Monday, February 12th, 2007
Daily Archive
News12 Feb 2007 04:00 pm by nic
Shavin’ in the shower – EVERYONE does it
It’s probably not the most water-wise thing to do, but hectic lifestyles and plain old laziness conspire to find you shaving in the shower. But at least now you can stop trying to wash your shaving brush under the shower head, or try and protect your precious foam from the evil water.
Brave Soldier Shower Shave is exactly what it sounds like – shaving cream optimized for use in the shower. Apparently its silicon formula bonds with water to add “extra lubricity” and it plays well with both electric shavers (waterproof ones, natch) and their more manual cousins.
Amusingly, the packaging reinforces the line ‘for body & face’. Yes lads, shave it all off.
Brave Soldier Shower Shave [via Uncrate]
News12 Feb 2007 12:30 pm by nic
76 classic things you MUST own

The list of lists is here – the completely incomplete list of classic things. Cars, shoes, CDs, cameras, novels – like, everything.
And ‘classic’ is a broad church. You should own an E-Type and a Landrover Defender. Jack Purcells and Gucci loafers. Hüsker Dü AND Lionel Richie.
…Dipping his Jheri-curled soul into everything from renegade funk (“Running With the Night”) to stone-skipping syrup (“Stuck On You”), Richie creates one of the greatest guilty pleasures in music history. You will know the words to each and every song, and you will sing them and dance like a fool.
Worth a read, if only to see why Gore Vidal and Point Break should live side-by-side on your shelf.
The classics you should already own [Men.Style.com]
News12 Feb 2007 09:00 am by nic
Drink up or die! (Red wine still good for you)
When it comes to myth, superstition and complete bullshit, there is as much circulating about alcohol as anything else. So, despite constantly hearing whispers about the health benefits of red wine, it’s one of those ‘facts’ we’ve always chosen to half-believe.
Antioxidants – don’t know what they are. Reduced rates of cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and heart disease – surely not. Resveratrol? Is that even a word?
Turns out it’s all true, and more (kinda):
A French study published in Cell reports that mice given resveratrol (at doses equivalent to slamming roughly 8000 bottles per day) become more athletic, as assessed using tiny mouse treadmills. Treated mice can run twice as far, and have reduced heart rates compared to controls.
Actually, a whole history of the popularization of the ‘red wine good for you’ theory is given here. In a surprise twist, from 1992 until now, the theory has traveled the opposite road to most similar hypotheses. Rather than being a solid theory, slowly eroded by science into ridicule, it started is life as the crackpot ravings of drunken Frenchmen and then built up a weight of scientific evidence.
Sniffing Cork: Bench-Top Boozing and the Health Effects of Red Wine [via Vinography]