[donspatch] 2005-06-15
- From: "Don Crowder" <guitarman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Don's Patch" <donspatch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 09:45:25 -0500
Don's Patch Issue #2005-06-15 from http://www.don-guitar.com
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A mini-feature on windmills.
http://www.windmillworld.com/
http://webserv.nhl.nl/~smits/windmill.htm
http://www.wired.com/news/planet/0,2782,67121,00.html
http://www.bamjam.net/Spain/Mancha.html
http://www.culture.gr/2/21/213/21307n/e213gn11.html
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/WW/aow1.html
http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/sln/vollis/index/frontvollis.html
http://www.wcsscience.com/windpower/page.html
There are several places on my website where I've used this online
form to create a high level of security for sensitive information.
http://automaticlabs.com/products/enkoderform/
Note: For an example, view the source (examine the html code)
of my contact page: http://www.don-guitar.com/contactme.html
Electronics and car sound systems. http://www.bcae1.com/
XP basics. http://www.bcae1.com/comptutorial/computertutorial.htm
An information security resource from the (U.S.) Federal Trade
Commission. http://www.ftc.gov/infosecurity/
George Carlin's hair poem.
http://www.lyricsdownload.com/george-carlin-hair-poem-lyrics.html
Lisa and I enjoyed exploring Hugo Kaagman's art.
http://www.kaagman.nl/index.htm
A midi collection from Jack Hall.
http://www.geocities.com/~kcaj22/origmidi.html
A crochet and tatting resource (thanks Vi).
http://us.geocities.com/mountainhome1999/index.html
Sulabh International Museum of Toilets.
http://www.sulabhtoiletmuseum.org/index.htm
"Open Source" education. http://www.opencontent.org/
Helpful information from PayPal. http://snipurl.com/fj8b
Peter, Paul and Mary. http://www.peterpaulandmary.com/
The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities.
http://www.ralphmag.org/index.html
Sylpheed is a sophisticated email client and news reader.
http://sylpheed.good-day.net/
The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation is "into" educational reform.
http://www.edexcellence.net/foundation/global/index.cfm
Take Back Your Time is a major U.S./Canadian initiative to challenge
the epidemic of overwork, over-scheduling and time famine that now
threatens our health, our families and relationships, our communities
and our environment. http://www.simpleliving.net/timeday/
A Tarot, Runes, Numerology, and I Ching "resource" (I don't take
any of this seriously and hope you don't either).
http://www.facade.com/
TED Notepad for Windows looks and behaves mostly like the
original Windows Notepad with a lot of extra features and functions
for text editing. http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/
An intense yuppie site. http://www.theallineed.com/
A book on "hypergeometric identities" (serious geek zone).
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~wilf/AeqB.html
The K-Zone is the collected rambling musings of Kevin Boone,
scientist, engineer, and educator (more geekery).
http://www.kevinboone.com/index.html
Security articles from the Register.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/
The Selekta is an electronic music resource (not my sort of music
but lots of young people like it). http://www.selekta.com/default.asp
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Science Fiction writer Ted Sturgeon.
http://www.physics.emory.edu/~weeks/misc/sturgeon.html
A highly commercial yuppie-geek site. http://www.thinkgeek.com/
If you've finally had enough of Outlook Express, consider
Thunderbird. http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
The Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder (TIGER) is a balloon
borne instrument designed to measure the elemental abundances
of Galactic Cosmic Rays. http://cosray2.wustl.edu/tiger/
Timecursor inserts a tiny clock near the mouse pointer, it's
possible to change its colour, size and position (for XP).
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Byte/6202/
TongueWag is a web publishing tool. http://www.tonguewag.com/
For tornado chasers, photographers and sky lovers.
http://www.chaseday.com/
"Professional secrets from those in the know."
http://www.tradetricks.org/
A television resource. http://www.tvtome.com/
A mini-feature related to "typing".
http://www.aboutonehandtyping.com/ot.html
http://library.swantafe.wa.edu.au/History/commercial.htm
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/modelb/modelb_history.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html
http://typographi.com/
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. http://www.nrl.navy.mil/home.php
The UN Refugee Agency. http://www.unhcr.ch/
The numbers that control your life.
http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/numbers/index.html
A dictionary of "Units of Measurement".
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/
The U.S. House of Representatives online. http://www.house.gov/
Do you have a question about volcanoes, earthquakes, mountains,
rocks, maps, ground water, lakes, or rivers?
http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/ask-a-geologist/
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This issue's collection of news/magazine/informational sites
(these are chosen for maximum diversity regardless of "spin" ).
http://www.worldandi.com/
http://www.tabaret.ca/index_e.html
http://www.eclectic.co.uk/news
http://www.alamogordonews.com/ (has pop-up)
http://www.funtimenews.com/
http://www.vanguardnews.com/
http://www.whysmalltalk.com/
http://www.periodico26.cu/english.htm
http://www.nywici.org/
http://www.papyrusnews.com/
http://www.fluxuries.com/
http://www.newstarget.com/
http://gauntlet.ucalgary.ca/
http://indiacurrents.com/news/
http://www.tdn.com/
http://www.daytondailynews.com/
http://www.cnn.com/ (has pop-ups and pop-unders)
http://www.cfo.com/
http://www.rednova.com/
http://theage.com.au/
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The USO online. http://www.uso.org/
The Etext Center at the University of Virginia Library.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
The Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B.
http://scitation.aip.org/jvstb/
A resource for Visual Basic programmers.
http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/index.asp
The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.
http://www.itatti.it/default.htm
Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient
text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed
with most UNIX systems. http://www.vim.org/index.php
VIMOS is a visible (0.37 to 1.0 um) wide field imager and multi-object
spectrograph mounted on the Nasmyth focus B of UT3.
http://www.eso.org/instruments/vimos/
The Journal of Virology. http://jvi.asm.org/
Not entirely without cost but inexpensive and potentially rewarding.
http://vu.org/
For serious travelers. http://www.virtualtourist.com/
For helpful travelers. http://www.i-to-i.com/
International Walk to School. http://www.iwalktoschool.org/
A desktop utility for Windows.
http://www.geocities.com/sixpackvitasoy/wallpaper.htm
WarScholar is an international directory for "things military".
http://www.warscholar.com/index.html
There's some interesting reading on the website of
theoretical physics professor Warren Siegel.
http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~siegel/plan.html
A mini-feature on "water".
http://webworld.unesco.org/water/wwap/pccp/cd/civilization.html
http://academic.bowdoin.edu/classics/research/moyer/index.shtml
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/roman/watering.html
http://www.cyberbohemia.com/Pages/massbathing.htm
http://www.plumbingworld.com/historyroman.html
http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/baths.html
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Over 4300 movie sounds. http://www.wavsite.com/index.htm
WB. http://www.thewb.com/Index/0,7349,,00.html
An online book entitled "Web Style Guide".
http://www.webstyleguide.com/index.html?/contents.html
A large ad supported (but interesting) portal.
http://www.webbieworld.com/
The Webby Awards. http://www.webbyawards.com/index.php
An online service that lets you test single pages of web content
for quality, accessibility, and privacy issues.
http://webxact.watchfire.com/
Worthwhile reading for any computer user.
http://spam.abuse.net/overview/whatisspam.shtml
Featuring information on a different world leader every weekday.
http://www.whoyoushouldknow.com/
Harlem Renaissance artist William H. Johnson.
http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/whjohnson.html
A Windows help forum site. http://forums.windrivers.com/
Celebration of Women Writers.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
For anyone who loves words. http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
WordPerfect for DOS.
http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/index.html
Online French, Italian and Spanish Dictionary.
http://www.wordreference.com/
WordReference Forums. http://forum.wordreference.com/
A biome is a large geographical area of distinctive plant and
animal groups, which are adapted to that particular environment.
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/world_biomes.htm
World Flag Database. http://www.flags.net/index.php
World Health Organization. http://www.who.int/en/
A WWI mini-feature.
http://www.worldwar1.com/
http://www.wwi-models.org/
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/
http://www.firstworldwar.com/
A war game for "big boys". http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/
Promoting web services interoperability across platforms,
operating systems, and programming languages.
http://www.ws-i.org/
I read all about it and decided this is too deep for me but that
may not be true of you. http://www.xfree86.org/
xine is a video player. http://xinehq.de/index.php
The Yngwie Malmsteen official website & fan club.
http://www.yngwie.org/
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If you, or your organization, had some sort of marvelous
world-altering idea you wanted to develop you might look
in one of these places for monetary support.
http://www.allenfoundation.org/apply.asp
http://www.federalgrantswire.com/
http://www.health.grantgate.org/
http://www.wkkf.org/
http://www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/grants/3food.htm (portal)
Have you ever heard of "Tulip Mania"?
http://www.tulip-fever.com/tulipmania.html
http://www.hortus-bulborum.nl/eng/tulpomanie-eng.html
A mini-feature on "Rice".
http://www.asiarice.org/index.html
http://www.calrice.org/
http://www.fao.org/rice2004/index_en.htm
http://www.riceonline.com/
http://www.knowledgebank.irri.org/
http://www.ricegourmet.com/index.htm
http://www.riceweb.org/Index.htm
http://www.riceinfo.com/
http://www.riceland.com/
Wild rice recipes.
http://www.voyageurit.net/about/recipes.htm
http://www.christmaspoint.com/recipe.html
http://www.mnwildrice.com/recipes.htm
http://www.mts.net/~rrussell/recipes.htm
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There are several things to explore on the UC Davis site.
http://www.ucdavis.edu/index.html
The official site of author Philip K. Dick.
http://www.philipkdick.com/
The official web site of author Ursula K. Le Guin.
http://www.ursulakleguin.com/
NASA Quest is an awesome site. http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/
The leading think tank and public interest institute on nanotechnology.
http://www.foresight.org/
I thoroughly enjoyed exploring the site of cartoonist Keith Knight.
http://www.kchronicles.com/index.html
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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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A few sites that relate to schools and/or education.
http://www.eduplace.com/
http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/staffpages/shirk/k12.music.html
http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/
http://my.execpc.com/~dboals/boals.html
http://www.proquestk12.com/
http://www.eduhound.com/
http://www.asd.com/
http://www.teachingk-8.com/
http://www.enc.org/
http://archives.math.utk.edu/k12.html
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/AFR_GIDE.html
http://www.kzone.com.au/
http://www.funbrain.com/
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/home.htm
http://www.kkids.org/kkids/
http://www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks/
http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/edu.html
http://www.tenet.edu/
http://www.k12tlc.org/
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/k-2/
http://wings.avkids.com/
http://www.educ.iastate.edu/nflrc/
http://www.preksmarties.com/
http://grants.nih.gov/training/careerdevelopmentawards.htm
http://www.ed.gov/programs/jacobjavits/index.html
http://www.greatschools.net/
http://www.kinderart.com/
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An old man is lying on his deathbed with his children,
grandchildren, and older great-grandchildren all around,
teary-eyed at the approaching finale of a very long and
productive life. The old man is in a terminal coma, and
the doctors have confirmed that the waiting will be over
within the next twenty-four hours. Suddenly, the old
man opens his eyes and croaks: "I must be dreaming
of heaven! I smell your grandmother's strudel!"
"No, grandfather, you are not dreaming, grandmother
is baking strudel now."
"I know I will never have another taste of her delicious
strudel after this one. Could you please go down and
get me a piece?", the old man begs with what is left
of his final breath.
One of the grandchildren is immediately dispatched to
honor the old man's last request. After a long time,
he returns empty-handed.
"Did you bring me one last piece of your grandmother's
delicious strudel?" the old man plaintively queries.
"I'm very sorry, grandfather, but she says it's for the funeral."
Copied from this website sent in by reader John Lepse:
http://www.thepocket.com/
Thanks John.
============== Tips ===============
Bob Cerelli's Windows Tips & Tricks.
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/tips.htm
======== Reader Contributions =========
Andy sent this link to a color test. I've seen this one several
times in other places but it's always fun to try it again.
http://www.njagyouth.org/colortest.swf
Some of the contents on this site, sent in by John Lepse,
put a little strain on the "family friendly" envelope. Use
your own judgement. http://www.compfused.com/
Thanks Andy and John.
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It's been an interesting year for me. I keep remembering
a line from a comedy routine I heard Robin Williams do:
"Get down, get back up again" *grin* yeah, that's the
line, and here's one of my own:
"Life is change; change is good"
That, at least, is how it's worked for me.
I wish you the best of love and luck. See you next time.
Don Crowder - Tuesday, June 14, 2005
9:40 AM CST - Tow, TX, USA
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software, is like a car without fuel. It might look great, but what
can it do? It doesn't matter who produces the software you love and
use regularly, the developers of that software need your support.
A bit of advice from Internet veteran Bayard J. Fox:
New computer users are often in awe of the things you can get without
cost on the Internet. There can be hidden costs for the unwary. Use a
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against giving away personal information. Use a firewall, and provide
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