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Diet Coke by Jean Paul Gaultier

Six Point Resin, Dollar Shave Club, Literary Book Madness and more in our look at the web this week

In this gleeful and perhaps a wee bit creepy promotional video, the fashion designer injects some zing into the dance routine of a starlet named Irene (and a paparazzi camera done over in his signature blue and white stripes). He dresses the doe-eyed marionette in what we presume to be custom miniature JPG duds, feeds her some Diet Coke and takes her game to the …

Dollar Shave Club

Six Point Resin, Dollar Shave Club, Literary Book Madness and more in our look at the web this week

Michael Dubin and Mark Levine launched the money-saving mail-order service in April 2011, shipping quality razors for a mere $3. Smart enough, but it was the promotional video that put them on the map. Originally created as a pitch to investors, the hilarious skit—among its declarations: “Your handsome-ass grandfather only had one blade…and polio!”—also won over everyone with an Internet connection this week.