Don's Patch #70 from http://www.don-guitar.com May 15, 2007 First word, from Don: Every time I drive by a Dollar General store, unless my wallet is empty, I have to go in and buy a few bags of Red Bird brand Soft Peppermint Puffs. I'm addicted to the silly things. Fortunately Lisa likes them too so I don't get scolded as badly as I might otherwise; especially if I bring home a bag or two of Smarties candies for her. The amazing thing is that I can go into a dollar store and buy two candies made of cane sugar with no corn syrup in them. Corn products have about the same effect on Lisa as auto battery acid. It's not pretty, so I've become a very faithful reader of labels. All day, while working on the ezine and personal news pages, we've listened to some fascinating music we found with Google video. It's so incredible to be able to dredge some eclectic piece of music out of my memory and then be able to find a performance of it, often by the original artist, on google video. We've enjoyed performances by The Blues Brothers, Diana Krall, Cab Calloway, Wes Montgomery, Eddie Harris, Willie Nelson, Ray Charles, Leon Russell, Emmy Lou Harris, Tom T. Hall and Delbert McClinton and, as I type this, Lisa's googling "Los Lonely Boys" and found a video of them appearing with Carlos Santana. Wow, I bet that's cool! Later y'all, Don Don's feedback form: http://www.don-guitar.com/contactme.html Lisa's feedback form: http://www.don-guitar.com/lfefo.html Our personal news page. http://www.don-guitar.com/babbleon.html Don at myspace.com http://www.myspace.com/donguitar Don's blog. http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/eldergeek/ Lisa at myspace.com. http://www.myspace.com/81825549 Lisa's blog. http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/dirtgoddess Section One by Don. Checking statistics on our website showed me that some folks on MySpace are "stealing bandwidth" from us by "hotlinking" images from our site. If that makes no sense to you, skip these two links. http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml http://alistapart.com/articles/hotlinking Cat lore and laws. http://www.kessels.com/Hobby/cats/Quotes.html http://snipurl.com/1kdnz (blogs.24.com) http://petcaretips.net/cat-law-history.html Learn about DRM and decide whether or not you support or oppose it. http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ Have you heard the eBay song? If not, there are many video renderings, from which to chose, at google video. http://snipurl.com/1kdoj I think this is sort of like Skype. http://www.freeworlddialup.com/ What's Skype? http://www.skype.com/ Or a well crafted google query can turn up far more than you eve wanted to know about VOIP. http://snipurl.com/1kdp4 Before you give away your old computer, did you every make an online purchase with a credit card? Did you do any banking online? Is there any private/personal information stored on its hard drive? Learn how to "sanitize" it before you unload it. http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/Hughes/DataSanitizationTutorial.pdf http://dban.sourceforge.net/ Plain and simply, it's about booze. http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/FunFacts/ItsTheLaw.html The lighter side of legal matters. http://www.lawhumor.com/ If you want to be a funny public speaker, you have to follow the rules. http://snipurl.com/1kdx3 Going to the bathroom in space. http://www.doctorzebra.com/drz/s_bathroom.html Space colonies (from NASA). http://snipurl.com/1kdx6 Living in space (a PDF document). http://www.humanics-es.com/LivingInSpace.pdf I'm in like with columnist Madeleine Begun Kane. http://www.madkane.com/index.html Teknoids are tech support, web designers, trainers, education and instructional technologists, sys admins, net admins, programmers, developers, IT managers, CIOs, librarians, library directors, and tech-inclined faculty in legal academia, non-profits, the judiciary, and law firms plus others with interests in this area. Are you a teknoid? http://www.teknoids.net/ TeLearn is the first international Open Archive in Technology Enhanced Learning. http://telearn.eu/ The three most famous electric guitars in history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fender_Stratocaster http://www.kellyindustries.com/guitars/fender_stratocaster.html http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=11387 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fender_Telecaster http://www.kellyindustries.com/guitars/fender_telecaster.html http://www.tdpri.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson_Les_Paul http://www.gibson.com/products/gibson/Stories/LesPaul.html http://www.lespaulforum.com/finalframes/frameset.htm End of Section One. This publication is only mailed to verified double opt-in subscribers, and is brought to you by me, Don Crowder, my wife, Lisa Miller, and http://www.freelists.org Section Two by Lisa Resource for creating non-browser-specific websites. http://www.htmlhelp.com/ How much house do you need? http://snipurl.com/1iil4 Excellent HTML tutorials. http://snipurl.com/1kds8 Nora, the piano-playing cat, in 2 YouTube videos. This is cute, y'all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ860P4iTaM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0zgQAp7EYw Texas Gardener, commercial but some costless articles. http://www.texasgardener.com/ Extensive computer site. http://www.pcguide.com/ HTML Powertools. http://www.tali.com/ It's Spring, and you need to know all about poison ivy. http://www.poisonivy.aesir.com/view/welcome.html Traditional carrying-bags, Furoshiki. Everything old is new again, again. http://snipurl.com/1kdte http://furoshiki.homepage.jp/ A nifty little program to clean up your HTML act. http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/ The fun, fashion and science of shoelaces. http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ Jan's costless goodies. http://snipurl.com/1kdu3 Community for the study of the Japanese language. http://www.japanese-online.com/ Random Acts of Reality, a blog by a London EMS tech. http://randomreality.blogware.com/blog Jazz guitar lessons. http://www.flatnine.com/tips.html A portal for Jewish genealogy research. http://www.hareshima.com/Culture/Geneology.asp A philosophy group of school-age children. http://www.portables2.ngfl.gov.uk/pmpercival/philosophy/ End of Section Two. At the time this issue was posted, the current subscriber count for this publication was 385. This issue's collection of news, magazine, and/or informational sites (chosen for maximum diversity regardless of "spin" ). http://babyboomeradvisorclub.wordpress.com/ http://www.flippyscatpage.com/index.html http://ifoughtthelaw.cementhorizon.com/ http://www.noisebetweenstations.com/ http://www.nowlive.com/ http://www.nyrp.org/ http://www.legacy.com/Obituaries.asp http://www.osnews.com/index.php http://p2pnet.net/index.php http://www.associatedcontent.com/ http://www.pjstar.com/index.shtml http://www.podtech.net/home/ http://printpattern.blogspot.com/ Section Three by Don. Ask a scientist. http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/aas.htm A glimpse into the history of writers and artists bound by the 128 characters that the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) allowed them. http://www.textfiles.com/ Messy beasts. http://www.messybeast.com/ A spot for copy editors. http://www.theslot.com/ A person (male or female) becomes a Yes Man by exposing, perhaps deviously, the nastiness of powerful evildoers. http://www.theyesmen.org/ The cutest, fairest, funniest. http://thecutest.info/ http://thefairest.info/ http://thefunniest.info/ A good site for politically inclined citizens of the UK. http://www.theyworkforyou.com/ If you have kids, grand kids, or your inner child is still very active you'll love ThinkQuest. http://thinkquest.org/ The Thoreau Reader (The annotated works of Henry David Thoreau). http://thoreau.eserver.org/ The political opinions expressed by this web site are not necessarily those of the editors of this publication. http://www.gwjokes.com/ The web log of the Students for Free Tibet International Headquarters. http://blog.studentsforafreetibet.org/ Timo Laine is a university student living in Helsinki, Finland. This is his website. http://www.timoroso.com/ Toadbee's Leapzone. http://members.aol.com/toadbee/Programs.htm Personality tests. http://www.tomorrowland.us/ John Schneider, the actor who played Bo Duke in the original Dukes of Hazzard television series got stiffed for almost $10 million by an eBay buyer. http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32012/118/ Need a voice to do a radio commercial or the voiceover on your television commercial? http://www.voices.com/ Need hands for your television commercial? http://www.handmodel.ca/ Wanna be a hand model? http://www.lindarose.com/art-handmodel.asp There are other sorts of models as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_(person) Writings and artwork of Richard, Sparky, and Pip Krause. http://www.originaldo.com/ Is google's business going in the toilet? http://www.google.com/tisp/ End of Section Three. If you'd like to help promote this non-commercial publication, please forward this ezine to anyone you know who might appreciate it. To spare them the forwarding carets (>>these things) I suggest you copy/paste the ezine to a new email window, or save the ezine as a text file to be inserted, or copy/pasted to a new email. If you've received this publication as a forward and wish to subscribe you may easily do so from online forms in these two locations: http://www.don-guitar.com/subsmanager.html http://www.freelists.org/list/donspatch Section Four by Lisa. Tutorials for hand-made pottery. http://www.jhpottery.com/jhpottery.html Vast site by a man, Jim Loy, who apparently is interested in everything. Thanks, Jim. http://www.jimloy.com/ Interesting software that is Charity Ware, a worthwhile concept. http://www.jimcosoftware.com/addins.aspx Mad about jingles? Go here for a satisfying fix. http://www.geocities.com/foodedge/jingles.htm Spot bugs and weak spots in your Java source code. http://www.bysoft.se/sureshot/javalint/ Here's a blast from the past-Joe Cocker at Woodstock. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQDakdp5WZ0 Top fifty tips for XP/Vista. http://www.ckcs.org/topfifty/ Home page of John F. Nash, Jr. http://www.math.princeton.edu/jfnj/ Resources for journalists and anyone interested in everything. http://www.journalistexpress.com/ All kinds of costless goodies. http://www.justfreestuff.com/ Applications for publishing. http://www.freewarepub.org/ Karen's Power Tools Newsletter. Excellent site. http://www.karenware.com/ Learning HTML for kids. It's easy, really. http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/kidsweb/ Fast, lightweight, open-source browser for Windows. http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/ LaTeX is for the communication and publication of scientific documents. http://www.latex-project.org/ Language-to-language translation. http://www.langtolang.com/ You don't have to flush. http://www.compostingtoilet.org/ The road less traveled. http://snipurl.com/1kej9 End of Section Four. Our feedback form: http://www.don-guitar.com/contactme.html We welcome all comments, suggestions, or criticism. The form doesn't access your email client (it's a CGI form), so your privacy is assured. If you know of a website that would be a good candidate for this ezine, please pass it on via our online feedback form (link above). Section Five by Don. Art, photos and tutorials from Stephen LeQuier. http://www.pbase.com/trimoon/trimoonblog&page=3 Bart, Kjell, and Tom are friends who I think live in Belgium, but that's just my best guess. There are several interesting things on their site but the Trinity Rescue Kit is perhaps the most interesting thing. http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog.php?front_id=15 I don't know but I'm thinking Jay Manard really needs a hobby. http://www.tronguy.net/ Photoshop and Flash tutorials. http://www.tutorialized.com/ An information source for home recording enthusiasts. http://www.tweakheadz.com/ Netcasts. http://www.twit.tv/ So, what are you doing right now? http://twitter.com/ The U.S. EPA. http://www.epa.gov/ That "young feller" Chris Pirillo guy on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=lockergnome A nice calendar app from Ulrich Krebs. http://freenet-homepage.de/ukrebs/ Unesco is into a lot of things. Their site is well worthy of the several hours it's likely to require to properly explore it. http://portal.unesco.org/ I'm thinking this suite might make a nice addition to our site so I'm going to look into it. http://www.userplane.com/ A monstrous genealogy resource. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ Dictionary of Victorian London. http://www.victorianlondon.org/ A book entitled "Great Uses for Vinegar" which is available online. http://www.vinegarbook.co.uk/ Vintage computing and gaming. http://www.vintagecomputing.com/ You can watch a "live" performance on Virtual Vaudeville. http://www.virtualvaudeville.com/index.htm "It's official: Pirates crack Vista" http://apcmag.com/5512/pirate_crack_vista_oem_activation End of Section Five. Archives for this ezine are available online here: http://www.freelists.org/archives/donspatch/ The current issue is also available on our website. http://www.don-guitar.com/currentissue.html RSS feed is available via this link. http://www.freelists.org/archives/donspatch/feed.rss Section Six by Lisa. Period clothing patterns. Even if you don't sew, the historical value is priceless. http://snipurl.com/1kff5 Think in terms of what you can do without. Pack light, be happy. http://snipurl.com/1kejg Directories of online dictionaries. http://www.lexicool.com/ A community for readers and writers. http://www.lit.org/ Fast food and fast life? Just say no. http://www.slowfood.com/ Lissa explains it all. http://www.lissaexplains.com/ Personal memory aid. http://www.factsfacts.com/IMagic/ The mother of all search engines. http://www.mamma.com/ Advanced download manager. http://www.netvampire.com/ Online library of the University of Michigan. http://www.lib.umich.edu/grad/serials/news.html Webmaster resource directory. http://www.hits4me.com/ Get your movies organized. http://www.movieorganizer.com/ Simple image cataloger and slideshow. http://pmeindre.free.fr/MyAlbum.html Lots of info, tons of links about my favorite subject. http://www.garden.org/home Orbiter Space Flight Simulator claims to have a steep learning curve but the program looks amazing. http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/orbit.html The tiny, fast stand-alone web browser Off By One. http://offbyone.com/offbyone/ Nate's Notes, web development, politics and life. http://natek.typepad.com/blog/software_tools_features/ The Art of War can be considered the art of life. http://www.chinapage.com/sunzi-e.html End of Section Six. Websites everyone should know about. These aren't sponsors, they're the best of Internet publications and we highly recommend them all. http://askTCL.com http://www.lockergnome.com http://www.scotsnewsletter.com http://www.tricksandtrinkets.com http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html The Linux Corner. A site for users of the OpenOffice.org office suite. http://www.8daysaweek.co.uk/ Consumers will soon be able to purchase a new Dell computer preloaded with Ubuntu Linux. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6610901.stm http://www.ubuntu.com/news/dell-to-offer-ubuntu http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7546369370.html The latest news from all over the Linux and Open Source world. http://www.opensourcehowto.org/ Documentation for Linux enthusiasts http://www.linuxdocs.org/ The Linux Documentation Project. http://tldp.org/ Linux Online - Documentation. http://www.linux.org/docs/ Beginner's Guide to Debian Etch. http://www.free-bees.co.uk/ A massive source of Linux forums. http://www.justlinux.com/ The heart of Linux, found in every Linux distro, is the kernel. http://www.kernel.org/ Larry Cafiero is editor/publisher of Open Source Reporter and an associate member of the Free Software Foundation. This is his blog. http://larrytheopensourceguy.wordpress.com/ Our friend Lee Parmeter is the driving force behind our local Highland Lakes Linux User's Group http://www.hllug.org/ and here are a few links he's posted to that list. FreeNAS is a free NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server, supporting: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, AFP, RSYNC, iSCSI protocols, S.M.A.R.T., local user authentication, Software RAID (0,1,5) with a Full WEB configuration interface. FreeNAS takes less than 32MB once installed on Compact Flash, hard drive or USB key. http://www.freenas.org/ The Linux Action Show Podcast. http://www.linuxactionshow.com/ Linux radio show. http://lugradio.org/ Full Circle magazine is produced by the Ubuntu community. http://www.fullcirclemagazine.org/ chkrootkit is a tool to locally check for signs of a rootkit. http://www.chkrootkit.org/ Absolute Linux is a full-featured desktop on a single CD that can still work on older equipment. http://www.pcbypaul.com/absolute/ Thank you for all you do Lee. A Little Humor. http://www.lawlaughs.com/index.html Tips for This Issue. Terry's Computer Tips. http://www.terryscomputertips.com/ Tech Tips, Tricks and Other Useful Stuff. http://feeds.feedburner.com/cyberiapc_cave PC Hardware, Tweaking Articles, Reviews & Guides. http://www.tweaktown.com/index.html Contributions From Our Readers. Links from readers are always welcome and you can even write your own link descriptions if you like. Guidelines are available here: http://www.don-guitar.com/descriptivetext.html From our web sibling Jo-Ann (Jo) Burton: ( Jo's site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharinglinks2/ ) Ways and words in matters creative. http://creatingminds.org/ A pair of recipe and cooking resources. http://www.recipecenter.com/ http://whatscookingamerica.net/ It can be said that David John Oates is a little backwards at times. http://www.reversespeech.com/home.htm Curiosities of Literature by Isaac D'Israeli (1766-1848). http://www.spamula.net/col/ Dracula Blogged. http://infocult.typepad.com/dracula/ A slightly different take on a famous work of art. http://www.hepguru.com/monalisa/ Few things in life are more important than chocolate. http://www.chocophile.com/ http://chocolocate.com/ http://www.hhhh.org/cloister/chocolate/reviews/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/exploring_chocolate/ http://www.cuisinenet.com/digest/ingred/chocolate/timeline.shtml http://www.fieldmuseum.org/Chocolate/ http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/mexicanchocolate.htm http://snipurl.com/1c1sj (National Geographic) http://www.virtualchocolate.com/chocolatemuse/ http://www.apogeecomgrp.com/drkevin/chocolate.html http://www.thewinenews.com/febmar98/chocolate.html Collecting, interpreting and disseminating real estate data. http://www.housingtracker.net/old_housingtracker/ From our web sibling John Lepse. ( John's blog: http://hucknjim.blogspot.com/ ) English speaking Bonobos (Pygmy Chimps). http://snipurl.com/1khfv (USA Today) The Great Ape Trust of Iowa. http://www.greatapetrust.org/ One cure for a mild case of securanoia. http://www.grc.com/default.htm A four-legged American legend. http://www.seabiscuitonline.com/index1.htm From reader and friend Ken Thomson. Links for senior citizens. http://www.aarp.org/ http://www.todayssr.com/ http://www.seniorlaw.com/ http://www.seniorshops.com/ http://www.unitedseniors.org/ BitTorrent FAQ and Guide. http://www.dessent.net/btfaq/ Old Time Radio resources. http://www.mercurytheatre.info/ http://f.webring.com/webring?ring=otr;list Ken enjoys the writing of Randy Benjamin (clips on site). http://www.randybenjamin.com/index.html Thank you Jo, John and Ken. Last word, from Lisa: I hate to mow, I really do. So does Don. It's hard, it's hot, it's dirty and then next week you have to do it again. Our lawn is an assortment of weeds and thin grass that suits me just fine, and if God wants beautiful green grass, she can send rain. I'll water the flower beds. So now you know my gardening style; time to get to it. 'Til next time, Lisa Lisa's feedback form: http://www.don-guitar.com/lfefo.html Don's feedback form: http://www.don-guitar.com/contactme.html Lisa at myspace.com. http://www.myspace.com/81825549 Lisa's blog. http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/dirtgoddess Don at myspace.com http://www.myspace.com/donguitar Don's blog. http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/eldergeek/ Our personal news page. http://www.don-guitar.com/babbleon.html Don Crowder and Lisa Miller Monday, May 7, 2007 11:30 PM CST - Buchanan Lake Village, Texas, USA Served by the U.S. Post Office in Tow (rhymes-with-cow), Texas Privacy: We will never share, sell, or otherwise compromise your email address. 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