[donspatch] 2006-08-15
- From: "Don Guitar" <don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Don's Patch" <donspatch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 23:22:06 -0500
Don's Patch #52 from http://www.don-guitar.com August 15, 2006
First word, from Don:
Do you, or does someone you know, play a twelve-string guitar?
If so, I have a gift for you. I have one set of La Bella, Silk & Steel
710-12L, light gauge strings for twelve string guitar. I'll send them
to the first snail-mail address emailed to me by one of my readers.
The subject of your email should be "12 string guitar" and of course,
as always, you can contact me via the feedback form below.
Why am I giving away a set of guitar strings? Well I don't own a
twelve string guitar, I don't want to try to sell one set of strings on
ebay and I can't bear to throw them away. As you can see,
http://www.juststrings.com/lab-710-12l.html
they aren't exactly low end strings so I'd like it if someone could
"get the goody" out of them.
Don
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Website statistics are cool I guess but I really don't worry about
them. Bill Chambers, my web host, sends me a copy of them
every once in a while but I have trouble reading them. I also
know that some people care a great deal about them.
http://main.addfreestats.com/
I don't know who or where andamu is but I enjoyed reading
her blog. http://andamu.org/blog/
The American Psychological Association.
http://www.apahelpcenter.org/
Large corporations have always known that teenagers are big
spenders. Some teenagers have a clue as well.
http://www.ibuydifferent.org/
Changes which begin with teenagers can sometimes grow to
encompass all of society. The way we buy music, for one
example, is slowly changing. http://www.cdbaby.com/
The Museum of Online Museums.
http://www.coudal.com/moom.php
Were you planning to dig your old computer out of the closet and
pass it on to a charitable organization or a geek like me who's
experimenting with Linux? Here's how you can clean it before
you give it away. http://dban.sourceforge.net/
Is this like "vote for me or else"? http://www.democracynow.org/
This website is a good resource for Mac users.
http://www.differentdistrict.com/
I well recall that I started loosing peers to heart attacks when I
was in my mid-thirties. A support group created for, and by,
young stroke victims in the UK. http://www.differentstrokes.co.uk/
Discourses in Music. http://www.discourses.ca/
Electric Sheep is a (costless), open source screen saver run by
thousands of people all over the world. http://electricsheep.org/
Who wants a fast and (costless) website?
http://members.freewebs.com/
A gaming resource. http://www.gameinfowire.com/
The real Goth. http://members.aol.com/franzpoet/intro.html
I think it's a font oriented blog. http://helveti.ca/
Independent media. http://www.independisc.com/
Inside higher education. http://www.insidehighered.com/
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A virtual guide to Belarus.
http://www.belarusguide.com/main/index.html
Byzantine icons, frescoes and mosaics on the web.
http://www.iconsexplained.com/
Cactus adaptations to dry environments. Informative, well written.
http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/mauseth/ResearchOnCacti/index.htm
The International Carnivorous Plant Society.
http://www.sarracenia.com/faq.html
Archaeology, anthropology, & ancient civilizations. Vast,
comprehensive site. http://www.archaeolink.com/index.htm
Korean traditional archery. http://www.koreanarchery.org/
Some of the artwork on this site goes a little over the family-
friendly line, but we thought it was worth a visit anyway.
http://www.artdorks.com/collective/
A possible cause and cure for autism. http://generationrescue.org/
One light bulb has been burning for 105 years. See it in real-time.
http://www.centennialbulb.org/index.htm
Midi files of medieval, renaissance and traditional European music.
http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/emusic/
Collective nouns, (as in "a pride of lions").
http://rinkworks.com/words/collective.shtml
Or, my (Lisa's) own invention, "a google of geeks".
http://www.don-guitar.com/pni/googlegeeks.png
Remember Donkey Kong? It's still around, just as addictive as ever.
This one has sound. http://www.freeonlinegames.com/play/214.html
Have an analytical mind? Like to cook? http://snipurl.com/uuj8
I don't quite 'get' permanent cosmetics, but it's kind of
interesting. http://snipurl.com/uujc
The Cactus & Succulent Society of America.
http://www.cssainc.org/index.html
The site of a polymath, a joy to explore.
https://www.fourmilab.ch/
As true today as 126 years ago, this list of rules for
making money and, incidentally, living a satisfying life.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/barnum/moneygetting/
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This issue's collection of news/magazine/informational sites
(these are chosen for maximum diversity regardless of "spin" ).
http://www.americaneconomicalert.org/
http://www.eweek.com/
http://www.fcw.com/index.asp
http://www.openwyre.com/
http://www.opinionjournal.com/
http://www.pakistanpapers.com/
http://www.parade.com/
http://www.paranormalnews.com/
http://www.pcnr.com/
http://www.pcstats.com/
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/
http://www.post-gazette.com/
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Interesting reading anyway. http://www.keirsey.com/
Lay Liturgical Resources. http://www.layliturgy.com/
Ernie is a nerd. This is his blog.
http://www.littleyellowdifferent.com/
Some folks really love it. To me, it's just recycled music.
http://www.livelooping.org/
A kosher resource. http://www.meaningfullife.com/
I think it's a game. http://www.nexusatlas.com/
Where do we draw the line? http://www.novatix.com/Cyberhawk/
Musical explorations.
http://www.planetrockabilly.com/
http://www.electricearl.com/campi.html
http://www.rockabilly.net/
http://www.popmatters.com/
http://www.klezx.com/
I bought a used computer from retrobox. The price was very
reasonable, but I'm unable to install an operating system on
it. Their contention is that I'm experiencing a software problem
thus subject to an additional fee if they help me solve the
problem. My contention is that any special instructions needed
to install an operating system (of my choice) should have come
with the computer. Thus we have an impasse.
https://www.retrobox.com/rbwww/home/default.asp
Robert Finn is a nerd and science writer. This is his website.
http://www.nasw.org/finn/index.html]
It's just furniture. http://www.sixdifferentways.com/
A Soay is a rare sheep. http://www.soaysofamerica.org/
Can you spell 'bow wow' in Africaans?
http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/animals/
Scott Draves is another interesting nerd. http://draves.org/
Thinking differently. http://www.projectthinkdifferent.org/
Tristan Louis is a web-dev nerd. This is his site. http://www.tnl.net/
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Franz Masereel, (1889-1972), renowned woodcut artist, his
style has been emulated but never equaled.
http://www.graphicwitness.org/historic/fm.htm
A week of Garfield, every day, until we die.
http://permanent-monday.blogspot.com/
A commercial site with exceptional design.
http://www.gulladesign.com/
The Gullah language and culture.
http://www.coastalguide.com/gullah/
If you learn nothing else about imaging editors, learn how to
use the 'levels' feature. All your images can be improved upon.
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/levels.htm
All about Muppets, including the new character, Abby Cadabby.
http://www.muppetcentral.com/
Summer is a time for 'new food'. Check these out.
Navaho...http://waltonfeed.com/peoples/navajo/recipes/
Barbadian...http://members.tripod.com/~cawhite/
Phillippine...http://snipurl.com/uul7
Online news reader, RSS Directory and news search engine.
http://www.newsisfree.com/
NOAA Whether Radio. http://www.weather.gov/nwr/
Remember the future? Is it what you thought it would be?
http://www.retrofuture.com/
Ryan Tully, a gifted painter with a eye to the past.
http://www.ryantully.com/
The original form and temperament of Siamese cats is being
preserved. http://www.siamesekittens.com/index.html
All things supernatural, paranormal, and pseudoscientific.
http://skepdic.com/
The Space Food Sticks Preservation Society.
http://www.spacefoodsticks.com/spacefood/index.html
You can still buy them, and Astronaut Ice Cream, too!
http://www.funkyfoodshop.com/
Native American traditional storytelling.
http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/traditional.html
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Microcontrollers are essentially little computers and they're used
in numerous ways. Here's some microcontroller resources I
snagged from the San Antonio, Texas Linux Users Group.
http://www.phanderson.com/]
http://www.rev-ed.co.uk/picaxe/
http://basicx.com/
An image site for tornado chasers, weather photographers, sky
lovers and dreamers. http://www.chaseday.com/chaseday5.htm
A database of phylogenetic knowledge.
http://www.treebase.org/treebase/index.html
What's wrong with it? http://www.troubleshooters.com/
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
http://www.usccb.org/index.shtml
A useful site if you live in Scotland.
http://www.scottishvictimsofcrime.co.uk/
Here's some interesting artwork and wallpaper.
http://stahlforce.com/desktop/
Useful info from Lockergnome. http://snipurl.com/uuh4
I think I've mentioned Bert before. He's still weird.
http://bertc.com/recipes.htm
I don't normally list commercial sites but this one's weird
enough to warrant a look see. http://www.weirdstuff.com/
This was a question I had occasion to ask back in nineteen-mumble
when I was a student. http://whystudyeconomics.ac.uk/
Way back in the dark ages, pretty much the first time Bill Gates
ever demonstrated Windows 98 on camera, it crashed. This site
was born subsequent to that fateful event.
http://www.svlug.org/events/crash98.shtml
Resources for obsolete operating systems (like Win9x).
http://infohost.nmt.edu/~armiller/win98.htm
http://www.glencove.com/win95faq.htm
http://www.winstuff.de/
Wise-Women is a world-wide, online community of web
designers, developers and programmers.
http://www.wise-women.org/
Years ago I worked with a guy named Bob Corey who spoke
an understandable language, but it wasn't quite English.
He abused and misused all sorts of words and occasionally
even invented a new word. I found a place on the web where
one of Bob's words was well, even happily, received.
http://www.witwords.com/
The Bob-word I submitted was 'hormendous'
The Wondering Minstrels.
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/
Collection of Ambiguous or Inconsistent/Incomplete Statements.
http://www.gray-area.org/Research/Ambig/
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The Zulu people, long admired for their basketmaking skills,
have evolved a new form of basketry.
http://www.indigoarts.com/store1_telephone_1.html
Warriors, workers, whiners, and weasels.
http://blog.warriorsandweasels.com/
Have some fun, expose your weasel and win a prize.
http://www.exposeyourweasel.com/
Andy Warhol, an American original.
http://www.warhol.org/collections/archives.html
The Toughlove program has been helpful to many people.
http://www.toughlove.com/default.asp
Your local news, anywhere in the world.
http://www.topix.net/
Clear instructions on how to do (just about) everything.
http://www.ehow.com/
The Nature Conservancy's Tallgrass Prairie Preserve.
http://snipurl.com/uurt
Mythical American animals.
http://www.brucevanpatter.com/mythanimals.html
Artwork from the covers of Science Fiction Weekly.
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/gallery/gallery.html
A commercial site with lots of tips for your toes.
http://www.drfoot.co.uk/
The candy you ate as a kid. Even wax lips!
http://www.candyfavorites.com/shop/retro_candy.asp
This site will make you get out your knitting needles.
http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEsummer06/index.html
The Kids Habitat of the San Diego Natural History Museum.
http://www.sdnhm.org/
Informative, useful, unusual tips.
http://www.tipsofallsorts.com/
All about Mardi Gras.
http://www.neworleansonline.com/neworleans/mardigras/
Oddly enough, this site is a little hard on the eyes.
http://members.aol.com/WSRNet/D1/hist.htm
The philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, who believed that both
faith and reason discover truth. http://www.aquinasonline.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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Fox, tells you to use a "throwaway" email address when
you must register for anything online. Most of us find it
inconvenient to use web based email when, in comparison,
pop3 email is so convenient. Setting up an email client,
like Outlook Express, or Thunderbird, for pop3 email can
be fairly challenging but instructions are usually available
from the places which offer the service. Most everyone
knows about gmail, from google. They offer pop3 access
and there are detailed instructions on setting it up on
their website. We have some additional info on our
website. http://www.don-guitar.com/whygmail.html
Gmail is reliable, consistent, free of advertising and more
than worthy of use as your primary email provider so what
do you do for a throwaway address? One possibility is
Fastmail. They offer both (costless) and several tiers of
paid pop3 access. The (costless) version puts advertising
in all your emails but it's no more obtrusive than the ads
inserted by other providers who don't offer pop3 access
and you don't need an invitation from anyone to get an
account with fastmail. http://www.fastmail.fm/
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A little humor courtesy of my
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While attending a Marriage Seminar dealing with communication,
Tom and his wife Grace listened to the instructor, "It is essential
that husbands and wives know each other's likes and dislikes."
He addressed the man, "Can you name your wife's favorite flower?"
Tom leaned over, touched his wife's arm gently and whispered,
"It's Pillsbury, isn't it?
A man walks into a pharmacy and wanders up and down the
aisles. The sales girl notices him and asks him if she can help
him. He answers that he is looking for a box of tampons for his
wife. She directs him down the correct aisle. A few minutes
later, he deposits a huge bag of cotton balls and a ball of string
on the counter. She says, confused, "Sir, I thought you were
looking for some tampons for your wife? He answers, " You
see, it's like this, yesterday, I sent my wife to the store to get
me a carton of cigarettes, and she came back with a tin of
tobacco and some rolling papers; cause it's so much cheaper.
So, I figure if I have to roll my own, so does she.
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The Brevard User's Group, Florida's Oldest Computer Club.
Beginner's help. http://bugclub.org/beginners/
WUGNET - Computing Tips by Topic.
http://65.17.209.116/tips/topic.asp
Computer Troubleshooting Guide.
http://www.everythingcomputers.com/troubleg.htm
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From reader and friend Bill Lanoue
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Does anybody remember a really silly sitcom called
Hogan's Heroes? Here's the real-life, not at all silly
story which may have inspired the sitcom.
http://www.kerman94.com/tunnelharry.html
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A couple of links from my friend Bob Tegner.
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A well done costless apps portal.
http://www.mnsi.net/~jhlavac/freeware/
An online web-dev tool.
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
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From reader and friend, Irving Stein.
http://www.irvings-info-page.cityslide.com
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This popular tool has just been updated.
http://www.ccleaner.com/
A news thingy. http://www.dotso.com/
A friendly message. This one may have sound, I don't know
because I still don't have any sound on my computer thanks
to Windows update.
http://dingo.care-mail.com/cards/flash/5409/abc.swf
An open source keystroke launcher for Windows.
http://www.launchy.net/
What important dates do you always forget? Would you
mind some help? http://www.memotome.com/
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From my web sibling Jo-Ann Burton.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharinglinks2/
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The American Museum of Natural History. http://www.amnh.org/
Greek Mythology from the University of Melbourne and the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation. http://www.wingedsandals.com/
Learn about movie ratings. http://www.filmratings.com/
Budget (B) movie reviews. http://exclamationmark.typepad.com/
10 great moments in baseball superstition history.
http://snipurl.com/uvjh
Science of James Bond.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/jamesbond/
Break the chain. http://www.breakthechain.org/current.html
Prewar Blues. http://www.prewarblues.org/
Every day with Rachael Ray. http://www.rachaelraymag.com/
The 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.
http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/
The all-time best 100 movies.
http://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/the_complete_list.html
It's a doodle. http://www.swarmsketch.com/browse/2
It's a search engine. http://www.www.com/
Aliens behind world government (????).
http://www.thewatcherfiles.com/aliens-government.html
Political cartoons.
http://cartoonbox.slate.com/hottopic/?topicid=9&image=0
Wildlife Photographer of the Year. http://snipurl.com/uvkh
Bibliomysteries are mysteries that have settings, plots, or
substantial characters in them related to the world of books,
writers, archives, and libraries. http://www.bibliomysteries.com/
Exploring the Middle Ages.
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/middleages/contents.html
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MA/CONTENTS.HTM
An online, Middle Ages, Concentration game.
http://www.quia.com/cc/66097.html
Open Encyclopedia is an cousin to, or a sort of extension of,
the Wikipedia project. http://open-encyclopedia.com/
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From reader and friend Peter Ekkerman.
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A nice HTML learning resource. http://www.draac.com/
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From web sibling Vinette DePhillipe.
http://360.yahoo.com/vinette1
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Shoe Size to Sock Size Chart
http://www.knittinganyway.com/socks/sizechart.htm
Discontinued (vintage) yarns yardage & fiber contents.
http://www.vintageknits.com/vintyarn1.html
Thank you Bill, Bob, Irv, Jo, Peter and Vi.
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Last word, from Lisa:
This is the first summer I've tried gardening in Central
Texas, a proposition that gardening books and websites
describe as "challenging". Every once in awhile Don asks,
"Are you going to water in the dark again?" Well, it's
either dark or 104 degrees outside so, yeah, I am. OK,
testy moment over. It's just a matter of keeping plants
alive in the heat when it hasn't rained in Tow in a
couple of months. And a lawn? Sorry, grass is on its
own...
Adios,
Lisa
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Don Crowder and Lisa Miller
Monday, August 14, 2006
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