[donspatch] 2009-02-01

#110,  February 15, 2009  from http://www.don-guitar.com

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First word, from Don: 
 Both Vinette DePhillipe and Irv Stein pointed me to Vista
Print for affordable business cards and I think Vista may
have the best deal going, especially on plain white cards.
http://www.vistaprint.com/
I'm nevertheless pleased with my purchase from 123print.
Vista didn't have one like it at any price.  Here's the
card I selected.   http://linkasa.com/g51

Now, if the cards will just 'do their stuff' and get me
some work (servicing computers) maybe I can figure how
to keep home and hearth together in this faltering
economy.

Just lately we seem to be pouring all our 'expendable'
income into keeping our automobiles on the road.  How're
things with you?  We love hearing from you.

Don
 
 
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Section One by Don. 

A new twist on twitter; tweet by snail mail.
http://tweetbysnailmail.com/

Or, you can twitter as though it were IRC.
http://code.google.com/p/tircd/

A few things you probably didn't know about Nebraska.
http://nebraskarules.tripod.com/

A compendium of documents legal, technical,
educational, academic and/or business related.
http://www.docstoc.com/

Of and pertaining to health and the environment.
http://www.healthandenvironment.org/

Susanne Clermonts is a modern/disco/electronic
musician/singer.  This is her website.
http://www.thisiskrause.com/

How to transpose for various woodwind/brass instruments.
http://www.margrietverbeek.nl/transpose.html

Skip this one if you aren't a techno-geek.
http://thegrebs.com/

Ok, this is a commercial, plain and simple, but who'd
have thought you could do so much with a copy machine?
http://www.sharpusa.com/files/workwithoutlimits.swf

Are you eligible for $10-a-month high speed internet?
http://linkasa.com/Y41
http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=7334

Possible good news/bad news for Barracuda 7200.11,
ES.2 SATA, and DiamondMax 22 hard disk drives.
http://linkasa.com/Z41

Ad supported ebooks for students and travelers.
http://bookboon.com/us

Books for your phone.   http://www.booksinmyphone.com/

Technology in further and higher education.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/digitalstudent

Got a mystery-file you want to identify?
http://dotwhat.net/

Potentially wise words but heavy reading.
http://www.edge.org/

Geospacial data for Great Britain.
http://www.gogeo.ac.uk/cgi-bin/index.cgi

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Section Two by Lisa 
 
A very good set of beginner drum tutorials.
http://www.monkeysee.com/play/655-the-drums

A community for finance, investing, and business.
http://tipd.com/

A commercial site that has some good ideas
about grieving and healing after a loss.
http://www.memories-are-forever.org/

What the Internet is and how to stop
mistaking it for something else.
http://www.worldofends.com/

Using vintage Macs and loving it.
http://lowendmac.com/

Learn all you can about stroke.
http://abtstroke.notlong.com

Web Technology news, reviews and analysis.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/

BBC New geared toward Americans.
http://www.theworld.org/

OpenSource office suite for Mac.
http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php

Don't be bullied by Word documents attached
to emails, explain the choices to the sender.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

I've always loved this simple little song.
Like most simple things, it's a little more
complex than expected.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iko_Iko
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivbt6E8368k
http://ikoikobellestars.notlong.com

Resources and info for web designers and
developers.   http://sixrevisions.com/ 
 
End of Section Two. 
 
 
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This issue's collection of online news, blogs, 
magazines, videos  and/or other informational
sites.  These are chosen for maximum diversity
regardless of "spin" and in some cases may
have offensive or questionable content.
Note:  My 'media' folder has grown to enormous
proportions so this section will be expanded
somewhat for the next few issues. 
http://www.thefader.com/home/list
http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/
http://geekaustin.org/
http://www.marines.mil/Pages/Default.aspx
http://www.lightreading.com/
http://www.beinghunted.com/
http://www.beingpeterkim.com/
http://www.visualbeing.com/
http://www.beingtheremag.com/
http://www.wellbeingjournal.com/
http://www.rollingstone.com/
http://www.hoboes.com/
http://www.beingcaribou.com/
http://gigaom.com/
http://www.oanow.com/
http://www.dooce.com/
http://tlltworld.blogspot.com/
http://happylolday.blogspot.com/
http://www.sweet-juniper.com/
http://www.etonline.com/
http://dbacon.igc.org/
http://www.creators.com/
http://amandaormandy.blogspot.com/
http://nobosh.com/
http://loobylu.com/
http://www.chesslaw.com/lawblogs.htm
http://www.hrw.org/
http://allthingsd.com/
 
 
Section Three by Don. 
 
A social networking group for teenaged writers
and gamers.   http://www.groupthing.org/

Search engines have 'robots' which explore and catalog
the web to create indexes, through which they then
search in response to typed queries.  Meta-search
engines apply your key words to several search
engines at once, then collate and display the results.
Portals are created by people who search out websites
and collect links to sites they find worthy of mention.
Each issue of this ezine is, in fact, a non-topical
portal which we create for our readers but, most of the
time, portals are created to deal with specific topics.
Dmoz is an excellent portal which tried to sort the
entire web into topical categories.
http://www.dmoz.org/
iBrain is a similar project...
http://ibrain.org/
...but sites like Yahoo and about.com are also portals,
albeit commercially driven.

Need a job in...
The UK?   http://www.indeed.co.uk/
Antarctica?   http://linkasa.com/351
Europe?   http://www.eurojobs.com/
Paradise?   http://www.jobsinparadise.com/

The Top 10 everything of 2008.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/top10

Advancing open standards for the global information
society.   http://www.oasis-open.org/home/index.php

TimeMaps atlas of world history.
http://www.worldhistory.timemaps.com/

A social media site for finance, investing,
and business topics.   http://tipd.com/

A social network for shoppers.
http://www.tribesmart.com/

A completely new way of choosing what to read.
http://www.whichbook.net/

Experience cities like a local.
http://www.spottedbylocals.com/

eBooks in numerous categories.
http://www.free-ebooks.net/

The official gateway to Sweden.   http://www.sweden.se/

Halls of Fame (continued, part 5).
Great Americans.   http://www.bcc.cuny.edu/hallofFame/
U.S. Olympic.   http://www.usolympichalloffame.com/
Cowgirl.   http://www.cowgirl.net/
New Jersey.   http://njhalloffame.com/
RV/Manufactured Homes.   http://www.rvmhhalloffame.org/
American Agriculture.   http://aghalloffame.com/
Georgia music.   http://www.georgiamusic.org/
Green Bay Packers.   http://linkasa.com/851
Alabama music.   http://www.alamhof.org/
Water Ski (U.S.).
http://www.waterskihalloffame.com/HoFameMenu.html
Texas Cowboy.   http://www.texascowboyhalloffame.com/
Ukulele.   http://www.ukulele.org/
World Chess.   http://www.chessmuseum.org/

A few interesting music videos and/or streams.
http://www.youtube.com/user/druman44
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uysT48kIcIY
http://www.youtube.com/user/sabracallasmusic

Kids sites.
http://www.kidsdiscover.com/
http://www.state.il.us/kids/
http://www.pitara.com/discover/
 
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Section Four by Lisa. 
 
An online metronome.   http://www.metronomeonline.com/

I like this online typing test and use it often.
http://www.learn2type.com/TypingTest

The basics of CPR and how to get further training.
http://depts.washington.edu/learncpr/

A lot of info about the Internet.
http://www.learnthenet.com/english/index.html

60-Second Science. Got a minute?
http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/

The National Chimpanzee Sanctuary.
http://www.chimphaven.org/

Resources for homeschooling.
http://learninfreedom.org/

Creatures once thought extinct are back.
http://notgone.notlong.com

Guide to creating and publishing video.
http://www.videomaker.com/

Too cute for words.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvCetHzc4iw

Clarence "Frogman" Henry is still alive and kickin'.
Read, listen and groove.  He's available for
bookings...
http://www.neworleansfrogman.com/

Three courageous people who were paralyzed by
polio, but live(d) full lives.
http://www.johnprestwich.btinternet.co.uk/index.htm
http://ironlung.notlong.com
http://www.salon.com/people/obit/1999/07/12/obrien/
 
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Section Five by our web sibling Foggy. 
 
How-To's galore and more! A definite cure for
boredom.   http://www.instructables.com/

Expand your knowledge of electronics, robotics, and
technology through hands-on projects.
http://www.buildcoolstuff.com/

Backwoods Bound (about the great outdoors).
http://www.backwoodsbound.com/

Bread and sourdoughs.   http://samartha.net/SD/

the most useful rope knots.
http://www.layhands.com/Knots/Knots_Decorative.htm

Paracord survival bracelet.   http://linkasa.com/751

Hangout in virtual space with knot tyers from around
the world.   http://pineapple.myfunforum.org/

Knots by netknots.com.
http://www.netknots.com/html/knots.html

Bi-Fur-Pod (a bipod for shooting).
http://www.varmintal.com/abifu.htm

Make your own ringtones.
http://www.makeownringtone.com/

TV theme music and songs.
http://www.televisiontunes.com/index.php

Much to explore.   http://www.tearsoffire.org

Daily DIY.   http://dailydiy.com/

A small, candle based, DIY heater.
http://www.heatstick.com/_Process.htm

Survival text files
http://www.textfiles.com/survival/

Delta Gear DIY.
http://www.deltagearinc.com/DIY.htm

Bicycle tutor.   http://bicycletutor.com/

Four year old cheeseburger video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IGtDPG4UfI
 
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Section Six by Lisa. 
 
Carry your life on a thumb drive or ipod.
http://lifeonthumb.notlong.com

I like this blog.   http://www.dogatemyfinances.com/

Close-up portraits of real people by Ryan Keberly.
http://snowsuit.net/

Stephen Morse has made life more convenient by
making lots of info available in one click.
http://stevemorse.org/index.html

A diet that really works.
http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/the-step-diet

Learn to sing.  Lots of good info and guidance.
http://www.vocalist.org.uk

I've been reading rather a lot about
Malcolm Gladwell lately, perhaps it's
time I read his books.
http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/52014/

All that's new on the Web.
http://mashable.com/

There's a lot of biology behind cuteness.
http://biocute.notlong.com

Resource on clinical lab testing-what
medical tests mean to you.
http://www.labtestsonline.org/

All about pedigreed cats.
http://www.cfainc.org/

The International Color Consortium promotes the
use and adoption of open, vendor-neutral,
cross-platform color management systems.
http://www.color.org/index.xalter

Business English, grammar and vocabulary.
http://www.better-english.com/

Fitness, exercise and health.
http://www.abc-of-fitness.com/ 
 
End of Section Six. 
 
 
The Linux Corner. 
 
Linux tips.
http://linuxandmicrocontrollertips.blogspot.com/

 Ken Hess's Linux blog.
http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/blog311962.html

Paul Elliott is a Linux geek.  This is his website.
http://www.io.com/~pelliott/pme/

Ubuntu tutorials.   http://ubuntu.imoka.net/

How to install the Adobe Flash player in Debian.
http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer

Linux videos.   http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/

This news story was much talked about by Linux
communities around the world.  Here's the original
story.   http://linkasa.com/951
The follow up story.   http://linkasa.com/a51
The anchorman's final comments.
http://addins.wkowtv.com/blogs/troubleshooter/?p=24
 
 
A Little Humor. 

An Indian accountant's theory of reincarnation:  If you are
a good, virtuous accountant, then you are reborn as an
engineer but if you are an evil, wicked accountant, you
are reborn as a psychologist.

One day in microeconomics, the professor was writing up
the typical 'underlying assumptions' in preparation to
explain a new model. I turned to my friend and asked,
'What would Economics be without assumptions?' He
thought for a moment, then replied, 'Accounting.'

A science graduate asks, 'Why does it work?'
An engineering graduate asks, 'How does it work?'
An accounting graduate asks, 'How much it costs?'
A humanity graduate asks, 'Would you like fries with that?'

A man lands a hot air balloon in the middle of the desert.
When he sees a fellow walking by he asks 'Excuse me, can
you tell me where I am?' 'Sure' says the fellow 'longitude
23'45', latitude 34'12'. 'Oh,' says the balloon man, 'you
must be accountant' 'As a matter of fact, I am, how did
you know?' 'Well, you just gave me a very precise piece
of worthless information.' ' I see' says the accountant
'and you must be a consultant.' 'You are right, how did
you know?' 'As long as you're up in the air, you seem to
know where you're going, but as soon as you get down to
earth, you're lost.'

While waiting to board a plane in a small airport, a
ticket agent said on the paging system: 'Would the
accountant who dropped his pants please return to
the ticket counter.'  After a slight pause, the
same voice added, 'The pants were on a hanger!'

An auditor is having a hard time sleeping and goes
to see his doctor.  'Doctor, I just can't get sleep
at night.' The doctor asks, 'Have you tried counting
sheep?'  The auditor replies, 'That's the problem, 
I keep making a mistake and spend the rest of the
night trying to find the error.'

He was a very cautious man, who never romped or played.
He never smoked, he never drank, nor even kissed a maid.
And when he up and passed and away, insurance was denied.
For since he hadn't ever lived, they claimed he never died.
 
 
Tips for This Issue. 
 
Product photography.   http://linkasa.com/b51

A wealth of info on Windows versions from 3.1 to XP and
a little more as well.   http://www.mdgx.com/

Organic gardening.
www.basic-info-4-organic-fertilizers.com/gardeningtips.html

Dieting (a popular post-holiday activity, yes?).
http://linkasa.com/c51

 
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/ )

Go for the dirt.   http://www.wesmirch.com/ 
 
News and commentary for teens, tweens and Generation Y. 
http://www.ypulse.com/ 
 
Poetry Archive. 
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do 
 
A gallery of illusions. 
http://www.planetperplex.com/en/gallery.html 
 
The Museum of Modern Art for teens. 
http://redstudio.moma.org/ 
 
A place to enjoy the adventures, treks, theories, and 
wisdom of some of the most respected leaders in the 
field of Cryptozoology.   http://www.cryptomundo.com/ 
 
A cute mouse follower. 
http://home.postech.ac.kr/~twirung/flash/cat.swf 
 
wanna make a paper pop-up? 
http://robertsabuda.com/popmakesimple.asp 
 
A search engine for visually impaired persons. 
http://www.big.com/home.php 
 
Historical timelines.   http://www.historicaltimeline.com/ 
 
History matters.   http://historymatters.gmu.edu/ 
 
A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895. 
http://www.bartleby.com/246/ 
 
FBI newspaper articles archive. 
http://www.fbiarchive.com/Home.aspx 
 
This Australian site is for and about women. 
http://www.allforwomen.com.au/ 
 
Who's interested in competitive cooking? 
http://www.recipecontests.com/ 
 
Classic Literature.   http://www.litscape.com/ 
 
Ancient Egyptian flying vehicles? 
http://crystalinks.com/ancientaircraft.html 
 
Build your own squid and set it free. 
http://squid.tepapa.govt.nz/build-a-squid/interactive 
More to explore from the Colossal Squid Exhibition. 
http://squid.tepapa.govt.nz/ 
 
Designs of grandeur.   http://www.designboom.com/


This cartoon video, from our web sibling Herb Cee, is
a little silly but it does nicely explain the concept
behind the latest hard disk drive technology.
http://linkasa.com/d51


Our web sibling Jerry Fox sent this link to an
amazing interactive panoramic view of the
Piaristenkirche Church Maria Treu in Vienna,
Austria.   http://linkasa.com/e51
Note:  Jerry and I both found that we had to
reload the page a time or two before it became
fully operative.


Our web sibling Terri Lanoue sent this link to Paul
Sadowski's interesting, explorable site.
http://www.paulsadowski.com/


Lisa and I are huge fans of Peter Oakley who was also
recently discovered by our web sibling John Lepse
(who then sent the following links).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOciMaCyJW4
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=geriatric1927
http://www.askgeriatric.com/


Our friend and neighbor Cranz Nichols has discovered
Zombie warnings in Austin Texas.  http://linkasa.com/f51


From our web sibling Randi Simon-Serey.

Infoplease is a multifaceted research tool.
http://www.infoplease.com/

A video which morphs the images of US
Presidents from Washington to Obama.
http://www.flixxy.com/presidents-morphing.htm 

Refine your foreign language skills by communicating with
a native speaker.   http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/


Thank you Jo, Herb, Jerry,
Terri, John, Cranz, and Randi.

 
Last word, from Lisa: 
 
As usual our lives have been busy and fulfilling.
We continue to get by on catch-as-catch-can work
although our schedule has ratcheted up quite a bit
due to car repairs and other annoyances.  For now
we do work that we like and have reduced our wants
and needs to fit our budget.

Why do we feel so rich?  Oh, yeah...

Life is good, love is wonderful.

'Til next time,

Lisa
 
 
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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 
Sunday, February 1, 2009 
12:50 AM CST - Buchanan Lake Village, Texas, USA 
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