A standard lighter can give out in the wind, run out of lighter fluid, and burn your finger with the flint wheel. Sounds like a lot of obstacles and inconveniences just to get a flame going. The Slimline is changing the game for the traditional lighter and finally making way for a modern-efficient lighter that'll make your life much easier.  — Read the rest

In the 60s, Hanna-Barbera had the magic touch. After inventing new techniques that revolutionized animation on television, Hanna-Barbera started cranking out hits faster than the industry could keep up with. Even though the studio created a host of iconic characters in the first half of the decade with The Flintstones and Johnny Quest, Hanna-Barbera's biggest success came towards the tail end of the 1960s with Scooby Doo, Where Are You! — Read the rest

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What would we do without knives? As one of our oldest tools as humans, they are just as important today as they have ever been, only they're more developed in terms of functionality and beauty. — Read the rest

This summer, I got invited to emcee a wedding reception in Italy for an old friend from art school and his fiancee. I was honored to be part of their union and especially stoked for the chance to get some weird vinyl. — Read the rest

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and almost every popular adult animated sitcom can be traced back to The Flintstones. The Simpsons have been incredibly open about how much they borrowed from the Hanna Barbera classic throughout the years. Consequently, through The Simpson's transparency, fans rarely chide the show with claims of plagiarism as they do with Family Guy for copying The Simpsons.  — Read the rest

There can be only one. Since The Simpsons created the modern adult animation boom (we didn't forget about you, Fred Flintstone), there's always been a show that captures its zeitgeist. I'm not talking about personal preference here; I'm talking about the show that was undeniably the most popular entry in the adult animation genre.  — Read the rest

Some books change your world in deep and lasting ways. For me, one of those was architect, builder, and design theorist, Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language. Published in 1977, A Pattern Language was an interactive design directory of numbered patterns of living and building that Alexander put together, much of it inspired by the world's vernacular architecture and time-tested solutions to building design challenges. — Read the rest

Ron Perlman is not only one hell of a great actor, but he's also a fierce defender of the First Amendment, as evidenced by this message he posted to Fred Flintstone lookalike Ron DeSantis, who recently signed Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill onto law. — Read the rest

I loved The Flintstones as a kid, and I love it today. The show, which debuted in 1960, was not meant for kids. It aired on primetime television as a show for adults and explored themes of friendship, love, the stress of being an adult, and all of the seven deadly sins. — Read the rest

Even though it's definitely in decline, the Simpsons are still a marketing juggernaut. One could even argue that the reason Fox has the Simpsons on perpetual life support is to keep the series relevant enough to milk its memorabilia teat. — Read the rest

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Anti-science pastor and lawmaker Jeff Hoverson (R–ND) organized an anti-vaccine rally, set for today. The Q-injected gentleman then caught Covid-19 and was forced to miss his own rally.

Although yesterday Hoverson posted about his case of Covid on Facebook, saying "Quarantining and each day is getting better," today the ailing state representative changed his tune. — Read the rest

WCAI Massachusetts has an inspiring story about a Mashpee-Wampanoag woman who was given a rare opportunity to grow a traditional corn strain on its native land again, after Puritan colonists had tried to ravage the crop. During a particularly bloody conflict known as King Philip's War, which ran between 1675 and 1676, colonists destroyed thousands of acres of Wampanoag crops. — Read the rest

Our Man Flint, and its sequel, In Like Flint only get better with time.

Centering on former ZOWIE agent Derek Flint, as portrayed by the always amazing James Coburn, these spy movies are pure late-60s style, fashion, and parody. — Read the rest

"This is the greatest embarrassment in the history of our country," says Trump, introducing and summarizing this montage of humiliations he lavishly presented to the world during his days as president. Set to circus music, MeidasTouch's "America's Biggest Loser" highlights just a fraction (there's only so much time) of Trump's embarrassing moments, from covfefe to his toilet paper shoe-tail to staring directly into the sun to world leaders laughing at him — and so much more. — Read the rest

The NuPenny Toy Store is a small building filled with toys from an alternate retrofuturist universe. You can look through the windows, but you can't open the door to get in.

I've long been fascinated by the NuPenny Toy Store, and by everything else Randy Regier creates (subscribe to his Instagram). — Read the rest

The city of Flint, Michigan has sold its former Police Training Academy to a cannabis company that will convert it into an indoor marijuana growing facility. The Flint City Council approved the sale in a tight 5-4 vote a month ago. — Read the rest

If you're a sucker for cool, Swiss Army knife-style items that can handle a half-dozen different functions with equal brilliance and efficiency, here's a new outdoor curio that definitely should join your EDC collection.

The Aqualite looks like a water jug. — Read the rest

Between Father's Day, the start of summer travel season, and the loosening of COVID restrictions, this moment couldn't be more perfectly suited to outfit Dad for a journey into the great outdoors.

If your father is an adventurous soul, then he likely has many pieces of critical equipment and fun accessories for making his wilderness episodes count. — Read the rest

Antonio García Martínez might hold the record for being Apple's shortest-term employee. He was shown the door just hours after joining the company when his fellow employees delivered a petition to Apple upper management citing misogynistic passages from his Harper Collins 2016 memoir, Chaos Monkeys, which was published when he was 40. — Read the rest