Book Freak 166: The Hacking of the American Mind
Hi Book Freaks! Welcome to another issue of the newsletter that delivers useful ideas from a wide variety of books. I would love to learn from readers about books that have changed their thinking and...
View ArticleFree Audiobooks/Adios Selina/Remote Work Saves the Day
A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of A Better Life for Half the Price and The World’s Cheapest Destinations. See past editions here, where your like-minded...
View ArticleBlue Angels/Pocket charger/Compliment Me
Sign up here to get Recomendo a week early in your inbox. Ultimate training documentary I really enjoyed this doc about the Blue Angels – an elite jet squadron showing off Navy flying skills. But...
View ArticleDemolition
Once a week we’ll send out a page from Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities. The tools might be outdated or obsolete, and the links to them may or may not work. We present these vintage...
View ArticleLost in Translation / The Complete Little Nemo
Books That Belong On Paper first appeared on the web as Wink Books and was edited by Carla Sinclair. Sign up here to get the issues a week early in your inbox. AN ILLUSTRATED NOTE CARD COLLECTION OF...
View ArticleGar’s Tips & Tools – Issue #181
Gar’s Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales is published by Cool Tools Lab. To receive the newsletter a week early, sign up here. The Grand Tradition of Fishing Tools from the Trash Image “Granddad’s Workshop,”...
View ArticleBetter Eye Mask/Cheap Hotel Chains Rated/European Work Hours
A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of A Better Life for Half the Price and The World’s Cheapest Destinations. See past editions here, where your like-minded...
View ArticleDawn Chorus/iOS contact kiss/Inconspicuous Consumption
Sign up here to get Recomendo a week early in your inbox. Beautiful birdsongs from all over the world I am absolutely enamored by Dawn Chorus, a sound project that collects and maps bird song...
View ArticleKitchen Safety
Once a week we’ll send out a page from Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities. The tools might be outdated or obsolete, and the links to them may or may not work. We present these vintage...
View ArticleSo You Want to Publish a Magazine? / The Total Inventors Manual
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View ArticleBook Freak 167: The Utopia of Rules
Get The Utopia of Rules In The Utopia of Rules (available as a free ebook from the Anarchist Library), the late anthropologist David Graeber explores the pervasive role of bureaucracy in modern life...
View ArticleNew Tourist Taxes/Regional Drinking Preferences/Top Travel Backpack
A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of A Better Life for Half the Price and The World’s Cheapest Destinations. See past editions here, where your like-minded...
View ArticleElectrocardiogram in your pocket
I recently had a doctor’s appointment where the doctor did a quick Electrocardiogram (EKG) by pulling this tiny sensor out of his pocket. I put my two index fingers on it and rested the back of it...
View ArticleStar Wars Hotel failure/Bookstore map/Mejorar Imagen
Sign up here to get Recomendo a week early in your inbox. How (not) to do interactive experiences I surprised myself by watching the full 4 hours of a “review” of a Disney Star Wars Hotel by an...
View ArticleBird Behavior
Once a week we’ll send out a page from Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities. The tools might be outdated or obsolete, and the links to them may or may not work. We present these vintage...
View ArticleThe World of Edena / When David Invented Bowie
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View ArticleWhat’s in my NOW? — Greg Maass
Sign up here to get What’s in my NOW? a week early in your inbox. Greg Maass is a computer programmer, musician, and photographer living in Seattle. Soon he will stop being a computer programer and is...
View ArticleVolaris Pass/Free Airline Wi-Fi/Best Loyalty Programs
A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of A Better Life for Half the Price and The World’s Cheapest Destinations. See past editions here, where your like-minded...
View ArticleAishwarya Khanduja, social and health-tech innovator
Aishwarya Khanduja is the founder of a stealth entity working to solve wicked problems through lenses of complexity, markets, and power. She’s spent the majority of her career thus far being a founder...
View ArticleGar’s Tips & Tools – Issue #182
Gar’s Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales is published by Cool Tools Lab. To receive the newsletter a week early, sign up here. Buying/Selling Vintage Toolboxes Continuing the vintage tools theme from our...
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