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Glow-in-the-Dark Golf Balls
Forget the greens, come first snow me and my friend Cornelius are going to be grabbing some heavy-handed egg nog and driving these glowing globes of golf across the whites. Now I just need to find a footlong tee...
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
While I think Randall Munroe takes things, or, more precisely, thing explaining, too far when he "un-jargons" words such as smartphone ("hand computer"), helicopter ("plane with turning wings"), and microwave ("food-heating...
Electric Shock Puzzle Cube
Sometimes Santa leaves coal. Other times Santa leaves a puzzle cube that electro-shocks the ever-loving misbehavin' out of the naughty boys and girls on his list...
Rearview Hand Mirror
Now here's a footy way for bikers and cyclists to add an extra layer of safety to their rides. Cheaper than a bag of chips, and way cheaper than assuming nothing's there and being wrong, too. CIPA's rearview hand mirror...
Kitchen Hacks: How Clever Cooks Get Things Done
Want to be a culinary MacGyver? It might not be as admirable or lucrative as righting the world's wrongs, but I bet becoming a master of cooking steaks and making vanilla ice cream by hand will at least get you laid just...
Tesla vs. Edison Board Game
It's the War of Currents! Tesla vs. Edison could be the board game of the holidays this year. Nikola Tesla might be more famous now than he was at the height of his living popularity thanks to to cars, coils, and lighters...
Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Life
We've heard what a Navy SEAL has to say about spitting in the face of danger and disaster...or at least walking away from them alive and safe...so I figured we might as well let a CIA officer weigh in on the topic too...
The Gotham Golfcart
The Gotham Golfcart might be the worst awesome emergence of Batman into real life I've ever seen. A blacked out, mostly enclosed Dark Knight Tumbler wannabe cruising at a snail's pace along the completely open, completely...
Ono Archont Electro Bicycle
Ono's Archont Electro is an easy rider-style electric bicycle. It's black, it's green. It's almost 10' long with a 7Kw motor and a top speed of 50mph. Range is 60 miles per charge. What do you think? O-yeah or O-no?...
The Winter Survival Handbook: 157 Ways to Beat the Cold
Winter isn't just coming, winter is imminent. Once again, all the joys of turkey and Christmas and ski season are about to clash with all the nuisances (and sometimes horrors, right Boston?) of extended darkness, frigid...
Grow the F*ck Up
Grow the F*ck Up, you had me at "Giggle and shart." John Kyle's approach to teaching teens and young adults how to survive and, more importantly, make something of themselves in the world outside Mama's house is blunt...
Indestructible Foam LED Lightsabers
The secret to surviving a lightsaber duel? Use the Force. Orrr...use a foam lightsaber. I know. It sounds chintzy and fake and generally lame. But Calimacil, purveyor of fine foam weapons for LARPing, swears their new...
Alien Next Door
Here we have the script for the next sequel in the Alien franchise, tentatively titled Alien: Domestication. OK, not quite. It's actually a new satire from artist Joey Spiotto--the kind that's kind of for kids, kind of...
Tetris Link
You could call Tetris Link Tetris IRL. It's like old-school video game meets even-older-school board game. It's like Connect Four with better colors. It's like a puzzle and exercise in intellectual stamina for people...
Grand Portico Mansion Playhouse
Who's your Daddy...Warbucks? Better call him if you want the Grand Portico playmansion erected in your back yard, Suzy Q, because this definition of a spoiled child is gonna cost a whole helluva lot more than the Barbie...
Extreme Ownership: How US Navy SEALs Lead & Win
Interesting how Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead & Win has released in the midst of our farcical 2016 election race, and the general political circus that's set up shop in Washington. I bet authors Jocko Willink...
Darth Vader Samurai Warrior Doll
Darth Vader as a samurai warrior. Hmmm, a strange mixing of metaphors, but it still fits. Trade the lightsaber for a sword, swap out the E-3778Q-1 mobile life support system and cape for ancient Japanese mobile life support...
Exploding Kittens Card Game - NSFW Edition
Unlike run-of-the-mill kitten explosions, Exploding Kittens: NSFW Edition contains content that is not suitable for your workplace or children. And even though no one seems to be saying it, I'm guessing a card game featuring...
Yoga Joes Army Men
Yoga Joes call themselves "a non-violent toy." Maybe that description makes you smile, in which case you can buy some army men doing yoga as a gift for your kids or to decorate your desktop. Or maybe that description...
Star Wars: Frames
Now that I've finally seen and peed my pants over a full-length teaser of what Episode VII: The Force Awakens has in store, I thought I would spend the rest of the night reflecting on the riveting brilliance of Episodes...
100 Deadly Skills: The SEAL Operative's Guide
What you will learn from Clint Emerson's new book is 100 Deadly Skills: The SEAL Operative's Guide to Eluding Pursuers, Evading Capture, and Surviving Any Dangerous Situation. What you will not learn from Clint Emerson's...
Humans of New York: Stories
Brandon Stanton started his blog Humans of New York in the summer of 2010 in an effort to capture a "photographic census of New York City." The strange, the beautiful, the inspiring, the struggling. The people who say...
Book of Things Better Than Boobs
Part of me wants to tell you what's inside the Book of Things Better Than Boobs so you'll get why it's so brilliant, but part of me wants to let you find out for yourself so you'll experience why it's so brilliant. I...
How to Survive Anything
Apparently survival is a hot enough topic these days that there's not only room (read: profit) for publishers to release a thousand books about it, but enough room for them to release at least 4 survival books with the...