These stock photo people are explaining that if you shopped more on our site, it would stay on line.

We’re taking a little break to rethink our business model. Operating an ad-free site that relies on visitors doing some shopping on occasion hasn’t proven to be as wealth-creating as we hoped, so we’re taking a little break through Labor Day (which we touched on recently), when we’ll return with popups, popunders, and annoying exit nag screens to see if we can’t find better ways to pay the hosting bills. We jest of course; if we can’t keep the site profitable without a) resorting to vapid viral linkbait b) tons of ads, and c) generally selling our soul, we’ll just find something better to do.

In the meantime, let us help you catch up on what you might have missed recently. You can also just browse posts by date, or by category. Or dive right into the terror of our shop with no article content to guide you. Have a great holiday week!

Lifestyle Ideas And products to make them realities!
	Sick of Your Life? Maybe It’s Time To Bug Out! Building a smart bugout bag seems easy enough, but where the hell do you plug in your damn blow dryer?
	The Power Of The Checkbox Use these handy memo pads to quickly reduce all your office chatter to the level of a Facebook “Like”.
Music You May Not Have Heard We try to dig even deeper than sites like Pitchfork.
	Punch Up Your Summer Playlist: Afropolitan Pop & Hip Hop Never Ghana Give You Up, Never Ghana Let You Down. Kenya Dig It?
	More Afrobeats For Your Summer Playlist: Nigeria Probably the best way to watch the videos for these awesome Afrobeat music videos is to not actually watch the video.
	YeYe: Surprisingly Palatable Alt-Folk Hipster J-Pop Did we really just put all those words next to each other?
	The Subtle Soaring Vocal Stylings Of Tei Shi You may not have heard of Argentine songstress Tei Shi, but she probably won’t stay a secret for long…
Tech Doodads Mostly cameras lately, it seems…
	Does Shooting Nudes With This Thing Make Me A Lomosexual? My very tentative excursion into Lomography.
	The Lytro Illum: The Coolest Camera I Almost Bought Today But Didn’t But don’t let that stop YOU, it’s an amazing device, for an amazing price.
Holiday Shopping It’s not just for Christmas any more!
	Fourth of July Fashion: Get Your ‘Murica On! Nothing says “America, Fuck Yeah” quite like a hat that says “America, Fuck Yeah”. Except maybe some stars and stripes thongs.
	Bastille Day Gift Ideas The guillotine may seem brutal, but it beats getting your limbs broken while spinning around on a wooden wheel in the central square.
Throwback Thursdays We do our best to put an interesting spin on a tired trope.
	TBT: The 80’s You Remember Never Existed When you think “80’s Music” you probably think Tears For Fears, Depeche Mode, New Order, or the Pixies. Think again.
	TBT: Toys We Only WISH We’d Had As Kids Today’s kids are a feral horde of whining ingrates.