Don's Patch #55 from http://www.don-guitar.com October 1, 2006 First word, from Don: Reader Ken Thomson, of San Francisco, California says You are so right about these frauds. I get a fraudulent pump and dump stock fraud letters at the rate of 5 or 6 per day. I always forward them to the SEC with complete headers to: enforcement@xxxxxxx I get phony letters (claiming to be) from PayPal or Ebay once a month. I follow the rule: No matter what, don't do anything for 48 hours. I forward them with complete headers to spoof@xxxxxxxxxx or spoof@xxxxxxxx Editor's Note: The easiest way to make sure you've forwarded an email with complete headers is to simply forward it as an attachment. To do this in Outlook Express or Sylpheed-Claws, right-click on the email in your Inbox and select 'Forward as Attachment'. In Thunderbird, click the email once, to select it, then, at the top of the screen, click on 'Message' scroll down to 'Forward As', across to, and click on 'Attachment'. In Kmail, right-click on the email in your inbox, scroll down to 'Forward', across to, and click on "As Attachment". Don Don's feedback form: http://www.don-guitar.com/contactme.html Lisa's feedback form: http://www.don-guitar.com/lfefo.html Our personal news page. http://www.don-guitar.com/babbleon.html Don at myspace.com http://www.myspace.com/donguitar Don's blog. http://blog.myspace.com/donguitar Lisa at myspace.com. http://www.myspace.com/81825549 Lisa's blog. http://blog.myspace.com/81825549 ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª I think this is about poetry. http://www.patacriticism.org/index2.html Some interesting art sites. http://www.artxpo.com/ http://www.magnetreps.com/ A couple of interesting articles. 'Genes, Cells and Organisms are not Corporate Property'. http://hornacek.coa.edu/dave/Reading/patents.html 'Cloning Sheep: Converting Life Forms Into Corporate Property' http://hornacek.coa.edu/dave/Reading/king.html Does anyone remember Bob Burwell, the Boomerang man? http://www.users.bigpond.com/robertburwell/index.html Interesting things to read, gathered by web wanderer Jason Mortensen. http://www.paisleynet.com/interesting/ More from Jason. http://www.paisleynet.com/ Cool old photos of Canton, Ohio. http://www.cityofcanton.com/historic.html Federation of American Scientists. http://www.fas.org/main/home.jsp American Indian history. http://www.danielnpaul.com/ A toy for programmers. http://www.opencroquet.org/ Some goodies from Kenny Kerr. http://www.kennyandkarin.com/Kenny/CodeCorner/Tools/ Here's a sport that hasn't made it to prime time yet but clearly has a large number of international fans. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet http://www.hickoksports.com/history/croquet.shtml http://www.croquetworld.com/home.asp http://croquet.adfa.edu.au/croquetweb/ http://www.croquetamerica.com/home.asp http://www.croquet.org.uk/ http://www.croquet-australia.com.au/ http://www.croquet.ca/ http://www.mauicroquetclub.org/history/index.htm http://www.croquet.org.nz/ Current Skyline from Scobee Planetarium. http://www.accd.edu/sac/ce/scobee/skyline.htm A nice collection of Linux resources. http://www.devdaily.com/Dir/Linux/ Web-Dev resource from the same source. http://www.devdaily.com/ ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª This publication is only mailed to verified double opt-in subscribers, and is brought to you by me, Don Crowder, my wife, Lisa Miller, and //www.freelists.org ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª It's well known there are fewer women than men in the fields of science and technology, though there is a lot of interest and talent. 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So do many other Americans. http://www.czimages.com/ A Salute to the Paratroopers of the 40's. http://home.hiwaay.net/~magro/paraww2.html People doing stuff about the things they feel are important. http://www.planetfriendly.net/ I don't get it really but you might, so you should check it out. http://www.thawte.com/secure-email/personal-email-certificates/ A strange home page where you may have to scroll down a lot once it's loaded and it's a commercial site but you can view some very interesting images if you're patient. http://www.oceanlight.com/ An interesting slideshow. http://www.photomeonline.co.uk/ Canada's Public Knowledge Project. http://pkp.sfu.ca/ ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª Archives for this ezine are available online here: //www.freelists.org/archives/donspatch/ The current issue is also available on our website. http://www.don-guitar.com/currentissue.html RSS feed is available via this link. //www.freelists.org/archives/donspatch/feed.rss ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª Chat with anyone who visits your website! http://www.meebome.com/ (we just put a couple of these on our site) http://www.don-guitar.com/MeeboWidget.html Edible, medicinal and useful plants. http://www.pfaf.org/index.html Positive atheism. http://www.positiveatheism.org/ News, articles and resources about prisons across the US. http://www.prisonwall.org/ Over 40 programming tutorials. http://www.webbasedprogramming.com/ Our old friend, Johannes Wallroth has redesigned his website and added some new goodies. http://www.programming.de/index.php Interesting, though a little off-the-wall. http://www.bopsecrets.org/ Crossword puzzles from USA Today. http://puzzles.usatoday.com/ Open-source software for parallel virtual machines (PVM). http://www.csm.ornl.gov/pvm/ For a quick group discussion, easy set-up message board. http://www.quicktopic.com/ An interesting blog. http://www.radioblogger.com/ Cool radio museum. http://www.rolaa.de/sehensw/radio/bilder/bilder_e.htm Review and rate just about everything. http://www.rateitall.com/ You can never have too many recipes. http://www.recipezaar.com Ever think you might have a gambling problem? http://www.ncpgambling.org/about_problem/about_problem_faq.asp http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/329/7474/1055 Just in case you're not up on your Goth, this is your odd bit for the day. http://snipurl.com/2ll5 ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª 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 ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª I'm not going to take a public stand one way or the other on WGA, but here is some potentially useful information. http://snipurl.com/xmpr A nice one for information junkies. http://www.resourceshelf.com/ Recycling with a corporate mentality. http://www.rmi.org/ TLD codes tell you a URL's country of origin. http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm Rosegarden is a professional audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment. http://rosegardenmusic.com/ Music notation for everyone. http://lilypond.org/web/ A Sysadmin's Unixersal Translator (Rosetta Stone) <or> What do they call that in this world? http://bhami.com/rosetta.html The Royal Society of Victoria. http://www.sciencevictoria.org.au/ I think these guys are just trying to pedal something. http://www.rusty-spokes.com/ A Linux resource. http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz In his own words; "The writer of this blog is an extremely cynical, snarky, pro-US, secular, libertarian, disgruntled sandmonkey. http://www.sandmonkey.org/ Back in nineteen-mumble, my then-girlfriend Randi Simon and I, at her adamant insistence, made a trip to San Francisco, California (from Fort Ord, where each of our families lived) to see an odd and eclectic solo performer named Sandi Bull. http://www.globalvillageidiot.net/bull.htm http://www.headbutler.com/music/sandy_bull.asp http://www.ibiblio.org/mal/MO/philm/sandybull/friends.html http://www.nndb.com/people/902/000049755/ The National Academy of Sciences, India. http://www.nasi.org.in/ Sesame Street Parents. http://www.sesameworkshop.org/parents/ Beyond the notion that it's supposed to be a programming language which even a child can learn, what really intrigues me about Smalltalk is the fact that it's been around in one form or another since 1960. http://www.smalltalk.org/main/ ============== Humor ============= A little humor courtesy of my web sibling, Vinette Dephillipe. The Silent Treatment A man and his wife were having some problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment. Suddenly, the man realized that the next day, he would need his wife to wake him at 5:00 AM for an early morning business flight. Not wanting to be the first to break the silence (and lose), he wrote on a piece of paper, "Please wake me at 5:00 AM." He left it where he knew she would find it. The next morning, the man woke up, only to discover it was 9:00 AM and he had missed his flight. Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife hadn't wakened him, when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed. The paper said, "It is 5:00 AM. Wake up." Men are not equipped for these kinds of contests. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here's one from reader Andy. Last night, my wife and I were sitting in the living room talking about many things. The idea of a living will came up and I said to her, "I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle. If I ever come to that just pull the plug." She got up, unplugged the TV and then threw out my beer. ============== Tips =============== Computer Tech Support. http://www.pchelpforum.com/ PC Lube and Tune. http://pclt.cis.yale.edu/pclt/ The Journey Inside, engaging technology to explain technology (from Intel). http://www.intel.com/education/journey/ ======== Reader Contributions ========= Links from readers are always welcome and you can even write your own link descriptions if you like. Guidelines are available here: http://www.don-guitar.com/descriptivetext.html ================================= From reader and friend Jerry Fox. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This flight simulator uses maps from google. http://www.isoma.net/games/goggles.html An Amateur Radio, LF resource. http://www.vlf.it/frequency/bands.html Editor's Note: What's LF? http://www.vlf.it/frequency/bands.html A corporate "Yeah, but". http://snipurl.com/xoh7 1960's musical nostalgia. Warning: Imbedded sound files. http://oldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm ================================= From reader and friend, Irving Stein. http://www.irvings-info-page.cityslide.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A cute little video (best with a fast connection). http://www.nationx.dk/coats/ A tool for Windows. http://snipurl.com/xoj9 Need a wake up call? http://telepixie.com/ Computer tips. http://www.davescomputertips.com/ A popular tool for Windows. http://www.ccleaner.com/ A tech shopping resource. http://www.antirebate.com/ ================================= From my web sibling Jo-Ann Burton. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharinglinks2/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Reading Groups can be loads of fun. You gather together with a group of folks and read and discuss books of all kinds. Some groups plan events around certain books like trips to places associated with the book or they have themed meals that go along with the book. Some invite the author to the event and some even go to the place were the story takes place. Many book publishers offer free reading group guides for books that they publish http://us.penguingroup.com/static/html/readingguides/ http://www.harpercollins.com/readers.asp http://snipurl.com/xojs http://www.twbookmark.com/books/reading_guides.html http://www.stmartins.com/smp/rgg.html http://www.wwnorton.com/trade/rgg.htm http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/readers_guides/ Book Review magazines have reading group guides available at their online sites. http://snipurl.com/xok8 http://snipurl.com/xoka Authors, like Tracy Chevalier who wrote among other things, "Girl With a Pearl Earring" offer reading group guides at their official sites. http://www.tchevalier.com/guides/ or Jan Karon's Mitford books http://www.mitfordbooks.com/rgg.asp This site is full of the sort of tasteless and tacky humor that kids seem to love. http://www.brothersgrinn.com/ Multiplayer online gaming. http://www.spogg.com/ Put words in GWB's mouth. http://snipurl.com/nnd9 You may wish you'd never learned this. http://www.blifaloo.com/info/lies.php Doug Mann has made a photographic record of his travels. (Warning: not 100% family friendly). http://www.photomann.com/ A TV show Jo likes. http://www.cbs.com/primetime/ncis/ ================================= From reader and friend John Lepse. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Celestia is a free space simulation which lets you explore our universe in three dimensions (Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X). http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ John has mentioned this cool blog before but it's worth another mention and, for that matter, a visit. http://masthead.blogspot.com/ Picture History is a wonderful, if sometimes disquieting site. http://www.picture-history.com/ ================================= From reader and friend Ken Thomson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Some consumer resources. http://www.jdpower.com/ http://www.consumersearch.com/ http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/index.htm http://www.epinions.com/ http://presentpicker.com/ppp/ ================================= From reader and friend Lee Parmeter. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The creation of the Unix* Operating System.. http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/ The robtex swiss army knife internet tool (seriously geeky stuff). http://www.robtex.com/ ================================= From reader and friend Patrick Barden. http://rrwbushangel.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This site isn't entirely family friendly but Patrick said he'd take the rap for mentioning it (and Lisa loved it). http://www.engrish.com/ A search thingumbob Patrick likes. http://www.bookmarklets.com/mk.phtml Who's calling you? http://whocalled.us/ Willard Wigan's wonderful art. http://www.willard-wigan.com/index.html Of this site, Patrick said; "It's like Myspace or Xanga but with the focus on Christian teens. It is intensely evangelistic. Not for everyone. http://www.battlecry.com/ ================================= From reader and friend Tony Bromeland. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'd call this an odd sort of shopping resource. http://graveyardmall.com/index.html Thank you Jerry, Irv, Jo, John, Ken, Lee, Patrick and Tony. ================================= Last word, from Lisa: Uh-oh, made dumb mistake. I ask Don lots of questions while we sit and work and play on the computers, so occasionally I'll leave him be for awhile and just do something that seems harmless, but isn't. I was looking at a newbie-Linux site and left an encouraging message in a guestbook, told Don I'd never done that before but felt moved to do so. He asked, "You didn't leave your email address, did you?!" "Ummm...yeah, I did." Then he explained web spiders can find your email address and cram your mailbox with spam, making that address useless. He did the same thing long ago. *sigh* That's my main account. I felt a little better when he said he'd done the same thing quite some time ago. Now if I get three hundred emails tomorrow I'll have to notify my bank, insurance, computer club, etc. that my email address has changed. *argh* The perils of computing... The fun of learning Linux... It'll balance out--really. 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