[donspatch] 2004-09-15
- From: "Don at Lightspeed" <guitarman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Don's Patch" <donspatch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 02:16:29 -0500
Don's Patch Issue #2004-07-01 from http://www.don-guitar.com
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work. I think it will become easier as time goes by but right now
it's taking most of my energy and resources just to hang in there.
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I have very little time to work on it but, for the moment, I have no
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A virtual exploration of the universe.
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
Website toys and some fonts.
http://www.fontsnthings.com/original/original.shtml
As always, life is about people. http://www.globalexchange.org/
Global issues that affect everyone. http://www.globalissues.org/
Adventurous explorations. http://www.goals.com/Index.htm
Another cool toy for serious googlers.
http://toolbar.google.com/deskbar/index.html
Being what it is, Google has inspired some passionate
commentaries. some of them seem to be fairly biased
http://www.google-watch.org/
but input from the fringe always has it's own critical observers
http://www.google-watch-watch.org/
For me, the nice thing about extremism is that it's easy to spot
and ignore. I don't believe that any source of information is truly
unbiased, despite claims to the contrary.
http://www.watchinggooglelikeahawk.com/
but I can accept the notion that some information sources don't
have actively negative agendas. http://news.google.com/
I like these folks. I think you will too.
http://www.greeneclipsesoftware.com/index.html
Hackers, outlaws and angels. http://snipurl.com/92av
Homeschooling adventures on the web.
http://www.homeschoolingadventures.com/
Red Hat: Not Linux, for ladies only, and very cool.
http://www.hotflash.org/
HTML and CSS learning resource. http://www.htmldog.com/
Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn: Text, illustrations, and early reviews.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/twain/huckfinn.html
Recipes and more from ConAgra's Hunt's site.
http://www.hunts.com/index.jsp
I don't know who Hutch is, but his site is cool and his little editor,
named "The Gun", is the smallest I've ever seen.
http://www.movsd.com/index.htm
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The Internet is an enormous collection of answers. The challenge is
to find them. http://homepage.mac.com/cohora/ext/internethunts.html
Whether you love him, or hate him, nobody in the world has done more
for wildlife than Jack Hanna. http://www.jackhanna.com/
Some interesting apps. http://www.kt2k.com/software.php
Web standards software and learning.
http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/css_tutorial/index.html
TV theme music from Lee Goldberg.
http://www.lgoldberg.com/leegoldbergthemes.htm
An extensive computer tech information resource and forum.
http://www.lostcircuits.com
Miss Maggie's Earth Adventures. http://www.missmaggie.org/
A multi-platform email client. http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/
Goodies from Markus Welz.
http://www.markuswelz.de/freeware/index.html
Learn about some interesting Biome's and Ecosystems.
http://mbgnet.mobot.org/
Two of my favorite words in English are "let's eat".
http://www.mealtime.org/
http://www.woolfit.com/index.html
Med Help International is dedicated to helping patients find the
highest quality medical information in the world today.
http://www.medhelp.org/
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Mihov Background Tester is a program used to test different
images and see how they would look as a tiled background.
http://www.mihov.com/eng/bt.html
I don't care for bloated instant message apps that are filled with
features I don't use (like ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, or AIM) so I was
happy to discover Easy Message.
http://www.easymessage.net
When Easy Message developed some minor problems on one of
my computers I found Miranda to be an acceptable, if not perfect,
substitute. http://miranda-im.org/
A site for mother's on the web. http://www.momsview.com/
Natural family living. http://www.mothering.com/
Today's Parent. http://www.todaysparent.com/
A couple of apps from Moonlight Software.
http://www.moonlight-software.com/freeware.htm
Helpful, geekspeak-free publications. http://www.mrmodem.com/
Who's up for a treasure hunt? http://www.museummania.com/
Alex Boese's museum of hoaxes. http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/
This looks to me like a sort of online social club with blogging thrown in.
http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm
Resources for indigenous cultures around the world.
http://www.nativeweb.org/
Neko for Windows is a little white cat who runs around on the
desktop and chases the mouse cursor.
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/4173/neko.html
Kids resources from the U.S. National Gallery of Art.
http://www.nga.gov/kids/
An obituary database. http://www.obitcentral.com/
Eric Miller's user tips for Outlook Express.
http://www.okinfoweb.com/moe/
Official site of the UK Parliament. http://www.parliament.uk/
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A few costless goodies.
http://www.learnxgroup.com/software/other_freeware.html
Some interesting screensavers. http://www.pegtop.de/screensaver/
Philosophy for young people aged seven to eleven.
http://www.portables2.ngfl.gov.uk/pmpercival/philosophy/
Mundane inanity or brilliant art from an inspiring young person?
I decline to define. Decide for yourself.
http://www.photoadventures.net/
PictureDicer is a costless tool that chops any image file into
several smaller images, suitable for creating mouseover effects
and pseudo-imagemaps on Web pages. It also generates the HTML
for a table to contain the partial images and display them so they
appear as the original uncut image.
http://www.ziplink.net/~shoestring/dicer01.htm
Picture-shark is for people who want to "stamp" visible logos or text
onto images. http://www.pictureshark.com/
Postcolonial Studies. http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Intro.html
I can't judge this one. It's odd, but interesting.
http://www.projectcensored.org/
I've never heard of Bob McDonald or "Quirks & Quarks", but it looks
very interesting. http://radio.cbc.ca/programs/quirks/archives.htm
History student resource center from Houghton-Mifflin.
http://college.hmco.com/history/resources/students/index.html
apps from RJL software. http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software.shtml
I grew up with these guys. I miss Boris and Natasha. How about you?
http://www.rockyandbullwinkle.com/
This small app presents some unusual tools to help in the design of
forms, web pages, presentations and other visual materials.
http://personales.conexion.com.py/sgrillo/
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Topic, "Scavenger Hunts".
http://www.spa3.k12.sc.us/Scavenger.html
http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/shunts.htm
http://www.techtrekers.com/scav.htm
Adventures in Science and Technology.
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/science/
Science Frontiers, the unusual & unexplained.
http://www.science-frontiers.com/index.htm
The Adventures of Science Bob. http://www.sciencebob.com/
Scientific American, online. http://www.sciam.com/
A Sci-Phi Pilot is one who explores the realm between the
precarious heights of philosophy and the cold, hard reality
of science below. http://home.cogeco.ca/~sci-phi-pilot/
The Screen Calipers are a unique on-screen measurement
tool, similar to a screen ruler.
http://www.iconico.com/caliper/index.aspx
An informational resource on home computer security.
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/default.mspx
Security Watch.
http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,1738,12,00.asp
Stories about cities. http://citystories.com/
San Francisco stories. http://www.sfstories.com/
Sitepoint (web developer's resource). http://www.sitepoint.com/
Web experiments gone horribly awry. http://slayeroffice.com/
A tech support and info site. http://www.smartcomputing.com
An online encyclopedia. http://www.smartpedia.com/
Adventures in South America.
http://www.fluid7.demon.co.uk/adventures/home.htm
Spiderman from an educational perspective.
http://www.ed.gov/inits/americareads/spidey/index.html
Me, I hate sports, but I realize that I'm in the minority.
http://www.tothenextlevel.org/
Have you ever needed to crop an image and make it
perfectly square?
http://www.trivista.com/products/asquareimage/
Digital Images from TriVista.
http://www.trivista.com/freepics/
An interesting informational site. http://www.straightdope.com/
A tool for web site owners.
http://www.nuetools.co.uk/stripfile.html
This one seems harsh and a little callous in places.
http://stupidguesttricks.com/
Sun Sounds is dedicated to providing audio access to
information and knowledge normally published in a
printed format. http://www.sunsounds.org/
Susan Shelley is an outspoken woman with something
to say. http://www.extremeink.com/susan/page1.htm
This tech support site is run by volunteers and paid for
by donations and sponsors. http://www.helponthe.net/
TeenHealthFX.com is your online resource for any and all
questions regarding your health, your relationships, your
body and your sexuality. http://www.teenhealthfx.com/
The Internet Archive of Texts and Documents is a creation
of faculty and students in the History Department of Hanover
College. http://history.hanover.edu/texts.html
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A great place to ask, or answer, questions.
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/
You'll like this site if you like crossword puzzles but you don't
have an hour, and you don't have any reference books, and
there's no one around to help you think of a nine-letter word
for abstruse.
http://www.argushamilton.com/tidbits/tidframe.htm
Tim's badly drawn cat web site.
http://www.tiddles.co.uk/
The tiger information center. http://www.5tigers.org/
This is a large religious web site which promotes religious
freedom, tolerance and diversity as positive cultural values.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/
An interesting news site. http://www.topix.net/
Over 2,000 travel articles by over 200 writers.
http://www.travellady.com/
This site is worthy of exploration by students of all ages.
http://www.cyberbee.com/
Don't waste time shopping for the perfect t-shirt when you
can design and create your own.
http://www.hanes2u.com/software/lite/lite_download.htm
TWN (Third World Network) Africa. http://twnafrica.org/
An interesting game app. http://uwadv.sourceforge.net/
Museum of Unnatural Mystery (could be just a little "over
the edge"). http://www.unmuseum.org/
Rare and unusual tools.
http://www.toolbazaar.co.uk/gallery/tbgallery.htm
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Websites Everyone Should Know About
These aren't sponsors, they're the best of
Internet publications and I highly recommend
them all.
http://askTCL.com
http://www.langa.com
http://www.tourbus.com
http://www.lockergnome.com
http://www.neatnettricks.com
http://www.scotsnewsletter.com
http://www.tricksandtrinkets.com
http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html
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Each of these websites offer a product, or service,
that's "costless" for personal use.
http://www.accessmanager.co.uk/
http://www.free-av.com/
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/
http://www.hilgraeve.com/htpe/
http://www.iespell.com/
http://www.kerio.com/us/kpf_home.html
http://snipurl.com/92ug
http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/
http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html
http://www.photofiltre.com/
http://www.intravnews.com/
http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
http://www.we-blocker.com/
http://wordweb.info/free/
http://www.authora.com/ZenditIndividuals.asp
http://snipurl.com/92ui
http://snipurl.com/6mzv
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"A human being should be able to change a diaper,
plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design
a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a
wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give
orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze
a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer,
cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently and die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects." -- Robert A. Heinlein
The tragedy of Canada is they could have had British
culture, French cooking, and American technology,
but instead they got American culture, British
cooking, and French technology.
ecnalubma (ek na lub' ma) n. A rescue vehicle
which can only be seen in the rearview mirror.
Musicians Humor (Part 2 of 5):
Q: Why do clarinetists leave their cases on the dashboard?
A: So they can park in the handicapped zones.
Q: What's the difference between an opera singer and a pit bull?
A: Lipstick.
Q: Why do people play trombone?
A: Because they can't move their fingers and read music at the
same time.
Q: How does a violist's brain cell die?
A: Alone.
Q: What do you call a guitar player that only knows two chords?
A: A music critic.
Q: How do you keep your violin from being stolen?
A: Put it in a viola case.
Q: What's the difference between a saxophone and a chainsaw?
A: You can tune a chainsaw.
Q: What will you never say about a banjo player?
A: "That's the banjo player's Porsche."
Q: What do a viola and a lawsuit have in common?
A: Everyone is relieved when the case is closed.
Q: Why are harps like elderly parents?
A: Both are unforgiving and hard to get into and out of cars.
Q: How many trumpet players does it take to pave a driveway?
A: Seven - if you lay them out correctly.
Q: What's the difference between an oboe and a bassoon?
A: You can hit a baseball further with a bassoon.
Q: How are a banjo player and a blind javelin thrower alike?
A: Both command immediate attention, alarm, and force
everyone to move out of range.
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I haven't taken the extra time required to present links
contributed by readers in this issue but they'll appear
eventually, when I have time to work on them.
See you next time.
Don Crowder - Wednesday, September 15, 2004
2:10 AM CST - Tow, TX, USA
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