I recently bought a stock-class Phantom through www.wevopaintball.com (excellent site, I strongly recommend it for anything pump-related). I picked a 16" barrel, ghost ring sights, and a non-adjustable L-stock which brought the price closer to 300 bucks, but it's worth it. This marker is nothing but good- if you want to go pump, buy no marker but this. Seriously. It's durable, depe...

I bought a stylish ushanka from RussianArmySurplus.com (they sell two different faux-fur ushankas- don't know the difference, aside from one being $3.00 less) last year to keep the cold out. Wore it for about three months, sans tasteless hammer-and-sickle pin, and was pretty happy with the results from a twenty-dollar hat.  I wore it with the flaps up on all bu...

I managed to get a hold of a Q-Loader paintball hopper at my local field, and played a few rounds with it. It's an entirely unique product, unlike any other bulk-loading hopper, and has its' ups and downs that you have to get used to, but on the whole it's an awesome product. The Q-Loader is a magazine-fed, spring-powered offset paint-feeding system. Imagine it something like strapp...

The Postman is a powerful story of hope and its' origins, wrapped up in a tasty tale of supercomputers, survivalists, and feuding warlords.A lone survivor of the aptly-named Doomwar, Gordon Krantz travels what remains of the United States of America as a minstrel, acting and telling stories to pay for his keep. The story begins ominously- Gordon is in the act of fleeing a party of band...

I bought my Creative Zen: MicroPhoto about a year ago and it's served me loyally ever since. Let me clear this up first- I believe the Creative line is vastly superior to anything Apple's ever put out, as far as MP3 players go. For every Nano or Shuffle there's a Micro or a Stone that is twice as better as the Apple counterpart while being half as expensive. That said, bias or not, ...

Decided to try a stick of Gillette deodorant out- I've been an Old Spice man for ages, but I realized it's more of an old-man deodorant, no matter how it's marketed. Fairly well-priced- a little more expensive than the generic stuff but cheap enough to be competitive. The Tri-Protection stuff comes in a twist-out gel tube- alright, but stick-type solid deodorants still win in my boo...

It's difficult to reasonably give a product a perfect rating- nothing's perfect, after all. That said, Half-Life 2 toes that line so perfectly it sets the 'perfect standard' against which all other games are compared.Picking up after the events of the first Half-Life, the G-Man (a mysterious alien force who comes in the form of a businessman) drops you, Gordon Freeman, physicist...

Optical mice are so last year, I know. Regardless, some of the tried-and-true designs, like the Mx518, can still reasonably compete with their laser bretheren.An optical mouse is an optical mouse, right? Usually, yes, except when that optical mouse is anything like this one. It has all the standards- you know, two buttons, a scroll wheel, a fetchingly phsychadelic case, etc. It has a few f...

I bought a WD hard-drive a few years ago for a computer I was re-building. The drive itself worked alright for most of the time I had it, but its' eventual problems and the debacle of dealing with the apparently normally-helpful Western Digital tech support means I can't recommend their line of hard-drives.The drive itself is unremarkable- at the time, adequate storage, good p...

Sharpies are wonderful little things- you'll find a million uses for them once you've bought a pack. They write on greasy/slick surfaces just fine, will never, ever rub off, and are a dime a dozen at that.For the uninitiated, a Sharpie is a permanent marker with a unique alcohol-based ink that will never, ever come out. My understanding of it is that the pigment and alcohol seep into th...

The Zeus is a mid-high-range paintball pistol, built well and cleverly designed but still with significant short-comings that have only been partially addressed. First of all- it's very large. It's much larger than any conventional pistol would be because it's firing a .63 calibre projectile- the magazine (which mounts to the top of the gun, rather in the grip, to let gravity assist...