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Totally Random Pen Stuff

by TonyB on March 3, 2010

Actually, not quite so random this week.

• Lock up your good pens; there are thieves about. The Herald is reporting that burglars in Plymouth have stolen a collection of jewellery and high-end pens, including a Montblanc Greta Garbo special edition ballpoint.

(Greta Garbo was a classic Hollywood movie star in the ’20s and ’30s. The Montblanc series pens carry her signature and have a pearl in the cap.) Read More –>

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Conversations About Handwriting

by TonyB on February 24, 2010

Lots of good stuff for you this week:

• No wonder people in the Victorian era seemed to write so many letters. The New York Times has a very interesting article about how mail was delivered 12 times a day in London back then. You could receive a letter and respond to it the same day. Read More –>

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Notes by Hand or Keyboard?

February 10, 2010

We all have to take notes, whether for work, school or just daily life, so Lifehacker poses an excellent question to readers on that topic: Do you prefer to take notes with pen and paper or on a computer?

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And the Award for ‘Fight Scene with a Pen’ Goes To…

February 1, 2010

It’s movie awards season in the U.S. (look for Oscar nominations to be announced tomorrow), so here at Tiger Pens, we decided to put together a movie/TV list of our own: Great fight scenes involving a pen or pencil.
You might be surprised at how many there are. Some are fairly recent, and a few go [...]

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A Parker Pen Museum in Newhaven?

January 27, 2010

Yeah, it’s probably a long, long shot, but a website run by a Parker Pen collector is putting together a petition in hopes of convincing the company to create an archives/museum when it closes its British factory later this year.

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Antibacterial Pens vs. Flu Bugs

January 25, 2010

A promotional pen company has just launched a new product for people who fear their writing instruments might be out to get them. The Antibac antibacterial pen is a “certified superbug killer” that supposedly wipes out the nasty germs that are crawling around on your pen, trying to infect you.

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Probably a Good Pen?

January 11, 2010

Arun Prabhudesai has written an amusing post at Trak.in, his business blog, about a gel and ballpoint pen advertisement that appeared on the front page of the Times of India.

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A Whole New Meaning to "Exploding Pen"

January 8, 2010

You’d think the worst that could happen if an ink pen exploded would be a giant blue stain on your favourite white shirt.
But take a look at this video that shows how easily a simple ballpoint pen can be converted into a dangerous bomb using a binary explosive. Don’t worry, it doesn’t reveal exactly what [...]

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Say "Thank You" With a Note

January 7, 2010

Back home from the holidays and trying to decide whether to send out a round of handwritten thank-you notes?
Of course, we highly recommend it. Thank-you notes only take a few minutes and are all but guaranteed to make your friends and loved ones feel a little extra post-holiday warmth. Plus, they give you yet another [...]

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The 24K Gold Pencil a Great Gift or a Designers Folly

January 7, 2010

Daisung Kim a Korean designer has introduced to the world his 24K gold pencils. The pencils are a standard graphite core wooden pencil covered in 99% pure gold and stamped with the lettering 24K Gold Pencil. 
With gold prices currently at an all time high is this inspiration from Daisung Kim bringing out the pen at this time? City bankers [...]

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