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Style Daily Style & Design News: May 7, 2009

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Terry Kennedy and the Supra team have been resting up. Here comes 7 days of skating and partying. See you in NY next Saturday, May 16.

Photos of the DJ Hero video game controller. Oh jeez. [Gizmodo]

According to the next door bodega owner, the new Pepsi cans are bricking. Coke is about to sweep in with a re-design of its own. Monkey see, monkey do. [The Die Line]

UXA x DC Shoes in the Big Apple NYC. [Sneaker News]

Absolut has had a tough time with the rise of young punks like Grey Goose and Belvedere, but it stay creative, son! [Pedestrian]

Simian Mobile Disco
(the guys who made the original “We are Your Friends” that Justice remixed) is dropping an album in a bit. While you wait, check this semi SFW video. It’s pretty awesome. [Youtube]

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Politics & Crime When Drug Smugglers Get Creative

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Yesterday, the U.S. coast guard captured a submarine-like vessel stuffed with seven tons of cocaine. That, my friends, is a lot of blow. Minimum $187 million if you can get it to the street. But that’s the thing'getting it to the street is hard.

Submarines are definitely the new high-roller smuggling devices, but there have been some decidedly more low budget methods used in the past. You hear it all, from jamming it down your food pipe to packing it into dead babies. The cartels are always trying to stay one step ahead, until they get caught, of course, and have to get back to the drawing board. From the funny to the tragic, we’ve compiled some of the most creative tactics used to cross the border…

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