Vinturi’s simple gadget makes the aerating process easy and convenient. Simply hold it over a glass and pour the wine through, mixing the proper amount of air in the right amount of time. The result is a better bouquet, richer flavor, and smoother finish. Vinturi’s acrylic aerator stands six inches tall and two inches wide, is dishwasher-safe, and comes with a no-drip stand and travel pouch.

It is a longstanding myth that white wine does not need aeration. The truth is that white wine displays the same improvements with aeration as red wine. Specially designed for white wine, the Vinturi Essential White Wine Aerator delivers a better bouquet, enhanced flavors and smoother finish to your favorite Chardonnay, Viognier or Sauvignon Blanc. The wine will be more flavorful. Made of acrylic, it comes with a no-drip stand and a travel pouch. Both the aerator and stand are dishwasher safe, and the travel pouch is machine washable.

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Extremely popular pillow as of late. Manufactured in the USA using 100% Organic Hulls and 100% Natural Unbleached Cotton, this pillow can relieve common sleeping problems (tension, muscle pain, stiff neck, headache). It will conform and adjust perfectly to your head, neck, and spine; it will NOT collapse like foam. The buckwheat hulls allow air to circulate throughout the pillow, cooling it off quickly.

And the best part: The organic buckwheat pillow is a natural alternative to anyone with foam and feather allergies.

Get the Organic Buckwheat Pillow – Queen Size
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And yes! There is also a Travel/ Child Size and a Japanese Size!

Currently, there is a brand new model that takes the place of the w2408 – it’s the HP W2338H 23-Inch Widescreen Monitor.

Description:

• 23 inch widescreen LCD monitor. Display format 16:9.
• Full High Definition with 1920 x 1080p maximum resolution.
• Reduce blur while enjoying sports, action movies or online games with a 5 ms On/Off response time.
• 3000:1 dynamic contrast ratio enhance screen images by deepening the black areas and bringing out the white areas on the picture.
• Glossy black bezel elegantly frames your display and complements BrightView screen.
• Built in speakers, HDMI, VGA

I love the cover of this Frank Sinatra album — Frankie in his suit and fedora, his gal with her perfectly polished nails, non-harried flight attendants rolling out the red carpet — and while I am nowhere near old enough to have flown in those days, I find myself strangely nostalgic for them.

Air travel now is marked not just by inconvenient security policies but by a general crassness that pervades everything. Whether it’s your seatmate, in sweatpants, cramming everything he owns except his toiletries (assuming he uses any) into the overhead bin while you pray nothing tumbles out and gives you a concussion, the crappy bag of potato chips provided as your snack, the bland polyester-blend travel blankets you still have to fight your plane-mates over, or the delays, overbookings and rude service, it’s enough to make you reach for the Xanax (you’ll be even more glad for them later when you hit turbulence). And don’t even think about using your frequent flyer miles to upgrade to first class, as on most planes, it’s nonexistent to near-nonexistent now.

Some attempts to improve service have been made. Delta launched Song a few years ago, providing direct service between major cities in gaily decorated planes with leather seats and flight attendants outfitted by Jack and Kate Spade. Song has, unfortunately, been folded neatly back into its parent; the planes are still flying, but I hear the attendants are back in navy polyester. Silverjet, MAXjet and Eos were all founded to offer lower-cost business-class-only flights where you don’t have to subsidize those sods in economy, because there aren’t any. None of them survived the recession.

At least international flights are offering a little rest for the weary. American Airlines has funky new angled-lie-flat seats with entertainment systems in business class, lie-flat seats in first and — get this — they’ve brought back the salt and pepper shakers.

However, if you’re stuck flying domestically, your best options these days are to bring your own cashmere travel blanket and a good pair of Noise Canceling Headphones. You can plant yourself in front of TV or a movie on airlines like JetBlue or Frontier, but that’s about as nice as it gets. And forget about getting any work done, as you know you wont have either the room or the peace and quiet necessary to make that happen; pick up a good magazine instead, as you won’t be able to concentrate on a book, either. There are alternatives, but while fractional jet services like NetJets are nice, they are not accessible to most of us. Air taxis are just now getting off the ground, no pun intended; in a few years, this may be a viable option, but for now it’s speculative.

You could also board the plane in a fedora, if you want to channel Frank.

- Alyx