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If you're that guy who always seems to be standing next to me at the baggage carousel, waiting for the duffel bag wrapped in duct tape you consider "luggage", come here for a sec, I wanna talk to you.
You're not backpacking across Europe anymore. You're a grown man. Buy some luggage. Real luggage that protects your stuff. In style. Luggage that doesn't scream
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We take care of our tools. Clean them off after use. Store them properly. They'll perform better and last longer that way. But many of us haven't been giving the same respect to our grills.
Why? Because cleaning off years of caked-on grease and grime is a pain in the ass. And that wire brush never gets the grate as clean as it should, which can
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GEAR | GRILLING
April 30, 2007
Sure it stays lighter longer in the summer, but any good BBQ keeps going long after sundown. And cooking in the dark tends to be a little hazardous - having to get up close to see how the food's doing. Those sudden flare-ups suck. (But your eyebrow should grow back in a couple of months.) To make sure you're not putting too much char on those burgers, or yourself, invest in a grill light like this one from Brookstone.
A good grill light should have
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GEAR | GRILLING
April 26, 2007
Peeping Toms and Paris Hilton video enthusiasts rejoiced at yesterday's introduction of the world's smallest and lightest night vision binoculars.
At just 5 inches long and weighing in at 1.4 lbs, the Limited Edition Rigel 2020 pocket night vision binocular features a built in IR illuminator for viewing in total darkness and has an automatic over-light shutoff sensor - for when the cops shine their flashlights in your prying eyes.
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Spring riding season is just about here. Longer days. Warmer weather. Time to pull the hog out of storage, forget about the workweek, grab your girl and ride. (Those of you who ride scooters can grab your poodle, put it in the convenient handlebar basket and ride.)
Unfortunately about 70,000 motorcycles are stolen each year. (Even more unfortunately, not enough scooters are stolen each year.) Most of the thefts happen because the owner didn't secure the bike properly - usually with an inferior lock and cable, if they used one at all.
You put a lot of love and money into your ride, so make sure it stays
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Wanna kill a date quick? You can either tell her all about how you won that Dungeons and Dragons tournament back in high school, or you can get hopelessly lost on the way to the restaurant.
I know as a rule it insults our manhood to ask for directions, but if directions are given to us...
The new TomTom ONE XL has
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Size does matter. And bigger is mostly better. (Fortunately, so they keep reassuring me, not with everything.) But with iPods and MP3 enabled phones everywhere, our music has become portable. And therefore, headphone-wise, bigger is definitely not better. So they've
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Throw a standard DVD into a standard player for a night on the couch watching movies on your HDTV, and looks like you're watching old Soviet TV. You want an HD DVD player, but the cost - $600, $700, $800
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For those of you looking to drop $100,000+ on your next ride - Goldman Sachs employees, NFL draftees, YouTube billionaires - consider the 2008 Maserati GranTurismo.
A true GT (not like
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In the electronic pissing contest that is high-def TV screen size, Epson fires a high hard one with their latest entry into the arena - the PowerLite Home Cinema 1080 projector.
Boasting true 1080p native HD resolution with 3LCD technology, the PowerLite
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Sure, CDs deliver near perfect music quality. But they'll never have the personality or sexiness of an old-school vinyl disc. Worn down by years of repeated listening, the scratches and pops became familiar, personal. Dropping the needle onto the groove
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