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This waterproof/breathable lightweight jacket comes in two adult-sized models -- one with a rip-stop shell and mesh lining, the other rocking a taslon shell with nylon lining -- that thanks to a few cleverly designed clips and drawstrings, morph into a rucksack when turned upside down, versatility you'll be thankful for when you realize hiking sucks, and you'd rather just be carried around.

Like Rotten Tomatoes for whips, MM takes reviews from respected newspapers/mags (Car and Driver, Road & Track, etc), assigns a 1-100 score from each article based on the critic's assessment, then mashes said scores into a meta-number, which'll be fantastic food for thought before you go back to just sitting in the passenger side of your best friend's ride, hollering at women you can't get no love from.

This simple handle-and-corer contraption easily punctures apples, pears, watermelons, and other crisp fruit, then hollows out a liquor receptacle with a twist of the wrist, effectively keeping your doctor away, even as you need him more and more.

Dropping an alphabetical listing of athletes broken down by pro league, the site offers direct links to each player's social networking endeavors, from MySpace, to Facebook, to Twitter, to personal websites, like Chris Cooley's new site PlaybookWangs.com.

These sub-$20 tees feature deft juxtaposing of major brand names and logo designs, like a script "Toyota" sitting inside Ford's blue oval, Pepsi worked up in the iconic Coca-Cola font, and Adidas ripping off the Nike swoosh and spelled "adidIKE", which all your Prêt-à-Porter fanatic peeps will assume stands for "all day I dream Ini Kamoze's Excellent".