Traditionally, we’ve been obsessed by the style choices of James Bond, but there’s something about the understated, utilitarian accessorizing of 24’s Jack Bauer.

After all, while Bond has the regular luxury of fopping around a hotel room while having his tuxedo pressed and his chrono recalibrated with gadget after gadget, Bauer never stops until some ‘crisis’ is averted (although who knows what he does for the other 364 days of the year), and his gear needs the same kind of tenacity.

A few weapons, flak jackets, monoculars, cuffs, shades and more, all slung in a nondescript canvas messenger over his special ops watch-clad arm – there’s some great, gritty gear there.

Whether it all wears out after more than a day of use is anyone’s guess, however.

Jack Bauer Gear [Uncrate]

There’s the the backpack of $2 Shop chips and battered old playing cards that you sling along to your buddy’s place when it’s time for poker, and then there’s the Dunhill Tradition Touring Poker Set.

Inside the exquisite leather case is the enormous aluminum chip shoe housing Alfred Dunhill chips, as well as Motorities playing cards and a couple of dice for your troubles. Just looking at this creation gives us the immediate urge to lose lots and lots of money.

And much like the Brooks Brothers poker set we covered last year, if you’re wondering how much it costs, then you need to improve your poker a lot to afford it.

Dunhill Touring Poker Set [Sybarites]

A new year means a new Malt Whisky Yearbook – the definitive guide to whisky shops, whisky sites, whisky books and, well, whisky.

2006’s Yearbook was a smash success, and this is sure to follow suit. There’s statistics (of what, we’re not sure), plenty of photos, a retrospective on the whisky year that was and features by a barrel load of whisky celebrities.

And at only $27.50 including shipping (from its only retailer in the US), it’s a must-read for who drink a lot of malt whisky.

And likely to be that one-eyed reading required when you’ve been, like, drinking a lot of malt whisky.

Malt Whisky Yearbook 2007 [Doceon Press via The Scotch Blog]