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Cool Tools in the Kitchen: Things We Recommend--New from O'Reilly Media

Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor from its inception until 1999. He is the author of What Technology Wants (Viking/Penguin), published October 18, 2010. He is also editor and publisher of Cool Tools, which gets half a million unique visitors per month. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers' Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. He authored the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy and the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, Out of Control.

A freelance writer & editor, Steven Leckart has contributed to Maxim, Men's Journal, New York Times, The Daily, WSJ, TheAtlantic.com, and Wired, where he's a correspondent. He's also a writer-at-large for Pop-Up Magazine, a live periodical. Steven was once profiled on public radio for being a gadget reviewer. For two years, he edited Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools. While attending UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, Steven was Chris Anderson's writing assistant on The Long Tail. He lives in San Francisco with a pug named Gus. Thanks to US Army training, he can tolerate tear gas.