Five Cool Things is a–free!–weekly joy ride into technology, the arts and communication. You’ll dig it. We cover handy stuff like Google Docs, fun stuff like the National Film Board of Canada, offbeat stuff like pictures from Coney Island, useful stuff like Dropbox and Before & After Magazine and Feedly, plus business referrals to Realtors, bakers, local photographers, coffee roasters, and so on. Fun and USEFUL!
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Below are links to each and every issue with a list of the five cool things that each issue covered. Please enjoy and come back often.
Five Cool Things | Vol. XXX Oct. 31, 2010
1. Interstate 5
2. Ray Anderson
3. Laurie Simmons
4. SPD
5. Tampopo
Five Cool Things | Vol. XXVI Oct. 17, 2010
1. Your Desk
2. The World’s Water
3. Pagelines
4. Lewis Baltz
5. Lanaquarelle Paper
Five Cool Things | Vol. XXVIII Oct. 10, 2010
1. The Wire
2. My ten favorite books.
3. The Plot Escapes Me
4. Proust and the Squid
5. The Hardy Boys
Five Cool Things | Vol. XXVII Oct, 3, 2010
1. Matthew Carter
2. New York Stories
3. Tour of Provence
4. Elizabeth Cotten
5. John Coltrane
Five Cool Things | Vol. XXVI Sept. 26, 2010
1.Twyla Tharp – Ideas
2. Metaphor
3. Defiance
4. Resources
5. Generosity
Five Cool Things | Vol. XXV Sept. 19, 2010
1. Seth Godin
2.Google AdWords
3. David Foster Wallace
4. The Hand Drawn Map Association
5. Werner Herzog, Errol Morris
Five Cool Things | Vol. XXIV Sept. 12, 2010
1. Mike Daisy
2. The Pendleton Roundup
3. The Man Who Makes Your iPhone
4. Sacred Sounds
5. Adam Magyar
Five Cool Things | Vol. XXIII Sept. 5, 2010
1. The Empathic Civilization
2. The 12 Breeds of Clients
3. Ping
4. One Square Inch
5. Dirty Baby
Five Cool Things | Vol. XXII August 29, 2010
1. Foodspotting
2. Libox
3. Four-Roomed Apartment of Change
4. Glamour of Grammar
5. Blackbird Wine Shop
Five Cool Things | Vol. XXI August 22, 2010
1. Oh, Life
2. The Paris Review
3. Abstract City Blog
4. Alice Waters
5. drop.io
Five Cool Things | Vol. XX August 15, 2010
1. Berklee School of Music
2. SEO Moz, Internet Marketing Resource List
3. Dwell Magazine, Home Office Upgrade
4. NY Times Essay on Writing and Drinking
5. Writing Tool – Acrobat.com
Five Cool Things | Vol. XIX August 8, 2010
1. Ten Writing Tips
2. Coney Island Photographs
3. Top Ten Design Resources
4. Healthcare.gov
5. Pastry Girl / James Hager
Five Cool Things | Vol. XVIII August 1, 2010
1. Daguerrotypes and Middle America
2. Before & After Magazine
3. Landing Page Rehab Program
4. Poem Flo
5. Mila’s Daydreams
Five Cool Things | Vol. XVII July 25, 2010
1. Flash Rosenberg
2. Waiting for Godot in New Orleans
3. The Voice Project
4. Joanna Newsom
5. Ristretto Coffee Roasters
Five Cool Things | Vol. XVI July 11, 2010
1. Jazz Tube
2. Grilled Cheese Academ
3. Etymology of the word cool
4. Google Voice
5. Einstein essay
Five Cool Things | Vol. XV July 4, 2010
1. The Music of Plato
2. The Library of Congress
3. Polaroid Film
4. Scribd
5. Breken Cafe
Five Cool Things | Vol. XIV June 27, 2010
1. The Roshni Academy
2. Bruce Dale Photographer
3. Artist Erika Iris Simmons
4. Charlie Hunter, Jazz Guitarist
5. Michelle Maida, Portland, Realtor
Five Cool Things | Vol. XIII June 20, 2010
1. Griffin and Dominick Dunne
2. Bruce Davidson
3. The Johnny Cash Project
4. Elevator Pitch for Business
5. Lincoln Barbour, Portland Photographer
Five Cool Things | Vol. XII June 13, 2010
1. Bookworm
2. Scrivener
3. The Browser
4. The Sartorialist
5. Jackie B. Peterson
Five Cool Things | Vol. XII June 6, 2010
1. Penelope Trunk
2. Simon Sinek – Begin With Why (Video)
3. Time Zones – Philip Zimbardo (Animation)
4. Michaelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Secret
5. Textile Artiste, Anne Williamson
Five Cool Things | Vol. XI May 23, 2010
1. Open Forum
2. National Writing Project
3. Life Magazine Prospectus
4. Black Farmer’s Project
5. Cheese Bar
Five Cool Things | Vol. X May 16, 2010
1. Jessica Watson
2. Levi van Veluw
3. Alexandra’s Kitchen
4. Julia Woolfe
5. Guy du Vin
Five Cool Things | Vol. IX. May 9, 2010
1. Fear.Less Magazine
2. Tim O’Reilly
3. The Future of Publishing (Video)
4. Pomplamoose
5. Chef-K Culinary Education
Five Cool Things | Vol. VII May 2, 2010
1. Neuroplasticity
2. Trumpeter Christian Scott
3. Web humorist, Ze Frank
4. Henry Cartier Bresson
5. Sonia Jones
Five Cool Things | Vol. VI April 25, 2010
1. Visual Thesaurus
2. Change This
3. Etsy
4. Jing
5. dpbestflow.org
Five Cool Things | Vol. V April 18, 2010
1. Jessica Hagy
2. Copywriter Mary Lawrence Wells
3. Afghan Women Writers Project
4. Miss Eudora Welty
5. Curtis Financial Planning
Five Cool Things | Vol. IV April 11, 2010
1. Tales From the Online Dating Frontline
2. Intermodal Steel Building Unit
3. Wordle
4. Smith Magazine
5. Pitch Engine
Five Cool Things | Vol. III. April 4, 2010
1. One Laptop per Child
2. Blurb Books
3. Martin Cooper | Inventor of the Cell Phone
4. Life Lessons from Albert Einstein
5. Food by Hand Seminars
Five Cool Things | Vol. II. March 28, 2010
1. Google Places
2. Gaping Void
3. Evernote
4. MIT Online
5. Publication Coach
Five Cool Things | Vol. I March 21, 2010
1. Feedly
2. Lydia Davis
3. National Film Board of Canada
4. Delicious Social Bookmarking
5. The Hatch Network
