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The Most Famous Pen in History Turns 100 This Year
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The Most Famous Pen in History Turns 100 This Year
By Brett Braley
I Moved To Ireland For a 3-Month Brewing Internship. Here’s What It Was Like
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I Moved To Ireland For a 3-Month Brewing Internship. Here’s What It Was Like

I spent the last three months of 2022 working at Kinnegar Brewing, an Irish craft brewery in Letterkenny, County Donegal. For homebrewers who want to learn what it’s actually like to work in a brewery, an internship like this provides invaluable lessons—including lessons that can be applied to being a…

By Dillon McLaughlin
The Reversible ALTI Desk Mat Includes Wireless Charging
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The Reversible ALTI Desk Mat Includes Wireless Charging

We'll always be big fans of desk mats. While our previous favorites were standard cutting mats, those were quickly replaced once we found out about the ALTI Wireless Charging Desk Mat. The ALTI features a premium vegan leather surface on one side and plush felt on the other, with a…

By Ben Dahl
Dango Products Pen Tray
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Dango Products Pen Tray

Depending on how serious you are about your personal writing instruments, you probably already have at least one or two pens from Dango Products. If you do, you’re familiar with their approach to manufacturing. Namely, they make attractive, durable pens and desk accessories out of machined aluminum. This pen tray…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Rubber Band Machine Gun

It doesn't matter if you work in new media, investment banking or IT, office warfare is serious business. If you've never fashioned a metal ruler, rubber band and CD into a weapon of destruction, you don't know what you're missing. You could purchase a tiny (read: shitty) rubber band gun…

By Ben Dahl
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Ink Machined Pen

You could go through life treating the words you put on paper like the cheap, disposable pens you used to write them with, or you could pay them the decency of an heirloom quality writing device. The latest machined pen from Karas Kustoms is, Ink, a fountain or rollerball pen…

By Mike Newman
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Wipebook – The Whiteboard Notebook

You could carry around a gigantic whiteboard all the time and look like some crazy professor, or you could invest in a Wipebook. Wipebooks are basically notebooks that swap out the standard paper pages for whiteboard-esque sheets. What this results in is a smooth writing experience (think pen compared to…

By Mike Newman
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Never Lose Your Pen Cap With The PuterPen

We don't know who the stealth thief is who always steals our pen caps, perhaps the same dude who keeps removing one of our socks from the dryer, but we do know he's killing us. The PuterPen was designed to eliminate the annoyance of misplaced caps. Available in titanium or…

By Mike Newman
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Holiday Gift Guide: The Workaholic

Even though he might only peel himself away from his desk for the time it takes to open your gift, you can rest assured The Workaholic will love anything from this list. Whether it’s to help him stay organized, get more productive, or just look cooler while he plugs away,…

By Mike Newman
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