Reveries - Cool News

I don't sign up for many email newsletters or mailing lists. Mostly because I'm too lazy to cancel them, so I tend to get into a routine each day of cursing the day I ever visited their site and quickly deleting the emails as they come in.

Cool News of the Day, from Reveries.com, is one of only two email newsletters that I actually stop and read before deleting. It almost never fails to bring something interesting to my inbox each day. Even when I'm busy, and the temptation to just delete it is higher than ever, I manage to hold off because I know I want to find the time to read it.

In a recent issue I found out more than I ever wanted to know about the Michelin man (did you know he was white because tires weren't black until 1912, when carbon was added as a preservative? I didn't. I'm not sure if I needed to, but it's cool to learn something completely irrelevant now and again). Today brought an article about distilling economics into simple stories that everyone can understand, and a great introduction to Yiddish insults.

They're moving with the times too, you can now view their articles as a blog or by RSS instead of signing up to a mailing list (just in case you have the same problem as I do).