Drinky Crow Drinks Again by Tony Millionaire Fantagraphics 2016, 128 pages, 10.8 x 8.8 x 0.7 inches (hardcover) ...

The 5.11 tactical shirt is simply the best field/hiking shirt I have owned. If you are the kind of person who juggles maps ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 The tools might be outdated or obsolete, and the links to them may or may not work.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

Dark Matter = The weight of information. That’s one of the speculations in an offbeat but creative alternative theory of quatum physics that is not entirely a crackpot idea. Way out there. The radical ...

For the past year and a half, I’ve been exploring the octave ukulele, a unique instrument that has brought me great joy. An octave ukulele is essentially a baritone ukulele fitted with octave strings.

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 ...