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Justin Bieber duct tape

Cory Doctorow at 9:44 am Tue, Oct 16, 2012

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Sign of the end-times part MMMLXVII: Justin Bieber duct-tape is a thing. "Containing four black and white images of the teen idol and incorporating hints of his favorite color -- purple -- the tape is sure to be a number one hit with 'Beliebers' everywhere."

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  • MooseDesign

    Songs that just stick in your head. Or on it.

    • http://codeflow.org/ Florian Bösch

      Best use would be gag him with said tape, especially during recording sessions and concerts.

      • MooseDesign

        Kinky!

        • http://codeflow.org/ Florian Bösch

          Necessary preventive action to avoid further crimes against humanity by means of distribution of malicious audio signals.

      • Laurent Dubois

        I second that comment and add that we could tape him somewhere on a wall and let him appreciate the sound of silence for a few months.

        • http://daruiburns.tumblr.com/ Dlo Burns

          But the vocaloid machine would need to be unplugged

  • dmc10

    I’ll assume I’m not the only one who was thinking, hoping, this was duct tape to be used ON Justin Beiber?

    • Chuck

      “I can’t exactly explain it, officer.  The label on the tape spoke to me.  It told me to abduct Justin Bieber, restrain him with duct tape, drive him out into the woods, and show the world that there’s still such a thing as justice.”

      “I see.  Well, thank you for volunteering that, but it looks like you’re a little late.  Some tweenage girls apparently got here to Mr. Bieber’s house first, and did something … similar.  But probably different.”

      “Yeah.  Looks like they bought an awful lot of this tape.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1271680112 Felix Tannenbaum

    the perfect accessory for my white panel van.

  • GawainLavers

    Perfect for dealing with your child’s discipline problems.  Maybe they can also make a Bieber glue.

  • mocm

    Why is it so hard to spell Bieber?

    • mappo

       It’s not, it’s just hard to care.

    • http://daruiburns.tumblr.com/ Dlo Burns

      Bieber is german for beaver. So just imagine saying it in accent and spelling it phonetically.

      I don’t even know why I just bothered with that.

  • saint_al

    Just let Bieber fizzle out. It shouldn’t take long. 

    • http://twitter.com/beep54orama B E Pratt

       Sorry, but if that were true Bieber would have disappeared years ago. Don’t hate on the Bieb!

    • http://daruiburns.tumblr.com/ Dlo Burns

      What if he doesn’t and becomes the PM of Canada? That would mean americans might finally become interested in canadian politics. The horror.

  • http://twitter.com/MBRigney Marc Rigney

    I assumed that this tape was supposed to be used on Beliebers, to muffle the incessant squealing.

  • SofaKing

    How long before this ‘design’ appears on the hot new ‘kinetic’ tape that the athletes are adhering all over their bodies (Olympics)?  Will we soon see LeBron with several little Bieber-faces slapped across his thighs?

  • Robert Cruickshank

    Every time I walk into my local drugstore, I have to walk past a display for Justin Bieber’s Girlfriend cologne. Now I’m going to think about this product every time I see that one.  Thanks for that.

  • welcomeabored

    I can’t always tell, in the PR agency’s fevered attempt to promote their client and make a buck, if having a publicist is a help or a hinderance to a celebrity’s career.  The client often ends up looking ridiculous and the public gets sick of him/her.  So many movies I refused to see because I was tired of the actors.

  • welcomeabored

    For example, have you checked out the Brad Pitt, $7 million, Chanel #5 commercial?  For those of us silly enough to be suceptible to the validity of rumors of how Brad smells (me), this was ripe with irony.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGs4CjeJiJQ&feature=plcp

    • Antinous / Moderator

      I was waiting for him to say, “1791 was the year it happened. I was 24, younger than you are now. But times were different then, I was a man at that age: the master of a large plantation just south of New Orleans.”

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61015448 Laura Almond

        Yeah, saw that ad today and kept thinking “I quite like this guy, films ain’t bad and he’s doing some stuff for sustainable housing ….. please, please, please don’t be for a scent……. Doh!”

  • creesto

    Can someone explain to me how people have favorite colors or favorite foods or whatever faves? My life is one experience after the next, many new some repeated…I guess my ‘favorite’ would be breathing…

  • Boundegar

    I know an electrician who needs a roll of this.  He doesn’t know it, but he needs it.

    • fuzzyfuzzyfungus

      Arg. Don’t substitute duct tape for electrical tape. It angers Thor!

  • awjt

    Now we need a Britney spear and a Lady gag.

  • otterhead

    I can’t wait to make LARP weapons with this stuff.

    “Two damage by Bieber!”

  • bolamig

    Sounds like a good way to mark your tools so that nobody thinks they are theirs.  

  • snagglepuss

    No, no, NO !

    You don’t use this stuff to silence Beiber’s squealing FANS – You use it to tie somebody who already hates him, and is also a person WHOM YOU HATE AS WELL, to a tree or a fire hydrant or some other secure object before starting “Baby Baby Baby” on and endless loop. Be sure to alert any heartless human behaviorists and torture porn devotees beforehand, so that they can bring popcorn and chairs.

  • gumbowing

    I thought it was a can of chewing tobacco at first!
    Now that would be a sure sign of end times.

  • Nylund

    I’m still upset that a company decided to promote the mispronunciation of duct tape by naming its product after the common mistake.  Yes, I know this is not a recent thing.  I’ve been upset for quite some time.

  • http://daruiburns.tumblr.com/ Dlo Burns

    Is it just me or has he gotten really generic looking recently? 

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/EKJ35FV64KCANV3L3YURNCLHGU stan p

    I was upset…but then I just sat up…now all is well