If you want some speakers that can improve your home decor, XOUNTS offers wireless speakers with a choice of “skins” for the ultimate in chic home decor. These monument speakers from Swiss company “Xounts” come with a selection of skins, offered in seasonal collections. considering …

This unidentified plying object came in from reader Ken in California. He writes,

It’s marked with a number "two" and the word "warranted" sort of implying it comes in different sizes.  The working surface is two steel hemispheres with a flat surface amidst them.

Gu…

Mitered joints can open for a variety of reasons–the angled cut of the wood fibers can cause the tips of the joint to splay, changes in seasonal humidity can move the wood around–but whenever one does open up, it reflects badly on the craftsman. So I’ve taken out a bit of cheap, but extrem…

I have a drill. I have an impact driver. One has three retractable jaws that grip any size bit, the other uses a 3/8-inch chuck and accepts quick-release hex-shank bits (only).

Until now, I needed a combination of sets and adapters to drill and drive with both guns. Ahem: until now.

Milwaukee’…

Alternative lifestyles and behavior can be influenced by one’s willingness to give back to the earth via environmentalism, or just to save a buck and fight the idealism of a capitalist society.
Such lifestyle decisions fuel the green movement and the market of everything from hybrid cars to se…

Ancient hardware store sign, Mission Street, San Francisco. Thanks, Ali!

Your appliances were stuffed into your drawers. Thrice. [Wired]

And Japan laid plans for the world’s tallest building–by a distant shot–at a proposed 13,000 feet. [scifi.com]

Until it’s built, we’ll have to settle for the…

Like any good organic gardener, I like to give my plants a good sip of compost tea every now and again.

But the effort due to unscrew my old sprayer’s lid to top off the tea feels like unwrapping a CD from its cellophane tomb without the services of a Swiss army knife.

So I figured whether…