Gavin McInnes, like BuzzFeed, has been getting emails from the American Mustache Institute . He has some feelings. (This is also a topical video if you're conflicted about your facial hair choices post-Octobeard.)

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1. the American Mustache Institute
2. Octobeard - Featured on BuzzFeed
3. thanks to EA Hanks

We are coming down the home stretch of Octobeard with only 10 days left to go, so what better time to check in and see how robustly our beards are coming in. Special thanks to Fred Flare for providing us with all the happy/sad sweaters .

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I guess focusing on the beard is unfair because they guy also was essentially documenting his walk through China, but the beard thing kind of wins.

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1. Via SwissMiss

Link: http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot....

This 1913 leaflet (excerpted here for your enjoyment) uses the ancient art of pogonomancy, or divination by beard reading, to evaluate various well-known poets. The author, Upton Uxbridge Underwood, created the Underwood Pogonometric Index to scientifically judge not only the weight and shape of a poet's beard, but also its “ectoplasmic aura.” Thus Walt Whitman's impressive-looking beard (pictured) scores rather low on the Underwood Index because it lacks “odylic force.” Upton Uxbridge Underwood: clearly the original hipster.

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1. Poets ranked by the gravity of their beards
2. Poets Ranked by Beard Weight

From November 2007 to November 2008, this guy walked a total of 4646km through China. During that time, his beard grew a fair amount. Fortunately, he has documented this.

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This man lifted a 56-pound child with his beard, for charity. A month ago he was only up to 11 pounds, so this is quite an accomplishment. Congratulations, beard-lifting dude!

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1. Beard-lift man’s beard lifts a whole child
2. ThingsMyBeardCanLift.com
3. Things My Beard Can Lift featured on BuzzFeed
4. Beard-lift man’s beard goes from strength to strength
5. The power of beards

STYLE BUZZ: Recession Beards are the newest and most fashionable way to express yourself after a recent round of lay-offs. Mustaches, meanwhile, are becoming the employed population's way of saying “we support you, brothers.” Shave your face, and you might as well have crossed the picket lines, comrade.

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1. Hair they are!
2. Hairy Economy Trend: Beards Are Back
3. Out of a Job and Happy to Retire the Razor
4. Facial Hair in a Recession

When regular cold-weather head gear just isn't enough. Tired of trying to keep warm but not being able to show the world you've got a wonderful mustache and/or beard? Worry no more, friend.

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1. “From zero to Grizzly Adams in no time.”
2. Get Other Styles Here

Technically this is a “Napoleon III Imperial” beard. So that's what Mel Gibson is up to, in case you were wondering.

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Meet Hermeto Pascoal, your featured soloist for the evening. The bucket trick around 1:00 is apparently a Hermeto specialty.

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1. Hermeto’s official site
2. Meet Hermeto
3. via

Kottke's collected a much of mannequins modeling all manner of beard and mustache styles. If only someone would label these , it'd be a perfect resource.

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1. Via Kottke

Learn your Fu Manchu from your Van Dyke with this handy chart of beard types. I like the Hulihee; it’s like the mullet of facial hair. (Props! First spotted by Leah Wechsler .)

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1. Spotted By Leah Wechsler
2. Image via Beard Revue

With less than a year left until the World Beard And Moustache Championships in Anchorage, Alaska, enthusiasts are wondering what Weisser (whose facial hair, sculpted in a tribute to the Brandenburg Gate in his native Germany, swept the 2005 ceremony) will come up with. Fingers crossed, dude’s going to bring out the big guns: The Last Supper, bearded.

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1. More Crazy Beards!