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I’ve been enjoying the (currently) free service, Paperback Swap, a web site that helps you trade books (and not just paperbacks…you can trade hardcover and audio books, too).
The basics are easy: you create an account and enter the ISBN of the books you want to offer; enter ten books, and you’ll get two free credits [...]

I may be regretting giving kudos to the New York Times on their recent food issue. Because this past Sunday’s Completely Unplugged, Fully Green is essentially a hit piece on people, like author and blogger Sharon Astyk, who are striving to live a sustainable lifestyle.
The piece describes several people who are striving to reduce [...]

There’s a few things I’ve acquired over the last year related to our new paddling hobby and our Baja kayak vacation…these are too good to keep quiet about!
REI Zip Travel Tote ($24.50)

This clever tote folds into itself to form a neat, light package that you can toss in your suitcase or carry-on. Then when [...]

In 1987, I was bartending in New York and saved tip money until I had enough to buy this leather motorcycle jacket at a store in Greenwich Village. This jacket and I had many crazy adventures together, but I haven’t worn the jacket regularly in ten years. Eventually I got the notion that [...]

I didn’t see Michael Pollan’s article from last Sunday’s New York Times, Why Bother?, until tonight when I read about it on Stephen Bodio’s blog.
Pollan asks the same kind of question I was trying to ask in my ramble, The Scarcity Mentality. If climate change is inevitable anyway….if changing our own happens feels like [...]

I’ve been watching a lot of good documentaries recently…The End of Suburbia, The Corporation, Blue Vinyl. They aren’t exactly uplifting. Each makes the point that our culture has been pushing forward without considering the real consequences of the decisions we’ve made…or decisions we’ve allowed others to make for us.
If there’s a goal [...]

An Epson Stylus CX 6000 “multifunction” printer sits on my desk as it has for months, its functionality reduced to scanning only. It worked well on its initial set of cartridges; when they started running out, I replaced them with cartridges from the same third-party manufacturer I’d used with my last Epson. They [...]

When I read Neil Gershenfeld’s book FAB: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop a couple of years ago, I was excited about the future promise of fabrication. It would be a Maker revolution, with people building amazing things in their own homes. We’d have any number of exciting gadgets and objects, each designed [...]