Don's Patch #88, February 15, 2008 from http://www.don-guitar.com Online version: http://www.don-guitar.com/currentissue.html Archives: http://www.freelists.org/archives/donspatch/ First word, from Don: Here you go folks, what do you think of this? http://doggybloggy.com/blogdog/files/-1/24/valentine.jpg If that one doesn't do it for you, try one of these. http://cute-pomeranian.notlong.com http://www.cutelovequotes.info/images/cute-love-quotes.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/188/453693564_8ae6663801.jpg http://afrogtokiss.net/public_html/wp-content/uploads/cutepup.jpg Anyhow, happy Valentine's day. Have you discovered energy saving light bulbs yet? Most resemble this... http://www.akmarine.org/our-work/address-climate-change/bulb_5.jpg ...and while they're initially relatively costly, they seem to represent a good long term investment. Have you any frugal ideas you'd like to pass on? Send them in and we'll publish them (with credit to you of course). Don Our feedback form (goes to both of us): http://www.don-guitar.com/contactme.html Our personal news page. http://www.don-guitar.com/babbleon.html Don at myspace.com http://www.myspace.com/donguitar Don's blogs. http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/eldergeek/ http://don-guitar.blogspot.com/ Lisa at myspace.com. http://www.myspace.com/81825549 Lisa's blogs. http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/dirtgoddess http://thedirtgoddess.blogspot.com/ Section One by Don. I think this site is targeted at the children of Generation X but it was still interesting. http://www.keenspot.com/ Make a package of yourself. http://3d-pack.com/ Need advice? http://www.elderwisdomcircle.org/ http://www.freeadvice.com/ Or you could just Ask Amy. http://www.denverpost.com/askamy A wealth of info. http://www.2020site.org/ Accent on Images; the language of illustrated books. http://voxlibris.claremont.edu/sc/exhibits/accent/Hi_AccentonImages.htm On model aircraft. http://www.aircraftmodel.com/ A spiffy new 1988 Apple IIc computer. http://flickr.com/photos/dansays/sets/72157603835099525/ Paper art. http://www.jenstark.com/sculpture_01.html http://www.papiermache.ca/?ref=ecgallery http://www.susanalbertsen.dk/index.php Science and the artist's book. http://www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/Science-and-the-Artists-Book/ DIY banjo. http://www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/Science-and-the-Artists-Book/ http://www.songofthegreatlakes.com/banj.htm http://www.satisfied-mind.com/make/banjo.htm http://www.popularmechanics.com/home_journal/woodworking/1273286.html http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~dhavlena/make-bjo.htm http://www.mimf.com/archives/cookietin_banjo.htm Babylon's translations aren't yet all that accurate but the spell checking and dictionary are nice tools. http://www.babylon.com/ A very interesting paper airplane. http://www.zurqui.com/crinfocus/paper/airplane.html Bob Newhart. http://www.bobnewhart.com/ 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 I've been reading some personal finance blogs lately. This is my absolute favorite because it's not about money, it's about life. http://www.thesimpledollar.com/ The history of many popular candies. http://www.candyfavorites.com/shop/history-candy.php Old and Vintage postcards. http://www.oldpostcards.com/ The Ultimate Linux Reference Guide for Newbies. http://blog.lxpages.com/ultimate_linux.html NASCAR was born in the hills of Wilkes County, NC. Stock car racing was a result of illegal moonshine runs by skilled drivers eluding capture by the police. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior_Johnson Here's a nice little HTML Calendar generator. http://www.cs.runet.edu/~pac/cal-gen.html Small and fast costless apps from GRC. http://www.grc.com/freepopular.htm The SitePoint CSS Reference Guide. http://reference.sitepoint.com/css This costless e-book by John December is designed to help make choices that lead to a simpler, more fulfilling life. http://www.december.com/simple/live/ Resource listing many costless email and internet providers. http://www.emailaddresses.com/ WordSpy, for logophiles. http://www.wordspy.com/ Not enough hands? Try the Thumb Thing. http://www.abcstuff.com/items/BH007.html Having fun is an art form. Meet a true artist, Bernie De Koven. http://www.deepfun.com/ Phrases, sayings and idioms. http://www.phrases.org.uk/ Chinlone is the traditional, non-competitive sport of Burma. A description and a YouTube video. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinlone http://chinlone.notlong.com Business rules-of-thumb. http://rulesofthumb.pbwiki.com/ Learn a lot about the complexities of the human hand at the Hand University. http://www.handuniversity.com/index.html End of Section Two. At the time this issue was posted, the current subscriber count for this publication was 390. This issue's collection of news, magazine, and/or informational sites (chosen for maximum diversity regardless of "spin" ). http://www.au.org/site/PageServer https://www.learner.org/ http://www.artscope.net/index.shtml http://batr.org/ http://www.brooklynpaper.com/ http://www.buzzflash.com/ http://www.nirmalm.com/ http://www.cbhviewpoint.org/ http://www.dailyherald.com/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ http://dbaron.org/ http://www.daylife.com/ http://www.adpov.net/ Section Three by Don. A couple of gimmies from Bounty. http://www.quickerpickerupper.com/calendar/ http://www.quickerpickerupper.com/things_to_do/honeycreate.jsp Does your career need help? http://career-advice.monster.com/ In the market for an auto? http://www.cars.com/go/advice/ Mysteries of ancient Egypt, and other stuff. http://www.catchpenny.org/index.html Chris Natrop, artist. http://www.chrisnatrop.com/ In an email conversation with author Orson Scott Card (isn't that cool?) I mentioned how much I liked the comic strip, Pogo (penned by Walt Kelly 1913-1973). Mr. Card suggested that I might also like Arctic Circle. It's not Pogo, but it's not bad. http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/arctic/about.htm On creativity. http://www.creativity-portal.com/ I'm so glad I quit smoking. http://www.longwood.edu/cleanva/cigarettelitterhome.html Need more content for you blog? http://www.feedzilla.com/ Images from the Library of Congress. http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/ Gimmies from Yamaha. http://www.yamaha-motor.co.jp/global/entertainment/ Garden flowers of southern California. http://www.callutheran.edu/gf/index.htm Godwin's Law may be stupid but it seems also to be accurate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law The Go-Getter (a story that tells you how to be one). http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12257/12257-h/12257-h.htm The Green Schools Initiative. http://www.greenschools.net/ A techno-geeky blog. http://ha.ckers.org/ 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. One man's entrepreneurial dream. http://mreasypeeler.notlong.com Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. Grab a box of Kleenex. http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0604/temple.html The last Cheeta is still alive. http://www.cheetathechimp.org/index.html More about chimps; Harvard's field studies in Africa. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~primates/ The new foundation of our economy is the sharing of knowledge, no longer the hoarding of it. So what is the new coin of the realm? You'd be surprised; some mighty old-fashioned ideals. http://newculture.notlong.com The origin of the Vulcan Salute. http://www.pinenet.com/~rooster/v-salute.html Study the Army Study Guide and take quizzes online . http://www.armystudyguide.com/ Computer support and computer related information. http://www.computerhope.com/index.htm The fascinating sport of fencing. http://www.whatisfencing.com/ Mireille Vautier, an artist. http://www.mireillevautier.com/index2.html This photo of Michael Burghart has been around the Internet. Before I shared it, I checked it out on Snopes.com. Sure enough, he's the real deal. http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/burghardt.asp Bill Keaggy, a collector of things. http://www.keaggy.com/ There's more to clutter than meets the eye. http://psychologyofclutter.wordpress.com/ A Collection of Guides, Games and Gambits. http://www.telacommunications.com/nutshell/index.htm Extensive language resources. http://www.word2word.com/ Helpful, varied site by a veteran of the Internet. http://sheepdogsoftware.co.uk/index.htm Steve Pavlina, personal development guru. http://www.stevepavlina.com/ Mostly unknown to laymen, Simpson's Paradox is well known to statisticians. It's about how the same can add up to true, and false assumptions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox 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. The poetry and prose of John Clare. http://www.johnclare.info/ Handmade paper. http://www.handpapermaking.org/ http://freyer.fr.funpic.de/handpaper/about.php?lang=en http://www.cbbag.ca/BookArtsWeb/Papermaking.html More on paper. http://www.ipst.gatech.edu/amp/index.html http://www.electroniccottage.com/paper.html Bruce Jones' take on The History of Printing. http://communication.ucsd.edu/bjones/Books/ Printing: History and Development. http://karmak.org/archive/2002/08/history_of_print.html Take a class from HP. http://h30187.www3.hp.com/ The Internet Prospector. http://www.internet-prospector.org/ DIY knife making. http://www.primitiveways.com/pt-knives-1.html http://www.rayrogers.com/how.htm http://www.moorcat.com/apache/makeknife.htm http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1727161 http://www.knifenetwork.com/workshop/index.shtml http://www.greenpete.co.uk/?page_id=28 Little Green Guys With Guns (an email wargame). http://www.lggwg.com/ Little Green Dog. http://www.littlegreendog.com/ The Lost Encyclopedia. http://lostpedia.com/wiki/Main_Page Miss Manners. http://www.unitedfeatures.com/ufsapp/viewFeature.do?id=21 Free sports. http://www.myp2p.eu/index.php?part=home A nifty little car. http://www.javno.com/en/lifestyle/clanak.php?id=113162 OpenStreetMap. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Main_Page Exploring Origami. http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/paper/index.html http://www.origami.com/ http://origamiboulder.com/ http://www.paperfolding.com/ 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. Joao Gilberto does Desafinado. Oh, man. http://gilbertodesafinado.notlong.com The American Diaspora, Hurricane Katrina. http://www.epodunk.com/top10/diaspora/ A few examples of the art of George Petty, one of the most reknowned pin-up artists. http://www.btinternet.com/~brmerc/petty/petty.html#biba Limiting legal risk on the Internet. http://www.kcnn.org/legal_risk/ Type in the ingredients you have on hand, and Supercook will deliver recipes to suit. http://www.supercook.com/ A new take on an old craft, The Wood Whisperer. http://thewoodwhisperer.com/ Hollywood Animation Archive. http://www.animationarchive.org/ Conversations with "people of significant experience". http://voomo.notlong.com Grimm's Fairy Tales. http://grimms.notlong.com Hacking Ikea products is fun. http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/ Here's a new take on a geeky subject. An explanation of every GNU/Linux command by examples. http://linux.byexamples.com/ I can't quite decide if this site is family-friendly, as it explores the complex subject of psychoactives. It certainly is educational and interesting. http://www.erowid.org/ The Hmong people in America. http://www.jefflindsay.com/Hmong_tragedy.html http://www.hmongtoday.com/index.asp http://www.hmong.org/ Global Action on Aging. http://www.globalaging.org/ Gallery of West Indian Art. Beautiful, primitive, compelling. http://www.galleryofwestindianart.com/ The fastest growing segment of Internet users are seniors. And they're dating. http://seniordating.notlong.com End of Section Six. The Linux Corner. Linux Anecdotes. http://liw.iki.fi/liw/texts/linux-anecdotes.html Musix is a multimedia live CD. http://www.musix.org.ar/en/index.html Online help with Linux (and more). http://qunu.com/ How to edit video on a Linux system. http://lifehacker-video-linux.notlong.com All sorts of gadgets use Linux. http://www.linuxdevices.com/ Are you enjoying your Linux adventure? Why not write about it? http://linuxgazette.net/faq/author.html Here's an interesting site. http://polishlinux.org/ Control-Escape is a useful guide for the new user, Linux hobbyist, home user, or "tiny enterprise" (if your business is you and your letterhead, you're a tiny enterprise). http://www.control-escape.com/ A Ubuntu user's blog. http://ubuntu.online02.com/ To me, one of the most exciting new developments in Linux is the advent of multimedia distributions , designed to create and edit audio and video files in various formats. If you're inclined to tinker, there are several multimedia distributions designed to run as live CDs (which would leave your Windows system in an untouched, pristine state). http://dynebolic.org/ http://musix.org.ar/en/index.html http://www.artistx.org/site2/ Or, if you decide to scrounge up a fair-to-middlin' used (or new) system and go for it in style, here are a few installable multimedia distros. http://64studio.com/ http://ubuntustudio.org/ http://jacklab.net/jacklaborg/english/ http://www.dreamlinux.com.br/gledition/overview.html2 A Little Humor (I think I know this guy). A woman came home, screeching her car into the driveway, and ran into the house. She slammed the door and shouted at the top of her lungs, 'Honey, pack your bags. I won the lottery!' The husband said, 'Oh my God! What should I pack, beach stuff or mountain stuff?' 'Doesn't matter,' she said. 'Just get out.' Tips for This Issue. Lots of practical computer help. http://www.howtogeek.com/ 50 tips And tricks for Vista users. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2114942,00.asp More Vista info. http://www.windowsvistatips.org/ Personal security: Lisa and I don't permit our browsers to store user names or passwords. We have a "little black book" on our computer desk where all such information is recorded. 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 Patrick Barden. ( http://rrwbushangel.blogspot.com/ ) Wallpaper from Patrick. http://www.don-guitar.com/romanrw.html Rapidshare is a nice file hosting site. http://rapidshare.com/ Patrick is a big fan of gospel music and here's a band he likes. http://www.takenoglory.com/home.htm From our web sibling Jo-Ann (Jo) Burton: ( Jo's Yahoo Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharinglinks2/ ) World stadiums. http://www.worldstadiums.com/ Atmospheric optics. http://www.atoptics.co.uk/ metaflowers gallery .http://mindheart.org/mflowers/gallery/bydate/index000.html Underwater photos (checkout the Leafy Sea Dragon). http://www.divegallery.com/ The Headington Shark. http://www.headington.org.uk/shark/ The butterfly house. http://www.butterfly-house.co.uk/ Curious GWB. http://home.nyc.rr.com/jadedem/gw1.html Constitutional trivia quiz. http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/LIN_QUZ.HTM From our friend Herb Cee. Fred on everything (warning: volatile content). http://www.fredoneverything.net/ Here's a great place to get Linux CDs. http://www.discountlinuxdvd.com/ From our web sibling Vinette (Vi) DePhillipe: ( Vi's site: http://360.yahoo.com/vinette1 ) The Avant browser is a good alternative for Windows users. http://www.avantbrowser.com/index.html A nice, if somewhat geeky, portal blog. http://share-useful-links.blogspot.com/ This piece was in an email I got from my daughter Lily. http://www.don-guitar.com/drugged.html Our "other brother" Bill (Beeyil) Lanoue ( http://ncvietvet.blogspot.com/ ) emailed to tell me I listed the wrong link for the Patriot Guard Riders in the last issue. Here's the right one. http://www.patriotguard.org/ From our web sibling John Lepse. ( John's blog: http://hucknjim.blogspot.com/ ) The AARP has discovered Peter Oakley and the Zimmers. http://radioprimetime.org/specials/zimmers/ An interview with Leo and Lisa is an artistic video. http://leoandlisa.iwc.com/ A good computer help site. http://www.pchell.com/ Our friend Cranz Nichols is a ham radio operator and quite the computer geek. Here's a Linux Command Line resource he posted to our local Highland Lakes Linux Users Group. http://www.linuxguide.it/commands_list.php?Choose_Language:English Our web sibling Jon Reed sent a link to this interesting animated video. http://artist-vs-art.notlong.com Here's a few links from our good friend, neighbor and favorite web-geek-in-training, Stevie Scott. The Discovery Channel's Game Central. http://dsc.discovery.com/games/games-tab-04.html Stevie loves Google Earth http://earth.google.com/ and the Orbiter space flight simulator. http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/ Unlike YouTube, MSN videos are far more like TV. They even have commercials. :) http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us What you should know about the national do not call registry. https://www.donotcall.gov/ New info on the topic. http://yahoo-dnc-info.notlong.com Last word, from Lisa: For the past couple of weeks I've been excited by a new project, tutoring my mother in beginner computer use. She lives in Florida, I'm in Texas. We use the Skype program; it's free Internet long-distance telephone service. Don and I sent her a computer with the PCLinuxOS operating system and I have the same on my computer, so I see the same thing she does and we talk and have fun for hours at a time. I'm blogging the experience here at Lockergnome; http://www.lockergnome.com/dirtgoddess/ I've used this opportunity to snag...um, educate a new computer user and get closer to a loved one. I'd be interested in the innonvative ways our readers have found to accomplish the most important of goals, staying close to the ones we love. Drop us a line. And Happy Valentine's Day. Lisa Our feedback form (goes to both of us): http://www.don-guitar.com/contactme.html Lisa at myspace.com. http://www.myspace.com/81825549 Lisa's blogs. http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/dirtgoddess http://thedirtgoddess.blogspot.com/ Don at myspace.com http://www.myspace.com/donguitar Don's blogs. http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/eldergeek/ http://don-guitar.blogspot.com/ Our personal news page. http://www.don-guitar.com/babbleon.html Don Crowder and Lisa Miller Thursday, February 14, 2008 7:55 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. Privacy Policy on our website. http://www.don-guitar.com/privacy.html Freelists.org Privacy Policy. http://www.freelists.org/privacy.html The most important people on the Internet, for you and I as computer users, are software developers. 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