Mike Harris legal assistant, bookworm and amateur photographer who likes the surreal and the silly. Mike writes a newsletter called , where he wrangles the week's wonders. &nbsp;  TOOLS: 0:00 - Intro 1:02 - Fidget cube:  5:34 - MyNoise.Net:  11:46 - Inoreader:  16:44 - Periodically:  22:11 - ThinkTrove:  &nbsp;  Watch on YouTube:  &nbsp;  For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/mike-harris-legal-assistant/

395: Mike Harris

Davey Rogulich is a Stagehand and Maker from Albuquerque, NM. He has toured internationally with Tricklock Theater Company and throughout the US with “Blue Man Group” and “Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan!”. He is currently the Technical Director of NDI New Mexico at The Hiland Theater in Albuquerque and the owner of Davey Craft &amp; Tools. His hobbies include woodworking, leather working, aircraft restoration, collecting tools, and caring for orchids in his greenhouse. You can find Davey on Instagram @daveycraftandtools. &nbsp; TOOLS: 0:00 - Intro 1:03 - Knipex 12 62 180, Self Adjusting Wire Stripper:  8:47 - Snap-On TMS4E 1/4" drive Speeder:  17:49 - Titanium AAA Flashlight by Maratac REV 5:  25:21 - Volty Switch Keychain Multimeter:  &nbsp;  Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/r9C9Y0rKD1c &nbsp; For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/davey-rogulich-stagehand-and-maker/ &nbsp; To sign up to be a guest on the show, please fill out this form:

396: Davey Rogulich

Bud Thorpe is a long time photographer, a life long educator, and former paramedic. He and his wife specialize in creating artwork of dogs (and their well behaved families). They run the Dog Art Gallery in historic Portsmouth New Hampshire. He teaches studio lighting for photographers online at The Master Lighting Course. His website is .  TOOLS: 0:00 – Intro 1:03 –&nbsp; 8:47 –&nbsp; 17:49 –&nbsp; 25:21 –&nbsp; &nbsp; Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/BSZNulvab54 &nbsp; For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/bud-thorpe-photographer/ To sign up to be a guest on the show, please&nbsp;.

397: Bud Thorpe

Chris Butler is a chaotic good product manager, writer, and speaker. He has extensive experience in product management leadership at Microsoft, Waze, KAYAK, Facebook Reality Labs (aka Meta), and Cognizant. He is now Group Product Manager in Google’s Core Machine Learning team. He is also the co-founder of The Uncertainty Project a community focused on decision making and strategy.  LINKS:      TOOLS: 0:00 - Intro 1:43 -  12:10 -  29:46 -  34:24 -  44:32 -     To sign up to be a guest on the show, please .

398: Chris Butler

Lifehacker founder and ThinkUp co-founder, Gina Trapani introduces us to a few web based apps that offer elegant design and features well worth their minuscule price-points. Fans of an uncluttered web experience will rejoice to hear what Gina offers up in this installment of the Cool Tools Show.

012: Lifehacker founder Gina Trapani

Brent Deverman&nbsp;founded and sold a China-based internet startup providing services to tourists and English speakers based in Shenzhen, China. With over 20 years of experience in software development, analytics, digital transformation, and e-commerce development, Brent has also executed technical projects for HSBC, CNN, DFS, and AIA. He graduated from Michigan State University with a dual degree in Computer Science and East Asian Studies.   TOOLS: 0:00 – Intro 1:22 –&nbsp; 7:20 –&nbsp; 12:47 –&nbsp; 19:47 –&nbsp;  &nbsp; For show notes and transcript visit:  &nbsp;  To sign up to be a guest on the show, please&nbsp;.

399: Brent Deverman

&nbsp;is the CEO of&nbsp;, which helps community financial institutions transform themselves with data-driven strategies and technologies. Rich has worked extensively with banking, insurance, and financial services clients worldwide during his career. He has led product strategy in data center automation and artificial intelligence, including the launch of IBM Watson Developer Cloud. Rich has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a Masters of Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and served as an engineering officer in the US Army. You can follow Rich on Twitter&nbsp;. TOOLS: 0:00 – Intro 0:35 –&nbsp; 7:05 –&nbsp;&nbsp;(extra strength) 14:43 –&nbsp;&nbsp;(a triumph in defeating obsolescence) 17:01 –&nbsp;&nbsp;(great Evernote companion)  &nbsp; For show notes and transcript visit:  To sign up to be a guest on the show, please&nbsp;. &nbsp;

400: Rich Edwards

Seth Godin enlightens us this week with an unexpected assortment of tools that will have you exploring the deepest recesses of your subconscious while, at the same time, enriching your hobbies and lifestyle.

013: Bestselling Author and Entrepreneur, Seth Godin

&nbsp;is a Technology Integrator at Maine School Unit #19. Starting his teaching career in New Zealand, he has provided support to educators for over two decades and conducted professional development across the globe. He advises a&nbsp;&nbsp;for the Maine Department of Education at MLTI.me and brings his student presenters, the Student Leadership Ambassadors of Maine to numerous conferences around the world and authored the Google Apps Guidebook. TOOLS: 0:00 – Intro 0:45 –&nbsp; 9:44 –&nbsp; 16:33 –&nbsp;&nbsp;(used with&nbsp;) 21:57 –&nbsp; Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/rx09sOuX9Uk &nbsp; For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/kern-kelley-technology-integrator/ &nbsp; To sign up to be a guest on the show, please fill out this form:

401: Kern Kelley

Josué Moreno, a Spanish composer and sound artist, has made Finland his home, where he inspires the next generation of musicians as a teacher at the prestigious Sibelius Academy’s Music Technology Department. Known for pioneering Urban Sonic Acupuncture, Josué seamlessly blends the vibrancy of live electronic compositions with the innovative realms of Computer-Assisted Composition and Generative Arts. Since 2017, he has been creating interactive soundwalking experiences through cutting-edge phone applications and guided sonic acupuncture exercises broadcasted through engaging radio shows. Josué Moreno’s work is an invitation to reshape how we engage with the sounds that surround us. &nbsp;  LINKS:   TOOLS: 0:00 – Intro 1:02 –&nbsp; 10:39 –&nbsp; 25:08 –&nbsp; 33:01 –&nbsp;  &nbsp; For show notes and transcript visit:  &nbsp; To sign up to be a guest on the show, please&nbsp;.

402: Josué Moreno

This week Veronica Belmont stops by to share some of the tools that make her life as a professional podcaster for the show Sword & Laser a little easier: Patreon and Levelator. She also recommends Rootcup and Ello. Veronica’s creative, beautifully made picks are highly recommended for anyone looking to break into the audio/visual or social media arenas.

014: Sword and Laser Host, Veronica Belmont

Mia Coots is a Senior at Nokomis Regional High in central Maine and an amazing presenter for the Student Leadership Ambassadors of Maine for the Department of Education. LINKS:  TOOLS: 0:00 – Intro 0:53 –&nbsp; 7:50 –&nbsp; 15:22 –&nbsp; 18:50 –&nbsp; Watch on  &nbsp; For show notes and transcript visit:  &nbsp; To sign up to be a guest on the show, please fill out this form:  &nbsp;

403: Mia Coots

&nbsp;(He/Him) is a dad who loves science, cooking, math, engineering, skepticism, espresso, and politics! He has been a teacher, an engineer, and now a software business analyst. Curiosity now and forever! TOOLS: 0:00 – Intro 0:46 –&nbsp; 5:20 –&nbsp; 12:07 –&nbsp; 16:22 –&nbsp; &nbsp; Watch on YouTube:  &nbsp; &nbsp; For show notes and transcript visit:  &nbsp; To sign up to be a guest on the show, please&nbsp;.

404: Adam Hill

Our guest this week, Matt Cutts, is a well-known blogger and the head of the Web Spam team at Google.

20: Matt Cutts, Head of Web Spam Team at Google

Simone Davalos has a long and storied history of aspiring to being a technological reprobate. For many years she settled for moving people to terrified delight with competitions and events involving as many different kinds of robot as possible, a move which has landed her in the Guinness Book Of World Records -  twice. 

Her careers have included, but are not limited to: dive bar gal Friday, assistant marching band pyrotechnician, circus dork, online used car part sales, Survival Research Labs groupie and unindicted co-conspirator. She is now Projects and Tech Support Engineer at Other Machine Co., and when she’s not answering your questions she enjoys placating people with cake.


24: Simone Davalos, roboticist

Our guest this week is Douglas Coupland. Since 1991, Douglas has written thirteen novels published in most languages. He has written and performed for England's Royal Shakespeare Company and is a regular columnist with the Financial Times. He began a visual art practice in 2000, and his first museum retrospective opened in summer 2014 at the Vancouver Art Gallery and travels to Munich this summer.

27: Douglas Coupland, author, artist, inventor

Jimmy DiResta is a maker, toy designer, and TV show host. He’s been the host of a number of DIY shows including Dirty Money, Trash to Cash, Against the Grain, and Hammered with John and Jimmy DiResta. He co-hosts the Making It Podcast, and has a fantastic YouTube channel called DiResta.

35: Jimmy DiResta

Andy Baio loves making things online. He’s written waxy.org for the last 13 years, helped build Kick Starter, and organizes XOXO — an independent art tech festival in Portland. His upcoming projects include the XOXO Outpost, which is an experimental workspace opening this January, and the reboot of the collaborative event calendar, upcoming.org.

48: Andy Baio

Chris Anderson is the CEO of 3D Robotics and founder of DIY Drones. From 2001 through 2012 he was Editor in Chief of Wired Magazine. Before Wired he was with The Economist for seven years in London, Hong Kong and New York. He’s the author of the New York Times bestselling books The Long Tail, and Free, as well as Makers: The New Industrial Revolution. His background is in science. He starting with studying physics and doing research at Los Alamos, culminating in six years at the two leading scientific journals, Nature and Science. Chris is also the founder of the site Geekdad. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife and five children.


53: Chris Anderson

Dan Benjamin is a podcaster, writer, software developer, and ex-corporate stooge. He is the founder of 5by5, a podcast network where he hosts a handful of shows. He is the author of baconmethod.com and hivelogic.com, and has written for A List Apart and O’Reilly. Dan lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and their children.

55: Dan Benjamin

Our guest this week is Robyn Miller. Robyn co-founded Cyan Worlds in the late 1980s, where he designed and directed the landmark video games Myst and its sequel Riven. In 2010, he co-founded Zoo Break Gun Club LLC, with producer/filmmaker Mischa Jakupcak. ZBGC has produced several films and has projects in development for film, television and virtual reality.

71: Robyn Miller

Our guest this week is Simone Giertz. Simone is a Swedish native who now resides in San Francisco. Millions of people come to watch her build shitty robots on YouTube and she recently launched her own astronaut training program to get herself into space. Simone's videos have been featured on The Ellen Show, The Late Show, Mashable, Business Insider, Wired, Conan O'Brien, and more. Whilst most recently joining master builder Adam Savage's tested team.

74: Simone Giertz

Our guest this week is Collin Cunningham. Collin's an experimentalist at heart. His love for discovery has led him to explore the worlds of video, sound, art, and technology. He's created multiple web video series and apps, and is a creative engineer at Adafruit Industries.

79: Collin Cunningham

Our guest this week is Rich Roat. After picking up a degree in communication from the University of Delaware, Rich held a number of odd jobs such as communications associate for United Way of Delaware and service bureau/prepress house manager. He met Andy Cruz in 1991 and allowed his new friend to talk him into a series of ill-advised but fortunate career moves that led to the formation of Brand Design Co., Inc., and, subsequently House Industries. Rich initially tried to tame the chaos of Andy’s constantly shifting aesthetic sensibilities and obsessive attention to detail; thankfully, he has been largely unsuccessful. Rich is a co-author of House Industries: The Process is the Inspiration (Watson Guptill/Penguin Random House, 2017) with Andy Cruz and Ken Barber.

83: Rich Roat

Our guest this week is Wendy Frauenfelder. Wendy likes to cook, fix things, pretend to be a bartender, and do therapy dog work. She also is fascinated with wild yeast and slow food.

90: Wendy Frauenfelder

Our guest this week is Craig Mod. Craig is a writer and designer. He's worked extensively with Silicon Valley and Japanese start ups. He spends about two months each year walking the old pilgrimage paths and ancient highways in the mountains of Japan.

91: Craig Mod

Our guest this week is Rebecca Romney. Rebecca is a rare book dealer at Honey & Wax Booksellers in Brooklyn. She got her start with Bauman Rare Books, managing their Las Vegas gallery. She is known for her appearances on the HISTORY Channel’s show Pawn Stars, where she evaluates books as the show’s only female expert.

92: Rebecca Romney

Our guest this week is Gareth Branwyn. Gareth has been writing about DIY technology, media and culture for over three decades. He's the former senior editor of "Boing Boing," a founding contributing editor to "Wired," and the former editorial director of "Make." He's the author of eight books, including his most recent, "Borg Like Me," a memoir and best-of collection. He's currently writing two books, a shop tip books for Make, and a book on magic and role-playing games, which he's co-authoring with author Peter Bebergal.

For show notes visit: http://kk.org/cooltools/gareth-branwyn-diy-technology-author

105: Gareth Branwyn

Our guest this week is Claudia Dawson. Claudia works with Kevin in his studio in Pacifica, California. She manages the Cool Tools website and produces and co-writes Recomendo, our weekly newsletter that gives you six brief personal recommendations of cool stuff.

For show notes visit: http://kk.org/cooltools/claudia-dawson-cool-tools

108: Claudia Dawson

Our guest this week is Madeline Ashby. Madeline is a science fiction writer and futurist living in Toronto. Her most recent novel, Company Town, was a finalist for the 2017 CBC Books Canada Reads prize. She has also developed science fiction prototypes for the Institute for the Future, SciFutures, Data & Society, Nesta, the Atlantic Council, NASA, and others.

For show notes visit: http://kk.org/cooltools/madeline-ashby-sci-fi-writer

113: Madeline Ashby

Our guest this week is Adam Fisher. Adam grew up in Silicon Valley, playing Atari, programming computers and reading science fiction. He still lives in the Bay area, but now spends his time thinking about the future, tracing its origins and writing about it for Wired, MIT Technology Review, The Economist, and The New York Times Sunday Magazine.

For show notes visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/adam-fisher-author-of-valley-of-genius

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139: Adam Fisher

Our guest this week is Dr. Brian Fisher. He's a curator of entomology at the California Academy of sciences and a world-renowned ant expert, nicknamed the "Ant Man". Fisher has spent three decades documenting the island of Madagascar's beautiful biodiversity. Along the way, he's discovered over 1000 new ant species. As he witnessed the biodiversity crisis unfold in Madagascar, Fisher began applying traditional insect-eating practices to reduce bushmeat consumption, sustain forest, and improve nutrition of children. For show notes: http://kk.org/cooltools/brian-fisher-curator-of-entomology/

248: Brian Fisher

In each episode of the Cool Tools Show, Kevin Kelly and Mark Frauenfelder talk to a guest about some of his or her favorite uncommon and uncommonly good tools they think others should know about. 

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