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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
Accessories
iPad Dry Erase Board

Despite what we told ourselves when we bought them, we really don’t use our iPads for work like we said we would when we tried to justify the expense.  We use them to watch non-Flash videos, download pages of apps and fling birds across their screen.  While this iPad Dry…

By Mike Newman
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Steelplant Desktop Dumpster

Like it or not, almost all men have desks. it could be an actual desk you're chained to from 9-5 or a converted dining room table, but it exists. It starts clean (sometimes), but by the time the end of the day rolls around, it's probably once again filled with…

By Ben Dahl
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Misc
10 Rugged Jobs Most Men Would Die For

Unless companies change what they make laptop keyboards out of we will never come home from a day of work with dirt caked under our fingernails. Sometimes we are happy about that but often we end up staring at a Word document wishing we could do something more rugged for…

By Mike Newman
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Turtle Pens

Handwriting things is more personal, more creative and frequently more convenient than typing. If you didn't have a pen, how would you doodle during meetings you're forced to attend but have no reason to be at? How would you write thank you notes to your gramma for that $20 she…

By Ben Dahl
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UI Stencils Browser Sketchpad

We live in a Web 4.0 kind of world where any dude with an Internet connection and an idea (pretty much all of us) can be on the cover of TIME almost overnight. For all of us armchair designer/developers though, something always seems to get lost in translation. This button…

By Ben Dahl
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