A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of A Better Life for Half the Price and The World’s Cheapest Destinations. See past editions here, where your like-minded ...

The Art of Trolls by Jerry Schmitz Cameron + Company 2016, 160 pages, 11.2 x 0.8 x 10.2 inches, Hardcover ...

A Cup of Tea Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire ...

After one too many frustrating calls trying to spell out airline confirmation codes (“No, B as in Boy, not D!”), I built this simple web tool. Type in any text and it instantly converts it to NATO ...

Out of nothing, nature makes something. First there is hard rock planet; then there is life, lots of it. First barren hills; then brooks with fish and cattails and red-winged blackbirds. First an ...

If you want to geek out on which countries are serving adventure travelers best, check out the just-released Adventure Tourism Development Index, the first one put together since the pandemic. Among ...

In a darkened Las Vegas conference room, a cheering audience waves cardboard wands in the air. Each wand is red on one side, green on the other. Far in back of the huge auditorium, a camera scans the ...

Gar’s Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales is published by Cool Tools Lab. To receive the newsletter a week early, sign up here. One of the most popular posts I’ve included in Gar’s Tips & Tools is Scott ...

(Stuff I’m interested in now, or was interested in before.) I was a long-time member of Global Business Network, a small think tank and consultancy based in Emeryville, California. Occasionally I’ll ...

The first time Tom Ray released his tiny hand-made creature into his computer, it reproduced rapidly until hundreds of copies occupied the available memory space. Ray's creature was an experimental ...