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Link Roundups

The Best Cheap Champagne, Apple Smart Glasses, and Our Favorite Links of the Week
Link Roundups
The Best Cheap Champagne, Apple Smart Glasses, and Our Favorite Links of the Week
By John A. Paradiso
How to Read More Books, Drinking a Martini Like Ernest Hemingway, and Our Favorite Links of the Week
Link Roundups
How to Read More Books, Drinking a Martini Like Ernest Hemingway, and Our Favorite Links of the Week

A history of "f**k", stealing Andy Warhol prints, and more.

By John A. Paradiso
How to Dress Like a Dad, Ranking America’s Burger Chains, and Our Favorite Links of the Week
Link Roundups
How to Dress Like a Dad, Ranking America’s Burger Chains, and Our Favorite Links of the Week

How to lead an adventurous life, the first ever electric musical instrument, and more.

By John A. Paradiso
Timex’s $1 Watch, How to Pick Steak at the Grocery Store, and Our Favorite Links of the Week
Link Roundups
Timex’s $1 Watch, How to Pick Steak at the Grocery Store, and Our Favorite Links of the Week

The history of Halloween, Dunkin's horny spider donut, and more.

By John A. Paradiso
Entertainment
Women of No Pants Subway Ride Day 2011

The ultimate goal of most New Year's resolutions is more time without pants. Eating healthy, working out more and getting a better job all point in that direction. While most of us are probably already failing resolution wise, women the world over succeeded in epic fashion with Improv Everywhere's No…

By Ben Dahl
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Link Roundups
Porn Versions of Classic Films

The porn industry has a truly impressive talent for taking the seemingly innocuous titles of popular movies--titles absent of sexual innuendo--and somehow change a letter or two resulting in something that makes men grin and nuns faint. Well turns out that talent is just sort of genetically imbedded in some…

By Wylie Overstreet
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Halfanese

Francis Kmiecik, like most every other red-blooded male, has a penchant for hot women. But women with neon antlers, skeleton clothing, and giant tigers aren't frequently found (outside of Vegas) - so Kmiecik started illustrating them for his site Halfanese. Redheads, blondes, and brunettes with tattoos, fixies, and striped shirts…

By Ben Dahl
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Timba’s Illustration Department

If we did anything with print magazines (if you can remember what those are), Timba Smits would most certainly illustrate the covers. Timba's Illustration Department is a collection of his illustration works from Computer Arts Projects, Street Studio, Vampire Roller Babes, Beastie Boys, and the list goes on. His illustrations…

By Ben Dahl
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Hilo Chen Photorealistic Paintings

We're pretty sure that Hilo Chen is actually a robot in disguise because his paintings are so photo-realistic that it's the only solution that makes sense. There's just no way a mere mortal could capture the intricacies like he does. Things like sweat glistening on boobs, pussy placement (talking about…

By Ben Dahl
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