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12 Bad-Ass Chess Sets
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12 Bad-Ass Chess Sets

The game of chess is a timeless classic, challenging players from 6th century India all the way up to today. We can’t tell you how much it’s changed in those 1500 years, but we can tell you modern people are putting their own spin on it. They’re changing up pieces,…

15 Classic Cars That Define Cool
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15 Classic Cars That Define Cool

We've overheard guys say they don't care what kind of car they drive as long as it gets them from Point A to Point B. Those guys are liars. Who wouldn't want to own a car that turns more heads than a bikini car wash? Maybe these guys have only…

The History of Headphones
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The History of Headphones

Surprisingly, not everyone wants to hear our music. When we were pumping our LCD Soundsystem mixtape, others in the office said they couldn’t “concentrate” and they “wished we were fired.” For this, and for many other reasons, headphones are an absolute necessity in our daily lives. It was long before…

  • 12 Bad-Ass Chess Sets
    Articles
    12 Bad-Ass Chess Sets

    The game of chess is a timeless classic, challenging players from 6th century India all the way up to today. We can’t tell you how much it’s changed in those 1500 years, but we can tell you modern people are putting their own spin on it. They’re changing up pieces,…

  • 15 Classic Cars That Define Cool
    Articles
    15 Classic Cars That Define Cool

    We've overheard guys say they don't care what kind of car they drive as long as it gets them from Point A to Point B. Those guys are liars. Who wouldn't want to own a car that turns more heads than a bikini car wash? Maybe these guys have only…

  • The History of Headphones
    Articles
    The History of Headphones

    Surprisingly, not everyone wants to hear our music. When we were pumping our LCD Soundsystem mixtape, others in the office said they couldn’t “concentrate” and they “wished we were fired.” For this, and for many other reasons, headphones are an absolute necessity in our daily lives. It was long before…

The Biology of Getting Drunk

Image from The Hangover courtesy of Film Drunk It’s something we humans have been doing for ages, and it goes by many names: getting inebriated, plastered, wasted, housed, trashed, canned, trash-canned, and of course drunk, or, as it’s often spelled in text messages, durnkk.  It turns out the most correct…

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How to Make Bacon from Scratch

Bacon.  It has a wonderful place in human history. Humans have eaten it for thousands of years, traded it as a staple of economies, and most recently, turned it into an internet meme. It’s no mystery why we have a love affair with Bacon. It’s the Christina Hendricks of meat…

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Gentlemen: What Your Drink Says About You

Gentlemen: What Your Drink Says About You                                                                            

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Badass Barbecues

Memorial Day is right around the corner, so you're probably scrambling with all the last minute preparations for the beer fueled, grilled meat decathlon that is the annual barbecue. Since grilling is the ultimate display of all things man, your grill should be a reflection of yourself - and excessively…

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Watches More Confusing Than LOST

There used to be a time when a man wore a watch to tell the time and watched tv shows that you could talk about intelligently without needing a PhD in Theoretical Physics - or bullshit. Those times are long gone. Lost is exactly what you're going to be with…

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