[donspatch] Don's Patch 2009-06-15

#119  June 15, 2009  from http://www.don-guitar.com

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First word, from Don:


I thought people were supposed to have loads of free time
during a recession.  I can only assume this means we're
doing it wrong because we're busy.  Consequently, I didn't
have time to complete the reader contributions for this
issue, which is a shame because there are a goodly number
of them, so it's safe to assume that the reader
contributions in the next issue will be very impressive.

Today is Lisa's day off and she's indulging in the
an exploration of culture by viewing the first
episode of Alf on http://www.hulu.com
(doesn't that sound culturally enlightening?).

Me, I've got stuff to do and I'm running out of time.

See you next time.

Don




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Section One by Don.


This NPR video tells a touching Memorial Day story.
http://snipurl.com/k3n07  [www_npr_org]

Here's a youtube video showing some 'ancient'
computer technology (from 1964) that still works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9dpXHnJXaE

Tacky, facetious ecards, some of which are humorous.
http://www.someecards.com/

I recently had occasion to research wysiwyg web
editors and was surprised to find several new ones...
http://www.openwebware.com/
http://www.fckeditor.net/
http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/
http://www.kompozer.net/
...along with familiar apps...
http://virtualmechanics.com/products/dwarf/index.html
http://www.dynamic-html-editor.com/en/home.asp
http://www.nvu.com/
http://www.trellian.com/webpage/
...while SeaMonkey and Amaya seem conceptually different.
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/
http://www.w3.org/Amaya/Amaya.html
What is wysiwyg?   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG

What is a wiki?   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
If you're interested in setting up your own wiki, here's
one with wysiwyg features which might work for you.
http://wikiwig.sourceforge.net/

Sourceforge is an enormous repository filled with Open
Source projects in various stages of development.
http://sourceforge.net/
Due to its size and diversity it can be very difficult
to gain a working knowledge of its contents or to find
a specific application.  This site is a better place
to begin.   http://osliving.com/index.php

How much knowledge can you impart in five minutes?
http://www.youtube.com/user/iGNiTe

I'm not sure but I think this is facetious.
http://smellofbooks.com/

Ad supported travel and educational eBooks.
http://bookboon.com/us

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Section Two by Lisa



A very nice kitchen design site.
http://www.kitchens.com/default.aspx

This Israeli site gives an insight into the
reality of living in a country that is always
on alert and every citizen is a soldier.
http://www.oref.org.il/14-en/PAKAR.aspx

A derivative of the Human Clock, the Human Calendar.
http://www.humancalendar.com/

Consumer-driven review site is one of the best.
http://www.angieslist.com/Angieslist/

For those of you who love all things Harry Potter.
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/index-2.html

Unconventional strategies for life, work and travel.
http://chrisguillebeau.com/3x5/

An artist in light and dark, Judith Schaechter.
http://www.judithschaechter.com/Home.html

A handy home and auto maintenance checklist.
http://ha-maintenance.notlong.com

Nora Dunn is a professional full-time traveler.
http://theprofessionalhobo.com/

The character Shrek was modeled from the physical
and character traits of a real person, Maurice Tillet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Tillet
http://thehumanmarvels.com/blog/?p=110

Finding balance in life.
http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/

Agility training for dogs.
http://www.agilityability.com/

One of my personal heroes, Don Aslett, has a
helpful, informative site about cleaning.
http://www.donaslett.com/

Money’s influence on U.S. elections and public policy.
http://www.opensecrets.org/


End of Section Two.





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This issue's collection of online news, blogs,

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sites.  These are chosen for maximum diversity
regardless of 'spin' and in some cases may
have offensive or questionable content.





Section Three by Don.



A portal for academic websites.   http://www.brainify.com/

Portals for college scholarships,
colleges, and online degrees.
http://www.college-scholarships.com/
http://www.online-degrees-and-scholarships.com/
http://www.onlineuniversities.com/

A chemical search engine.   http://www.commonchemistry.org/

Raw datasets from the US government.   http://www.data.gov/

A portal to Europe.   http://www.europeana.eu/portal/

The Great War (WWI) archive.
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/

A social network with creative overtones.
http://www.groupthing.org/

IllumiRate...   http://www.illumirate.com/
...seems to be another take on the ODP.
http://www.dmoz.org/

An interesting resource for anyone who loves classical
music.   http://www.musopen.com/

Renewable and/or alternate energy.
http://www.nexplanrecycling.com/

Resources for obituaries, funerals and genealogy search.
http://www.obituarieshelp.org/

Tech terms computer dictionary.   http://www.techterms.com/

The truth about books.   http://www.thetruthaboutbooks.com/

Healing broken bones.   http://www.healbrokenbone.com/

If your family is scattered all over creation and can't ever
seem to get together for a reunion, this may be the social
network for you.   http://www.keepingyouposted.org/

I was googling to learn the difference between 'capital' and
'capitol' (the former is, among other things, a city whereas
the latter is usually a building) when I discovered Paul
Brian's very cool pages on Common Errors in English.
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/index.html
A little additional exploration turned up his portal on the
study of worls civilizations.   http://www.wsu.edu/~wldciv/
There's a bit more to explore on his hope page.
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/

My solution to handling those annoying powerpoint files is
Open Office...   http://www.openoffice.org/
...but it's not the only solution (multi-platform).
http://www.slideshare.net/
http://docs.google.com
http://MS-PPviewer.notlong.com  (Windows only)

It seems like every real problem I have these days is, in
one way or another, connected to my terrible memory so I've
researching to find ways to improve my memory.  My findings
haven't been particularly encouraging.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4696905n

Don't ask me why, I've no idea, but a few days ago I had a
moment of nostalgia for some of the stupid, frustrating
video games I was no good at in my younger days.  I'm still
no good at them but at least I got it out of my system.
http://www.freepacman.org/welcome.html
http://www.freetetris.org/welcome.html
http://www.gracecentered.com/galaga_online_game.htm
http://www.freefrogger.org/welcome.html
Want more?   http://www.classicgamesarcade.com/


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Section Four by Lisa.



What does that cost?
http://www.whatitcosts.com/

Stories of America's past.
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi

Home and gardening info.
http://www.myhouseandgarden.com/index.htm

Bo, the First Dog, is a Portugese
Water Dog, and a real cutie.
http://bodog.notlong.com

New music and its composers.
http://www.meetthecomposer.org/

The blog of Dave Winer, who helped popularize
blogging, podcasting and RSS.  He is considered
one of the top 25 people on the Web.
http://www.scripting.com/

Car repair advice by certified ASE technicians.
http://www.2carpros.com/index.htm

20 questions to determine if you
have a gambling addiction.
http://www.gamblersanonymous.org/20questions.html

Math help and tutoring.
http://www.mathnerds.com/mathnerds/

Creating, publishing and analysing
online surveys and forms.
http://questionform.com/

Get answers from moving experts.
http://www.movinganswers.org/

The blog of Carl Zimmer, science writer and author.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/

A list of books made into movies.
http://www.ocl.net/bookinfo/if/movies.shtml

Cartoons on Sticky Notes by Doug Savage.
http://www.savagechickens.com/category/cartoons

Popular Mechanics' How-To Central.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/how_to_central/



End of Section Four.





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Section Five by Don.



Halls of Fame (continued)
Wisconsin conservation.   http://www.wchf.org/
Texas sports.   http://www.tshof.org/
Pinball.   http://www.pinballhall.org/
Actors.   http://www.actorshalloffame.org/
Insurance.   http://www.insurancehalloffame.org/
World drum corp.   http://www.worlddrumcorpshof.org/
Archery.   http://www.archeryhalloffame.org/
Paralympic.   http://www.paralympic.org/hof/main.html
One club.   http://www.oneclub.org/oc/hall_of_fame/
Hit parade.   http://www.hitparadehalloffame.org/
Delaware sports.   http://www.desports.org/
Arizona music.   http://www.azmusichalloffame.org/
Aiken thoroughbred racing.
http://www.aikenracinghalloffame.com/
Songwriters.   http://www.songhall.org/
American national business.   http://www.anbhf.org/
Georgia radio.   http://www.grhof.com/
Sports broadcasting.
http://www.sportsvideo.org/portal/hof/
Rose bowl.
http://www.tournamentofroses.com/history/halloffame.asp
Geotechnical.   http://www.ejge.com/People/HallFame.htm
U.S. national lacrosse.
http://www.uslacrosse.org/museum/halloffame.phtml
(to be continued)

*Different things* of the day.
Bargain.   http://www.woot.com/
BBC football (soccer) match.   http://tinyurl.com/5wklks
Crossword.   http://www.quizland.com/cotd.htm
Cool site.   http://www.coolsiteoftheday.com/frmindex.html
Record.   http://www.recordoftheday.com/www/
Earth science picture.   http://epod.usra.edu/
Find.   http://foundmagazine.com/
Game giveaway.   http://game.giveawayoftheday.com/
Oxford English dictionary word.
http://www.oed.com/cgi/display/wotd
Wordsmith word.   http://wordsmith.org/words/today.html
NPR song.   http://snipurl.com/k61gt  [www_npr_org]
NASA image.   http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/
Theorem.   http://www.theoremoftheday.org/
Kodak image.   http://pohhea.notlong.com
Quote.   http://www.brainyquote.com/link/

A few interesting videos.
http://www.youtube.com/user/diagonaluk
http://www.youtube.com/user/TopGear
http://www.youtube.com/user/nalts
http://www.youtube.com/user/musickat222



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Section Six by Lisa.



A company reputation index.
http://vanno.com/

Keep your home inventory online.
http://www.knowyourstuff.org/iii/login.html

Moselio Schaechter's blog is about microbiology.
http://schaechter.asmblog.org/

A site all about typewriters.
http://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/

From typewriters to word processors.
http://wordproc.notlong.com

What's that stuff made of?
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/

Something for nothing.
http://www.totallyfreestuff.com/
http://www.activefreestuff.com/
http://www.free-stuff.com/

Strange, odd and unusual places around the world.
http://atlasobscura.com/

This golf site has a YouTube video of
Fred Astaire that's just incredible.
Nice site, too.  Check it out.
http://fredgolf.notlong.com

The global economy, politics and culture.
http://www.theglobalist.com/

Would you like to do one nice thing?
http://doonenicething.com/

The US Government channel on YouTube
has hundreds of interesting videos.
http://www.youtube.com/USGovernment

A reference library about the Earth,
written for the rest of us.
http://www.eoearth.org/



End of Section Six.





The Linux Corner.


Why use Linux?   http://www.cae.wisc.edu/whyuselinux

What's this Linux thing?
http://snipurl.com/k64fp  [www_makeuseof_com]

Why do you use Linux?
http://snipurl.com/k64nu  [www_linuxloop_com]

Why your parents should use Linux.
http://snipurl.com/k64qg  [www_foogazi_com]

Should your business use Linux?
http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit010.html





A Little Humor.


Interview with a vampire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiF0vNHe4vM

Hollywood Squares.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsvBZi5XpEM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1btibrMzTs0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-UBOYXbF9E




Last word, from Lisa:



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