Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World by Glenn Adamson The MIT Press 2003, 300 pages, 9.5 x 11 x 0 ...

The Coloring Book for Goths: The World’s Most Depressing Book by Tom Devonald Atria Books 2016, 96 pages, 5.5 x 7.5 x 0.4 ...

Spending money on experiences, such as travel, concerts, and learning new skills, provides more lasting happiness than ...

One of the greatest pieces of travel advice I ever received was from my father. That advice was specifically about business travel, but I have had such great experiences with it that I have adopted it ...

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Versatile Sun Protection Up Top. If you’re like me and don’t have a full head of hair on top, going into bright sunlight without a hat can be dangerous. A hat doesn’t work w ...

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 The tools might be outdated or obsolete, and the links to them may or may not work.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 ...

Claude Shannon invented the modern mathematical definition of information, casting it in terms of bits and entropy. Shannon also tinkered with odd contraptions, but his boldest most brilliant ...

Speech-to-Text by Borg is an automated transcription service with a generous free tier. You can upload MP3s up to 25MB (roughly 30 minutes of audio) and get fast, high-quality transcripts without ...

UPDATE Several years ago on my 68th birthday I wrote up 68 bits of advice for my adult children, and posted them here. Here are the first five bits: Learn how to learn from those you disagree with, or ...

[Translations: Japanese] Alan Kay, a brilliant polymath who has worked at Atari, Xerox, Apple, and Disney, came up with as good a definition of technology as I’ve heard. “Technology,” Kay says, “is ...

There are two classes of problems caused by new technology. Class 1 problems are due to it not working perfectly. Class 2 problems are due to it working perfectly. One example: many of the current ...