[donspatch] 2006-01-15

From: "Don Guitar" <don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Don's Patch" <donspatch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:43:06 -0600

Don's Patch Issue #2006-01-15 from http://www.don-guitar.com

First words, from Don:

Lisa and I have had a few days off work now, an extended weekend
more or less, and have really enjoyed sleeping in, staying up late,
listening to internet radio, playing on the computer and cooking
whenever we felt like it. We both enjoy cooking and especially
enjoy cooking together. Last night, for example, she made a
chicken pot pie (wheat and corn free) while I prepared some
okra fried in Arrowroot and Garbanzo bean flour. That sounds
pretty exotic doesn't it? Maybe so, but Garbanzo bean
flour makes really great breading for fried vegetables and
a little Arrowroot adds just the right "stickiness" and texture.
I would never have believed that learning to cook without
wheat, corn or milk would be such a great adventure.

I recently a page to promote our website and ezine
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and finally got around to posting some of
the nice things you readers have said.
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We've also had plenty of time to devote to researching and
selecting websites for this issue so let's get to it.

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Interested in searching for a clinical trial for a
sick loved one? Try these sites:
http://www.clinicaltrials.gov
http://www.sctweb.org
http://www.trialscentral.org
http://www.cancer.gov
http://www.cancertrialshelp.org
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Gaming news and information. http://www.1up.com/

A difficult online game. http://www.alientiles.com/

Animal rights advocates. http://www.all-creatures.org/

The interesting story of Grant Wood's American Gothic.
http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/wood/gothic.html

The American Literature on the Web site is maintained by
Akihito Ishikawa, Department of English at Nagasaki
University of Foreign Studies, Japan.
http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/index.htm

Faye and Andrew's Place.
http://www.sprint.net.au/~terbut/febrewry.htm

GSU Dept. of Anthropology & Geography - Cabbagetown.
http://mapwing.gsu.edu/projects/cabbagetown/index.htm

The American Radio Relay League. http://www.arrl.org/

An interesting art site. http://www.artinsight.com/index.html

A gallery of posters. http://www.asdfplus.com/

A search engine for kids. http://www.dibdabdoo.com/

One of my readers was annoyed by a site I listed in my last
issue which was critical of the Atkins diet. I promised him a
more thorough, and hopefully balanced treatment in this issue.
I offer these links without commentary, knowing that my
thoughtful, intelligent readers will decide for themselves.
http://www.dietsurf.com/diet/atkins_diet.htm
http://www.butler.org/body.cfm?id=125&chunkiid=38729
http://www.pharmacytimes.com/article.cfm?ID=2095
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/lcd.html
http://bestlowcarbs.com/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4354279.stm
http://www.thefactsaboutfitness.com/news/atkins_diet.htm

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Play "20 Questions"! It's as much fun
as you remember. http://20q.net/

"Building a world where young people reject tobacco
and anyone can quit." http://snipurl.com/mivn

Web graphics and web design resources.
http://alicorna.com/content/view/14/45/

Some research on "American Gothic" took me many places.
Three of the more interesting ones.
http://snipurl.com/mhw6
http://lfa.atu.edu/art/2-d_design_amgoth.html
http://cc.ysu.edu/~satingle/AmSt%202601/photo.htm

Art is the celebration of life. http://artroots.com/

Denmark is a fascinating place.
http://snipurl.com/mhwg
http://www.danish-furniture.com/
http://danishdesign.denmark.dk/

Dick Francis is a multi-talented man and superb author.
http://www.mandry.net/dickfrancis/

Dictionaries with audio pronunciation
help. Look for the speaker icon.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
http://www.m-w.com/
http://www.answers.com/

From NASA; past, present and future eclipses.
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html

Wonders and quirks of the English language.
http://www.shared-visions.com/explore/english/

Common errors in English. Uh, oh....
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/index.html

Huge site for costless crafts.
http://www.allfreecrafts.com/

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This issue's collection of news/magazine/informational sites
(these are chosen for maximum diversity regardless of "spin" ).
http://www.artnet.com/
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa_programs/index.html
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/index.html
http://www.canada.com/
http://www.cato.org/
http://edition.cnn.com/CNNI/Programs/spark/
http://www.cnn.com/index.html
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/home.htm
http://xml.coverpages.org/
http://www.ctv.ca/news
http://www.dailyitem.com/
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/
http://www.dawn.com/
http://www.harlemlive.org/main.html
http://www.egothemag.com/
http://www.esmagazine.com/
http://www.ethicalarts.org/
http://www.lyngsat.com/freetv/
http://gadflyer.com/flytrap/

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Interesting music from one of my cousins. http://snipurl.com/mhvu
He (my cousin) was also involved in this project.
http://www.katrinareliefcd.com/

A humor and goofiness resource. http://winn.com/bs/

Barney Miller (site has imbedded music).
http://www.debw.com/barneymiller.html

The BBC is experimenting with podcasting.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/downloadtrial/

Google's blog search (beta). http://blogsearch.google.com/

Playing the "blog market" looks like a safe gamble.
http://www.blogshares.com/

Brian Holderman's art. http://www.cloud8.info/artwork.html

Photography (and other stuff) from Brian P. Lawler.
http://www.thelawlers.com/

British Weights and Measures Association.
http://www.bwmaonline.com/

A repository for public domain (free for any use) images.
http://www.burningwell.org/

Department of Chemistry, University of the West Indies, Mona
Campus, Jamaica. http://chemsrv.uwimona.edu.jm:1104/

Chicago Jazz Archive. http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/cja/

It's no longer enough to build a home; one must build a web
site about it. http://www.cloud8.org.uk/index.html

A collection of television theme music (U.S.).
http://www.melaman2.com/tvshows/

Delete temporary files from your (computer) system.
http://www.stevengould.org/software/cleanup/

Extras for the Instant Messaging client Adium X for Mac OS X.
http://www.cocoa.uk.com/page1/page1.html
Extras for the Instant Messaging client Proteus for Mac OS X.
http://www.cocoa.uk.com/page2/page2.html

I was really astounded to find so much
web space devoted to complaining.
http://www.consumer.ca/1652
http://www.grumbletext.co.uk/
http://www.naic.org/cis/
http://snipurl.com/mhyd
http://www.clik2complaints.co.uk/
http://www.blagger.com/
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fraud.html
http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/choosingandusing/redressscheme.law
http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/complaints/
http://www.bbbonline.org/consumer/complaint.asp
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/php/a_report.php
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/complaints.html
http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/complaintresources.htm
https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=
http://www.ic3.gov/
http://www.consumerline.org/
http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/problems/complain/
http://consumerlawpage.com/article/complain.shtml
http://www.consumerdirect.gov.uk/
http://www.baddealings.com/
http://www.fda.gov/opacom/backgrounders/problem.html
http://www.my3cents.com/
http://www.occ.treas.gov/customer.htm
http://www.sec.gov/complaint.shtml
http://www.onyourside.tv/
http://www.complaints.com/
http://consumerxchange.org/OPEN.htm?referrer=G------U
http://www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk/consumer/complaints.htm
http://www.opticalcomplaints.co.uk/

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Sites like this are one of the reasons why we *hate* embedded
sound files! http://www.joincubscouting.org/
In fact, we dislike imbedded sound files so much that
we decided to actively campaign against them.
http://www.don-guitar.com/soundless.html

Indoor and outdoor herb gardens.
http://doityourself.com/vegetables/indoorherbgarden.htm
http://www.herbalgardens.com/

Housekeeping advice and forums.
http://www.housekeepingchannel.com/

Find a volunteer opportunity to match
your interests. http://www.idealist.org/

A joke we enjoyed. http://snipurl.com/mhxe

Cool experiments with magnets.
http://www.coolmagnetman.com/magindex.htm

Nicknames and Diminutives.
http://www.geocities.com/edgarbook/names/other/nicknames.html

The Society for Neuroscience.
http://web.sfn.org/Template.cfm?Section=AboutSFN

Some think Wal-Mart must make changes.
http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/
Some don't. http://www.mises.org/story/1151

Costless course in Digital Photography.
http://209.196.177.41/

Owing to some recent plumbing gigs, we remembered
hearing about musical instruments made of PVC pipe.
http://snipurl.com/mivz
http://www.loomisflute.com/11-07-98.htm
http://students.washington.edu/natetrue/ntcom/pvc.htm

Well-done, massive site about Scouting worldwide.
http://www.macscouter.com/

The Bramah Museum of Tea and Coffee. History
and customs. http://www.bramahmuseum.co.uk/

St. Louis Blues site. News and links about
the Blues. http://www.stlblues.net/

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Consumer resources.
http://www.savvyconsumer.org/
http://www.usdoj.gov/civil/ocl/index.htm
http://www.reviewcentre.com/
http://www.consumerworld.org/
http://www.consumeraction.gov/
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/

A sort of inventor's support group. http://www.creativitypool.com/

A few cute things.
http://www.babyphototown.com/
http://www.cutecats.com/
http://www.klip7.cl/klip7i/online/cute.htm

Defense Logistics Agency. http://www.dla.mil/

Digger history. http://www.diggerhistory.info/

Dmitriy Apraksin's website. http://www.dwebplace.com/

Interesting. http://www.donationcoder.com/

Prescription drug info. http://www.drugs.com/

Early Americas Digital Archive.
http://narcissus.umd.edu:8080/eada/index.jsp

Early Television Foundation and Museum.
http://www.earlytelevision.org/

Email toys.
http://www.email-x.net/gmailsig/gmail-signature.php
http://services.nexodyne.com/email/
http://email.playtime.uni.cc/index.php

End of the internet?
http://snipurl.com/mhz1
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/chester

Cambridge University Engineering Department and Engineers'
Association. http://www-g.eng.cam.ac.uk/enginuity/

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"The funniest man in the world."
http://www.kor.dk/borge/

I love tinyspell for on-the-fly spellchecking and
there are other good spellcheck programs, too.
http://www.tinyspell.m6.net/
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=2952
http://www.iespell.com/
http://hcidesign.com/freespell/

Spell check one word or a document up to
20,000 characters. http://www.spellcheck.net/

May the cutest kitten win! http://kittenwar.com/

Calculators for scientific use.
http://www.ktf-split.hr/~eni/toys/

The Play Ethic.
http://www.theplayethic.com/pages/172935/index.htm

The Work Ethic.
http://www.coe.uga.edu/workethic/

Authors sharing their ezine articles.
http://ezinearticles.com/

An extraordinary artist.
http://www.falboart.com/index.html

Lifetime address via email forwarding for sports fans.
http://www.fanmail.com/login.cgi

Consumer information from the federal
government. http://www.consumer.gov/

U.S. government online information, services
and resources. http://www.firstgov.gov/

Incredibly addictive online games.
http://www.fetchfido.co.uk/

Beta News. http://fileforum.betanews.com/

Funny signs. http://www.doheth.co.uk/funny/signs.php

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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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It's about bluegrass. http://www.bluegrassrules.com/

Movies news and reviews. http://boxofficemojo.com/

Despite their claim to be a time-waster, there's a great
deal of interest to explore here. http://www.corsinet.com/

David P. Brown's site may not be 100% family friendly but is
another good place to explore. http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/

This site went over my head. I think it's about various types of
art *shrug* Still, it didn't take much looking around to discover
a great deal of interesting content. http://www.dorkbot.org/

Forums for the politically minded.
http://forums.e-democracy.org/factory

Sometimes we want to be reminded. Other times we
want to be hassled. http://www.hassleme.co.uk/

Here's one I haven't mentioned in a while. The "WayBack Machine"
can show you what a website, any website, looked like "back when".
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

This looks like a very good International English language resource,
from Baxter Publishing, Hilversum, The Netherlands.
http://www.languagetips.com/index.cfm

A guide to online magazines. http://www.magatopia.com/

An extensive library of textures, wherein the definition of "texture is
fairly liberal. http://www.mayang.com/textures/

Mindgames. http://www.ihsan.biz/

C Wayne Owens' Movie & TV News is biased towards
SF and Fantasy film. http://www.movieandtvnews.com/

In 1966 my dad bought a console combination TV/AM/FM/Record
Player on easy terms from some slick looking people who were
set up on the side of the road just outside the front gate of Fort
Ord, California. The name on their bi-fold sign was Muntz
Television Discount. I had no idea I was viewing the last gasps
of a legend. The legend of Mad Man Earl Muntz.
http://www.americansportscars.com/muntz.html
http://www.8trackheaven.com/muntz.html
http://www.freeenterpriseland.com/MUNTZ.html
http://www.tvhistory.tv/1950-59-MUNTZ.htm
http://www.scripophily.net/muntztv.html
http://members.aol.com/miray/madmanmuntz.html
http://www.madmanmuntzmovie.com/
http://www.smecc.org/mad_man_muntz!.htm

A gaming site. http://www.lilgames.com/

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

Musician's Humor, Part XI

Q: How do you get a clarinetist out of a tree?
A: Cut the rope.

Q: What do you throw a drowning bass player?
A: His amp.

Q: How do you get a three piece horn section to play in tune?
A: Shoot two of them.

Q: What's the difference between a bull and a band?
A: The bull has the horns in the front and the bum in the back.

Q: How many vocalists does it take to screw in a bulb?
A: None. They hold the bulb over their head and the world revolves
around them.

Q: How many drummers does it take to screw in a bulb?
A: None, they have machines for that now.

Q: How can you tell if the stage is level?
A: The drool comes out of both sides of the drummers mouth.

Q: How do you get a trombonist off of your porch?
A: Pay him for the pizza.

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

http://www.geeks.com/pix/techtips.htm
http://www.ittips.com/
http://www.intel.com/education/journey/
http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/start/
http://www.classweb.hs.iastate.edu/tips/default.asp

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

Irving Stein is a subscriber and regular contributor to our ezine.
He's also one of the online computer experts at
http://www.allexperts.com where his identity is "Irving S".
You might also enjoy his thought provoking website:
http://www.irvings-info-page.cityslide.com
Here are some sites that Irving sent me for this issue:

Five cool Windows XP tips.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/homeusers/articles/5tips.mspx

Auto insurance tips. http://www.autoinsurancetips.com/

Best photos of 2005 from Time magazine.
http://www.time.com/time/yip/2005/

Microsoft Calculator Plus.http://snipurl.com/8wyy

Cute overload. http://cuteoverload.com/

Dear Webby's Humor Letter. http://webby.com/humor/

Need more online reading? Try ezine finder.
http://www.ezinefinder.com/index.html

Live webcams showing the construction of the Freedom
Tower at the World Trade Center redevelopment site.
http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/groundzero/

Guess the dictator. http://www.smalltime.com/dictator.html

Cloudeight Information Avenue is worth exploring.
http://thundercloud.net/infoave/

The Internet Patrol. http://www.aunty-spam.com/index.php

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:

Reporters Without Borders. http://www.rsf.org/

The 1900 Storm: Galveston, Texas. http://www.1900storm.com/

Amazing animals.
http://www.greenapple.com/~jorp/amzanim/menua.htm

Jo-Ann is a confirmed cat lover. http://www.amazingcatcollection.com/

The History of FEMA. http://www.fema.gov/about/history.shtm

Nixon in China. http://msittig.freeshell.org/imgs/nixon/
Some interesting wallpaper. http://msittig.freeshell.org/imgs/wallpaper/

Garden lore. http://www.exploratorium.edu/gardening/control/garden_lore/

Human Anatomy. http://www.innerbody.com/index.html

A place for geeks. http://www.innergeek.us/

The Law Library Reading Room (U.S. Library of Congress).
http://www.loc.gov/rr/law/

[donspatch] 2006-01-15

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