Archive: May 2014
I’m kind of a nerd at heart so I had to include this. Hood, sash, wide sleeves, embroidered Jedi logo on the front, and 100% cotton velour (comfortable!)… It’s the perfect replacement to your current scruffy bath robe you bought a long time ago, and in a galaxy far, far away…
3D printing is awesome, and really is the way of the future, but it’s been completely inaccessible to us consumers. 3D printers are just too damn expensive, hard to use, and large to keep at home. Not to mention that the raw materials needed are hard to come by. Well, MakerBot is changing all that, making […]
iFixit is known for taking apart all kinds of cool gadgets, and this requires a pretty diverse set of tools. Well, they’ve packaged them all into this awesome toolkit, which contains 70 tools to help you fix and hack all kinds of electronics. It includes things like… A 54-bit driver kit Tools for opening electronics […]
Wrist-worn fitness trackers are really hot right now, and Garmin has thrown their hat into the fray. The Vivofit comes with the standard features you’d expect from such a device, like… Daily activity recommendations based on fitness goals. Movement tracking that allows for the display of steps taken, calories burned, distance traveled, and so forth. […]
Yes, the show is awesome, but the books are even better. Game of Thrones is the first in the series, and I’m not even a huge fantasy fan, but this some of the best fiction I’ve read. Martin truly is a master. The plots are intricate, but not confusing; the character development is some of the best I’ve ever […]
I’m a bit of a history nut, so this book was right up my alley. If you liked Sun Tzu’s Art of War,you’ll really enjoy Greene’s 33 Strategies of War. In this book, Greene takes us on a journey through thousands of years of wars and conflicts and their political, philosophical, and religious motives and justifications. He […]
I’m a fan of Steven Pressfield’s work. In Warrior Ethos, Pressfield relates the virtues of warriors to everyday life and how we can use these ancient codes to inspire purpose and integrity, and act more honorably and decisively. Pressfield draws wisdom from renowned armies like the ancient Spartans, Alexander’s Macedonians, and Cyrus the Great’s Persians, and […]
