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Scout Home Security System
When it comes to home security, there don’t seem to be many options between expensive monthly-fee security systems and keeping a pump-action under the bed (note: don’t do that).
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DrinksEspresso, Intelligentsia
If you need proof of coffee practiced as an obsession, art form and science, this quick video — a “how-to” on making a cup of espresso — is exhibit A. Intellegentsia Coffee in Venice, California can come off as a little pretentious at first; but what you’re really seeing is an unabashed expertise in truly great coffee.
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DrinksStumptown Panama Duncan Estate Mesh 15 Coffee
When you’re drinking coffee named after a mesh wire size, you’ve reached that level of serious entanglement that some might call obsession.
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Food & DrinkOle Smoky Moonshine Products
Ole Smoky Tennessee Moonshine is a great corn whiskey that we’ve covered before; what really caught our eye recently, though, is their huge range of Moonshine-soaked foods. Soaked isn’t the right word, exactly: each jar contains less than 1% of their 100 proof ‘shine.
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OutdoorsSurvivalon Contrast Jacket
If it was good enough for downed British pilots during WWII, so the saying goes, it should be good enough for you. Though that adage is entirely fabricated, the Survivalon Contrast Jacket ($398) was indeed made to protect Limey pilots; it is also easily good enough for you.
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TechUnder Armour Armour39 System
It’s apparently no longer enough to wear one’s heart on one’s sleeve — or wrist.
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DrinksSpiegelau IPA Glass
Quick, who do you want to make you the perfect IPA glass? An excellent German glass maker (Spiegelau), a West Coast brewery that was one of the earliest and most influential in craft beer making (Sierra Nevada) and an East Coast maker whose 60 Minute IPA is considered one of the most solid (Dogfish Head)?
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MotorcyclesUral X Icon 1000 Quartermaster
The last time we mentioned Ural, they were introducing a bike with an integrated paddle; the time before that, we drove a beautiful sidecar bike through the snow of Seattle.
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HomeMake Bike Rack
Indoor bike racks come in all shapes and sizes, most of them trending toward “modern chic” or “classic natural”. Some just look like ugly contemporary sculptures.
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Food & DrinkOpinel Bon Apetit Table Knives
Sure, you’ve used an Opinel blade to eat — but that was a skewer of venison charred over a kindling fire under the stars. Enjoy quality cutlery under different circumstances with Opinel’s Bon Apetit Table Knives ($70).
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OutdoorsHomelite 5-Ton Electric Log Splitter
You’ve got your cabin. Built it with your own contracting work, on land you inherited from a rich second uncle.
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HomePortland Growler Co.
It can be emitted by your stomach, your dog or your angry in-law, but the best form of the low rumble is the growler, beer drinkers’ response to the doggy bag. Portland Growler Co.
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ArchiveThe Farmer and The Bluefin
Tuna fishing — and farming — is a bitterly divisive topic. Food documentary blog The Perennial Plate and Intrepid Travel tackle the issue in a way most on either side of the argument can’t: peacefully.