New Hype Machine Launched
Get your barf bag ready, this one is a clunky monkey to be sure and the new logo is atrocious, kind of like staring at a steaming turd that’s arrived on your plate at a swanky restaurant only to find a giant slice of undigested corn and a toenail sticking out of the gnarled gooey end. Who designs shit like this? Terrible.

iTunes Plus Price Drop
DRM-Free Tracks with Higher Quality 256 kbps AAC Encoding, Apple today announced that it has expanded its iTunes Plus offering to over two million tracks and lowered the price of all iTunes Plus tracks to just 99 cents. Unfortunately Australians miss out on iTunes price cut.

Bathing Ape
I dig all things BAPE (Bathing Ape), the Japanese clothing company founded by a Nigo (Tomoaki Nagao) that specializes in super cool clothing and has since branched out to open Bape Cuts hair salon, Bape Café and gallery, Bape Sounds records. I understand his take on all things pop as he’s an extravagant collector of objects including toys, art, and Americana, His 300 buck sneakers are a bit out of my price range, and Condé Nast wonders if he sell out and turn his brand into a global icon, a hip-hop Polo, or will he crash and burn?

Top Ten Truly Terrible Halloween Treats
From Yes But No But Yes: “Over the years the traditional Halloween offering CANDY has been loosing muster. For some unknown reason people have taken it upon themselves to get creative with what they give out to the little tykes who show up on their doorstep. More and more people shun candy for other alternatives. And, as always, it’s the kids that suffer.”

Guerilla street stencils
Via Wooster Collective “From Ryan in Vancouver comes word that the local police are using guerilla street stencils as a way to deter car thieves. The ‘bait car’ program has been going on in the city for the last few years and the stencils are a new way to promote it.