Photographer Kevin Lynch's new book, Octagon is the ultimate gift for the ultimate fan of the Ultimate Fighting Championships.

As big, bulky and intimidating as many of the fighters featured inside, the coffee table-crushing 20.5 x 26-inch book is packed with over 800 pages of rare color and black & white photos of combatants moments before, and immediately after, they battle inside the Octagon. All your favorite fighters are here, including Matt Hughes, Randy Couture, Chuck Liddell, Rich Franklin, Ken Shamrock, Tito Ortiz and more.

Packed in a handmade, leather-bound clamshell box, and rumored to weigh in at over 70 pounds, Octagon will set you back a cool $2500 for one of the 450 limited editions produced. If you want to go for one of the additional 150 that come with signed, limited edition, chromogenic prints of the cover, be prepared to part with at least $7,500. It's enough to make the average guy tap out.

If you want to see the book without having to take out a second mortgage, it has been making the rounds on the art gallery and book store circuit worldwide. Check www.octagon-book.com for places and dates.

It's a sad story that's happened to a lot of guys: at some point, some woman in your life - mom, girlfriend, wife - found your stash of Playboys and demanded you throw them out. Or, worse, took it upon herself to toss them for you. (This was a lot more prevalent pre-Internet.) I know guys in their 50s and 60s who are still lamenting classic issues hitting the dumpster under orders from She Who Must Be Obeyed. (Poor bastards.)

Fortunately ol' Hef wants to make sure you can once again relive your days of hiding in your room and getting yourself through puberty with Miss October. This November 25th, he and Playboy are releasing "Playboy - The Complete Centerfolds", a 720 page, 32 pound tome that includes every single one of the 625 centerfolds since Marilyn Monroe posed for the first in 1953.

You won't have to squint either. The book is 22 3/4 inches long - the same length as the magazine - so each centerfold is reproduced exactly as it appeared when first published. (Minus the staples from the early issues.) ...More

With the final installment of the Harry Potter juggernaut hitting shelves in exactly 4 days, 7 hours, 29 minutes and 14 seconds from the time I am writing this post - (There's countdown clocks all over the net... it's insanity. What I want to know is where are the Hermione Becomes Legal countdown clocks? At least do something productive with your programming skills.) - and the news and Internet in full hysteria, I figured more than a few of you would be caught up in Pottermania. I also figured you'd be trying hard to conceal your literary shame from the other grown men and women around you.

Don't worry. Pointlesswasteoftime.com has your Muggle back. They've got a bunch of ingenious, hilarious and fully-printable book covers you can place over your copy of the Deathly Hallows, so you can find out who lives and who dies before some nine-year-old spills it. While at the same time preserving your masculinity.

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If Dad likes to spend his weekend playing 18, there's a good chance he's swung with some of the characters featured in the new book, "Misfits on the Links - A Golfer's Guide to Freaks Along the Fairway", by Joel Zuckerman.

An illustrated guide to the misfits, mavericks, show-offs and oddballs that hack their way across ...More

Think she's cheating? It's possible. A recent study showed 40% of women having extra-marital affairs. (I'd have something to say to you ladies, but 60% of men will have them too. Hence my decision to remain the Bachelor Guy.) And that stat doesn't include the percentage cheating on someone they are just dating. That number has to be higher. (Just a hunch, based on my own informal research at every bar or party I've ever been to.) So there's a strong chance if you think your girl is cheating on you, she is.

Want to know for sure? (If your answer is "no", I'm coming over there to slap some sense onto you.) FindOut Research has just published "Exposing Infidelity -- The Inside Secrets of How Spouses Cheat... and How to Catch Them". Based on extensive interviews with men and women who have been cheating on their spouses for a year or more, the book outlines the the warning signs of infidelity, how to identify the techniques unfaithful partners use to conceal their activities, and how to catch them in the act. (I know what you're thinking, but it is NOT to be used as a how-to manual.)

They also offer a companion software program called Evidence Finder, which can scan a computer running Windows for deleted emails, documents, pictures, and even video. (Hey honey, look what I found!) Get on it, Sherlock.

$24.95
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