One of the great things about living in the United Kingdom is the popularity of cufflinks.

In Canada, cufflinks are a rare thing — you would have to search for a shirt that required them. But here in the UK, cufflinks are standard. Shirts that require them are as common as those that do not.

And men, apparently, love their jewelry.

Of course, not all cufflinks are created equal. The ones below are clearly superior to the average cufflink.

These cufflinks are actual functional lighters, and available for 22.99. Presumably USD:

Tend to find yourself out and about, with bottles to open and no bottle opener? Then these bottle opener cufflinks could be the links for you:

Are you a Trekkie? No? Perhaps a Trekker, then? If so, you may want to drop $40 on these Star Trek cufflinks:

Perhaps you’re a roleplayer and proud. So proud that you want to wear your dice on your sleeve. Here you go. I like how the description mentions that they are blue — it makes me think that they are available in other colours:

Car enthusiast? Don’t let the geeks have all the fun cufflinks — there are some for you, too:

And, of course, there is always Pac Man:

Most of the above cufflinks were found via two blogs: BoingBoing and Cool Material.

Many thanks to authors at both sites for being far more obsessed by cufflinks than I am.