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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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Kaweco Liliput Ballpoint Pen

Do you go through notebooks like you go through beer? Do you have a to-do list that never seems to end and an ever growing list of things you really don’t want to forget? It took us a while, but we finally realized we needed a pen as cool and…

By Ben Dahl
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Sliced Bread Notebooks

Are these notebooks the greatest thing since sliced bread? We don't know. You can't throw a few pieces of cajun turkey and a slice of cheddar on them for lunch, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. In case the name didn't give it away, this is a package of…

By Ben Dahl
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Tagsmith Leather Moleskine Covers

If you have a to-do list that’s too long to fit in one of our Shit I Gotta Fucking Get Done notebooks or you’re just writing down something you want to be a little more permanent, you probably want to step up to something closer to a Moleskine. It’s not…

By Ben Dahl
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Inkleaf Leather Co. Field Notes Cover

With over fifteen different apps on our phones (and countless more available) for reminders, appointments, notes and to-dos, not to mention e-mail, it's a wonder that we even interact with paper anymore. And yet, like clockwork, we find ourselves whipping out a pocket notebook to write something down at least…

By Ben Dahl
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Heavy Equipment Calendar 2012

Next to guns, gigantic machines capable of moving the earth are pretty much the coolest things out there. Just looking at them sends us back to sandboxes filled with Tonka trucks when we were five. It's a crazy sort of awe and mystery that even the most ridiculous new cell…

By Ben Dahl
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