6 brief personal recommendations of cool stuff.
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Creator tutor / Reset reference card / Keychain glasses
Creator tutor
I watch a LOT of YouTube videos about making stuff. Mostly people in their workshops making furniture, or props, or costumes, or miniatures, or their own tools, or weird art. One of the best teachers in this maker-verse i...
Beeswax / Chompy ice on demand / Price history alert
Two-minute spelling bee
Beeswax is a daily spelling bee that only takes two minutes. You hear each word spoken aloud, spell it, and one wrong letter ends your run. The words start easy and get progressively harder. Everyone gets the sa...
Retro Recomendo: Money Stuff
Our subscriber base has grown so much since we first started nine years ago that most of you have missed all our earliest recommendations. The best of these are still valid and useful, so we’re trying out something new — Retro Recomendo. On...
Reading Maps / Days Since / NearbyWiki
Chart the journeys of classic novels
Reading Maps plots the routes characters travel in novels and films — you can trace the Pequod’s ocean path as it chases Moby Dick, or Victor Frankenstein’s pursuit of his monster from Geneva to the...
Tips for philanthropy / Pixel Thoughts app / Packable travel bag
Tips for philanthropy
For some people “Giving Money Away Can Be Harder Than Making It” so Roy Bahat, someone whose lifelong habit has been to give money away, has written up some tips in this essay. He follows part one with a se...
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Authors
The writers behind this newsletter.
Senior Maverick, Wired, a magazine I co-founded in 1993. Also author of many books, such as What Technology Wants, and orginatior of 1,000 True Fans. Photographer, artist, and radical optimist.
Boing Boing, Make, Wired, Cool Tools, Recomendo, IFTF, The Magnet, Book Freak
Writer of Manyworldsvision.com | Co-writer of Recomendo
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