January 26, 2009
When we think about the evolution of hip hop, we're guessing one of the last things that comes to mind is a blinking cursor. This new collaboration from Microsoft and hip-hopper Common has us trying them both on for size -- literally. This spring sees the debut of Softwear by Microsoft, a vivid line of T-shirts emblazoned with the typical iconography of early operating systems and other visual nods to the origin of the computer age, including, of course, an actual picture of the Don himself, Bill Gates as a squeeky, geeky, trouble-making adolescent.


Screw government bailouts for automakers. Know what can save Detroit? T-shirts. Since
I did it! I found the quintessential image of 2008! In a search that's taken me through the eternal galleries of Flickr to the back back ends of Google images, it took a visit to the movie blog
Imagine you're a street merchant selling election paraphernalia, and you've been making bank. Well, come tomorrow, the party's over. All that clever sloganeering that pops up along the street-vendor corridor on 17th Street between Broadway and Fourth Avenue and Union Square may or may not dramatically scale back after the election. According to the
He really does! The native Detroit rocker is giving a little back and partnering with Wayne State University to fund a music scholarship to boost Detroit youth interest in music and, presumably, all things that rock the rust belt. His T-shirt company, "
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