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 friends can subscribe and join you. * Happy birthday to us: we just hit issue #100! Thanks for your support and if you upgrade to being a paid supporter, we’ll reward you with an e-book soon that has 104 of our best travel and living abroad tips from our first two years. Digital Nomad Visas On One Page Mark F. stumbled upon this VisaList site that is an alternative to ..read more

Sign up here to get What’s in my NOW? a week early in your inbox. Technologist and Podcaster living in Memphis, TN. Always looking to make the best of the next opportunity and a really hot cup of coffee. Tunes:Uncovered is my podcast about songs you probably have not heard but should! — Mark White PHYSICAL Field Notes 56-Week Planner — small but just right for planning my weeks, podcast dates, meetings, etc. Behringer U-Phoria UMC404HD USB Audio Interface — Most of my podcasts are remote, this unit makes it easy to still have channel specific control bu ..read more

Books That Belong On Paper first appeared on the web as Wink Books and was edited by Carla Sinclair. Sign up here to get the issues a week early in your inbox. A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO IMMORTALITY: FROM ALCHEMY TO AVATARS A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality: From Alchemy to Avatars by Maria Birmingham, Josh Holinaty (Illustrator) Owlkids 2015, 48 pages, 7.4 x 0.6 x 9.7 inches, Hardcover Buy on Amazon Featuring simple, bold, and colorful illustrations, A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality examines humanity’s never-ending quest to discover the secret to eternal life. The book i ..read more

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 The tools might be outdated or obsolete, and the links to them may or may not work.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 recommendations as is because the possibilities they inspire are new. Sign up here to get Tools for Possibilities a week early in your inbox. Flippant, but painless, world history Cartoon History of the Universe (Volumes 1, 2, 3) Larry Gonick, the over-educated cartoonist, continues his series of book-length comic-strips that illustrate ancient history. This new 300-page installment covers the ..read more

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 friends can subscribe and join you. Airline Filtering Site With so many poor or unreliable results coming up in Google searches these days, it’s nice to find a website that answers your questions quickly and accurately. This one called Airlinelist.com is great at showing you filtered results like who is in which frequent flier alliance, the airlines that allow pets in ..read more

Sign up here to get What’s in my NOW? a week early in your inbox. My name is Rick Akin, DDS, MD, and I have been searching for all of life’s good things since childhood. At 52, I find myself returning more and more to the beauty and ideas I encountered during my under-appreciated liberal arts undergraduate education! PHYSICAL Watercolor paint and a brush — I have a favorite brush, colors, papers, and techniques, and I practice every day. I keep all my paintings because it helps me face my perfectionist tendencies. Creating something, no matter how small, tha ..read more

Books That Belong On Paper first appeared on the web as Wink Books and was edited by Carla Sinclair. Sign up here to get the issues a week early in your inbox. RAYMOND IS A TRULY FUNNY, BRIGHT, SWEET READ-ALOUD FOR BOTH KIDS AND GROWN-UPS Raymond by Yann Le Bec, Gwendal Le Bec Candlewick 2017, 32 pages, 8.4 x 0.4 x 12.1 inches, Hardcover Buy on Amazon Raymond is just an ordinary dog, living an ordinary dog’s life. But when he decides that he should eat with the rest of the family at the dinner table one evening, things start to change. Soon, all the dogs in town are getting a t ..read more

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 recommendations as is because the possibilities they inspire are new. Sign up here to get Tools for Possibilities a week early in your inbox. Coffee technical reviews CoffeeGeek For an ancient drink, coffee is moving fast. Improvements for the drink come weekly. I can’t keep up with the best grinders, best roasters, best drips, best beans. So to get the latest coffee techniques and tools, by th ..read more

Gar’s Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales is published by Cool Tools Lab. To receive the newsletter a week early, sign up here. Tips and Must-Haves for Small Shops In this “Ask Adam” video, Adam Savage gets asked what are the essential things to consider when setting up a small home workshop. He points out something that a lot of people likely overlook: the quality, design, and utility of your workbench(es). He says that you should have workbenches that you love being at. I have work surfaces I love and one I don’t. I have two large Biomorph adjustable worktables in my upstai ..read more

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 friends can subscribe and join you. Where is Everybody Going? Where are travelers headed this year? Well if you believe Kayak.com, a company that should know, travelers from the Americas are spreading their wings this year and are headed to places they don’t normally go: Bariloche and Ushuaia (Argentina), Tokyo, Madrid, Tunis, and Medellin are on the top-10 trending list, all up ..read more