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Mini IdeaFarm™ – August 2010

By sindy | Published: August 21, 2010
Mini IdeaFarm™ – August 2010 Originally uploaded by sindy It’s been a whole year since my last IdeaFarm™ post and I thought I would post an update. I didn’t see the truck around for a while (at least in Mountain View– they apparently have people at locations all over the Bay Area), but then, a [...]
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IdeaFarm™ Returns – August 2009

By sindy | Published: September 15, 2009
IdeaFarm™ Returns – August 2009 Originally uploaded by sindy I meant to post this a while ago, but here it is now: the IdeaFarm™ truck reappeared at the corner of Castro St. and El Camino in Mountain View, CA in late August. It disappeared apparently on September 11 at the conclusion of its Political Economy [...]
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Nail Salon Stereotypes

By sindy | Published: August 29, 2009
I was looking up Platino pedicure chairs for a friend and found something amusing: the spatech website includes documentation (installation instructions, specs, etc.) on equipment and for this chair, they have non-English versions. The languages the documentation comes in? Korean and Vietnamese. While nail salons are stereotyped as being owned and run by Korean and [...]
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