These toothy ladies' shoes (origin unknown) are a nice complement for the tooth-soled Apex Predator shoes we wrote about last month.
(via Kadrey)
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12:08 pm Thu
Nov 8, 2012
Toothy ladies' shoes
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Common sense: the Chomsky/Piaget debates come to AI
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Got stockings to stuff? Black Friday just came early.
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