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Suit Alterations for Men. Editor’s note: The AoM Community’s resident style hobbyist, Leo Mulvihill, posted a series of posts on the Community blog to help men understand more about buying, wearing, and looking your best in a suit.

Suit Alterations for Men

We’ll be publishing his entries here every other week. Thanks for sharing your sartorial knowledge, Leo! 13 Creepiest Plush Toys. FAO Schwartz doesn't sugar coat survival of the fittest with their Food Chain Friends Alpha Series.

13 Creepiest Plush Toys

Little Tommy will learn quickly that Nemo better start flapping those fins. ($19.99) I bet you never heard this version of the story. For men on trains: Japanese company sells anti-groping gloves. Groping women in trains (or anywhere, really) isn’t only happening in Japan, but this country with its big cities with trains that are full of people (=easy bait for gropers) everyday has a particularly big problem with molesters.

For men on trains: Japanese company sells anti-groping gloves

It’s a crime, and it’s reported around 2,000 times yearly to police stations in Tokyo alone, prompting a big Japanese railway operator to think about installing security cameras within trains in order to catch gropers just recently. And now a Japanese company called Mindbank [JP] has developed a solution for those people who fear to get wrongly accused of touching women in trains with their hands: Anti-groping gloves. I’m not sure if this is a half joke/half serious product (like many of those silly Thanko USB gadgets), but Mindbank is actually selling the things (patent pending!).

And accusing the wrong passengers on a train does happen, too. 10 Coolest Game Shot Glasses You Can Actually Buy. Drinking Dart Shot Glasses Four darts, four shot glasses and a dart board make for a whole lot of fun.

10 Coolest Game Shot Glasses You Can Actually Buy

The Drinking Dart Game is perfect for any party or get together. Shot Glass Checkers Set In this checkers set ($21.95), whenever you capture an opponent's piece you have to drink it. The most valuable pieces have greater capacity so the advantage of being ahead in the game is offset by increased inebriation and a rapid deterioration in performance! Jenga Shot Glasses The Drunken Tower Shot Glass Game is a game of steady hands, big laughs and seeing double! Each of the 60 wooden blocks has one of 15 challenging commands printed on it. Roulette Shot Glasses This Shot Roulette Game ($11.35) combine the fun of casinos and home parties. Office Accessories That Work - Mauricio Affonso Casa Tissue Box Cover - DailyCandy The Roundup. 15 Coolest Coasters. Pallet Coasters These coasters are made to look exactly like industrial pallets, right down to their quality stamps.

15 Coolest Coasters

Splat Stan Coaster Stan was happy and completely oblivious to the dangerous conditions. There were heavy drinks being hoisted and lowered all around him, yet he always felt perfectly safe. Then Stan got splatted by a giant pint. Retailers and the internet: Clicks and bricks. Battle Mug is like the Hummer of drinking vessels.

The Battle Mug is made from a solid block of aluminum, features a handle from an AR-15 rifle, and has mounting rails for accessories such as night-vision scopes Image Gallery (6 images) What happens when some old army buddies decide to create a mug?

Battle Mug is like the Hummer of drinking vessels

Well, in the case of the Battle Mug, they machine the sucker out of a solid block of 6061 T6 billet aluminum, add three military-spec 1913 scope rails on its sides, and stick a carry handle from an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle on one of those rails - they leave the other two open, so users can add their own night-vision scopes, laser sights, or other gear needed for really heavy-duty drinking. Finally, they slap on a US$189 price tag - that's without the handle, which costs an additional $33.95. View all. WristWatchReview.com. Essential Geek Bar Accessories For Your Home Bar.

Looking to turn your home bar into a living geeksterpiece? 10. Han Solo in Carbonite Ice Tray What better way to cool down a gin and tonic than with ice shaped Han Solo in Carbonite ! The silicon tray is both heat and ice resistant meaning you can use this multi-purpose tray to serve Solo shaped chocolates or brownies for desert. If Leia hadn’t choked Jabba to death with her slave chains, he would have loved this. 9. Image Source: YLiving Avoid the mess and hassle of slicing and squeezing fruit, removing unwanted seeds, and dirtying a cutting board. 8.

Traditional Buttondown Straight Collar Shirts Egyptian Cotton Oxford Broadcloth. Pearltrees Gets Funding To Chase After Pinterest. So it is not surprising that investment is pouring in, as investors themselves go gaga over the most promising firms.

Pearltrees Gets Funding To Chase After Pinterest

Just this week, Pearltrees received $6.6 million in series B funding, as part of the wave of investment in sites that bring together folks with common “interest graphs.” The site uses a clustered visual interface to organize anything that users see or read on the web. This is merely the latest example of a tectonic shift among venture capitalist and merchant bankers away from funding general social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr, towards internet startups that curate user interests, which is another way of stating that these sites offer human bookmarking and organization. More popularly known sites that similarly use bookmarking and organization include Pinterest and GetGlue. Pinterest has accumulated more than 12 million users in the US alone, and has been aggressively building its engagement worldwide. Slim. Awesome - Awesome Stuff.