{"id":33610,"date":"2019-06-09T02:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T09:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=33610"},"modified":"2019-06-04T16:35:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T23:35:39","slug":"empty-planet507-movementstool-tip-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/empty-planet507-movementstool-tip-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty Planet\/507 Movements\/Tool tip newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Population heresy<\/strong>
\nA book that recently changed my mind is\u00a0Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline<\/a>. In great scholarly detail the authors outline the near certainty of a population implosion all around the world in the next 50 years, starting right now in Japan, Europe, and quickly moving into the rest of the developing world in the coming decade. They calculate China will lose half of its population by the end of this century, and Mexico will need to import migrants. This inverts all kinds of political assumptions. The most newsworthy book I\u2019ve read in awhile. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n

Animated mechanical movements<\/strong>
\nWhen making toys, I refer to\u00a0507 Mechanical Movements<\/a>. This old book is sort of a periodic table of known mechanical movements, first published in 1868. The book has been scanned onto the web, with many of the gears animated into looping gifs so you can see exactly how their ingenious mechanisms work and what movements they create. Just paging through this amazing\u00a0507 Movements website\u00a0<\/a>fills me with ideas. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n

Toolshop tips<\/strong>
\nI\u2019m enjoying Gareth Branwyn\u2019s new email newsletter,\u00a0Gareth\u2019s Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales<\/a>. Each weekly issue has several handy tidbits about interesting tools, novel ways to use tools, and how to maintain your workshop. The latest issue has a tip from Adam Savage on where to store infrequently used tools: \u201c’If I didn\u2019t have it right now, where would I look for it?\u2019 And that\u2019s where he stashes it. He tries to not get clever, not overthink it, but rather, he goes with the first place that pops to mind.\u201d \u2013 MF<\/p>\n

Better toilet plunger<\/strong>
\nPlunging a clogged toilet is hard work, but it\u2019s a lot easier when you have a horizontal grip. The\u00a0Mr. Siga plunger<\/a>\u00a0($15) has a grip that allows me to push down with a lot more force than a simple pole handle. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n

Gmail reverse conversation<\/strong>
\nThis\u00a0chrome extension<\/a>\u00a0does only one thing: reverses my Gmail thread views so that the newest message is always on top. Which is the way it should be. No more scrolling or collapsing old messages to get to the most recent. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n

Wise findings<\/strong>
\nThese are five quotes I\u2019ve recently stumbled across, and that stopped me in my tracks. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n

\u201cLife shrinks or expands in proportion to one\u2019s courage.\u201d \u2014 Ana\u00efs\u00a0Nin<\/div>\n
\u201cHave you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?\u201d \u2014 George Carlin<\/div>\n
\u201cYou know, the matrix says, \u2018Pick an identity and stick with it. Because I want to sell you some beer and shampoo and I need you to stick with what you are so I\u2019ll know how to market it to you.\u2019 Drag is the opposite. Drag says, ‘Identity is a joke.\u2019\u201d \u2014 RuPaul<\/div>\n
\u201cEach moment is a place you\u2019ve never been.\u201d \u2014\u00a0Mark Strand<\/div>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.\u201d \u2014 Alan Watts<\/div>\n
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