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We're trying to help dudes dress better over here. You probably want r/Halloween or r/AskReddit. But come back on November 1st, and we'll help you buy a pair of jeans and some boots that will get you laid all winter long.

I get an error message from Bonobos whether I enter it as a gift card number or a coupon code.

That's the conclusion of the author of An Affordable Wardrobe after Modern Tailor sent him a free suit. It's such a bad fit that he won't even post pictures. You should read the whole post, but here's the payoff quote:

Online tailoring is neither of these things [custom tailoring or off-the-rack], and it cheapens both. It proletarianizes custom tailoring to the point where it loses meaning, and it falsely elevates cheapness to the point where even that loses meaning.

I just heard the last few minutes of Christopher McDougall on WPR's Here on Earth (realplayer link at the top of the page), and I thought it was interesting enough to share. It was originally broadcast on 8/17/10, so today's show was a repeat, which I didn't realize until I looked on the WPR site for a link to the show. Most of you have probably already heard of Born to Run, but here's a summary from the site just in case -

"Born to Run is a book of wild narrative full of insane characters, extreme sports and one crazy idea: running barefoot is the answer to safe, pain-free and endurance. Christopher McDougall gathered information about