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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…

5 Iconoclasts and their Moment

Over the eons, the arc of human history has been bent towards a new future by many things: the invention of the wheel, the signing of the Magna Carta, the Renaissance, the split atom, a modified DeLorean. Many contend that history is shaped slowly, by the ebbs of cultural and…

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The Web’s Greatest Burger Recipes

There's a 99% chance you'll be around a grill at some point this Memorial Day Weekend. Included in that 1% of people who aren't are those too hungover to go outside and face the sun, those who somehow got caught at the office and the .0001% of the population that…

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iHops: 8 Brilliant Beer Apps

Until scientists much smarter than us figure out how to make pouring beer out of an iPhone a reality (ala that sweet Bud Light commercial), we're going to stick to consuming our favorite beverage the best way we know how - in copious quantities. However, that's doesn't mean saddling up…

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Behind Simple Ingenuity: The stories behind some of the simplest–and most brilliant–inventions ever

This post is brought to you by Saab. At Saab, we believe in independent thinking. It’s in everything we do. Learn more here. Some of the greatest inventions of the modern era--the microprocessor, the internal combustion engine, Bloody Marys--took years of development and contain complex systems and parts working in…

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