It might be a cheap trick, but it’s a good one: Jalopnik has hired a hot girl to blog about cars. Will I read her column? I have no idea! But I like women handy with power tools. And now you do, too.
Jalopnik Invites A Girl Over To Play [Jalopnik]

Poggenpohl, an old furniture brand in Germany, is showing off this concept “Man Kitchen,” built in conjunction with the Porsche Design Group. It looks nice enough, sure, but can you figure out what part of this is “manly” and what is just “modern”?
Porsche/Poggenpohl’s Man Kitchen [Core77.com]

Nissan has thrown up a teaser “microsite” for the upcoming GT-R, the successor to the famous Skyline GT-R line. It’s still listed as the “GT-R Proto”—that means “prototype”—but they’ve been showing off that design for so long I can’t imagine the production car will look terribly different. What is new is the price: the Nissan [...]

Lois Maxwell, the original Miss Moneypenny, has died at age 80. BBC News has a tribute from Roger Moore, who knew Maxwell even before he took over the role of James Bond.
I think it was a great disappointment to her that she had not been promoted to play M. She would have been a wonderful [...]

Our friends at Gotham City Art are selling another big batch of comics and toy-related items on eBay, including 41 of the original dossier scripts for G.I. Joe action figures. These are the original type-written scripts by Larry Hama that showed up on the back of the action figure packages. Considering most of them are [...]

Follow an earlier team-up this year that produced t-shirts, Japanese discount style house Uniqlo and Pantone are producing a line of cashmere sweaters in a palette of 20 official Pantone colors. The color scheme should appeal to design nerds; The $130 price for real cashmere should appeal to everyone else.
The sweaters will be available in [...]

Details give some examples of how to make a patterned suit work, complete with archetypal suggestions of who you should feed “feel like” when wearing one. The take-home: Like almost all suits, patterns can be pulled off when the suit is properly cut.
It also helps to live in an age where Pee Wee Herman is [...]

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Racked points out the latest retail endeavor from Marc Ecko, “Cut & Sew,” an upscale men’s boutique located at 147 Eigth Avenue in Chelsea, Manhattan. Ecko Enterprises describes the stores:
From the mind of Marc Ecko comes Cut & Sew, a signature collection created for today’s fashion-forward young man. Blending classic tailoring with edgy graphics [...]

The Times showcases “Lucid,” a new almost-nearly-but-not-quite absinthe clone made that omits thujone, the supposedly hallucinogenic ingredient that was the toehold used by prohibitionists to prevent the sale of the green tincture in 1912:
In May, Viridian Spirits of Manhasset, N.Y., introduced in New York a product called Lucid, which it says is the first legal [...]