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Personal Draft Beer Dispenser In Lifestyle Trends (TrendHunter.com) Draft Beer at home? It doesn't get better than that! Football season is almost here and you want to impress your friends. Check out this counter top beer cooler and tab offered by Hammacher Schlemmer. It has a 5 liter keg capacity and dispenses your beer just like the corner bar.

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TSA's gonna love this: The Pursuader, a machinegun-shaped handbag By Xeni Jardin Xeni Jardin: Designer James Piatt, whose work we've blogged here on BoingBoing before, writes in to share word of something new that is sure to win a girl new friends at airport screening lines. James says: One of my new handbags is the Pursuader that resembles a machinegun with a cel phone compartment in the clip. The other is the Chesterton. Both bags are consructed with a process I developed by interlocking laser cut leather. There is no stitching. This link contains a gallery with glamour photography of the new bags. I haven't decided if the photos are anti or pro-totalitarianism. The first shot is of a military parade of girls sporting Pursuaders and the second involves a sexy girl posing in a pile of potatoes. The submarine pictures are also fun. Links to detail pages for each bag: Pursuader ($289), Chesterton ($220). BB readers have written in the past with tales of being stopped by law enforcement when they carried Mr. Piatt's brass knuckle handbags ($75, also shown in this image set), and I don't doubt that the new designs might be unwise to wear in any number of circumstances. Proceed with caution. Previously on BoingBoing: Purse shaped like Paris Hilton's dead chihuahua Brass-knuckle purse said to land wearer in airport security hell Purses: the better to kick your ass with

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Ellips shelves scientifically proven to make rooms awesome By Annie Wu on storage Filed under: Home style Okay, so maybe the Ellips shelves aren't really scientifically proven to make rooms awesome, but if you take a look around the website, you should get proof enough and be able to fully embrace the awesomeness. These shelves are assembled from specially cut pieces of wood to play tricks on the eye, adding extra fluidity to a room that could not be achieved by the usual, bulky, rectangular shelving unit. I especially love the pictured spherical illusion one, called the "Big Jim", but all of the designs are clean and would do well in any home looking for a modern touch. Many of the designs on the website include detailed measurements of each piece in the unit, so, if you're the handy type, you could actually make your own. Read Permalink Email this Comments Comments

Chandelier Made From Gummi-Bears

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By Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow: YaYa Chou's "Chandelier" is made of gummi bears, beads, monifilament, plastic, metal and light bulbs -- it's as delicious as it is translucent. Link (via Make!) See also: Chandelier made from penis-pumps HOWTO make a "fractal chandelier" - simple and ingenious