Running alongside the vintage vein, independent retailer Out of Print has designed a whole line of comfy tees featuring old-school cover images of literature’s most classic– and often controversial– works. Although the current line is technically for dudes, it’s nothing that can’t be handled by some scissors and a sewing machine. However, the ladies’ line [...]

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For the last two months or so, eyes and ears alike have been ambushed with talk of CES 2010. CES 2010! CES 2010! And despite our somewhat bitter (okay…very bitter) disappointment that we were unable to attend CES 2010!, we never stopped staying directly on top of reports and blogs from the (sniff) more fortunate [...]

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As I was walking through my office this morning, carrying my open laptop in one hand, a hot cup of coffee in the other, my humongous purse slung over one shoulder, I stopped for a good ten seconds to marvel at a world with such awesome technology that a working girl like myself can answer [...]

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Ladies, did you know that budding plastic surgeons hone their craft on severed human heads? Or that chickens, cows, and dead bodies alike reside on the farmlands of Texas? Or have you ever pondered the slippery precariousness of holding a still-beating human heart? These and other fascinating subjects about life after death– for cadavers, that [...]

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If the girl you’re shopping for doesn’t just really dig music, but is also a musician? Gift-giving can get a little tricky. Especially if you aren’t so musically inclined. You’ll want to steer clear of super cheesy gifts– mugs covered in music notes, instrument-shaped jewelry, anything that says “Just B-Natural!”– in favor of more personal, [...]

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If you’re as much of a vocab/ grammar/ English nerd as I am, then you will definitely appreciate this. If not, please look away for a moment and try to refrain from calling me unflattering names.
Only $20.00.

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“Gloom of hell, or night bereft of every planet under a barren sky, never made a veil to my sight so thick nor of stuff so harsh, as that smoke which covered us there…”
So goes the famous passage from Dante’s Divine Comedy. The full text is set in silver on this amazing ring, for devoted [...]

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Maybe it’s just because I’m a writer, and writers tend to do strange things like wake up screaming at 3 a.m. because the dream they were having would make such an amazing story and oh my god I need to write this down immediately and I have NO PENS…but I think this bedside clock with [...]

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Now, this is what I call innovationn– a USB drive that doubles as your own personal aromatherapist. Just add a drop of scented oil, plug it in to any USB port, and this magnificent piece of combination technology will provide an aromatic deliverance from everyday office stress.
Only $10.00 from HDE.

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Yes, it looks like a giant security camera perched on your laptop. And no, it’s not exactly inconspicuous. But it will raise your laptop’s wireless range detection to a 1,000 foot circumference, which is three times the range of the average internal wireless adapter. Which means that when you go to cafes that expect you [...]

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