Now Offering Paid Subscriptions I’m now offering paid subscriptions to Gar’s Tips & Tools. It’s $8/month or $80/year. So, what do you get for your paid subscription? Same great tips, only carefully ...

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 ...

Six years ago I celebrated my 68th birthday by gifting my children 68 bits of advice I wished I had gotten when I was their age. Every birthday after that I added more bits of advice for them until I ...

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 ...

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 ...

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********************** Great Divide Mountain Bike Route — 2,500 miles Unlike the other five trails, this one is not flat. Anything but. The Great Divide Route is 2,500 miles of rough fire roads that ...

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 The tools might be outdated or obsolete, and the links to them may or may not work.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

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 ...

Imagine 50 years from now a Public Intelligence that was a distributed, open-source, non-commercial artificial intelligence, operated like the internet, and available to the whole world. This public ...