With Hurricane Sandy bearing down on the Northeast, we thought it might be a good time to re-post our March 2012 article regarding taping windows as hurricane preparation. Meeting in Orlando, FL this week, the National Hurricane Conference is making a new recommendation to homeowners as we approach the hurricane season that starts in June. […]
Participants Brian and Kevin Fleming on “Shark Tank“, the show about entrepeneurs’ pitches about new products, revealed that the idea for their invention the “Bag Bowl” was born from the need to provide water for a thirsty dog at a dog park. Kevin explained that the first Bag Bowl was made from gaffers tape and […]
Jim & Tim, The Duct Tape Guys, have some great suggestions for Halloween costumes, using duct tape. Click here to see their video. Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s fit to stick”. Send us your interesting tape news and we’ll share it with the world! Thetapeworks.com
The General Services Administration, in a clumsy attempt to cover up its free spending past, is using duct tape to cover up the names of former GSA Administrators on a building sign. Duct tape now conceals the names of former GSA Administrator Martha Johnson and Public Buildings Commissioner Robert Peck. Both officials have been linked […]
The “Naked Men” show at the Leopold Museum in Vienna is being promoted by a series of posters featuring naked men that have been placed around the city. The show features famous images of naked men and focuses on different artistic styles for presenting the male form. Parts of some of the posters have been […]
From Reddit Post: I’m a starving artist who has to make my own tape by cutting up scraps of fabric and brushing on a home-made concoction derived from the neighbors’ missing horses and spiders’ silk. Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s fit to stick”. Send us your interesting tape news and we’ll […]
Writing in his new biography Rod: The Autobiography, singer Rod Stewart credits that rock and roll staple, gaffers tape, for helping control the amount of sex that went on during his early touring days. Stewart writes about opening his hotel suite door only to find his naked bass player taped to the bed. You can […]
A video posted to the Huffington Post puts to rest the idea that bad guys in the movies putting duct tape over the mouths of their victims will keep them quiet. In the video we see that even with tape over your mouth, it is still possible to talk or to yell for help. We did […]
In providing guidelines for watching tonights’s vice presidential debate, the Huffington Post has revealed that starting today, Vice President Joe Biden should be known as “Gaffe Gafferson, the mayor of Gaffe Town, where they manufacture gaffers tape“. As the reigning monarch of tapenation.com, Mr. Tapehead thinks that he should have been consulted, or at least […]
A thief that used duct tape to try to silence a goat he was stealing left behind more than just the goat. The attempted theft of two goats, and the subsequent death of one of them, from a school’s agricultural barn generated evidence that police were able to use to eventually solve the crime. DNA […]