Dallas is hosting the Super Bowl this year, but the Cowboys won’t be on the field. For some reason all the sports pundits pegged them as champions before the 2010 season started, but with a 1-7 start job security is more of an issue. While this may not bode well for ‘America’s Team’, their losses are your win, because toast is part of a complete breakfast. It seems like the rest of the NFL is having the Dallas Cowboys for breakfast, and now with the Pangea Dallas Cowboys Protoast Toaster you can too.

Tags: Pangea, sports, toaster

Bacon may not be healthy to eat every day, but wearing it should pose no health risks. And besides, bacon never goes out of style. Check out the Hand-Painted Silk Bacon Scarf over at ThinkGeek.

Tags: apparel, bacon, Better Gifts, TGIF

Spice racks are a generally overlooked item in the kitchen. After all, no matter how good one looks it is what they hold that is infinitely more interesting. However, while you can’t cook with a spice rack, you still have to look at it.

The Nambe Twist Spice Rack puts a spin on the traditional by combining aesthetics and function in one piece of countertop kitchen gear. The rotating unit is comprised of acacia wood and a distinctive metal alloy familiar to Nambe products. Includes 16 bottles with thyme, curry powder, oregano, red pepper flakes, basil, onion powder, tarragon, bay leaf, parsley, rosemary, garlic powder, paprika, coriander, cumin, mustard and chili powder. Although at a price of two hundred bucks the box most likely was sitting around for some time; you may want to replenish some of those spices.

Tags: Best Gifts, Nambé, rack, spices

Alcohol has a sometimes-wonderful, sometimes-not-so-wonderful way of distorting perception. It’s no secret what wine can do: every culture that ever existed in human history has found one way or another to alter the mind; it’s only natural. Problem is, sometimes those effects can have unintended consequences. The Photo Wine Stopper may be designed to be a clever wine-related gift, but as it is capable of displaying not one, but two separate photos it also would make a great before and after display. Now exactly what those before and after photographs entail is entirely up to you.

Tags: bottles, Cheap Gifts, wine

Fridgeezoo gives a voice to all the critters of the icebox by howling and screaming if the refrigerator door gets held open too long. The gadgets are shaped like little milk cartons dressed up as various cold-climate creatures such as a polar bear, a penguin, a seal or a walrus. Of course, since these Japanese gadgets are probably light-activated, you can save even more energy just by unscrewing the refrigerator light.

(Via Oh Gizmo! and Craziest Gadgets)

Tags: animals, cute overload, Japan, Mother Nature, refrigerator door

Near the bottom of the Halloween candy hierarchy is hard candy. Trick or treating is about going door to door, freeloading off of our neighbors and rating how cool they are by what candy they dole out. Chocolate bars? A-ok. Hard candy? Lame. Just a step up from granola snacks or rice crackers.

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Tags: candy, Halloween, Mid-Range Gifts, Nostalgia