[donspatch] 2005-01-01
- From: "Don at Lightspeed" <guitarman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Don's Patch" <donspatch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 12:38:01 -0600
Don's Patch Issue #2005-01-01 from http://www.don-guitar.com
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. I was off work Christmas
day. I spent the day cooking and enjoying my grandchildren. I hesitate
to call it "wisdom" but it seems to me that, in the end, the simplest things
are always the most precious. Life is good.
Remember, your input is always welcome. I value your suggestions
and comments, and I'm always willing to help you find answers to
your computer and Internet questions.
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A costless HTML editor for Windows.
http://www.flfsoft.com/HTMLBuilder.html
Songwriting resources.
http://www.songwriteruniverse.com/
http://www.writingsongs.com/
http://www.musesmuse.com/
Easy-English web magazine for the world. An EFL/ESL resource.
http://www.soon.org.uk/
Costless goodies from Sorcerer Soft.
http://www.sorcerersoftware.com/page3.htm
Sound portraits. http://www.soundportraits.org/
A sophisticated toy for anyone who creates music with a computer.
http://www.soundplant.org/download.htm
If the words "open source" mean nothing to you, here's where you go
to become educated. http://sourceforge.net/
A directory of cooperatives. http://www.directory.coop
The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive
human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained
by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.
http://www.directory.org
World Wildlife Federation. http://www.panda.org
The Internet Directory of Botany is an index to botanical information
available on the Internet. http://www.botany.net/IDB/
A collection of genuinely commercial music.
http://www.songofthesalesman.co.uk/default.aspx
A terrific recipe resource for anyone who has food allergies.
http://www.allergygrocer.com/id1253.html
American Guild of Organists. http://organweb.com/
The American Musicological Society was founded in 1934 as a non-profit
organization to advance research in the various fields of music as a
branch of learning and scholarship. http://www.ams-net.org/
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Fred Casselman's art. http://www.earthecho.com
I believe in this concept and should have a button on my site for it. I'm
embarrassed to be so far behind on my site work but I won't let that
stop me from listing this fine site. http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/
A site for those who care. http://www.care2.com/
The Cass Corridor is a truly astounding place.
http://www.corridortribe.com/foreword.htm
Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities.
http://www.ccarh.org
Chet Day's recipes and natural health articles. http://chetday.com/
Cohousing is the name of a type of collaborative housing that attempts to
overcome the alienation of modern subdivisions in which no-one knows
their neighbors, and there is no sense of community.
http://www.cohousing.org/home.html
Color Coder is a small SmileWare program (every time you use it, you
have to smile for the rest of the day). It lets you specify colors for all
the standard elements in an HTML document. It also allows you to
specify a background image to be used, and various browser-specific
tags. It's also my personal favorite color tool.
http://www.boolean.ca/coder/
Computing in Musicology is a directory of activities related to the
acquisition, representation, storage, manipulation, and end-uses of
musical information in notation, analysis, documentation, and
sound control. http://www.ccarh.org/publications/books/cm/
Since 1979 Context Institute has been exploring and clarifying the notion
of a humane sustainable culture. http://www.context.org
The Cook's Thesaurus is a cooking encyclopedia that covers thousands
of ingredients and kitchen tools. Entries include pictures, descriptions,
synonyms, pronunciations, and suggested substitutions.
http://www.foodsubs.com/
They call themselves an "online simplicity village".
http://www.countrylife.net/
While "Critical Musicology" isn't an active forum, serious musicians might
find some worthwhile reading here.
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/info/critmus/
and those who feel a need to participate can do so here.
http://www.music.columbia.edu/~curmus/
Since 1990, the David Suzuki Foundation has worked to find ways for
society to live in balance with the natural world that sustains us.
http://www.davidsuzuki.org
Southern gardens. http://georgiaclay.20m.com/
Humorous and/or interesting things relating to the southern U.S.
http://www.gagirl.com/southern/southern.html
Space weather reports. http://www.spaceweather.com/
A superlative email tool for Windows users.
http://www.spammotel.com/spammotel/register.jsp
A mail sorting/classification app. http://www.spampal.org.uk/
This award winning site has some of the best information on the web
for special educators and students to use.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/7315/
Patricia L. Fry's advice on becoming a writer.
http://www.spawn.org/editing/establishingasawriter.htm
One for Spiderman fans. http://smcrawl.nexcess.net/
It's amazing the lengths some folks are willing to go to just to
avoid work. http://www.donsbosspage.com/
A web publication for those who are intensely about security.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/newsletter/
Squigly's playhouse. http://www.squiglysplayhouse.com/
SquirrelMail is an open source, standards-based webmail package.
http://www.squirrelmail.org/
Stars magazine, online. http://www.stars.com/
StarCalc is a costless, fast, professional astronomy planetarium
and star mapping program for Windows.
http://www.relex.ru/~zalex/main.htm
A portal to information on U.S. states. http://www.stateguide.com/
Perhaps the most painless place to obtain, and learn how to use,
OE email stationary. http://www.thundercloud.net/stationery/
Self-help legal information for artists and writers.
http://www.starvingartistslaw.com/
The intention of these pages is to provide a central resource for PC
users and Tech Support staff alike who are concerned about the poor
performance of their PCs due to the number of programs that run at
system start-up. http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php
Stephen Hawking's Universe.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/html/home.html
Stonehenge, stone circles, dolmens, ancient standing stones, cairns,
barrows, hillforts and archaeology of megalithic Europe.
http://www.stonepages.com/
Cross stitch resources. http://www.stitchalley.com/
Wendy's World of Stories for Children.
http://www.wendy.com/children/
Some odd but potentially interesting reading.
http://www.straightdope.com/
A collection of wallpaper images.
http://home.inu.net/branded/scenic/scenic.html
Ecological Society of America. http://www.esa.org/
Ecological construction & design. http://www.web.net/~emg/
EcoVillage of Loudoun County, VA. http://www.ecovillages.com/
Center for the history of music theory and literature.
http://www.music.indiana.edu/chmtl
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
http://www.iep.utm.edu/
The EnviroLink Network provides access to thousands of online
environmental resources. http://www.envirolink.org/
"Ancient" advertising. http://www.ephemeranow.com/
A low fat vegetarian recipe archive. http://www.fatfree.com/
Exploring the idea that we, humanity, are the Earth becoming
aware of itself. http://www.gaiamind.org
Healing the planet? http://www.gaia.org
Global Ecovillage Network. http://gen.ecovillage.org
Green Map System is a global eco-cultural movement, energized by
local knowledge, action and responsibility. http://www.greenmap.com
Recipes, food, cooking recipes, restaurants & more.
http://www.gourmetspot.com/
A recipe and cooking website. http://foodgeeks.com/
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Greenpeace International. http://www.greenpeace.org
Pamela Hodgson's art. http://www.sff.net/people/hodgson/
The American Institute of Musicology supports interest in
Medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque music.
http://www.corpusmusicae.com/
Intentional Community is an inclusive term for ecovillages, cohousing,
residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing
cooperatives and other related projects and dreams. http://www.ic.org/
Ecosystems the world over are suffering from the deliberate or accidental
addition of non-native, "invasive species". Here are a number of sites
which relate to this subject.
http://www.invasivespecies.gov/
http://www.icais.org/
http://www.invasive.org/
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/oa/invasive/invasive.html
http://www.deh.gov.au/biodiversity/invasive/
http://www.eco-pros.com/invasive_non-native_species.htm
http://www.epa.gov/owow/invasive_species/
http://invasives.fws.gov/
http://www.gisp.org/
http://www.hear.org/index.html
http://invasivespecies.nbii.gov/
http://www.issg.org/
http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_environment/invasive_species/index.cfm
http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/research/sis2002/sislistinvsp.htm
http://www.invasivespecies.org/
http://invasivespecies.blogspot.com/
SFF Net is the world's premier site for science fiction, fantasy, horror,
romance, mystery, and young adult fiction. http://www.sff.net/
These pages are admittedly dated (Summer, 1996) but nevertheless
interesting. http://snipurl.com/bmeo
Kosher Information. http://www.kashrut.com/
Iowa City Public Library. http://www.icpl.org/
The illustrations of Jon Hodgson. http://www.jonhodgson.net/
View the artwork of legends, celebrities and the newly discovered.
http://www.lewisbond.com/
The Literature Network. http://www.online-literature.com/
Mothering magazine. http://www.mothering.com/
A music research portal from the National University of Ireland.
http://www.music.ucc.ie/wrrm/
Music history resources. http://www.geocities.com/papandrew
A musicological portal.
http://www.music.princeton.edu/chant_html/musicology.html
Online archives of the Musicological Society of Australia's Journal.
http://www.msa.org.au/ma.htm
The National Audubon Society. http://www.audubon.org
Native Peoples magazine. http://www.nativepeoples.com/
A couple of natural living resources.
http://www.life.ca/home/index.html
http://www.nrdc.org
Who's growing what and where?
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/
The online home of the Organic Crop Improvement Association.
http://www.ocia.org
Organic Gardening magazine. http://www.organicgardening.com
Recipes for old fashioned good foods like your Grandmother used
to cook. http://www.freerecipe.org/index.html
Ottawa peace and environment resource centre. http://perc.ca/
Reuters daily world environment news. http://www.planetark.org
Global journal of practical ecotourism. http://www.planeta.com/
Peace, environment, sustainable living. http://www.planetfriendly.net/
More musicology reading. http://www.popular-musicology-online.com/
A south African journal of musicology.
http://www.und.ac.za/und/samus/
Poems by Ralph Hodgson (1917).
http://www.geocities.com/~bblair/hodgson_poems_title.htm
Royal botanical gardens. http://www.rbg.ca
My two favorite clowns are Emmett Kelly and Red Skelton.
http://www.emmettkellymuseum.com/
http://www.hollywoodlegends.com/emmett-kelly.html
http://www.2camels.com/festival109.php3
http://www.clown-ministry.com/History/red-skelton-biography.html
http://starbulletin.com/97/09/17/news/story1.html
http://www.redskelton.com/
A great place to learn about famous clowns.
http://www.clown-ministry.com/
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A random selection of costless apps.
http://www.hnm-freeware.com/
http://ronbrandon.com/lukeminnie/email_cleaner.htm
http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/
http://www.programmigratis.com/download/!EbooksWriterFREE-e.exe
http://www.equi4.com/catfish.html
http://home.att.net/~jdswanson/ejail/ej-main.htm
http://www.ethereal.com/
http://www.epsilonsquared.com/
http://georgedillon.com/web/freeware.shtml
http://www.sureshotsoftware.com/products.html
http://ibrowser.fcodersoft.com/
http://home.pacbell.net/michal_k/
http://www.sundaysw.com/
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~scef/tft.html (really good one)
http://www.studiobuddy.com/
Street photography, a learning experience.
http://www.skylightweb.com/imagine/
Los Angeles in images.
http://www.skylightweb.com/losangeles/
This site offers price comparisons.
http://www.streetprices.com/
I've no experience with, thus cannot recommend, streetprices but
I have used pricewatch and been very pleased with the results.
http://www.pricewatch.com
A couple of wallpaper images from Thomas Streiff.
http://www.streiff-is.com/freemisc.htm
Streetmaps in the UK. http://www.streetmap.co.uk/
Playing in the streets. http://streetplay.com/
How to wire your own home network, video and telephone.
http://www.swhowto.com/
Sundials. http://cpcug.org/user/jaubert/jsundial.html
Sunnie Buniezz are tale telling bunnies who promote the fine art of
story telling through poetry, puppetry, clowning, magic, holiday
celebrations and educational puzzles and activities.
http://www.sunniebunniezz.com/
A seventies rock site that might have some interesting content.
http://www.superseventies.com/
Superhero Hype. http://www.superherohype.com/
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Gernot Katzer's herb and spice information pages.
http://www.lvevalu.kfunigraz.ac.at/~katzer/engl/
The Seattle Press online. http://www.seattlepressonline.com/
Connecting citizens with the resources they need to implement
innovative processes and programs to restore the economic,
environmental, and social health and vitality of their communities.
http://www.sustainable.org/
Sven Tore's site. http://www.sventore.com/index.php
Their parents left San Francisco 30 years ago to build a utopia in rural
Tennessee. Now some of the products of that grand experiment,
their children, have come back. http://www.thefarm.org
If feeling like you're not a native of this planet is merely an occasional
malady then you're relatively normal, but if it's a chronic condition,
you'll find some folks with whom you can commiserate here.
http://www.sheek.com/wanderersforum/
An online newsletter with over 300 pages of author and book information
for readers and how-to information for writers of genre fiction.
http://www.writepage.com/
Urban Cartography is a collaborative weblog (i.e., anyone can contribute,
and they hope you will) dedicated to covering cartography and related
subjects: urban planning, land use, imaging, GIS technology, urban
studies and anything else that fits under the umbrella.
http://www.urbancartography.com/
a collaborative (blog) focused on retail and urbanism with an emphasis
on Wal-Mart. http://www.theboxtank.com/
A collection of science, technology and computer cartoons.
http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/comm/staff/zakour/cc/cc_list.html
Vegetarians in Paradise is an internet magazine from Los Angeles.
http://www.vegparadise.com/
WhaleNet's interactive educational web site which focuses on
whales and marine research.
http://whale.wheelock.edu/Welcome.html
An ecovillage in conjunction with a biodynamic farm.
http://www.wholevillage.org
This seems to be a huge collection of poems, some of which
have comments attached.
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/
For serious electronic music and/or keyboard players.
http://www.synthzone.com/
Symphonic Contact is a great personal information manager
designed for ease of use and for the "average" person's needs.
http://www.symphonicsoftware.com/symsoft/sc.htm
A few Windows goodies from Sysinternals.
http://www.sysinternals.com/win9x/98utilities.shtml
Systematics of the Metazoa
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/phyla/metazoasy.html
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Emily Skinner's mostly vegetarian recipe archive.
http://www.emilyskinner.com/food/index.html
Healthy recipes. http://www.healthrecipes.com
Arch "kid" ology is for kids and teachers.
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/archaeology/second/kids/kids.html
Chaco Canyon was the center of Anasazi civilization.
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/collapse/chacocanyon.html
Archaeologist Stuart Piggott called his occupation "the
science of rubbish".
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/collapse/garbageology.html
Tutorials and resources for Gimp users. http://gimp-savvy.com
Note: The Gimp is an incredibly powerful, open source, image
manipulation application.
Ology is a fun site created by the American Museum of Natural
History. http://ology.amnh.org/
A site full of learning resources. http://www.learninghaven.com/
Online archives of scholarly journals. http://www.jstor.org/
Words Hub is a growing collection of online interactive English
vocabulary lessons for middle school and high school students.
http://wordshub.com
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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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Here's some interesting answering machine messages.
Hi. This is John: If you are the phone company, I already sent the
money. If you are my parents, please send money. If you are my
financial aid institution, you didn't lend me enough money. If you
are my friends, you owe me money. If you are a female, don't
worry, I have plenty of money.
Hi. Now you say something.
Hi, I'm not home right now, but my answering machine is, so you
can talk to it instead. Wait for the beep.
Hello. I am John's answering machine. What are you?
Hi, John's answering machine is broken. This is his refrigerator.
Please speak very slowly, and I'll stick your message to myself
with one of these magnets.
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Here are a couple of sites for aficionados of "vintage" computers.
http://www.club100.org/index.html (Tandy computers)
http://www.myatari.net/ (Atari computers)
The tips page of a computer club in California.
http://www.scr-cc.com/pages/tips.htm
An Outlook Express tip from the Senior Citizens Club of
Berri, South Australia. http://snipurl.com/bp4x
From the computer club of Cayucos, California,
tips on AOL email:
http://www.cayucos.org/computerclub/aolemail.html
Search Engines:
http://www.cayucos.org/computerclub/searchengines.html
Shopping:
http://www.cayucos.org/computerclub/shopping.html
Downloading:
http://www.cayucos.org/computerclub/download.html
File management in Windows:
http://www.cayucos.org/computerclub/filemgmt.html
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This is the last day of 2004. In less than 12 hours (as
I write this) another year will begin. We'll all have one
more birthday and yet another chance to honor whatever
new years resolutions we've made. I try not to make too
many resolutions so as to minimize the embarrassment
of being unable to keep them. I wish you all a happy and
prosperous new year.
Don Crowder - Friday, December 31, 2004
12:25 AM CST - Tow, TX, USA
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A bit of advice from Internet veteran Bayard J. Fox:
New computer users are often in awe of the things you can get without
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"throw away" email address to register, and be constantly on guard
against giving away personal information. Use a firewall, and provide
only the barest minimum of information on questionnaires.
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