Catalogue. It's an amazing concept; choose from dozens of ways to help those who are most certainly in greater need than you. For instance, $110 will buy 4 hens and 2 roosters for a family, providing them with up to 300 eggs a year, or for $75 you can help a Congolese child soldier get restored to a life - as a child. Goats, alpacas, text books, blankets, medical vaccinations, counseling, soccer balls, a beehive - the list is not only impressive; it's outstanding and just may make you rethink how badly your next door neighbour really needs that fruitcake this year. These life-changing gifts start at just $25.

https://catalogue.worldvision.ca/gifts/Forms/Home.aspx?mc=3221603&lang=en

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Well the temperature is dropping slowly, which means that my appetite is starting to wake up again, and it wants comfort food. The people at Smitten Kitchen have found a way to lure you into staying home on a Sunday afternoon and cooking. By signing up to their free food blog, you'll receive to your inbox, periodic little e-feasts, replete with gorgeous photos and the accompanying recipe for the featured item, which today was Mushroom and Barley Pie (pictured). Smitten we are.

http://smittenkitchen.com

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This image comes to us as part of the collective visual identity for the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Throughout it all, athletic power and human might are shown ornamented with water and vegetation motifs to represent humanity within nature's forces - and done so quite appealingly. The result is a set of dynamic images that will adorn the various Olympic sites throughout British Columbia when the world's fastest and strongest convene, just over a year from now.

http://www.vancouver2010.com

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Holiday shopping is upon us again, and what better way to say, "I'm scarily obsessed with you" than to have commissioned a life-sized replica of your stalkee by American artist Nathan Sawaya. Coming in at around $60,000 USD, Sawaya's sculptures are among the less expensive gift ideas in the 'WOW' pages of Neiman-Marcus's new holiday catalogue.

Those looking to spend a little more might consider some of the other wares in this wish book supreme, including a $110,000 Harlem Globetrotters Playing Experience or the $1,000,000 custom, three-hole golf course, designed by Jack Nicklaus. (Construction and property costs not included, but the Golden Bear himself will stop by to play the first round with you.) Glad tidings indeed.

http://www.nathansawaya.com

http://www.neimanmarcus.com/store/sitelets/christmasbook/christmasbook.jhtml?_requestid=57434

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