Cabin Porn Roundup

Another installment in my ongoing Cabin Porn Roundup series, where I collect interesting pictures of cabins and cool stories about the outdoors from across the world and present them in a single location. Much like my “This Week in Podcasts” series, I feature only the best of the best here. Enjoy.

The Problem with Kickstarter

Earlier this morning Dan Ryan posted The Problem with Kickstarter over on Xconomy. Joshua Beckman of SthgNw commented on the piece, saying, “The problem really is that people sell ideas and are expected to deliver hard products.” I would take Josh’s opinion one step further: the problem is that people sell hard ideas and are expected to deliver hard products.

Bookmarks

I frequently encounter people eager to learn or interested in understanding current events but that do not know where to start. Many lack the experience to know what they should study. Others have become so disillusioned by the hyper-partisan twenty-four-hour news cycle that they just ignore current events altogether. While I have addressed those challenges in Personal Development and the two-part series Keeping Up with Current Events and My Evening Reads, respectively, those aggressively curated lists leave out many useful sources that did not make the cut. I just don’t have time to keep up with everything. This article highlights those sources as well as several other valuable resources. While I may not visit these websites often, these are my first stops when I must seek out trustworthy information on a range of topics. This article also links to several useful tools both as a way for me to keep track of them and as a way to highlight them to others.