[donspatch] 2012-09-01
- From: "Don (& Lisa)" <dondashguitar@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 18:45:09 -0500
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First word, from Don:
Well, it's four days late but here it is. Circumstances
sort of piled up on us for the past few days. Nothing bad,
just lots of income-producing work making demands on our
time and we're compelled to 'make hay while the sun shines'
so the ezine had to wait a few days.
Last Saturday morning I dragged Lisa (virtually kicking and
screaming in protest) to an estate auction where there was
a large collection of musical gear. Wouldn't you know she
found a couple of things she 'just had to have'. I'll let
her tell you all about it in her closing statement. I just
want to take this opportunity to point out that every time
I insist we go do something which she's sure is a terrible
idea she winds up having a good time. Rodney Dangerfield
gets more respect than I do, srsly. :-/
See you next time,
Don
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Section One by Don.
I'm knocked out by the amount of information the
web can provide for electronics hobbyists.
http://www.hobbyprojects.com/tutorial.html
http://www.discovercircuits.com/
http://www.electronicsteacher.com/
http://www.ehow.com/how_2044394_start-electronic-hobby.html
Here's a couple of portals with even more info.
http://goo.gl/37woX [designerappliances dot com]
http://goo.gl/wgXag [appliancepartspros.com]
These sites cover hobbies in general.
http://www.hobbizine.com/
http://www.parmahobby.com/whats-up/hobby-resources.htm
http://www.hobby-hour.com/
If you've decided you need a hobby but don't know
where to start, try this list from wikipedia...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hobbies
or this somewhat more ambitious list.
http://www.stormthecastle.com/the-list-of-hobbies.htm
It wasn't so many years ago when it took me days of research
to find any worthwhile, costless fonts. Not any more.
http://openfontlibrary.org/
http://www.fontspace.com/category/open
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/
http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
http://www.google.com/webfonts/
To me, the best thing about the Olympic games has
always been the wonderful stories they spawn.
http://www.olympics30.com/
Who knew ovens were so incredibly primitive?
http://goo.gl/lsGv9 [slate dot com]
As a left-handed person I was pleased to learn that I
have my own day but it would have been nice to know
before the fact so I could have celebrated it.
http://lefthandersday.com/
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Section Two by Lisa.
What's the best use yet for 3D printers?
You decide. http://goo.gl/qvxXQ
Open, free legal documents.
http://www.docracy.com/
Life is pretty easy, if you think about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21j_OCNLuYg
http://www.punpunthailand.org/
What an awesome dad!
http://goo.gl/a6F31
A blog about human rationality.
http://lesswrong.com/
105 of Cinema's Most Beautiful Close-Ups.
http://vimeo.com/46767459
A declaration of interdependence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzZ1Gl5UfE0
For Windows users who want a smooth
and easy transition to Linux.
http://zorin-os.com/index.html
Why pay more for laundry detergent?
http://goo.gl/N9AxF
Be consistently happy.
http://goo.gl/NrrKZ
Solution for a serious problem in
underdeveloped countries.
http://goo.gl/NLwcd
If you can't quite get to Inbox Zero, here's
something a little more realistic.
http://goo.gl/BRBrt
Why a shorter work week is better.
http://www.neweconomics.org/publications/21-hours
End of Section Two.
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This issue's collection of online news, blogs,
magazines, videos and/or other media related
sites. These are chosen for maximum diversity
regardless of 'spin' and in some cases may
have offensive or questionable content.
http://front.moveon.org/
http://www.reverbnation.com/artist/artist_songs/939327
http://www.cyberbullyhelp.com/
http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/exploring/
http://www.disciplinehelp.com/
http://www.ros.org/wiki/
http://www.eclecticenglish.com/
http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/explore/index.html
http://exploring.liftweb.net/
http://www.helpguide.org/
http://intranetlounge.com/
http://www.jonesandraine.com/fr_home.cfm
http://www.reverbnation.com/karenak
http://www.optics4kids.org/
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0
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http://www.facebook.com/TheEconomist
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http://www.zerohedge.com/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/holidays/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/strawberryholiday/
http://www.damninteresting.com/
Section Three by Don.
It may well be the biggest lie on the web.
http://tos-dr.info/
I always loved the Ozzie and Harriet show and one of their
grandkids intends to bring their show to digital media.
The only information I was able to find on it was on the
completed kickstarter project page and facebook.
http://goo.gl/er7st [kickstarter dot com]
http://www.facebook.com/ozzie.harriet
The story on stickers you see on fruits and vegetables.
http://goo.gl/653ff [consumerreports dot org]
http://plucodes.com/
Optical illusions. http://www.moillusions.com/
A good place to track hurricanes.
http://hurricanetrack.com/
Who knew film titles were such an interesting topic?
http://www.artofthetitle.com/
Collecting fruit labels is a new one on me.
http://en.etichettando.com/
The beauty of engraving. http://thebeautyofengraving.com/
An impressive collection of public-domain essays.
http://essays.quotidiana.org/
Jack Layton was an impressive Canadian.
http://www.dearjack.ca/
The "wunnerful" women of the Lawrence Welk show.
http://welkgirls.com/
All about microscopic denizens of the world's oceans.
http://planktonchronicles.org/en
"The Castaway's Guide To Making A Home"
http://goo.gl/xHVns [theawl dot com]
More where that came from. http://www.theawl.com/
What Vikings really looked like.
http://sciencenordic.com/what-vikings-really-looked
More where that came from. http://sciencenordic.com/
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Section Four by Lisa.
Learn Good Form for running.
http://www.goodformrunning.com/
What's so good about pushups?
http://hundredpushups.com/index.html
Remember Spirographs?
http://goo.gl/4i3Hk
Some American athletes from the 1948 Olympic Games.
http://goo.gl/Gv42A
A cool little notebook.
http://www.pocketmod.com/
Match a quote with a song.
http://goo.gl/Y8gFt
Save money on fruit and nut bars.
http://goo.gl/6Zj38
It would nice to be successful
and happy, wouldn't it?
http://goo.gl/yaj8D
These are not photographs.
http://vianaarts.deviantart.com/
Organizing tips for anyone.
http://goo.gl/HuCEv
RoombaCat strikes fear into Sharkey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf9wHkkNGUU
Join in the new sport of Dog Shaming!
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/dogshaming
How to make it through a rough day.
http://goo.gl/Zgh8T
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Section Five by Don.
The Early Office Museum (I'd love to visit this one).
http://officemuseum.com/
A new take on a very old topic: maps.
http://kartograph.org/
What you might call the mythos of software development.
http://thecodelesscode.com/contents
I've no idea who Johnny Payphone is but there's a
great deal to explore on his (or her?) website.
http://johnnypayphone.net/
"Recursive Drawing is an exploration of user interface
ideas towards the development of a spatially-oriented
programming environment." http://recursivedrawing.com/
The Center for Cartoon Studies.
http://www.cartoonstudies.org/
I love text editors. When I was still using Windows my
favorite was NoteTab Light... http://www.notetab.com/
In Linux my favorite editor is Gedit.
http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/
The pros and cons of various text editors is a very popular
topic of conversation any time two or more computer nerds
wind up in the same place with time to talk. Here's a site
dedicated to the lore and lure of text editors.
http://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl
Alan Alda's Flame Challenge.
http://flamechallenge.org/
I guess some U.S. states are worthy of a sandwich and some
aren't. http://statelysandwiches.com/
The best and worst of the web. http://sobadsogood.com/
Fat fonts. http://fatfonts.org/
Illustrator Jim Unwin. http://jimunwin.com/
Cities analyzed by social media. http://livehoods.org/
Photographer Tim Walker. http://timwalkerphotography.com/
What's your secret service name (a little silly).
http://goo.gl/PQyzo [hlntv dot com]
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Section Six by Lisa.
Can fasting make you smarter? Don't ask ME!
http://www.drmirkin.com/public/ezine022612.html
Minimize the file size of your photos.
http://www.jpegmini.com/
How stress can kill you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNtQQsEJ-gE
The world's worst yearbook pictures.
http://goo.gl/khrr5
Ever try to help someone who needs to know the
basics of computer use. Send them here first.
http://www.teachparentstech.org/watch
The Wind Map. Fascinating, beautiful.
http://hint.fm/wind/
How schools can use Google Hangouts.
http://goo.gl/1nK0O
Terry Border makes Bent Objects.
http://bentobjects.blogspot.com/
Get your fluffy needs filled here.
http://thefluffingtonpost.com/
Doodle and share.
http://doodle.ly/
This image has become a meme.
Here's the background story.
http://goo.gl/GHqAh
Turning rails into trails.
http://www.railstotrails.org/index.html
Find the truth in politics.
http://www.politifact.com/
End of Section Six.
The Linux Corner.
A nice collection of Linux info and tutorials.
https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials
How to move from Windows to Linux.
http://goo.gl/88AUY [arstechnica dot com]
New ideas and attitudes just keep popping up for Linux
users. http://bedrocklinux.org/
Now you can 'test drive' Ubuntu Linux in your browser.
http://www.ubuntu.com/tour/en/
Debian Linux turned 19 this year. Want to wish them
Happy Birthday?
Build Your Own Flickr with Piwigo.
http://goo.gl/SYgEq [linuxjournal dot com]
A Little Humor.
Generous lawyer
A local United Way office realized that the organization
had never received a donation from the town's most
successful lawyer. The person in charge of contributions
called him to persuade him to contribute.
'Our research shows that out of a yearly income of at
least $500,000, you give not a penny to charity.
Wouldn't you like to give back to the community in
some way?'
The lawyer mulled this over for a moment and replied,
'First, did your research also show that my mother is
dying after a long illness, and has medical bills that
are several times her annual income?'
Embarrassed, the United Way rep mumbled, 'Um ... no.'
The lawyer interrupts, 'or that my brother, a disabled
veteran, is blind and confined to a wheelchair?'
The stricken United Way rep began to stammer out an
apology, but was interrupted again.
'or that my sister's husband died in a traffic accident,'
the lawyer's voice rising in indignation, 'leaving her
penniless with three children?'
The humiliated United Way rep, completely beaten, said
simply, 'I had no idea...'
On a roll, the lawyer cut him off once again, 'So if I
don't give any money to them, why should I give any to
you?'
Tips for This Issue.
Here's a really good one for those of you who're still
using Windows :) http://windowssecrets.com/
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From our web-sibling Jo-Ann (Jo) Burton:
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Bottle cap portraits by Molly B. Right.
http://www.mollybright.com/
The museum of modern fiction.
http://museumofmodernfiction.wordpress.com/
It's about robots. http://www.suicidebots.com/
The Encyclopedia of Life. http://eol.org/
It's all about New York city. http://gothamist.com/
A challenging bubble game.
http://games.allmyfaves.com/bubbleshooter/
The prejudice map. http://blogoscoped.com/prejudice/
Educational (geography) online games.
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm
An interesting online game. http://www.scruffs-game.com/
Things that fell out of trucks (seriously).
http://www.truckspills.com/
Sand Cats are size of house cats but not domesticated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_cat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sh4tu5Xfhw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-gKfYy5wWc
Amy Walker is a master of accents.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UgpfSp2t6k
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Walker
http://www.amywalkeronline.com/
Celebrating questionable behavior.
http://www.zug.com/
Cute but real) little cars.
http://www.oobject.com/category/bubble-cars/
The Story of Stuff project. http://www.storyofstuff.com/
Celebrating simplicity. http://www.realsimple.com/
Next time it's bedtime for the little ones, why not let
the Screen Actors Guild read them a story? Pretty cool!
http://www.storylineonline.net/
Much to explore on Dr. Mardy Grothe's site.
http://www.drmardy.com/
Taking bread and fishes to a whole 'nuther place' :)
http://goo.gl/YfnwN [geraardsbergen dot be]
Smashing Magazine. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
Science blogs. http://scienceblogs.com/
Our web-sibling and fellow Linux user Herb Cee said
Pipes is complicated but looks interesting.
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
From our web-sibling Vinette (Vi) DePhillipe.
The Grand Canyon is proof that nature rocks.
http://goo.gl/b913R [lovethesepics dot com]
Plenty more where that came from.
http://www.lovethesepics.com/
Living pictures formed by thousands of US soldiers.
http://goo.gl/mXm4L [telegraph dot co dot uk]
http://goo.gl/DIjYw [hammergallery dot com]
Web-sibling Norm Koeckritz was very impressed
with Lawrence Anthony (and so were we).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Anthony
http://goo.gl/o4tWM [delightmakers dot com]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwPvivNpX_M
Our 'other brother' Bill (Beeyil) Lanoue discovered
a commercial, indy-music site which offers a freebie.
http://ramenmusic.com/
From our web-sibling John Lepse.
Here's an security issue worth knowing about. If you don't
see the words 'If you are reading this page, it means you
are NOT infected with DNS Changer.', in green italics. a
few inches from the top of this page, your computer needs
to make a trip to your favorite computer geek.
http://www.dcwg.org/
The Warsaw Uprising of 1944.
http://www.warsawuprising.com/
I suppose this would be one alternative to tipping cows.
http://www.youtube.com/Destinws2
Yo-yos in space.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni4j5K4Lz3o
Web-sibling Irving Stein recommends this site for seniors.
http://www.suddenlysenior.com/index.shtml
Last word, from Lisa:
Well, as usual we did something new and exciting! Last
Saturday we attended our first auction. Don was itching
to go because the ad for the auction promised lots of
music equipment was being offered. I wasn't that
enthused at the prospect of spending money, but up
we got (early) and off we went. Well, it was quite
a nice experience. I was enchanted by the sound of
a particular cymbal and it turned out being part of
a set of drums. They were pretty nice so we got 2
nice ride (cymbals) and a high-hat (cymbal) set with
the drums. Here are two posts I made on Google+ with
pictures so you can see how we did on some really great
musical equipment.
http://goo.gl/REcjF
http://goo.gl/YzUzi
We hurried home, worked on this issue (but didn't finish
it), ate a hasty supper, and left for a band gig. Whew!
Once again, the adventure continues.
Lisa
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