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Product Review: Birchbox Man

May 12, 2014 / Paul Eide

Men get bored easily. No matter how good a grooming product is, and no matter how much we like it, we’re always looking for the newest, hottest thing. Maybe it’s the thrill of the hunt or the excitement of a new conquest, but Birchbox has built a one of a kind delivery system around man’s natural instinct to choose and then fall in love with many partners.

Birchbox was founded in 2010 and helps consumers discover the best beauty, grooming and lifestyle products through monthly deliveries of curated, deluxe samples that are tailored to their grooming likes and dislikes.

Each box includes a mix of products across categories – from makeup and hair, to skincare and body – plus lifestyle extras. An important trend in the evolution of retail for both brands and consumers lies in the discovery experience.

Here’s how it works: For $20 a month, Birchbox will send you a monthly care package of high-end grooming and lifestyle samples from top brands. The contents of the package are determined in part by your Grooming Profile that you fill out on the site.

Click here for the full review.

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Top 10 Male Gold Digger Names

May 9, 2014 / Paul Eide

On the heels of the Top 10 Female Gold Diggers of 2014, DirtSearch.org, a free and anonymous background check site that searches public, criminal, arrest, civil, speeding tickets and more has just released the Top 10 Male Gold Diggers of 2014. The list puts Aaron on top in its DirtSearch Top 10 ‘Dirty’.

Identity theft has been on the rise with 1 in 8 searches coming up with a criminal past, and with that comes a rise in ‘gold diggers’. If you thought just females could be gold diggers, think again. Times have changed and with women bringing home the bacon, more men are looking for financial security.

That coupled with a rise in petty theft, makes the gold digger phenomenon all too common. DirtSearch.org pulled data from over 2 million background searches and looked closely at the top names often searched. What came back once again, were crimes such as petty theft, identity theft, fraud, back child support payments, writing bad checks, and multiple bankruptcies.

Out of that list, the names that came up most often in the top 10 are Aaron, Jeffrey, Kyle, Sean and Brandon.

Here are the Top 10:

1. Aaron
2. Jeffery
3. Kyle
4. Sean
5. Brandon
6. Adam
7. Chad
8. Zachary
9. Stephen
10. Jose

So if you are a woman dating a man and are questioning if maybe your dude has a shady past or a qualified ‘gold digger’ just after your bank account, here are ways to tell your guy is a Gold Digger or make sure he is not on the ‘dirty’ list:

1. He has flashy things but he can’t really explain where they came from.
2. He is constantly talking about materialistic things and has an obsession with get rich quick schemes.
3. Like his female counterparts, they have a sense of entitlement.
3. He gets phone calls and text messages day and night.
4. He has forgotten his wallet more than once with you.
5. He seems too smooth for his own good. The only emotion he shows are on your paydays.
6. He hints around or asks you flat out to help him with a bill.
7. He knows your ATM pin but can’t seem to remember your digits.
8. Girl, he has a talent for skirting the issues.

To see if your man might be on the DirtSearch Top 10 Dirty Report, go here.

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5 Craziest Wagers in History from the World Series of Poker

May 2, 2014 / Paul Eide

Below are the five craziest wagers of all time as chosen by the World Series of Poker’s website, WSOP.com.

The list, with bets from name changes to royalty rights, was spurred by the now legendary Stu Ungar wager, in which the player was bet he could not correctly count the last three decks of a six-deck shoe (312 cards!) Ungar, a three-time World Series of Poker winner, identified all 156 cards without missing a beat, earning the man $100,000.

1. A New Zealand man wagered his name in a poker bet and lost. His friends were able to decide his new name and selected the 99-character moniker, Full Metal Havok More Sexy N Intelligent Than Spock And All The Superheroes Combined With Frostnova, meeting the country’s character limit of 100.

2. A man by the name of Ashley Revell sold his possessions for $135,000. He brought the money to Vegas and bet all of it on red at the roulette table. Lucky for Revell, the ball landed on red, doubling the man’s fortune.

3. U.K. professor, Rob Price, bet $1,600 that golfer, Rory McIlroy, would win the Masters after swearing he saw the athlete’s face in a sweet roll.

4. One of the top five most popular children’s books of all time, Green Eggs and Ham, was written by Theodor Suess Geisal, aka Dr. Seuss, on a $50 bet that he couldn’t publish a book using only 50 unique words.

5. In the 80’s, George Lucas bet fellow director Steven Spielberg that if Star Wars made more money than his own film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Spielberg would get 2.5 percent of Lucas’ movie’s profits until death. Spielberg is still getting checks in the mail from his buddy.

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7 Cancer Symptoms That Men Ignore

April 26, 2014 / Paul Eide

Experts say that men are 26 percent less likely than women to have visited a doctor within the past year and 35% more likely to pass away from cancer than women.

Dr. Muhammad Mirza, a certified general practitioner, men’s health expert and founder of ErectileDoctor.com, states that these symptoms are what potentially bring the patient to the doctor’s office or at least motivates the patient to do research on their own to ultimately discover that they indeed have a health issue that needs addressing.

1. Frequent and painful urination– Painful and frequent urination and/or incomplete emptying of the bladder are symptoms that could indicate prostate cancer.

2. Testicle size– Any notable change in testicle size, either bigger or smaller could be a symptom of testicular cancer.

3. Changes in skin pigmentation– Discoloring of the skin and/or noticeable spots on the skin could be symptoms of skin cancer.

4. Abdominal pain paired with depression– These symptoms together have been found in men who were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

5. Persistent cough or a cough that brings up blood– Aggressive and consistent coughing that bring up blood are symptoms of lung cancer, although lung cancer often doesn’t produce symptoms until its later stages.

6. Blood in the stool, nausea, indigestion, and abdominal pain– Any of these could be symptoms of colon and/or stomach cancer.

7. Blood in the urine– This could be a symptom of bladder cancer.

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Product Review: Brut Black Ice and Blue Wave Deodorant

April 23, 2014 / Paul Eide

“Et tu, Brute?”

Who among us hasn’t been “betrayed” by our deodorant? Do we hold it accountable, or do we just live with it and blame ourselves?

In their quest for the perfect men’s deodorant, Brut really cranked the weirdness meter up to 11, as evidenced by the groundbreaking technique shown below:

The result? The most superior men’s deodorants ever created, embodied in two separate scents: Black Ice and Blue Wave.

I tried both and found them to be distinctly different. While both scents are subtle to your nostrils, Black Ice is a stronger scent, a little more forceful.

Blue Wave was barely even detectable, but it provided a crisp, fresh scent that lived up to the name Blue Wave, which made me think of the chick-centric surfing movie, Blue Crush.

Blue Wave is like Kate Bosworth’s character, Anne Marie. Free flowing and effective, but unsure about pursuing her dream of becoming a professional surfer over a pending relationship with NFL quarterback Matt Tollman in town for the Pro Bowl in Hawaii during the offseason.

Black Ice is the hardcore Eden, played by uber-babe Michelle Rodriguez. It’s rugged, rough and uncompromising, but still super hot and appealing in a completely different way.

Read the full review here.

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