Don's Patch Issue #2005-06-01 from http://www.don-guitar.com Anyone who actually pays any attention to my subscriber count will notice that it went down a little for this issue but I have no fewer readers. I've been unable to figure out how to persuade freelist's automated list handling system to delete addresses which have gone bad (i.e. which bounce every time and come back with a "no such address" message attached). Each time I post the ezine freelists forwards all the bounce messages and I save them as text files. A few days ago I went through them, sorted out the "for sure" bad addresses and manually deleted them all from the list. I like the fact that my subscriber base is slowly growing even though I've done nothing at all to promote this publication. I'm neither a promoter nor a marketer, I'm a geek, and this publication is about my love of the web which has changed my life in so many ways. 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. My feedback form: http://www.don-guitar.com/contactme.html ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª Iowa Department for the Blind. http://www.blind.state.ia.us/index.htm Project Gutenberg (lotsa books). http://www.gutenberg.org/ American Battle Monuments Commission. http://www.abmc.gov/ Journal of the American Chemical Society. http://pubs.acs.org/journals/jacsat/ The American Revolution. http://revolution.h-net.msu.edu/ Good deal? I don't know, but here's a way to get online with a blog, develop an online community or share files online. http://apcala.com/ SPIRO is the visual online public access catalog to the 35mm slide collection of the Architecture Visual Resources Library (AVRL) at the University of California at Berkeley. http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/query_forms/browse_spiro_form.html The Small-Scale Experimental Machine, known as SSEM, or the "Baby", was designed and built at The University of Manchester, and made its first successful run of a program on June 21st 1948. http://www.computer50.org/ The Journal of Bacteriology. http://jb.asm.org/ A nice collection of educational resources for young people from the BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ The Biochemical Journal. http://www.biochemj.org/ The Journal of Biological Chemistry. http://www.jbc.org/ The Biophysical Journal. http://www.biophysj.org/ "California as I Saw It:" First-person narratives of California's early years, 1849-1900. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbhome.html The world famous Cannes Film Festival. http://www.festival-cannes.fr/ This kids site comes from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. http://www.cbc.ca/kids/ The Journal of Cell Biology. http://www.jcb.org/ The Journal of Chemical Education. http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/ The Journal of Clinical Investigation. http://www.jci.org/ A color palette tool. http://slayeroffice.com/tools/color_palette/ The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics. http://www.combinatorics.org/ D-Lib Magazine is a solely electronic publication with a primary focus on digital library research and development. http://www.dlib.org/dlib.html This site offers Labor Law forums and a fairly extensive dictionary and encyclopedia as well as medical, legal, computer and science information. http://www.laborlawtalk.com/ Serendip is a gathering place for people who suspect that life's instructions are always ambiguous and incomplete. http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/ The American Journal of Epidemiology. http://aje.oupjournals.org/ The Journal of Experimental Medicine. http://www.jem.org/ Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. http://www.fasebj.org/ Journal of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies. http://content.febsjournal.org/ The Journal of General Physiology. http://www.jgp.org/ Much of the Getty museum is viewable online. http://www.getty.edu/art/ Golf Online (magazine). http://www.golfonline.com/golfonline/ A site that remembers Taxi (American TV show). http://www.andrew.gribble.com/taxi/index.htm ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª This publication is only mailed to verified double opt-in subscribers, and is brought to you by me, Don Crowder, and //www.freelists.org ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª A trendy game from the Organic Trade Association. http://www.storewars.org/flash/index.html An online gaming site. http://www.miniclip.com/Homepage.htm Don't look at these sites if you have a weak stomach for worms or intense human misery. http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~parasite/dracunculus.html http://www.cartercenter.org/healthprograms/program1.htm http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/africa/worm23.shtml The History Channel has an enormous collection of speeches and they present a different one every day which you can read about or listen to if you prefer. http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/ Actors who became soldiers. http://www.heroeswest.com/page6.htm More to see on the main site. http://www.heroeswest.com/index.htm HobbySpace seeks to show that everyone can participate in space exploration and development in one way or another. http://www.hobbyspace.com/index.html This one's a little odd but worth exploring. http://users.aber.ac.uk/skw3/ A pair of political sites that may be of interest to UK residents. http://www.whoshouldyouvotefor.com/ http://www.ivotedforyoubecause.com/ In the last issue I asked about the origin of the word "chick" used to refer to a young woman. My own thought was that it might be based on the Yiddish work "shiksa". Ken, a reader from San Francisco, suggested I pose my question to Michael Quinion. http://www.worldwidewords.org/ I did so (thanks Ken) and Michael responded: "Alas, no. It's the same word as that for a young chicken." While awaiting Michael's reply, I did some research on commonly used Yiddish and/or Hebrew words. http://www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/Yiddish/English/yiddish.html http://www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/Yiddish/English/comwor.html http://www.juf.org/jewish_identity/ji_gloss.asp http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2002/yiddish/words.html http://www.messianicassociation.org/yiddish.htm http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/dict.txt Curiosity about Yiddish words evolved into wondering about words in general. Each of the following sites has one thing or another to do with (mostly) English words. http://www.wordsmith.org/ http://www.allwords.com/ http://www.americandialect.org/index.php http://www.netrover.com/~jjrose/dolch/intro.html http://www.lssu.edu/banished/ http://www.bloodywords.com/ http://www.krysstal.com/borrow.html http://www.botany.com/index.16.htm http://www.eclipse.net/~srudy/flw/ http://www.centerfornewwords.org/ http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/300/ktaylor/kaboom/Kaboomhome.htm http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=14457200288064322170 http://www.pnl.gov/ag/usage/confuse.html http://www.confusingwords.com/ http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/ http://www.corsinet.com/braincandy/dying.html http://www.wordfocus.com/ http://www.westegg.com/etymology/ http://web.mit.edu/randy/www/words.html http://www.pbs.org/wnet/foolingwithwords/ http://www.miniclip.com/fowlwords.htm http://www.freewords.org/dir.html http://uark.edu/~dbruce/list.html http://www.fun-with-words.com/ http://rinkworks.com/words/ http://www.funbrain.com/words.html http://www.goldenwords.net/ (parental guidance) http://www.investorwords.com/ http://www.idlewords.com/ (a blog) http://www.sil.org/~radneyr/humanities/ http://www.wow4u.com/ http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/6537/ http://www.planecrashinfo.com/lastwords.htm http://users.erols.com/whitaker/words.htm http://www.kith.org/logos/words/words.html http://www.kokogiak.com/logolepsy/ http://www.themagicwords.com/ http://members.aol.com/jeff570/mathword.html http://kidshealth.org/kid/word/ http://www.m-w.com/ http://www.netlingo.com/ http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ling215/NewWords/ http://www.onelook.com/ http://owl.english.purdue.edu/index.html http://www.aniota.com/~jwhite/words.html http://www.rightwords.co.nz/backnews.html http://www.rhymezone.com/ http://users.ox.ac.uk/~diab0011/ignore.html http://www.riverofwords.org/ http://www.bartleby.com/110/ http://www.freevocabulary.com/ http://www.sentex.net/~mmcadams/spelling.html http://thesaurus.reference.com/ http://tinywords.com/ http://www3.bc.sympatico.ca/teachwell/ http://www.100words.net/front.cfm http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/ http://www.witwords.com/ http://www.wordspy.com/ http://www.wordcentral.com/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/index.shtml http://www.wordscanheal.org/ http://www.arts.ouc.bc.ca/fiar/glossary/gloshome.html http://powerwords.tribe.net/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/words/ http://www.yourdictionary.com/ http://www.blueray.com/dictionary/ http://library.thinkquest.org/J0111282/ http://www.funbrain.com/roots/ http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Moby/ http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~cybers/home.html http://www.pseudodictionary.com/ http://www.birminghamwords.co.uk/ http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/al.html http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/englatin.htm http://www.friesian.com/cognates.htm http://www.xlation.com/ http://www.netministries.org/bbasics/bbwords.htm http://www.tekmom.com/buzzwords/ http://www.vocabulary.com/index.html http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rmutt/dictionary/NoMoreWords.html http://www.1000words.net/ http://phrontistery.info/ http://www.wordexplorations.com/ http://netsquirrel.com/crispen/word.html http://www.manythings.org/sw/ http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/gowerse/complete/ http://aidshistory.nih.gov/ http://www.quia.com/mc/1527.html http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3fs8i/hist/hist.html http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html http://www.stanford.edu/~segerman/autological.html http://home.comcast.net/~igpl/Number_Words.html http://www.business-words.com/dictionary/ http://www.dailypowerwords.com/ http://www.yuni.com/ http://www.pballew.net/etyindex.html http://www.wordorigins.org/ http://www.langmaker.com/conlangs.htm http://www.wordplays.com/p/index http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/quiz/cw1.html http://thinks.com/words/ http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/plague.htm http://rinkworks.com/words/oddities.shtml http://germanenglishwords.com/ http://www.princeton.edu/~browning/snow.html http://www.zompist.com/indianwd.html http://home.swipnet.se/edersoft/rqwords.html http://www.channel4.com/learning/microsites/W/waywithwords/ ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª At the time this issue was posted, the current subscriber count for this publication was 281. ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª This issue's collection of news/magazine/informational sites (these are chosen for maximum diversity regardless of "spin" ). http://www.acfnewsource.org/index.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/index.shtml http://canadagazette.gc.ca/index-e.html http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/homepage.cws_home http://www.guardian.co.uk/ http://j-walkblog.com/ http://www.marinij.com/ http://www.michaelmoore.com/ http://ncronline.org/ http://www.theonion.com/ http://www.iwantmedia.com/ http://www.rferl.org/ http://www.straightdope.com/index.html http://www.strangewords.com/ ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª Hummingbirds. http://portalproductions.com/h/ "Nueva Jorka" (*grin*). http://www.iloveny.state.ny.us/ Some kids stuff from scholastic.com. http://www.scholastic.com/ispy/ "I, Cringely" is a collaborative effort between Robert X. Cringely, PBS Online and Oregon Public Broadcasting. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/ Slavery still exists in our world and there are still those who chose to oppose it. http://www.iabolish.com/ The Internet Content Rating Association. http://www.icra.org/ iEarn is the world's largest non-profit global network that enables young people to use the Internet and other new technologies to engage in collaborative educational projects that both enhance learning and make a difference in the world. http://www.iearn.org/ I Hear America Singing: Music, theater and dance collections from the U.S. Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/rr/perform/ihas/ihashome.html This is a commercial illustrators site but they do have viewable galleries online. http://www.theispot.com/ ImageJ is a graphics editor written in Java which, consequently, runs on Linux, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X and Windows. http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/index.html The Journal of Immunology. http://www.jimmunol.org/ A website that wants your photos of badly dressed people. http://inappropriatelydressed.com/ Displaying the individual-i emblem on your website simply means that you agree with the notion. You don't have to join a web ring, register, or even provide a link back to their website. http://www.individual-i.com/ The Institute for Justice claims to be "Litigating for Liberty". http://www.ij.org/ Information on Internet Cookies. http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/i-034.shtml i-play, mobile gaming. http://www.iplay.com/country.do Can the web be made safer for young people? http://www.isafe.org/ An extensive guide to the UK. http://www.i-uk.com/ Magazine and web portal for women. http://www.ivillage.com/ Want to become a computer programmer? http://www.jsoftware.com/ This J. S. Bach site was created and is maintained by Jan Hanford (North America) and Jan Koster (Europe). http://www.jsbach.org/ The Official Jethro Tull website. http://www.j-tull.com/ J-Pilot is a desktop organizer application for PalmOS devices. http://www.jpilot.org/ J-Track permits you to quickly and easily keep track of your favorite earth-orbiting objects. http://science.nasa.gov/Realtime/JTrack/ Information and analysis on health care coverage and access for the low-income population. http://www.kff.org/ The official website of composer Lalo Schifrin. http://www.schifrin.com/ A thesaurus of over 6,300 terms for indexing visual materials. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm1/ Linux Journal is original monthly magazine of the Linux community. http://www.linuxjournal.com/ The Journal of Mathematical Physics. http://jmp.aip.org/ eBooks for your PDA. http://manybooks.net/ Marxists Internet Archive. http://www.marxists.org/ An online Medieval and Classical Library. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/ NeoOffice is the main development project for making OpenOffice.org to run natively on MacOS X. http://www.neooffice.org/ The New England Journal of Medicine. http://content.nejm.org/ ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª If you'd like to help promote this non-commercial publication, please forward this ezine to anyone you know who might appreciate it. 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If you've received this publication as a forward and wish to subscribe you may easily do so from online forms in these two locations: http://www.don-guitar.com/subsmanager.html //www.freelists.org/list/donspatch ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª A collection of lessons for K through 12 students. http://illuminations.nctm.org/index.aspx The Journal of Neurophysiology. http://jn.physiology.org/ The Journal of Neuroscience. http://www.jneurosci.org/ The New Yorker (magazine). http://www.newyorker.com/main/magazine/ News is (without-cost). http://www.newsisfree.com/ Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. http://www.ohchr.org/english/ The Journal of Organic Chemistry. http://pubs.acs.org/journals/joceah/ A collection of everything regarding the City of Light. http://www.paris.org/ VW Magazine. http://www.performancevwmag.com/forum/default.asp Peter Duesberg's HIV/AIDS research web site. http://www.duesberg.com/ Journal of Physics A. http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/JPhysA Pick a Number (educational game from the BBC). http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/megamaths/picknumber/ One of our world's problems may be the fact that there are simply too many weapons available to anyone who's feeling surly. http://www.armscontrol.org/ http://www.basicint.org/index.htm http://www.armscontrolcenter.org/ http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/international/background.html http://www.state.gov/t/pm/rls/fs/2001/3767.htm http://www.eurasianet.org/index.shtml http://www.iansa.org/ http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0709-03.htm http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines01/0717-05.htm http://legacystory.apps.em.doe.gov/index.asp http://www.pacificnews.org/jinn/stories/2.14/960710-arms.html http://www.mint.gov.my/policy/site_index.htm http://www.nci.org/ http://www.nisat.org/ http://www.npec-web.org/ http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Home.html http://hrw.org/press/2001/10/arms-eu-ltr1019.htm http://www.uga.edu/cits/documents/html/surplus_arms_paradox.htm http://www.npec-web.org/presentations/4-12-00GAC-testimony.htm http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/arms/small_arms/section03-en.asp http://www.russian-mosin-nagant.com/index.html http://www.trltd.com/index.php http://www.world-nuclear.org/sym/subindex.htm http://www.sgpproject.org/index.html http://snipurl.com/f8sp http://snipurl.com/f8sq What if you could turn off any television set you encountered? http://www.tvbgone.com/home.php http://www.whitedot.org/issue/iss_front.asp http://www.tvturnoff.org/ A few PSP tutorials from Lisa. http://www.graphicallusions.com/tutorials/index.html http://www.fluffykitten.net/~aliper/ http://www.putertutor.net/paint/psp8.htm This one may be unavailable due to having reached it's bandwidth limit but it may be worth saving so as to check back later. http://www.essexgirl.uk.com/index.shtml We don't watch television but we did finally buy a TV set, VCR, and DVD player so we could watch an occasional movie and we've been thinking of looking into renting movies via subscription. http://www.netflix.com/ http://www.blockbuster.com/ This site also looked interesting. http://www.hackingnetflix.com/netflix/ ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª My feedback form: http://www.don-guitar.com/contactme.html I welcome all comments, suggestions, or criticism. 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If you know of a website that would be a good candidate for this ezine, please pass it on via our online feedback form (link above). ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª Add a "tag line" to every email you send. http://home.wanadoo.nl/jeroen/software.html "Pick Me" is a bandwidth sharing portal. http://www.pick-me.net/ An interesting gaming site. http://www.ioe.ac.uk/playground/games.htm A resource for working or aspiring journalists. http://www.poynter.org/default.asp "Presidential Inaugurations" from the LOC. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pihtml/pihome.html A disquieting experiment. http://www.prisonexp.org/slide-1.htm Public Library of Science. http://www.plos.org/ An anti-bureaucracy resource. http://www.pushback.com/ Nuclear chemistry resource portal. http://www.radiochemistry.org/ Charles Templeton's Ragtime music collection. http://library.msstate.edu/ragtime/ Ramesses I: The Search for the Lost Pharaoh. http://carlos.emory.edu/RAMESSES/ This online tool will create a palette of all the colors uses in any specified website's design. http://www.redalt.com/Tools/ilyc.php SF author, Robert J. Sawyer. http://www.sfwriter.com/ Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center. http://www.rbhayes.org/ The Hubble space telescope is scheduled for retirement. There are those who oppose the notion. http://savehubble.org/ "Metacrawlers and Metasearch Engines" An article by Chris Sherman. http://searchenginewatch.com/links/article.php/2156241 A brief study of sound and space. http://www.planetary.org/sounds/different.html http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/sounds/sounds.htm http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_031103.html http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/impact/vos/links_earth.html http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~dag/sounds2.html http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/space-audio/ http://www.spaceweathersounds.com/ http://www.spacesounds.com/home/index.html http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/features/halloween_sounds.html http://www.visitwimberley.com/sky/spacesounds.shtml ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª Archives for this ezine are available online here: //www.freelists.org/archives/donspatch/ The current issue is also available on my website. http://www.don-guitar.com/currentissue.html ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª An index to resources for shyness. http://www.shyness.com/ If you're very interested in the look of things on your computer, this site should interest you. http://www.skinnables.org/index.php Movie/TV slip-ups and bloopers. http://www.slipups.com/ A resource for educators interested in working online. http://www.sloan-c.org/ This site is dedicated to the heroic explorers of our polar regions and the surrounding islands. http://www.south-pole.com/ Serious vegans. http://www.soystache.com/ Ever wonder how the undesirable got your address? http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml For more information on the same general subject, click on the fifth item listed on the menu shown on the left side of this page. http://www.paulgraham.com/ According to the author, this site offers "really fun scientific and technical projects that are easy to build and informative". http://home.earthlink.net/~lenyr/index.html "Specification for a Standard Humanoid" http://www.h-anim.org/Specifications/H-Anim1.1/ Strange but interesting. http://www.spirithistory.com/index.html Amateur photographer information. http://www.srphotography.co.uk/srpinfo.html With forums as well. http://www.srphotography.co.uk/srphotography-forum/ The artwork on this site is interesting but some of it is intense and may even be offensive. http://www.stencilrevolution.com/homepage.php Stitches. http://stitches.com/ Structural Science. http://journals.iucr.org/b/journalhomepage.html Take an IT test. http://studynotes.net/ A few fonts from Su Lucas. http://www.sulucas.net/introduction.htm The Susan B. 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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 ============== Humor ============= I've been very happily married for just over a month now so I know it's a "doable" thing but I know it isn't an easy thing to accomplish and there are cynics everywhere. http://www.robinsweb.com/humor/husbandmart.html ============== Tips =============== For Windows fans. http://www.winsupersite.com/ ======== Reader Contributions ========= From John Lepse: Mental Tech offers interesting bits and bytes on psychology and technology. http://www.mentaltech.blogspot.com/ This Old Cub, the movie. http://www.thisoldcub.com/ From Patrick Barden: MyCorkBoard is an interactive PC screen saver. http://www.mycorkboard.com/ From Randy Ombo: Stardock CursorXP lets you use and create incredibly cool looking Windows mouse cursors. http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/ Editor's Note: Bootskin looks interesting too. http://www.stardock.com/products/bootskin/ Thanks John, Patrick and Randy. ================================= I forcibly restrained myself for this issue. The last issue was just slightly over 30k in size and that caused a lot of extra bounces (many email providers limit received posts to 30k in size). This one should be just under the wire. I ran out of space before I ran out of links (as always) but that's ok. I like having a head start on the next issue. See you next time. Don Crowder - Monday, May 30, 2005 9:31 PM CST - Tow, TX, USA ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª Privacy: I will never share, sell, or otherwise compromise your email address. Privacy Policy on my website. http://www.don-guitar.com/privacy.html Freelists.org Privacy Policy. //www.freelists.org/privacy.html ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª The most important people on the Internet, for you and I as computer users, are software developers. The world's coolest computer, without software, is like a car without fuel. It might look great, but what can it do? 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