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Review: One Year With the Tiami Mattress
By Adam Szafranski
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My Girlfriend Loves Design, So I Got Her an Arc Alarm Clock from NanuElectrics

Useful can be beautiful. The best gifts are.

By Johnny Motley
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The Coolest Home Gifts for 2025

For the home, for the win.

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The Essential Tools for Red Wine Lovers

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Arrogant Bastard Ale Burning Trinity of Hot Sauces

There are only two things guaranteed to turn any culinary experience from good to awesome, beer and hot sauce. On its own, beer does a damn fine job of making just about anything more enjoyable. Unfortunately, drowning your tacos, chinese food and/or chili in it isn't just messy, it's frowned…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Behind Simple Ingenuity

This post is brought to you by Saab. At Saab, we believe in independent thinking. It’s in everything we do. Learn more here. Some of the greatest inventions of the modern era--the microprocessor, the internal combustion engine, Bloody Marys--took years of development and contain complex systems and parts working in…

By Tim Jacobsen
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Spacewalker Junior Lamp

Perhaps movies like Independence Day have made us a bit fearful of what extraterrestrial life might bring to our planet.  The little buggers are always shown blasting ray-guns at our historic landmarks instead of, say, coming in peace with a few cold ones.  We can tell you this, if some little…

By Mike Newman
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ImagineNations

The most fun we ever had with a globe was when we were kids and we would spin one and randomly stop it with the press of a finger to determine the location in which we would die.  In hindsight, it was super morbid and pretty odd.  Plus, we always…

By Mike Newman
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We don't remember much from our business classes at community college, but the words of one particularly influential professor will stick with us for the rest of our lives. "No one likes change but a wet baby." Generally, he's right. He couldn't be further from the truth when it comes…

By Cooper Fleishman
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