Don's Patch Issue #2005-11-15 from http://www.don-guitar.com Yeehaw, life is good, business is fair and I reckon we're doing mostly good at our house. How about yours? I hope you're all well and happy. Lisa and I have been fairly busy for the last week or so. We made ourselves a computer desk that's high on function and low on budget. 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http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,7697,00.asp I'm not sure how this differs from the Open Source initiative. http://www.soros.org/openaccess/software/ ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª At the time this issue was posted, the current subscriber count for this publication was 297. ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª This issue's collection of news/magazine/informational sites (these are chosen for maximum diversity regardless of "spin" ). http://www.pcworld.com/index/0,00.asp http://www.ds-osac.org/ http://www.newspaperlinks.com/voyager.cfm http://newsfromrussia.com/ http://www.thenation.com/ http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3098358/ http://www.mirror.co.uk/ http://www.militarycity.com/ http://www.metrotimes.com/default.asp http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/ http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/ http://www.linuxgazette.com/ http://www.latimes.com/ http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/ http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage http://www.feer.com/ http://www.detnews.com/index.htm http://www.news-journalonline.com/ http://www.daytondailynews.com/ http://www.dallasnews.com/ http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage http://www.newsreview.com/issues/chico/2005-11-03/default.asp http://www.newsreel.org/ http://www.buildfreedom.com/ http://breadtv.com.au/home.asp ]http://www.boston.com/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/default.stm http://www.citypaper.com/ http://www.thebulletin.org/index.htm http://www.arabnews.com/ ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª Calculators for all purposes, reference materials, web tools and other cool stuff. http://www.1728.com/ A single repository for the publication of computing results. http://www.acm.org/pubs/corr/ The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.cdc.gov/page.do Population statistics, interactive maps and diagrams. http://www.citypopulation.de/ Desktop Calendar Reminders. http://www.softaddress.com/desktop_calendar/index.php http://sourceforge.net/projects/pooter http://www.enigmacreations.com/index.php?src=WebSurf&sec=justa Commercial site with lots of costless goodies. http://camtech2000.net/ And another, with tips and tutorials. http://www.icthus.net/CGI-City/ City Farmer. http://www.cityfarmer.org/ The City Repair Project. http://www.cityrepair.org/ A sophisticated web-publishing editor. http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/ Aussie lifesyle and entertainment quide. http://www.citysearch.com.au/ Views on disability rights, disability culture, daily life. http://www.cripcommentary.com/cripcommblog/ Cool pictures and facts about icky stuff, cyanobacteria. http://www-cyanosite.bio.purdue.edu/ Clipdiary, utility for keeping the clipboard history. http://clipdiary.softvoile.com/ Data on the arts and cultural policy in the United States. http://www.cpanda.org/ Emily Dickinson Electronic Archives. http://www.emilydickinson.org/ The Digital Journalist. http://www.digitaljournalist.org/ Drew McLellan's Dreamweaver tips, tutorials and extensions. http://www.dreamweaverfever.com/ A site all about webcams. http://www.earthcam.com/ What are you eating? Ummm... nothing... http://www.madsci.org/experiments/ Easy JPEG Printer makes it simple to print pictures on one sheet of paper. http://www.jgraff.addr.com/printpix.htm Association of local governments for sustainable growth. http://www.iclei.org/index.php?id=643 The Educator's Reference Desk. http://www.eduref.org/ The Engineer Online; engineering resource from the UK. http://www.theengineer.co.uk/StaticPages/AboutUs.htm Is your drinking water safe? Find out from the EPA. http://www.epa.gov/safewater/dwinfo/index.html Collaboration of the European Southern Observatory and the Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility. http://archive.eso.org/ A Digital Archive of Architecture, from prehistoric to today. http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/ ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª If you'd like to help promote this non-commercial publication, please forward this ezine to anyone you know who might appreciate it. 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SIW can find out far more than you ever wanted to know about your (Windows) computer. http://www3.sympatico.ca/gtopala/about_siw.htm A technoblog. http://www.smartmobs.com/ Donate your useless email to science. http://www.spamarchive.org/ The speech accent archive. http://accent.gmu.edu/ On the evils of urban sprawl. http://www.sprawlcity.org/ The stencil archive. http://www.stencilarchive.org/ The Unofficial Stephen Jay Gould Archive. http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ Taegan Goddard's political blog. http://politicalwire.com/ Readings in Theravada Buddhism. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ Maybe a little too commercial but very much about computers. http://www.thinkcomputers.org/v2/ English poet Thomas Gray (1716-1771). http://www.thomasgray.org/ A commercial site that's about going out. http://www.timeout.com/ Track your computer usage. http://www.neuber.com/free/pctime/ ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª My feedback form: http://www.don-guitar.com/contactme.html I welcome all comments, suggestions, or criticism. 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Instead of hurting their feelings, you may want to direct them to this page. http://www.don-guitar.com//forwarders.html Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. http://www.llnl.gov/ Find organic food closest to where you live. http://www.localharvest.org/ Interested in your community's heritage? http://www.lhi.org.uk/ David J. Farber," the Paul Revere of Cyberspace." http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~farber/ Guide to everything industrial. http://www.macraesbluebook.com/index.cfm The Manila (Phillipines) Bulletin Online. http://www.mb.com.ph/ Mapquest. You need it. We love it. http://www.mapquest.com/ Ancient and modern Maya culture. http://www.smm.org/sln/ma/ London (UK) News and culture. http://www.smm.org/sln/ma/ Molecular Biology of the Cell. http://www.molbiolcell.org/ MouseZoom is magnifier, color dropper and distance analyser. http://www.neuber.com/free/mousezoom/index.html ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª Websites Everyone Should Know About. 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The U.S. http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html http://www.eric.ed.gov/ http://www.archives.gov/ http://www.imls.gov/index.htm http://www.firstgov.gov/ http://www.recreation.gov/ http://www.nagc.com/ http://www.vote-smart.org/ http://www.fas.org/main/home.jsp http://www.sunshineweek.org/ http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/welcome.html http://www.nclis.gov/ http://www.nationalacademies.org/ http://nces.ed.gov/ http://phpartners.org/ http://usinfo.state.gov/ http://www.ombwatch.org/ http://www.bls.gov/home.htm http://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm The U.K. http://www.direct.gov.uk/Homepage/fs/en http://www.lgo.org.uk/ http://www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk/ http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ http://www.statistics.gov.uk/default.asp Ireland. http://www.oasis.gov.ie/ http://www.opw.ie/ http://www.irlgov.ie/ http://www.ppp.gov.ie/ Australia. http://www.apana.org.au/ http://www.naa.gov.au/default.html http://www.pc.gov.au/ http://www.toiletmap.gov.au/default.aspx (I love this one) Africa. http://www.info.gov.za/ http://www.opendemocracy.org.za/ Japan. http://www.archives.go.jp/en/get/access.html Wales. http://www.wales.gov.uk/index.htm New Zealand. http://www.govt.nz/ Europe. http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/home Canada. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/index-e.html France. http://www.service-public.fr/accueil/english.html Not strictly connected to a given nation. http://www.freedominfo.org/ http://www.pp10.org/index.htm http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/resource/internat/foreign.html A portal of governmental institutions on the web. http://www.gksoft.com/govt/ An online museum. http://webexhibits.org/ An easy way of creating high-quality PDF documents out of almost any windows application. http://www.pdfdesk.com/winpdf.html Wisdom Quotes. http://www.wisdomquotes.com/ Photos of world cities. http://www.worldcityphotos.org/ A gardening site. http://www.yougrowgirl.com/index.php These videos aren't all in good taste or necessarily family friendly nor are they worth the wait if you're on a dial up connection but there are a rare few diamonds in the coal pile. http://www.youtube.com/ The Guide to the XML Galaxy. http://www.zvon.org/ If you don't have MS Word you've probably noticed that WordPad doesn't always to a good job of rendering Word documents. If, like me, you aren't interested in purchasing a copy of MS Word but you do have plenty of disk space and don't mind a large download, here's an option for you. http://snipurl.com/1yqk If you prefer a great deal more functionality and don't mind an even larger download, here's another option. http://www.openoffice.org/ ============== Humor ============= Musician's Humor, Part V Q: What will you never say about a banjo player? A: "That's the banjo player's Porsche." Q: What do a viola and a lawsuit have in common? A: Everyone is relieved when the case is closed. Q: Why are harps like elderly parents? A: Both are unforgiving and hard to get into and out of cars. Q: How many trumpet players does it take to pave a driveway? A: Seven - if you lay them out correctly. Q: What's the difference between an oboe and a bassoon? A: You can hit a baseball further with a bassoon. ============== Tips =============== Want to shut down your Windows PC in a hurry? 1. Press and release the "Windows" key (between "Ctrl" and "Alt", then tap the letter "U" on your keyboard. 2. Another solution. http://snipurl.com/jmhb 3. One more. http://www.don-guitar.com/shutdown.html The first and last of these solutions were provided by Irving Stein. http://www.irvings-info-page.cityslide.com ======== Reader Contributions ========= From Irving Stein. http://www.irvings-info-page.cityslide.com Here's a good site for XP users. http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp.htm Interesting and useful reading http://www.aunty-spam.com/index.php for example. http://snipurl.com/juyf Here's a few sites I got from my Australian friend Tim Skyrme. http://www.artzend.com/ 3D artist Teinye Horsfall. http://giimann1.com/ Relief from paranoia. http://zapatopi.net/afdb/ Animation and PHP tutorials. http://www.vlasishost.com/news/animation-and-php-tutorials.html A digital art resource. http://www.animationartist.com/ Animation World Magazine. http://mag.awn.com/ Tim and I are both big fans of Johannes Wallroth. http://www.programming.de/ A couple from reader and friend John Lepse. A science news source. http://www.livescience.com/ The Museum of online museums. http://www.coudal.com/moom.php Here's a few links I snagged from my sister Jo-Ann's Yahoo group. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharinglinks2/ Conventional wisdom says that sleeping dogs are best left alone. How about sleeping cats? http://www.themoggy.com/ What's your favorite word? http://www.myfavoriteword.com/ Mysterious. http://www.mysterynet.com/ The National Next Of Kin Registry. http://nokr.org/nok/restricted/home.htm Bake a tater. http://www.howtobakeapotato.com/ Testing, testing. http://www.queendom.com/ Lundberg Family Farm's rice recipes. http://www.lundberg.com/recipes/recipe_home.shtml Thanks Irv, Tim, John and Sis. ================================= A Game from Don and Lisa: How many words can you make using only the following letters (repeating letters is permitted). B, C, D, E, H, I, K, O, X For example, "OX" or "CHEEK". What is unique about words made of these letters? 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