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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

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Our favorite places to stay, eat, drink, explore, and linger in one of Mexico's most captivating beach towns.

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Gerber Impromptu Tactical Pen

It could be the fact that we all have so many of them of them, but we seem to demand more and more from our tools on a daily basis. That applies to pens, too. We like the simplicity of only having a cool ink deployment system and clean lines,…

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Mercedes-Benz Silver Slipstreams

Extreme downhill skateboarding - a sport often referred to as insane and terrifying - is actually a precision dance between man and road, requiring the utmost in performance from both the rider and the piece of hardwood with four wheels attached to it. It’s fitting that Mercedes Benz chose to…

By Kevin McCauley
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Gear Patrol x DSPTCH Camera Straps

We know first hand how many pictures the guys over at Gear Patrol take. Let's just say they might as well invest in few SD card companies. So this collection of camera straps they just came out with in conjunction with DSPTCH is totally fitting for them and damn sharp for…

By Mike Newman
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A Cycling Lexicon

Before this book came across our proverbial desks we never really thought about bicycle headbadges. The tiny addition to your bike headset kind of gets lost in the grand scheme of everything else about the bike, but it shouldn't. These little works of art generally predate car badges, and collecting…

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Absolut Transform Today

If hard alcohol brands were honest, their commercials would just be a bunch of people stumbling home from the bar attempting to jump over trashcans and slurring their speech. That probably wouldn't move a lot of product, however, so brands have had to get innovative. This latest ad/short movie from…

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