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UP by Jawbone

We flip through issues of Outside magazine while planning our next rock climbing expedition but until we gear up on the trip, most of our time is spent staring at PDF files and random websites. So, as much as we'd like to trick ourselves into thinking we're active beings with…

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“21 Jump Street” Red Band Trailer

21 Jump Street was a show about older police officers pretending to be younger kids in order to infiltrate high schools and colleges. Even though it sounds like every show on the CW, it originally aired in the late 80s and starred Johnny Depp. Just like everything else these days,…

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Logitech Mini Boombox

It seems like every time we open an internet browser we're being bombarded with the latest and greatest iPod / iPhone / iPad dock. We haven't played with all of them, but when you see 15 of them a week it's safe to say they aren't all good. And what…

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Any Chevrolet Volt Drivers Out There?

The Chevy Volt is getting a lot of attention these days, and if you drive a Volt, you are, too! Volt drivers say they’re constantly getting stopped at grocery stores and cornered in parking lots by curious onlookers wanting to know how the Volt works. Surely, you can relate. What…

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R.E.M. “Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982 – 2011”

These days, alternative rock music can be anything from The Strokes to Yeah Yeah Yeahs and just about everything in between. In the early 1980s though, it didn't even exist. And then R.E.M. came along. Unless you've been living under a rock for the past two decades, you've heard at…

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