{"id":174,"date":"2006-06-13T18:09:48","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T01:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/13\/no-disintegrations\/"},"modified":"2006-06-13T18:09:48","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T01:09:48","slug":"no-disintegrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"No disintegrations!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nVancouver has this new, spruce up the city plan. Actually, they have several each year, which tends to keep a lot of local artists employeed, so that’s nice. They did something similar a couple of years back, only it was Orca whales – various parts around the city sponsored a whale and an artist would paint it to reflect the area. Most were so-so, but Bell Canada painted theirs to look like it was made of pixels and the library made theirs into a bookshelf, complete with fake, fiberglass books.<\/p>\n

This year, it’s spirit bears (or, as everyone assumes, polar bears – cuz that’s what they look like.) The one outside HMV takes the My Fav award, for obvious reasons. And you can hardly tell it’s a bear. One might say, you can barely tell. har har.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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