[donspatch] 2009-02-15
- From: Don Crowder <don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:31:30 -0600
#111, February 15, 2009 from http://www.don-guitar.com
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First word, from Don:
In the last few days, Lisa and I have each made a trip to
the hospital emergency room because we found ourselves
suddenly in respiratory distress. My own trip was just
last evening. We were both sent home with prescriptions
for antibiotics, cough suppressants and anti-inflamatories.
On our way home last evening an idiot hauling a huge trailer
pulled out in front of us. We were able to come to a full
stop without hitting the trailer but the pickup behind us
wasn't as fortunate. He rear-ended our car. I walked to
the nearest phone (we don't have a cellphone) and called
911 to report the accident. Then I called my daughter.
A short time later our son-in-law arrived to give us a ride
home. Today, our car is a total loss, we both have sore
muscles in our necks but none of that matters really.
We're alive and we still have each other. Thank you God.
Don
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Section One by Don.
Worth visiting. http://www.breastcancer.org/
Discover nursing. http://www.discovernursing.com/
Discover life (very cool!). http://www.discoverlife.org/
Discover engineering. http://www.discoverengineering.org/
Discover New England. http://www.discovernewengland.org/
Discover. um, water. http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/
Discover boating. http://www.discoverboating.com/
Discover Nikkei. http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/
Discover France. http://www.discoverfrance.net/
Discover dogs. http://www.discoverdogs.org.uk/
Discover Romania.
http://students.missouri.edu/~romsa/romania/
Pet net. http://www.thepet.net/
Everything (squared). http://everything2.com/
World art. http://www.worldart.com.au/
Quarter Horse Legends.
http://quarterhorselegends.googlepages.com/home
This one's essentially a portal of coolness!
http://www.smashingapps.com/
Photographic journeys.
http://www.thisfabtrek.com/home/tfthome.php
Games and videos. http://www.maniacworld.com/
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Section Two by Lisa
A very different museum and a unique web site.
http://www.museum-of-temporary-art.com/index.html
History of Economic Theory and Thought.
http://www.economictheories.org/
A quintessential blues artist, Freddie King.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_King
Stuff about different kinds of stuff.
http://www.thunderfap.com/
http://www.make-stuff.com/
http://www.xmission.com/~emailbox/catstuff.htm
http://www.1freestuff.com/
http://www.tuffstuff.com/GeneralMenu/
http://www.howtocleanstuff.net/
http://bizarrelabs.com/
http://www.nojunkfree.com/
The Terra-Cotta Army, and a new recruit.
http://www.chinahighlights.com/xian/terracotta-army/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5355546.stm
Bill Robertson is not only a world-renowned miniaturist,
he's also designed the museums that feature his work.
http://littlethings.notlong.com
End of Section Two.
At the time this issue was posted,
the current subscriber count for
this publication was 382.
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.
Section Three by Don.
Search engine optimization resources.
http://www.seomoz.org/
Make yourself an online 'to do' list.
http://www.vitalist.com/
There's not much handwriting on the web but you can
have your typing analyzed. http://www.typealyzer.com/
Comic book resources.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/
Check out your medications.
http://www.medications.com/
Yet another bloggish social network.
http://www.plurk.com/
For afficionados of sound.
http://www.audioasylum.com/index.htm
Got questions? http://www.answers.com/
Podcasts, vidcasts. http://www.podcastpickle.com/
The George Lucas Educational Foundation.
http://www.edutopia.org/
Authentic American pronunciation.
http://eleaston.com/pr/home.html
A surprisingly good impression of Louis Armstrong
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cc3_1231560680
This portal is going to the dogs.
http://www.delightfuldogs.com/
A home gardening resource.
http://perrysperennials.info/forpecon.htm
The College of Cour d'Or (the Society
for Creative Anachronism).
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/org/Medieval/www/
Human mirror (interesting video).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MBBr-a2KnM
More videos from the same source.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ImprovEverywhere
These little Buddhist stories seem roughly analogous
to Christian parables and are well worth reading.
http://www.buddhanet.net/bt_conts.htm
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Section Four by Lisa.
Resources for science learning.
http://www.fi.edu/learn/index.php
The photography of Ken Light. http://www.kenlight.com/
How to travel light. http://www.onebag.com/
Ian's Shoelace Site. http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/
Could you have passed the 8th grade in 1895?
http://bertc.com/subfour/truth/grade8.htm
Unique furniture. http://uniquefurn.notlong.com
All about strength. http://www.straighttothebar.com/
Hack your mind. http://www.mindhacks.com/
Learn something at the School of Everything.
http://schoolofeverything.com/
Real health and fitness. http://straighthealth.com/
Lots of information about "the other white meat".
Good recipes and videos!
http://www.theotherwhitemeat.com/default.aspx
Wedding customs around the world.
http://wedcustoms.notlong.com
Plans for cool stuff you can make.
http://www.uniqueprojects.com/index.htm
Ever think carnival games are rigged? No!
http://beattheodds.notlong.com
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Section Five by Don.
I'd never watched a foreign language film with English
subtitles so, when I discovered this Korean drama I
watched the first episode mainly out of curiosity.
I was instantly hooked on the story and its wonderful
insight into Korean culture. Before long Lisa was
hooked as well and, by now, we've watched all 17
episodes. Scroll down this page for the full index...
http://www.mysoju.com/delightful-girl-choonhyang/
...or watch episode one and follow the link to the
next episode at the bottom of the video window of
each successive episode. http://ethio.notlong.com
If you just can't get enough, there's a lot more
to explore here: http://www.mysoju.com/browse/
A social network for hungry folks.
http://chowhound.chow.com/
A baking blog (tasty!). http://bakingbites.com/
Business reviews for some American cities.
http://www.yelp.com/
Getting tapped by determined young ladies once a year
to buy cookies is something of an American tradition.
http://www.girlscoutcookies.org/
What the heck is "lateral thinking"?
http://homepages.anglianet.co.uk/johnm/puzzlat.html
Aggie horticulture. http://plantanswers.tamu.edu/
Photo sharing for twitter. http://twitpic.com/
Some of Bill Bailey's routines are slightly risque
but he's very funny. This is his youtube channel.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Duffersinhishat
A 'knol' is a unit of knowledge.
http://knol.google.com/k/
I remember when there were only two or three sites
where you could edit images online. Times have changed.
http://www.online-image-editor.com/
http://www.pixlr.com/
http://www.imageeditor.net/
http://www.myimager.com/
http://fotoflexer.com/
http://www.splashup.com/
http://www.onlineimageeditor.info/
http://www.picnik.com/
http://www.webbild.com/default.asp?pageid=13291
http://www.sumopaint.com/web/
http://www.izhuk.com/painter/
http://www.onlinephototool.com/
http://www.gifworks.com/
http://www.drpic.com/
http://www.alilg.com/software/free-online-photo-editor/
http://www.flauntr.com/
http://www.osoq.com/
http://aviary.com/home
http://www.picjuice.com/
http://www.preloadr.com/
http://snipshot.com/
http://pixenate.com/
End of Section Five.
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Section Six by our web-sibling Foggy.
Free targets for shooting enthusiasts.
http://www.freerangetargets.com/DownloadFreeTargets.html
http://www.targetz.com/
http://www.mytargets.com/
http://www.gamecalls.net/free_stuff/52_free_targets.html
http://www.reloadbench.com/pdf.html
Flying saucers are coming.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKiQqORDnJQ
The Super Cat alcohol stove.
http://jwbasecamp.com/Articles/SuperCat/index.html
Origami wreath. http://linkasa.com/071
When robot programmers get bored.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yln_IGDuOCo
When graphic artists get bored.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYMRepK_aqw
The U.S. Army's P-38 can opener.
http://www.georgia-outfitters.com/page52.shtml
Historic cookbooks on line.
http://www.hearthcook.com/aaCookbookindex.html
The U.S. National Debt (updated daily).
http://twitter.com/NationalDebt
Infoplease, year by year.
http://www.infoplease.com/yearbyyear.html
Blogger toolbox.
http://mashable.com/2009/01/16/blogger-toolbox/
An enormous portal. http://www.allmyfaves.com/
Vista goodies. http://linkasa.com/171
Wanna help save the Monarch butterfly?
http://www.livemonarch.com/free-milkweed-seeds.htm
Preparing for the flu.
http://www.healthdisasteroc.org/flu/individuals.htm
A costless PDF converter. http://www.dopdf.com/
A costless collection. http://freeware.software112.com/
End of Section Six.
The Linux Corner.
Open Source desktop publishing (multi-platform in fact).
http://www.scribus.net/
The Abertay Linux Society of Dundee, Scotland.
http://www.thelinuxsociety.org.uk/
Cooking With Linux. http://www.cookingwithlinux.com/
Rick Moen's Linux-friendly website. http://linuxmafia.com/
BerkeleyTIP is California-based Linux user group.
http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip/
A Little Humor.
Q. What is the definition of an accountant?
A. Someone who solves a problem you did not
know you had in a way you don't understand.
Q. How many accountants does it take to change a light bulb?
A. How much money do you have?
Q. What is the definition of a good tax accountant?
A. Someone who has a loophole named after him.
Q. When does a person decide to become an accountant?
A. When he realizes he doesn't have the charisma
to succeed as an undertaker.
Q. What's an extroverted accountant?
A. One who looks at your shoes while
he is talking to you instead of his own.
Q. What is an auditor?
A. Someone who arrives after the
battle and bayonets the wounded.
Q. How do you drive an accountant completely insane?
A. Tie him to a chair, stand in front of
him and fold a road map the wrong way.
Q. If an accountant's wife cannot sleep what does she say?
A. 'Darling, tell me about your work.'
(From our other-brother Bill Lanoue)
One Sunday morning, the pastor noticed little Alex standing
in the foyer of the church staring up at a large plaque. It
was covered with names and small American flags mounted on
either side of it. The six-year old had been staring at the
plaque for some time, so the pastor walked up, stood beside
the little boy, and said quietly, 'Good morning Alex.','Good
morning Pastor' he replied, still focused on the plaque.
'Pastor, what is this?' The pastor said, 'Well son, it's a
memorial to all the young men and women who died in the
service.' Soberly, they just stood together, staring at
the large plaque. Finally, little Alex's voice, barely
audible and trembling with fear asked, 'Which service,
the 8:30 or the 10:45?
Tips for This Issue.
iPhone tips. http://linkasa.com/271
A large, alphabetic list of safety tips.
http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/safetips/default.htm
Parent tips.
http://tutoring.sylvanlearning.com/learning_styles_tips.cfm
Contributions From Our Readers.
Links from readers are always
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like. Guidelines are available here:
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From our web sibling Patrick Barden.
( http://rrwbushangel.blogspot.com/ )
Fantasy fans should enjoy this website.
http://thetorchonline.com/
From our web sibling Jo-Ann (Jo) Burton:
( Jo's site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharinglinks2/ )
Presidential diseases.
http://www.healthinplainenglish.com/presidential-diseases/
Off the wall photos. http://eatliver.com/
Mark Rosenfelder's metaverse. http://zompist.com/
DIY McDonalds. http://www.epicconstructions.com/mirror/mcd/
Opera, playable symphonic music, & physics paper by Richard
S. Tolley. http://www.rstolley.com/
In search of the fine print. http://www.mouseprint.org/
America loves food. http://www.relishmag.com/
History news network. http://hnn.us/
The Pulitzer prizes. http://www.pulitzer.org/
The Hollywood Reporter. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/
Human forensic science. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/visibleproofs/
Short term job opportunities. http://www.backdoorjobs.com/
Architecture online. http://www.arcspace.com/
Murals in Los Angeles. http://home.att.net/~rpmurals/
Social and public art in Los Angeles, CA.
http://www.sparcmurals.org/sparcone/
Virtual museum of San Francisco, CA.
http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906/06.html
Logic alphabet. http://www.logic-alphabet.net/
Web sibling Herb Cee is hooked on internet radio and KPIG
is one of his favorite statons. http://www.kpig.com/
From our web sibling John Lepse.
( John's blog: http://hucknjim.blogspot.com/ )
Where should the Hubble telescope look next?
http://youdecide.hubblesite.org/
Reviews of new Lincoln books. http://linkasa.com/371
A very amusing video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbk980jV7Ao
A bird which replicates all the sounds it hears.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y
Our friend and fellow HLLUG member Cranz Nichols sent
this link to the Wikipedia entry on the Graf Zeppelin
which, during its operating life, made 590 flights
covering more than a million miles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_127_Graf_Zeppelin
Our web-sibling Randi Simon-Serey speaks highly of
Photobucket and loves their online image editing.
http://photobucket.com/
Thank you Patrick, Jo, Herb, John, Cranz and Randi.
Last word, from Lisa:
At the end of a very busy week, it seems we still have
elves (we don't know how else to describe our frequent
good fortune). We arrived home last night only slightly
worse for wear, let the dog out, made a pot of tea, took
our meds, a shower and got a good night's sleep. We woke
up to a renewed realization that this is all you can hope
for; a good life, a great love and health.
A little luck sure doesn't hurt, either.
'Til next time,
Lisa
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Saturday, February 14, 2009
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