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CULTURE BUZZ: As the availability of urban apartment space continues to decline, a whole new style of library has begun popping up around the country. They’re tool libraries, and for just a few dollars a month members get access to a garage full of tools and community resources to help perform simple home maintenance and repair. In Philly, annual membership is only $20 a year and gets you access to cool tools like squirrel traps, lawn mowers, and chainsaws.

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The Best Links:

1. The West Philly Tool Library
2. Community-Building Tool Libraries
3. Industrial Tinkering Place
4. Public Libraries for Tools
5. Tool Libraries: The Sharpest Tack in the Shed
6. West Philly Tool List
7. Building Dreams (Affordably)
8. Berkely’s Tool Lending Library
9. List of Tool Lending Libraries

CULTURE BUZZ: Joan Acocella, a Manhattanite herself, answers in Smithsonian why her fellow city dwellers are so often thought to be rude - it’s because they’re smart! As New Yorkers, we must admit we would have trouble imagining Ms. Acocella coming to our overpriced, underwhelming outer-borough apartment and thinking us Mensa material.

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The Best Links:

1. Why Joan Acocella Thinks New Yorkers Are Pretty Nice (If You Get To Know Them)
2. “It is Downright Knuckleheaded to Assert That Nice People Are Dumb”
3. New Yorkers “Work So Hard to Live There, It Only Makes Them Love The City More.”
4. New Yorkers = Media Nerds?
5. Why New Yorkers Don’t Let Paul Mccartney Catch Them Texting
6. “Heh, Who’d of Thought New York Would Have Something to Say About Kingdom Living?” [Church & The City]