Kevin Kelly

Mark Frauenfelder

Claudia Dawson

Every week for the past two years we briefly recommend 6 things to our friends in free email newsletter called Recommendo. This book features the "best of" those recommendations. Sometimes we suggest tools, but most items aren't tools. Rather we recommend stuff such as our favorite places to visit, things to watch or listen to, favorite stuff to eat, as well as tips for work or home, and techniques we've learned, quotes we like to remember, and so on. This autumn we collected, filtered and organized 550 of the best recommendations and put them into a book, called naturally enough, Recomendo. The book is 95 jam-packed pages. We've categorized the recommendations, grouping like with like. Having all the workflow tips, or household suggestions, or workshop tools, or travel recommendations all in one place is super handy. There's an index and subject guide. Many of the items have an illustration. To make up for the fact that a book can't have links, we've added QR codes, so you can instantly get a link with your phone. Everyone who has picked the book up has found something cool for them on the first page and they keep turning the pages for more.

500 Brief Reviews of Cool Stuff

Recomendo

(Black & White Edition). Creative people tend to accrue a nifty set of tools. Great tools enable efficiency and further creativity, and sometimes inspire whole new ways of working. For the past five years, we have interviewed notable creators in a 25-minute podcast for Cool Tools, asking them to rave about four of their favorite tools. These tools range from classic handtools, to state-of-the-art laser cutters, to perfect pencils. Each pick is a surprise and a lesson. The 150 best past responses from the Cool Tools podcast are presented in this book. The result is 300 pages of concentrated goodness and tool fandom.

Fantastic Tools Selected by 150 Notable Creators

Four Favorite Tools

(Black & White Edition) This book features our best 1,000 recommendations, selected from all the brief suggestions we've sent out over the past four years. Each Sunday morning we email 6 brief suggestions in a free email newsletter called Recomendo; we've rounded up the best thousand items here. This edition is improved and expanded from a first edition of this book we did two years ago.

Recomendo: The Expanded Edition

Phantom Kangaroo: The Anthology is a collection of 300 poems written about the paranormal, the occult, the mystical, and anything else that might be shrouded in mystery. It can be dark at times, but it is never bad. It is questions and glimpses and testimony. It is real and a hoax and theories. But in its earthly form, it is poetry and art and beauty. These poems were published over the course of a decade in Phantom Kangaroo (issues 1-23). Phantom Kangaroo is published online at phantomkangaroo.com and in print three times a year. Contributors: Alex Brown, Ali Znaidi, Alicia A. Curtis, Amber Decker, Amit Parmessur, Amy Elisabeth Olson, Anastasia Chew, Andrew Chmielowiec, Andrew J. Stone, Anna Sykora, Anne Butler, Annie Neugebauer, Anthony Jones, Anton Yakovlev, Becca Thorne, Ben John Smith, Bill Gainer, Bill Wolack, C.M. Humphries, Cameron Morse, Caroline Misner, Cassandra de Alba, Catherine Cimillo Cavallone, Catherine Owen, Chad Redden, Changming Yuan, Chloe N. Clark, Chris Knodel, Chris Kobylinsky, Christy Effinger, Cindy Rinne, Claire Joanne Huxham, Cynthia Linville, D.S. Jones, Daniel M. Shapiro, Daniel Romo, David McLean, David Russomano, David Spicer, David Tomaloff, Dawn Schout, Denny E. Marshall, Donal Mahoney, Dorene O'Brien, Drea Jane Kato, Drew Pisarra, Eamonn Lorigan, Ed Makowski, Elena Riley, Ellyn Touchette, Emily O'Neill, Emily Rose Cole, Emory Bell, Eric Roalson, Erin Croy, F.J. Bergmann, Faryn Black, Febe Moss, Felipe Rivera, Francis X. Altomare, Franklin Murdock, Gale Acuff, Georgie Delgado, Glenn W. Cooper, Gus Iversen, Hannah Rose Neuhauser, Harry Calhoun, Helen Vitoria, Hillary Lyon, Holly Day, Howie Good, Israel Wasserstein, Jack Hodil, Jackson Burgess, Jacob Luplow, James Dowell, Janann Dawkins, Jane Røken, Jason Brightwell, Jay Coral, Jean Brasseur, Jeanie Tomasko, Jeannine Geise, Jeffrey Park, Jennifer Tomaloff, Jennifer Lobaugh, Jennifer Phillips, Jeston Dulin, Jill Khoury, Jim Bronyaur, Joan McNerney, Joe Nicholas, John Grey, John Joe Loftus, John Roth, John Swain, Joseph Harms, Joseph M. Gant, Joshua Otto, Jude Cowan, Julia Rox, Justin Holliday, Kalen Rowe, Kara Synhorst, Kate Frank, Kevin Heaton, Kevin Ridgeway, KG Newman, Khadija Hussain, Khalym Kari Burke-Thomas, Kimberly Casey, Kirby Wright, Kristin Maffei, Kyla Cheung, Kyle Hemmings, Laura Grodin, Laura LeHew, Lawrence Gladeview, Lee Gillespie, Leila A. Fortier, Levi Gribbon, Linda Crate, Lisa M. Litrenta, Lisa Marie Basile, Lisa McCool-Grime, Lori Lamothe, Lucia Olga Ahrensdorf, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, M. J. Luppa, M. Krochmalnik Grabois, Margaret Emma Brandl, Margaret Mary, Marina Rubin, Mark Bonica, Mary Elzabeth Lee, Matt Ryan, Matt Schumacher, Matthew Byrne, Matthew Harrison, Matthew Specht, Meaghan Ford, Megan Kennedy, Melanie Browne, Melissa Bobe, Meredith Weiers, Michael Bagwell, Michael Dwayne Smith, Michael Frissore, Michael Grover, Michael H. Brownstein, Midori Chen, Mike Meraz, Mike Salgado, Molly Hamilton, Mora Torres, Morgan Adams, Nancy Flynn, Natalie Angelone, Nate Maxson, Nathan Lipps, Nathan Logan, Nathan Savin Scott, Neil Weston, Nico Rico, Nicole Taylor, P.A.Levy, Paul Hellweg, Paul Strohm, Paul McQuade, Peter Marra, Peter Schwartz, Phoenix Bunke, R.D. Kimball, Rachel Marsom-Richmond, Richard Cody, Richard Peabody, Richard Peake, Rick Bailey, Ricky Garni, Robert E. Petras, Robert McDonald, Robert Vaughan, Ron Koppelberger, Rose Aiello Morales, Rose Arrowsmith DeCoux, Roxanne Broda-Blake, Roy Bentley, Sarah J. Sloat, Seth Jani, Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick, Sheila Hassell Hughes, Simon Perchik, Stephen Bunch, Steve Castro, Steve Isaak, Steve Toase, Tammy Ho Lai-Ming, Tannen Dell, Tanuj Solanki, Taylor Graham, Tess Joyce, Tess Pfeifle, Theodosia Henney, Thomas Piekarski, Tony Walton, Ty Russell, Tyler Burdwood, Veronica McDonald, Vivian Bird, Walt Garner, Walter Bjorkman, Walter Conley, Wayne F. Burke, Wendy Willis, Wesley Dylan Gray, William C. Blome, William Doreski, William Page, Willie Smith

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