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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
Home
County Comm Embassy Pen

No man should ever be without a pen. Something about writing in ink says "Yes, I mean business and I will definitely call you." Do you want to offer up a pencil so that she can write her digits? Of course not. What happens when you recover the next day…

By Ben Dahl
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Accessories
Sharpie Liquid Pencil

The folks over at Sharpie have apparently decided that something like the pencil--an invention that has existed as a graphite/lead-based writing implement for time immemorial--needed reinventing. Indeed, the Sharpie Liquid Pencil is the Cyberdyne Systems T-1000 to the traditional No. 2's T-101. Better in every way... and liquid. Terminator metaphors…

By Wylie Overstreet
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Crate and Barrel Hendrix Desk

A desk. It's the foundation upon which you write your novel, finish your manifesto, design your masterpiece, or, on a more mundane, daily level, watch  internet videos of cats doing retarded things. Regardless, a desk is where your ideas spring forth, and you shouldn't give short shrift when buying one.…

By Wylie Overstreet
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Stanley Lunch Box Cooler Set

Likely the last time you used a lunch box was when your shoes fastened with Velcro. Turns out lunch boxes have grown up in the time you have; they're no longer tiny boxes adorned with well-muscled heros. Take Stanley's Lunch Box Cooler set for instance. No matter what situation you…

By Wylie Overstreet
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Kaweco Aluminum Pen

There are pens, and then there are Pens.  And while the German-made Kaweco is still a humble ballpoint, it's a cut above any other we've seen.  Made from a solid piece of aluminum billet, the Kaweco is a solid, thick implement that feels good in your hand.  That's what she…

By Wylie Overstreet
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