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Book Freak #10: How to Overcome Anxiety
Book Freak is one of four newsletters from Cool Tools Lab (our other three are the Cool Tools Newsletter, Recomendo, and What’s in my bag?). In each weekly issue of Book Freak, we offer three short...
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Vari-Speed Fan Speed Controller
I don’t know about you, but I think most fans run too fast, even on their low speed setting. I generally like to have a little air moving around, but your standard desk or floor fan moves around too...
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What’s in my bag? — Mark Frauenfelder
Sign up here to get What’s in my bag? a week early in your inbox. Mark Frauenfelder is the co-founder of BoingBoing, and the founding editor of Make magazine. He is a research director at Institute of...
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Book Freak #11: Decluttering Tips
Book Freak is one of four newsletters from Cool Tools Lab (our other three are the Cool Tools Newsletter, Recomendo, and What’s in my bag?). In each weekly issue of Book Freak, we offer three short...
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OXO Angled Measuring Cups
I have used these cups for about two years and they are far better than other measuring cups because you can measure the amount from the top while filling. You don’t need to stop and look from the...
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OXO Flexible Stainless Steel Turner/Spatula
This is one of those “why doesn’t everybody have one?” tools — at least, everybody who cooks or bakes. You know all those times when your spatula left most of the lovely crispy bits — crispy browned...
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Kirsten Dirksen and Nicolás Boullosa, *faircompanies
Our guests this week are Kirsten Dirksen and Nicolás Boullosa. Since 200, Kristen and Nicolas have been producing *faircompanies, a web series that’s evolved to become one of the most comprehensive...
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Savage Builds/Checker Plus/FlightsFrom.com
Sign up here to get Recomendo a week early in your inbox. Maker extreme I enjoy the way Adam Savage, formerly Mythbuster co-host, builds complicated things. He has a new show, Savage Builds, running on...
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Scotch 845 Book Tape
Scotch 845 book tape ($7) is a staple for elementary school teachers, but it is handy to keep in your household hardware drawer. It looks like packing tape but is very different. It is specifically...
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Best Entry Level Embroidery Machine
For putting custom artwork on things and not clip art, people should have art digitized here’s someone that does that on fiverr for cheap (I don’t recommend that anyone learn how to digitize...
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Floppy Tube Garlic Peeler
When you are pulling together a meal, anything you can do to minimize prep time up front — or more importantly, along the way — helps make things run more smoothly and cleanly. I love garlic and often...
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Un-Skru Jar Opener
If you want to open a stubborn jar lid, this is the easiest gadget I’ve ever used ($13), and I’ve used a few. I’ve owned one of these for the last two decades. I’ve only ever bought one. The first one...
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FIFO Condiment Squeeze Bottle
I’ve been using a FIFO (first in, first out, for the non-IT types in the crowd) style squeeze bottle for the past 3-4 years. I found I was going through a lot of mustard and wanted to buy it in bulk,...
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What’s in my bag? — Marcel Dufresne
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Button-Stud Leather Watchband
For those few of us who still wear watches on our wrists (and now add smartwatches to that) and also pound at keyboards a lot, you’ve likely noticed that most watchbands aren’t really comfortable with...
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Butter/Cream Cheese Spreader
I got Butter/Cream Cheese Spreader ($7 for a set of four) a year ago and haven’t used my standard knives since. For spreading toppings like butter, peanut butter, jam, mayo, guac… it is so much easier...
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Richard Kadrey, NYT Bestselling Author of the Sandman Slim series
Our guests this week is Richard Kadrey. Richard is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim supernatural noir series. Sandman Slim was included in Amazon’s “100 Science Fiction &...
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Sci-Hub/Learning Synths/Strikethrough stress note
Sign up here to get Recomendo a week early in your inbox. Free academic papers For the past 8 years Sci-Hub has been the Napster of academic papers. It’s a pirate site that serves up scholarly journal...
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Finding the Best Finger Ratchet
Tools: AMPRO T19086 1/4-Inch Drive Finger Ratchet and Bit Driver Aluminum S&K 45172 Thumbwheel Ratchet – 3/8” Drive Related tools mentioned: Titan Tools 12091 3/8″ (12090 1/4″) Drive Finger...
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Wonder Mill
A lot of us know there’s nothing like a fresh picked tomato or a freshly dug potato. For me, right up there with those heavenly items is freshly ground flour. There are a lot of mills out there, many...
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