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Black Book: 14 Products Our Editors Loved in July 2026

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The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music
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Streaming made music infinite. Which made discovery harder. Here’s how we’re finding our way back.

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A Few Days with Altos Tequila, from Arandas to Mexico City

The minute we got the itinerary for our trip to Mexico with the folks from Altos Tequila, we knew it was going to be memorable. Three days, from Arandas (North, in Jalisco) to Mexico City, with a bunch of fun stuff packed in between. We’d be hitting one of Mexico…

By Maxwell Barna
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Elevate Your S’mores With the Grubstick S’more Kit

Grubstick, described as the "world's first telescoping roasting stick," is a patented stick with an extending arm that's going to elevate your s'mores. The various iterations of the Grubstick S'more Kit contain the extending handle and a collection of attachable devices suitable for cooking everything from s'mores and dogs to…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Animated Vintage Book Covers

German artist and animator Henning M. Lederer just released another collection of 36 animated vintage book covers that are trippy as hell. The collection of books he animated runs the gamut in terms of discipline, but most of them focus on educational texts. Chemical Calculations. The New Technology and Human Values.…

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Get Paid to Drink Whisky and Travel the World

Grant's Whisky is looking for a global brand ambassador, which is a fancy way of saying they're looking for someone who will travel the world convincing people to drink their whisky. Which means the traveler is also going to be drinking a lot of whisky. The application process has three…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Listen to More Than 25,000 Digitized 78rpm Records for Free

If you haven't heard of it already, the Great 78 Project is a collection of digitized 78rpm discs that the Internet Archive has been putting together for almost a year with the help of of volunteer collectors, George Blood LP and the Archive of Contemporary Music. As of this writing…

By Cooper Fleishman
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