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Remember Jaws 3 and The Spy Who Loved Me? If so, you’re one up on these guys. The Poseidon Undersea Resort has twenty-four “spectacular suites” located 40 feet below the surface of a Fijian lagoon, complete with marble bathrooms, Wi-Fi (duh),a restaurant/bar, a wedding chapel, and a tiny Triton submari…excuse me… “personal submersible.” The transparent walls are constructed from four-inch-thick acrylic, perfect for watching your imminent demise approach in the form of a super-pissed animatronic Great White (the shark, not the band). Luckily, at $15,000 a pop for two nights of underwater luxury/death by robo-shark, the only people able to afford it will be web-footed megalomaniacs bent on destroying humanity.

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The guy who invented this mashup is either completely mad or brilliant—or maybe both. You need to pack a lighter for the trip anyway, so it may as well help keep those nails nice and trim for a week on the road. You could even use the Nail Clipper/Butane Lighter to sterilize the clippers if you need to use them to perform an emergency surgery on the trail.

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The ideal after dinner drink for backpackers, whether you ate two packs of raw ramen or a frozen steak you hauled into the backcountry. It also might be the only alcohol that attracts bears.

Here’s how to make it:

Fry up three strips of bacon.
Add cooked bacon to a clean pint sized mason jar. Trim the ends of the bacon if they are too tall to fit in the jar. Or you could go hog wild and just pile in a bunch of fried up bacon scraps. Optional: add crushed black peppercorns.
Fill the jar up with vodka. Cap and place in a dark cupboard for at least three weeks. That’s right- I didn’t refrigerate it.
At the end of the three week resting period, place the bacon vodka in the freezer to solidify the fats. Strain out the fats through a coffee filter to yield a clear filtered pale yellow bacon vodka.

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A friendly reminder that bears are cuddly friends of the outdoors and nothing to be afraid of. They’re like giant koalas or normal-sized pandas. That one on the left is sneaking up to play with the guys throwing snowballs! Send the kids out to the playground—mama bear must be having tea with friends!

The Green Swallow must be a British Superhero. I’m not sure how else Brooks would be able to justify the hefty price tag of the limited-edition Green Swallow BFF Saddle unless it was colored with help from Kryptonite. The $245 bike seat might break in like a good baseball glove, but it’ll also sit out in the rain and spend a lot of time grinding on your sweaty crotch. Not really where you want to be investing your money.

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I would have been more interested in American History if they’d shown videos like this during high school. There are some really inspirational teachers in high schools, but man, some of those guys can make anything boring. Between the Lines (trailer) explores surf culture during the Vietnam War.

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I feel a little bad for Hilary Clinton. She’s dedicated her life to public service, and I can guarantee that no one’s making any spoke cards to show their support for her. Obama Spoke cards sell for $1 and the cash might be going to his campaign—might also be going to some guy’s fixed-gear fund for all I can tell from their website. They make the claim that Barack will “re-evaluate the transportation funding process to ensure that smart growth considerations are taken into account.” I just think it’ll be nice to have any kind of smart considerations taking place in the White House.

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I had a Leatherman for about a week. I found it sitting on a log at a portage in the middle of nowhere, likely left by a stoner who used it to poke some holes in an empty beer can. I ate lunch for about 10 minutes and waited for the stoner, then got the hell out of there with my new flashy new knife. I sold it a week later for $50. And that’s why you’re better off with this comparatively cheap $30 Gerber Suspension Multi-Plier. It’s the cheapest one that’s sturdy enough that you’d actually want to carry it, and it costs less than a night of drinking at the VFW.

If someone would have told me five years ago that miniature pennyfarthings worn like a single roller skate would be a viable form of transportation in the near future, well, I probably would have agreed. I had some pretty crazy ideas about pennyfathings back then, too. The Magic Wheel is the human powered Segway.

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This ingenious Bike Tree bike rack suspends several bikes about 7 feet off the ground keeping them out of the way of walkers and preventing theft. Too bad we’ll never see them widely used. The problem lies in the motorized lift and a locking mechanism that would use your fingerprint as a key. Even these plastic pods are too expensive for most U.S. cities—maybe we’ll see some of these things in Dubai or Singapore.  

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