A visit to Japan is going to hit you harder when you arrive and harder when you leave. The price of a single-entry visa jumped from around US$19 to $93 this month and a multi-entry one went from $37 ...

For a cleaner, more permanent solution, consider heat-shrink grip tubing. Slide it over the handle, warm it with a heat gun, ...

Stronger Flyer Rights in Europe. Europe has made it clear they are siding with consumers instead of airline execs and just strengthened the continent’s protections for flyers. C ...

Retired after a varied career of programming, writing, and teaching, I live now in British Columbia and have the daily joy of ...

Patterns in Nature by Philip Ball University of Chicago Press 2016, 288 pages, 8.5 x 10 x 1.1 inches ...

AN EXPLORATION OF PROSTITUTION AS FOUND IN THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE. Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus by Chester Brown Drawn & ...

Six years ago I celebrated my 68th birthday by gifting my children 68 bits of advice I wished I had gotten when I was their age. Every birthday after that I added more bits of advice for them until I ...

I travel for work, often on 2-night trips. For more than five years, my luggage for such trips is a Skyroll. It presents as a tough nylon garment bag that wraps around a nylon covered tube. Tube is ...

Awkward Zombie is one of my favorite webcomics. Creator Katie Tiedrich writes a comic that focuses on parodying video games of all kinds, with the occasional strip drawn from poking fun at her own ...

We live on a 7-acre property in Connecticut with a bunch of black walnut and shagbark hickory trees. For years, the nuts have confounded us as they are near impossible to crack. We’ve resorted to ...

Even if you have the least interest in shoes, do yourself a favor and experience this quirky site devoted to shoelaces. Thanks to an active community of contributors, there is an ever-growing ...

I decided to convert my city cruiser bicycle into a comfy e-bike. After researching the various ways to do this, I settled on a mid-drive kit. The typical way to make an e-bike is to mount the motor ...