New York

Founded by a Vegas gal who couldn't find someone to teach her "how to look tough and sexy in a cat suit", this day-long sex-and-violence course chauffeurs students by limo to undisclosed training locations throughout Manhattan for lessons in everything from lap dancing, to poker skills, to hand-to-hand combat, to firing automatic weapons -- the perfect gift for when you want to completely objectify your woman, then pay the price for it in blood.

A beautifully shot series of stand-up jokes told by everyday Jews, this simple site's produced by the assistant director of The Royal Tenenbaums, School of Rock, P*** 'n Chicken, Donnie Brasco, Dead Man Walking, Groundhog Day, Rudy, and A League of Their Own...so who says the Jews control Hollywood?

The meticulously punctual NY bankers behind timepiece blog Hodinkee are now at your beck and call: hit their Find a Watch page, drop your contact info and desired elements (leather strap or metal, chronograph or moonphase, a rare brand, etc), and they'll hit you back with suggestions/purchase info -- usually w/in three days, quicker if you're name's Parker Lewis, and apparently you can lose your Swatch.

This drop-down-enabled GMap displays real-life filming locations, including everything from the hotel housing Paul Hogan (Crocodile Dundee), to the museum housing "Viggo, Scourge of Carpathia" (Ghostbusters II), to the dizzyingly posh apartments at 50 Central Park West (Lord of War, Three Men and a Baby), to the Madison Ave offices of "Poise Magazine", which you certainly don't remember from 13 Going on 30.

Available at Cockpit USA: 652 Broadway, between Bleecker and 2nd; 212.254.4000

Worn by Air Force/Navy pilots and Bradley tank crewmen, these gloves' palms sport pure lambskin leather while the backs of the fingers and hand are woven from Nomex, a stretchable, synthetic material that's resistant to fire -- for when your BlackBerry bursts into flames from blistering late-night sext messages.