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 ...

There are also features on such classic stand-alone comics as Captain America’s Bicentennial Battles by Jack Kirby; the first ...

Glicol is a free music programming environment that runs in your web browser — no installation needed. As someone who dabbles in music coding, I like how it lets you connect audio nodes (like ...

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You can spend a lot of money on an acoustic guitar these days and end up with an instrument that doesn’t improve with age, either tonally or aesthetically. With CNC machines and other robotic aids, ...

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 ...

Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen. Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor’s cup full, and then kept pouring.

Sublime is an inspiration engine for ideas, a Pinterest for knowledge, and one of the most useful tool I came across in 2024. Wether you are a creative who would like more output, or you just need a ...

Each year I do a lengthy updated blog post on the best bargain countries around the world for those who are coming in with earnings or savings in a strong hard currency. Prices usually don’t change ...

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 ...