[donspatch] 2005-11-01

From: "Don Guitar" <don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Don's Patch" <donspatch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:36:58 -0600

Don's Patch Issue #2005-11-01 from http://www.don-guitar.com

A few days ago, or what seems like a few days ago, I checked
Windows update and didn't need anything "critical". A couple of
days ago I checked it again and there were no less than eleven
"critical" updates waiting. How long has it been since I checked
it last? I don't know exactly, maybe a couple of weeks. *sigh*
Oh well, I'll try to be more conscientious in the future. I could
turn on automatic updates but I don't trust Microsoft to decide
what's good for my computer. I insist on reading the descriptions
of available updates and deciding whether or not to install them.
Maybe it sounds a little odd, but it's my computer so, right or wrong,
I want to be in charge of it. I let AVG download and install updates
all by itself, but hey, I trust Grisoft.

So, what's up with you? What's going on in your life? What's cool?
What's not? I haven't heard much from my readers lately, am I losing
touch with you? let me know.

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On arthritis.
http://www.allaboutarthritis.com/portal/DPUY/AAA
http://www.arthritis.org/
http://www.arthritiscare.org.uk/home/index.cfm?region=uk

On roses. http://www.rose.org/ http://www.ars.org/

As Time Goes By (TV series). http://atgbcentral.com/

Asian/Oriental art. http://www.asianart.com/index.html

An interesting search engine. http://www.askthebrain.com/

I asked myself "Betsy who?" and couldn't find that information on
the site but it's still very interesting.
http://www.betsygoestochina.com/

From the computer club of Oak Park, Michigan, some nice articles.
http://users.ameritech.net/mpr_support/Articles.html
and a list of (costless apps).
http://users.ameritech.net/mprudas/bestfree.html

A BBC list of the top one hundred books chosen by their
audience. How many of these have you read?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml

A portal to Cambodia. http://www.cambodianonline.net/

Nutso, wacko, left-field, the-fringe, whatever you call it. This one
is out there. http://www.cassiopaea.org/

A UK caving portal. http://www.cavinguk.co.uk/

Eclectic, interesting. http://www.cuodan.net/

Explore the art of David Mach. http://www.davidmach.com/

Rock group, Deep Purple. http://www.deep-purple.net/

Digital camera reviews and/or information.
http://www.digitalcamerainfo.com/
http://www.dpreview.com/
http://www.dcviews.com/
http://www.dcresource.com/
http://www.megapixel.net/
http://www.imaging-resource.com/
http://www.steves-digicams.com/
http://www.livingroom.org.au/photolog/
http://www.pcphotoreview.com/
http://www.photo.net/
http://www.betterphoto.com/home.asp
http://www.shortcourses.com/
http://www.digitalreview.ca/
http://www.ephotozine.com/
http://www.photoxels.com/
http://www.usefilm.com/
http://www.bytephoto.com/
http://www.photoxels.com/digital-camera-reviews.html
http://www.pcworld.com/resource/infocenter/0,ctrid,4,ic,DigitalCameras,00.asp
http://www.phototakers.com/
http://www.digicamhelp.com/
http://www.photonhead.com/
http://www.cameras.co.uk/
http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/
http://www.10camera.com/

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Ethanol (alternative fuel). http://www.drivingethanol.org/

Wanna make some sawdust? http://www.sawdustmaking.com/

Educational pages from the Murray-Darling Basin Commission.
http://www.mdbc.gov.au/education/education.htm

I've mentioned it before but Elfwood is a pretty cool collection of fantasy
and science fiction art. http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/

Gardening tips. http://www.fernlea.com/misc/gardmenu.htm

A world travel information site. http://www.globosapiens.net/

Henry Morrison Flagler was, among other things, one of the founders of
the Standard Oil Company. http://www.flaglermuseum.us/

A resource for graphics junkies. http://www.graphics.com/

Histology is the science concerned with the study of the microanatomy of
tissues and their cellular structure. http://www.histology.to/

Florida's Historic Bok Sanctuary. http://www.boksanctuary.org/index.html

A silly site with a pointless activity and at least two pop-ups.
http://www.holdthebutton.com/

Human Touch describes itself as an experimental museum.
http://www.sandhands.com/home.htm

Improvement Tips and Regional Business Directory USA, UK, & Canada.
http://www.the-home-improvement-web.com/

ImageJ is being developed at the National Institutes of Health by an
employee
of the Federal Government in the course of his official duties. Pursuant to
Title
17, Section 105 of the United States Code, this software is not subject to
copyright protection and is in the public domain. ImageJ is an experimental
system. http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/

ImageMagick is (a costless app) to create, edit, and compose bitmap images
in many formats from the command line or via programming interfaces. Images
can be cropped, resized, and combined, effects can be applied, and text,
polygons, and curves can be added.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/imagemagick/

Around the world in 761 days. http://www.travelhead.com/trip/

Julian Beever's art is interesting. Check out his awesome pavement
drawings.
http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/index.html

If you have a surfeit of excess income you'd like to pour into fishing,
here's
a place where you can start. http://www.landbigfish.com/default.cfm

The home of James Bond. http://www.mi6.co.uk/mi6.php3

Facts about lighting. http://www.lightingfacts.com/

A Linda Ronstadt fan's site. http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/index.html

An Australian site on Oriental Healing Arts.
http://www.littletree.com.au/

The art of landscape, nature and documentary photography.
http://luminous-landscape.com/

The Mary Rose is the only 16th century warship on display anywhere in
the world. http://www.maryrose.org/

The Women of the Trojan War in Latin Literature.
http://www.stanford.edu/~plomio/

None of this matters (dot org). http://www.notm.org/

Nina Paley's cool videos may not be worth waiting for if you have a dial up
connection but you should enjoy the cartoons. http://www.ninapaley.com/

Old Fashioned Living. http://www.seedsofknowledge.com/

Whether you found a cool used computer gadget at a garage sale or just lost
the CD that came with your old printer, you need drivers.
http://www.opendrivers.com/

House of the Orange Monkey. http://www.houseoftheorangemonkey.co.uk/

The National Pain Foundation. http://www.painconnection.org/

A few (costless) apps from Jim Willsher.
http://www.jimwillsher.co.uk/Site/Software/Software_Intro.php

Some hype, some interesting reading and some promotional premiums.
http://www.pennzoil.com/

Photo albums, mainly of battlefields. http://www.pigstrough.co.uk/

A nifty little costless image viewer for Linux users.
http://pikview.sourceforge.net/index.shtml

A collection of perplexing things. http://www.planetperplex.com/en/

Plant Pathology. http://www.apsnet.org/

About Poinsettias.
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/1000/1248.html
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/poinsettia/
http://www.ecke.com/html/h_corp/corp_legend.html

Care of Specialty Potted Plants.
http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/envirohort/426-101/426-101.html

Pawel T. Jochym's photos and (costless apps).
http://ptj.rozeta.com.pl/

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This issue's collection of news/magazine/informational sites
(these are chosen for maximum diversity regardless of "spin" ).
http://www.lesspub.com/cgi-bin/site.pl?afj/index
http://www.andante.com/index.cfm
http://www.digital-web.com/
http://www.mun.ca/marcomm/gazette/
http://www.grandtimes.com/
http://www.hypernews.org/
http://www.iafrica.com/
http://www.independent.co.uk/
http://www.memagazine.org/
http://www.metrotimes.com/
http://soundscapes.info/
http://orthodoxytoday.org/index.shtml
http://voice.paly.net/
http://www.balkanpeace.org/
http://english.people.com.cn/
http://pharyngula.org/index
http://physicsweb.org/
http://www.post-gazette.com/
http://www.theprairiestar.com/
http://www.chieftain.com/
http://www.rawstory.com/
http://www.realcitiesnetwork.com/site_list/index.html
http://www.realmagazine.com/
http://www.reason.com/
http://recordcourier.com/
http://in.rediff.com/index.html
http://albany.bizjournals.com/albany/

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Russian avant garde art.
http://www.a-art.com/avantgarde/
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2002/russian/main.html

A pretty cool web dev resource. http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails

Geek toys from Tyler Akins. http://rumkin.com/

A science museum. http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/

SciTE has a lot of features which are way over my head but it's still
a pretty cool editor. http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/SciTE.html

Mapping the universe. http://cas.sdss.org/dr4/en/

Information no El Niño and La Niña.
http://www.stormfax.com/elnino.htm
Information on the Fujita-Pearson Tornado Scale.
http://www.stormfax.com/fujita.htm
Winter Weatherlore and Folklore Forecasts.
http://www.stormfax.com/wxlore.htm

Serious computing tools. Not for beginners or the faint of heart.
http://www.shellcity.net/

Spend some time "shmoozing" with some serous geeks.
http://www.shmoo.com/

Silent stars and the movies of the silent era.
http://www.welcometosilentmovies.com/

Mr. Edward Henry Heinemann, designer of the Douglas Skyhawk.
http://www.skyhawk.org/

U.S. Social Security Online. http://www.socialsecurity.gov/

A song lyrics site that goes a little deeper.
http://www.songmeanings.net/

What doe a canned meat product from Hormel have in common with an
ancient Japanese art form? http://mit.edu/jync/www/spam/archive.html

The Small Publishers, Artists, and Writers Network. http://www.spawn.org/

How fast is your internet connection?
http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/
http://reviews.cnet.com/7004-7254_7-0.html
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
http://www.adslguide.org.uk/

A security extension for Firefox users. http://www.spoofstick.com/

Fractals and other goodies from Julien Clinton Sprott.
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/

Pick a (U.S.) city, any city. http://www.city-data.com/

Seventies Rock & Roll. http://www.superseventies.com/

St Ives, Cornwall, England is a popular tourist destination and there
are many websites devoted to it. This one's out of date but more
interesting than most. http://www.spooky1.com/index.htm

Sports logos. http://www.sportslogos.net/Site/index.php

The Sports Network. http://www.sportsnetwork.com/home.asp

Superman's home page. http://www.supermanhomepage.com/news.php

Poems, stories, random thoughts. http://tenderbytes.net/index.html

A peer built portal. http://www.stumbleupon.com/

Theodore Roosevelt. http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/

This Old House. http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/home

Two cultures collection. http://www.tracyhicks.com/index.htm

A tourism related site. http://www.southpoint.com/

A health resource for travelers.
http://www.healthgeography.com/english/index.shtml

Typing Injury FAQ. http://www.tifaq.org/

U.S. Department of Energy Research News.
http://www.eurekalert.org/doe/index.php

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Every day I love the blues.
http://www.blues.org/
http://www.bbking.com/default.asp
http://www.worldblues.com/bbking/default.asp
http://www.island.net/~blues/
http://www.bluesdatabase.com/
http://www.bealestreet.com/home.html
http://www.bluesup.com/
http://www.deltabluesmuseum.org/
http://www.thebluesnet.com/
http://www.thebluehighway.com/
http://www.honkytonks.org/
http://www.pbs.org/theblues/
http://www.rhythmandtheblues.org.uk/

Flaco Jimenez is a true Texas phenomenon.
http://www.flacojimenez.com/
Just check his bio. http://www.flacojimenez.com/bio.htm

Start with a GPS devise, then go hide something, anything you
like, in a carefully chosen place. Next, you post the coordinates
for other enthusiasts, some of whom will then use their own GPS
devices to find what you've hidden. It's called "geocaching".
http://users.swing.be/geocache/
http://eduscapes.com/geocaching/create.htm
http://www.handicaching.com/
http://www.guysnamedkim.com/geocache/geocache_history.html
http://www.btinternet.com/~duncan.scott7/index.htm
http://www.lostgear.com/
http://www.travelnevada.com/geocache.asp
http://www.magellangps.com/en/gpsAdventures/geocaching/
http://www.geocache.co.uk/
http://geocache.ryjones.org/
http://www.geocaching.com/
http://stargazing.com/geocaching/
http://brillig.com/geocaching/
http://www.geocachearmy.com/

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Poisons, toxins of various descriptions.
http://www.aapcc.org/
http://www.poison.org/
http://www.poisonprevention.org/main.html
http://www.spampoison.com/
http://www.sweetpoison.com/
http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/systems/excretion.html
http://www.intellectualpoison.com/
http://poisonivy.aesir.com/
http://www.cattail.nu/ivy/ivy_index.html
http://www.poison-ivy.org/
http://www.knoledge.org/oak/
http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0802.htm
http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/poisonsafe/
http://www.abc.net.au/quantum/poison/
http://www.thegardenhelper.com/toxichouse.htm
http://gardenline.usask.ca/misc/can_kill.html
http://www.parents.com/articles/health/6127.jsp
the next two seem to be a sort of yin-yang pair.
http://www.biointegrity.org/
http://www.biotech-info.net/

Gypsies in past history.
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/5121/timeline.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/romany_roots/history/index.shtml
http://www.herts.ac.uk/UHPress/stoppingplaces.html
http://website.lineone.net/~rtfhs/dawson.html
http://www.gypsyloresociety.org/
http://www.christusrex.org/www2/gypsies.net/
http://www.romnews.com/
http://sightphoto.com/sightphoto/story/gypsies/gypsies.html

Gypsies of future history.
http://www.americanjourneys.com/
http://www.camping.com.au/
http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/cepa/pubs/apr02/story3.htm
http://www.everythingrvers.com/
http://www.fmca.com/index.asp
http://www.goodsamclub.com/index.cfm
http://www.grahamkerr.com/
http://www.gypsyjournal.net/
http://www.hitchitch.com/
http://www.irv2.com/
http://www.rvlifeonwheels.com/
http://www.nomadsumc.org/
http://www.motorhomemagazine.com/
http://www.travelandusa.com/
http://www.thenownewspaper.com/issues05/033205/features.html
http://journals.aol.com/adlessor/ACoupleofNomads
http://www.newrver.com/
http://www.northcoastjournal.com/july97/7-97.outdoors.html
http://www.nrvoc.com/index.php
http://www.campgroundsdirect.com/
http://www.roamingtimes.com/
http://www.rvadvice.com/
http://www.rvamerica.com/
http://www.rv-coach.com/index.html
http://www.rv-clubs.us/
http://www.rvdumps.com/
http://www.grandtimes.com/rv.html
http://www.rvhometown.com/
http://www.rvjokes.com/
http://www.rvlifeandtravel.com/
http://www.rvlife.com/
http://www.rvlifemag.com/
http://www.fulltiming-america.com/
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/rv_lifestyle
http://www.rvtraderonline.com/index.html
http://www.rvtraveler.com/
http://www.rvtravel.com/
http://www.rvtrips.com/
http://www.rv.net/
http://www.rverscorner.com/index.html
http://www.rversonline.org/
http://www.rv-info.net/
http://www.rvsearch.com/index.cfm
http://www.trailerlife.com/
http://www.rv-owner-info.com/
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/RV-RVLifestyle.html
http://www.two-lane.com/index.html
http://snipurl.com/jatl
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/blogs/wheellife/
http://isp-planet.com/fixed_wireless/business/2003/rvwifi.html
http://snipurl.com/jatp
http://www.woodalls.com/
http://www.workersonwheels.com/
http://www.your-rv-lifestyle.com/

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Interesting articles from PC World.
http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,122086,00.asp
http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,122092,00.asp

Ubu's Almanac. http://www.ku.edu/~sma/almanac/almanac.htm

Space and astronomy news. http://www.universetoday.com/

Unofficial gmail FAQs. http://blog.outer-court.com/gmail-faq.html

A social event calendar. http://upcoming.org/

Phil Libin's computer info blog. http://www.vastlyimportant.com/

Music of video games. http://www.vgmusic.com/

Warnings from the Ice (Nova). http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/warnings/

Mostly music and religion on David Warren Steel's site.
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/

New Zealand's most active Photographic Society.
http://photosoc.wellington.net.nz/

Monkey biz from William H. Calvin. http://williamcalvin.com/index.html

The world bank. http://www.worldbank.org/

World civilizations. http://www.wsu.edu/~wldciv/

World Famous Recipes. http://www.worldfamousrecipes.com/

A community of UK writers. http://www.writewords.org.uk/

A collection of what appear to be wrong answers.
http://www.wronganswers.com/

Searching for the wrong eyed Jesus.
http://www.searchingforthewrongeyedjesus.com/

The X-Prize. http://www.xprizefoundation.com/

Yuni words of wisdom. http://www.yuni.com/

A collection of digital photos. http://www.zoukini.com/graph05/

The William Blake Archive. http://www.blakearchive.org/

A collection of mathematical (apps), papers, and databases.
http://www.netlib.org/

The September 11 Digital Archive.
http://www.911digitalarchive.org/
http://september11.archive.org/

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-92) was England's best-known
preacher for most of the second half of the nineteenth century.
http://www.spurgeon.org/mainpage.htm

Gnosticism and Gnostic tradition. http://www.gnosis.org/

The Walt Whitman Archive. http://www.whitmanarchive.org/

Writings and pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
http://www.rossettiarchive.org/

The American Eugenics Movement.
http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/

A powerful business resource. http://www.businessplanarchive.org/

The Interactive Fiction Archive.
http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive.html

The Solar Cooking Archive. http://solarcooking.org/

For musical heavy hitters. http://icking-music-archive.org/

Celtic music on the internet. http://www.ceolas.org/ceolas.html
Helping the Irish abroad and those with Irish interests.
http://ceolas.org/IrishNet/

Have you looked at Linux lately?
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/
http://www.opensuse.org/
http://www.debian.org/
http://fedora.redhat.com/
http://www.knoppix.org/
http://www.gentoo.org/

Space images. http://www.seds.org/images/

The Medici Archive Project. http://www.medici.org/

The Rothschild Archive. http://www.rothschildarchive.org/ta/

The Lion King. http://www.lionking.org/

Essays on China, written for a course at Mount Holyoke
College taught by Professor Jonathan Lipman.
http://www.watson.org/%7Eleigh/modchina.html

Celtic Europe. http://www.watson.org/%7Eleigh/celts.html

Life in Ancient Egypt. http://www.watson.org/%7Eleigh/egypt.html

Shakespeare. http://www.watson.org/%7Eleigh/shakespeare.html

The Glory that was Greece. http://www.watson.org/%7Eleigh/athens.html

An interesting yin-yang pair.
http://www.talkorigins.org/
http://www.trueorigin.org/

From the fringe? http://www.nothingness.org/

The Internet Classics Archive. http://classics.mit.edu/

U.S. National Security Archive. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/

The Television News Archive. http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/

Hiroshima Archive. http://www.lclark.edu/~history/HIROSHIMA/

New Jour (e-journals and newsletters). http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/

Philosophy of Science archive. http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/

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Jo-Ann Burton is a wonderful friend. We didn't grow up
together, and we've never met in person but she's my
sister. I sometimes harvest links that she posts to her
Yahoo group (to which I belong).
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharinglinks2/
Here's a few, from Jo-Ann:

Ancient Egypt the Mythology. http://www.egyptianmyths.net/

Try your hand at captioning an image. http://www.caption-this.com/

Cats in sinks. http://catsinsinks.com/

Click-n-learn about computers.
http://www.kids-online.net/learn/clickjr/clickjr.html

World champion porridge. http://www.goldenspurtle.com/

How gullible are you? http://www.newstarget.com/gullibility.html

Indian cooking. http://www.indiancookery.com/

A serene environment. http://www.iserenity.com/environments.htm

How about a jigsaw puzzle? http://www.jigsawland.com/

Kids and soldiers. http://www.kidscelebrate.org/

Klingon fairy tales.
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/22MikeRichardson-Bryan.html

Strathaven (Australia) folk knit themselves a room.
http://www.abc.net.au/tasmania/stories/s1212449.htm

Thanks Jo.

============== Humor =============

Musician's Humor, Part IV

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.

============== Tips ===============

http://arstechnica.com/index.ars
http://www.thetechguide.com/
http://www.tek-tips.com/
http://www.infopeople.org/resources/bustedpc.html
http://www.troubleshooters.com/

======== Reader Contributions =========

Here's a couple from John Lepse:
Maybe not too family friendly, but darned interesting.
http://www.damninteresting.com/
This one's a real headache. http://www.headaches.org/

From Patrick Barden:
"I know you listed this site's main page in (a recent) newsletter but this
specific page earned a spot in my links. When I find an RSS feed I want
instead of sending it to an aggregator program I copy it to this page and
they send it directly to my email. It's easy to sign up for a feed and they
also make it really easy to drop feeds as well. This way I have one less
program to learn and sharing feeds is as easy as hitting the forward
button."
http://www.kbcafe.com/Rmail.aspx

From Peter Ekkerman:
Here's a good Windows tips and tricks site. http://www.mdgx.com/
Browser tools. http://www.browsertools.net/index.html
Programming tools and toys for serious geeks.
http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/
Goodies for photographers. http://www.photo-freeware.net/
Above site in German. http://www.foto-freeware.de/
This program is a user friendly interface to the RegSvr32 tool (Windows)
which permits you to register, or unregister, DLLs. http://snipurl.com/jb2s
Tech info and tuts. http://www.techiwarehouse.com/index.html
Peter and I both agree that W3 is a great place to learn how to create
web pages. http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp

From Tim Skyrme of http://www.artzend.com
Author Brian Wizard offers some (costless) ebooks.
http://brianwizard.com/index.htm
The Internet Archive just keeps getting bigger and better.
http://www.archive.org/

Thanks John, Patrick, Peter, and Tim. I very much appreciate your input.

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That's it for this one. I have to get this posted and make a run into Llano
to get some Halloween candy (tonight's the night) and buy some gas
(ouch, ouch, ouch) while I can still barely afford it. What becomes of
our jobs when we can no longer afford to drive to work? I guess I'll find
out before it's over.

We found time to update our personal news page again for this issue.
http://www.don-guitar.com/babbleon.html

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