[donspatch] 2007-04-01
- From: "Don Guitar" <don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Don's Patch" <donspatch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 01:19:18 -0500
Don's Patch #67 from http://www.don-guitar.com Month, 1 , 2007
First word, from Don:
How many of you have blogs? Please send me a link to your blog
and tell me whether or not I'm allowed to publish a link to it
here
in the ezine. I'm still getting the hang of blogging but I'm
actually
beginning to enjoy it. If you don't have a blog, you should
consider
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Beginning of Section One, Prepared by Don.
I had something of an interesting adventure this week that
started with
and email, from my friend Bill Lanoue, entitled "Easter
Cancelled due to
unforeseen circumstances" with this image attached.
http://www.don-guitar.com/photos/CancelEaster.jpg
I decided to use it in the ezine so I went looking for a link and
couldn't
find the image anywhere on the web. This image is as close as I
could
get: http://www.zelan.be/files/Image/big/easter_cancelled.jpg
But the really shocking was something else I found with a google
search on the words "Easter Cancelled". This is weird, that's
all I can
think of to say about it. I'm sure there'll be some loud
repercussions.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3368731,00.html
http://snipurl.com/1dxpj
Anyone up for some positive news?
http://10things.wordpress.com/
A short list of anomalous sites.
http://anomalyinfo.com/
http://fusionanomaly.net/
http://www.anomalyarchives.org/
http://www.anomalycommunity.com/
Information on daily living, alcohol and aging from Madge.
http://www.askmadge.com/QueryQstAns.asp
I know we've got some readers who love history. This BBC site
rocks. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/
If you ever do much "messing about" with computers you're
eventually
going to run into a bios problem. What's the bios? I'm glad you
asked
that question. Here's a mini-feature on the topic.
http://www.computerhope.com/help/bios.htm
http://www.lostcircuits.com/advice/bios2/1.shtml
http://snipurl.com/1dux4
http://snipurl.com/1duxh
http://arstechnica.com/guides/tweaks/bios.ars
http://www.wimsbios.com/index.jsp
http://www.pcmech.com/bios.htm
http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/pcinfo/hardware/bios_sg/bios_sg.htm
http://www.sysopt.com/features/mboard/article.php/3549966
http://www.sysopt.com/tutorials/article.php/3552476
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Beginning of Section Two, Prepared By Lisa
A site especially for newbies. http://www.newbie.net/
All kinds of sewing projects. http://www.100sewinglinks.com/
Webmaster resources and tools. http://www.321webmaster.com/
A wonderfully talented and original entertainer,
Charley Pride has entertained generations of Americans.
http://www.charleypride.com/
Gord Braun, acoustic guitarist, has a nice page and some
good music to listen to. Thanks, Gord.
http://users.accesscomm.ca/gbraun/guitar/
The world's top web sites. http://snipurl.com/1dxqg
Dr. Amar Bose is a very interesting person.
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/bose.html
http://discovermagazine.com/2004/oct/discover-dialogue
Ideas and practical advice for a child's first garden.
http://snipurl.com/1dxqx
This site is a treasure-trove of info.
http://www.usmint.gov/index.cfm?flash=yes
Robert Shetterly has painted portraits of Americans who,
each in their own way, have shaped our country and our
lives. Great idea, good art. http://snipurl.com/1dxre
I just love the name of this site, but it looks
useful, too. http://www.weeno.com/
Traditional Boats & Tall Ships magazine.
http://www.tallship.co.uk/
A video blog I like very much, Beach Walks With Rox.
http://www.beachwalks.tv/
Government info for business. http://www.business.gov/
A site dedicated to Jane Austin addicts.
http://www.pemberley.com/
L.L.Bean's Park Search lists the world's parks.
http://www.llbean.com/parksearch/
Van Gogh's letters were an insight into the man
and his times. http://webexhibits.org/vangogh/
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At the time this issue was posted,
the current subscriber count for
this publication was 389.
This issue's collection of news,
magazine, and/or informational
sites (chosen for maximum
diversity regardless of "spin" ).
http://www.americanchronicle.com/AMchronDefault.asp
http://www.americanidol.com/
http://www.anomalynews.com/
http://www.anomalyradio.com/
http://www.autodogmatic.com/
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/
http://www.thebusinessofamericaisbusiness.biz/
http://ceruleansanctum.com/
http://www.eagleharborweb.net/
http://www.ecologicalrestoration.info/
http://www.greendiary.com/
http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/
http://flyinghamster.com/
Beginning of Section Three, Prepared by Don.
A CD burning utility. http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
Statistics on U.S. cities. http://www.city-data.com/
A nice Classical guitar resource. http://www.classicalguitar.nl/
On the topic of pottery. http://www.potters.org/categories.htm
Donna and Lannie are dabblers. http://www.dabbler.com/
Say it in dialect. http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/
Shawn Wallace is Doodlegirl. http://www.doodlegirl.com/
EdITLib Digital Library for Information Technology and
Education. http://www.editlib.org/
A pair of registry tools.
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
A video conversion utility. http://flaskmpeg.sourceforge.net/
Cool stuff for Mac users.
http://www.freemacware.com/some-of-our-favorites/
Google Reader constantly checks your favorite news sites
and blogs for new content. www.google.com/reader
Grazr.com offers free upload and hosting for feeds and OPML
outlines. http://www.grazr.com/
Greg Hanover's rather technical blog.
http://www.secondnegative.com/
A book reader for Windows CE. http://haali.cs.msu.ru/pocketpc/
Happy Tree Friends animations are, not exactly X-rated but due to
violent content they have this message attached: "not
recommended
for small children or big babies".
http://mondo.happytreefriends.com/
Here are seven applications, six of which are without cost, one
of which,
Ultimate CD/DVD Burner, while it has no help files and isn't
especially
intuitive, seems to work very nicely.
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Thinking of outsourcing? Here's an opportunity to make
a difference. http://www.prideindustries.com/
Sample business letters for any purpose.
http://www.4hb.com/letters/
Thousands of photos of people, places and things.
http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/
A firsthand account of the Boston Massacre.
http://ahp.gatech.edu/preston_boston_mass_1770.html
NPR's quiz show "Wait, wait, don't tell me!"
http://www.npr.org/programs/waitwait/
Zen stories. www.rider.edu/~suler/zenstory/whytell.html
You look like you need some home made candy.
http://www.123easyaspie.com/candy.html
http://completerecipes.com/candies1.htm
Costless goodies. http://snipurl.com/1duwg
Steffen Gerlach has some goodies here.
http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/
Where is Maggie V? http://snipurl.com/1duwy
Useful apps and utilities. http://snipurl.com/1duxm
Bink's Resource Page for woodworking.
http://www.binkyswoodworking.com/Links.htm
K-12 resources for music educators.
http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/music/k-12music/
A nice app from Koyabashi Software.
http://www.kobayashi.com/prolix.html
A tech community for sharing ideas and bringing
ideas to market. http://linkdup.com/
The next generation Windows Notepad.
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~fidgety/
Yankee Magazine online.
http://www.yankeemagazine.com/travel/index.php
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Remedy is an interesting and costless little magazine that I've
mentioned
before/ This is its companion website.
http://www.healthyupdates.com/
Before you start complaining, learn how.
http://www.howtocomplain.com/
An interesting article, by Susan C. Daffron, on writing an HTML
ezine.
http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=268
A nicely sorted list of goodies. http://freeware.it-mate.co.uk/
Right next to the "Home" button on the navigation bar one of my
very
favorite words leads to some nice ions.
http://iconfactory.com/home
Over 59,000 nonprofit and community organizations in 165
countries,
which you can search or browse by name, location, or mission.
http://www.idealist.org/index.html
Melissa Kaplan's herp and green iguana information collection.
http://www.anapsid.org/
Infomotions image gallery. http://infomotions.com/gallery/
Set up a forum for your group or hobby.
http://invisionfree.com/
While StoryStream and Nexus are a little over my head, Stick
looks
like something the average XP user might find interesting.
http://www.iwonderdesigns.com/?q=node/1
Reviews from art critic, John Haber. http://www.haberarts.com/
Kathryn Andersen is a geeky, cool lady. http://www.katspace.org/
Leave it to Beaver. http://www.leaveittobeaver.org/
Silly cute film clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYKl8DTGCfs
Little Saxham, Suffolk, England, population 80. Saaaaaalute!
http://www.little-saxham.suffolk.gov.uk/about/index.shtml
I think it's about music and movies. http://www.liveplasma.com/
Frank Zappa was a vague figure from the extreme fringe in the 60s
and his website seems to be undergoing reconstruction.
http://www.zappa.com/
while this odd little URL seems to be a fan site (I think).
http://www.killuglyradio.com/
In search of a live journal? http://www.ljseek.com/
How about a virtual pen pal? http://www.mailfriends.com/
Years ago, when I first ventured onto the web, one of the first
media
files a new online friend talked me into downloading, which took
a
very long time on a dial up connection was a copy of Sean Morey's
Man Song. Here's the lyrics.
http://www.seanmorey.com/mansong.html
Here's a nice shockwave presentation of the song.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~thoffman/videos/mansong.swf
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Beginning of Section Six, Prepared By Lisa.
The ballpoint pen, art, and how-to-do-it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballpoint_pen
http://www.biro-art.com/gallery.html
http://www.galleryrenee.com/TCHNBLPNT.html
Would you like your computer to sound like computers in
movies? Cool! http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nbeep/
Roy's Amazing Hobby Links.
http://www.roysamazinglinks.com/Hobby.html
Search tools for web sites. http://www.searchtools.com/
Hold on to your money. http://www.thefrugalshopper.com/
An interesting text editor with a few extra features.
http://www.wolosoft.com/en/superedi/
The world's best house-of-cards builder.
http://www.cardstacker.com/index2.html
Clear answers for common questions.
http://www.wisegeek.com/
I did some of these, but I was alone at the time.
Not telling which ones. http://rinkworks.com/stupid/
Build your own cheap computer. http://snipurl.com/1edtv
Women in computer science. Check out the humor pages.
http://cs.wheatoncollege.edu/pathways/index.html
WordTabs, a text editor with extras.
http://www.aaafreebies.com/programs/wordtabs.htm
Lots of useful, costless apps. http://snipurl.com/1edvk
Utility for batch conversion of image files.
http://www.wavelsoftware.com/pic2pic.htm
Quick and easy way to track your money.
http://www.waverlystreet.com/freeware.html
A web developer's library. http://wdvl.com/
End of Section Six.
Websites everyone should know
about. These aren't sponsors,
they're the best of Internet
publications and we highly
recommend them all.
http://askTCL.com
http://www.langa.com
http://windowssecrets.com/
http://www.lockergnome.com
http://www.scotsnewsletter.com
http://www.tricksandtrinkets.com
http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html
The Linux Corner.
Would you like some help selecting the best Linux
distro for your needs? http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/
Microsoft has been gearing up to compete with Linux for
quite some time now. http://snipurl.com/1elvc
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/247804
Open talk about Open Source and Linux.
http://radio.linuxquestions.org/
Linux news, reviews, howtos, guides & gear.
http://www.linuxlookup.com/
A source for Linux torrents. http://blog.linuxtracker.org/
Turn your computer into a so-called HTPC (Home Theater PC) or
Media
Center with a live CD. http://www.geexbox.org/en/index.html
GoboLinux is an alternative Linux distribution which redefines
the entire
filesystem hierarchy. http://www.gobolinux.org/
Wanna learn Linux? http://www.justlinux.com/
CRUX is a lightweight, i686-optimized Linux distribution targeted
at
experienced Linux users. http://crux.nu/Main/HomePage
Debian Planet (news site).
http://www.debianplanet.org/index.php
This will probably become a good resource for anyone using Debian
or a Debian-derived distro. http://blog.thedebianuser.org/
I recently indulged myself by purchasing an enormous stack of
Linux
distros on CDs. http://www.edmunds-enterprises.com/
Linux tutorials(and more) from Groovyweb.
http://www.groovyweb.uklinux.net/
Of the many Linux distros we've tried, PCLinuxOS is our favorite
but
it won't run on older hardware so I was excited to learn about
SAM,
the XFce version of PCLinuxOS and I'm looking forward to giving
it
a try. http://sam.hipsurfer.com/news.php
A Little Humor.
A lot of folks can't understand how we came
to have an oil shortage here in our country.
Well, there's a very simple answer.
Nobody bothered to check the oil.
We just didn't know we were getting low.
The reason for that is purely geographical.
Our oil is located in Alaska, California
Coastal Florida, Coastal Louisiana, Kansas,
Michigan, North Dakota, Oklahoma,
Pennsylvania, and Texas while our dipsticks
are located in Washington, DC.
Tips for This Issue.
Ask Leo Notenboom. http://ask-leo.com/
Tweaks for all versions of Windows from Doug Knox.
http://www.dougknox.com/
Hardware data. http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/
Linux hardware data.
http://www.linuxhardware.org/
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/
Linux tips. http://www.linux-tips.net/
Contributions From Our Readers.
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 our web sibling Jo-Ann (Jo) Burton:
( Jo's site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharinglinks2/ )
Jumpstart your creative side. http://creatingminds.org/
All about chocolate. http://www.fieldmuseum.org/chocolate/
Science blogs. http://scienceblogs.com/
Aaron Schmidt's Walking Paper. http://www.walkingpaper.org/
An intriguing intelligence test.
http://intelligence-test.net/part1/
A nice collection of printable papers.
http://www.incompetech.com/beta/plainGraphPaper/
If you have effective pop-up blocking software, Mr Wong's site is
an interesting place to explore http://www.mrwong.de/index1.htm
if only to see the webs tallest (virtual) building.
http://www.mrwong.de/myhouse/
From our web sibling Patrick Barden.
( http://rrwbushangel.blogspot.com/ )
6 billion others is media-intense but very interesting if your
connection is fast enough to make it worth waiting for.
http://www.6billionothers.org/index_en.php
Dude, Firefox rocks, AOL sucks. Don't take my word; check for
yourself. http://sucks-rocks.com/
Business opportunities from our web sibling Hugh Davis.
http://www.business-opportunities.biz/
A disquieting flash presentation from our web sibling Jerry Fox.
http://www.flashdemo.net/gallery/wake/index.htm
From our web sibling Bill Lanoue.
( Bill's blog [mature topics] http://ncvietvet.blogspot.com/ )
Fun with balloons. http://www.balloonhq.com/photos/db/
Home of Heroes. http://www.homeofheroes.com/index.html
Bill is a notorious forwarder-of-jokes. I liked this one so I
found it
on a website. http://jadedmyrrhmaid.livejournal.com/tag/jokes
Obtaining a Veteran's Military Personnel File.
http://www.homeofheroes.com/valor/replacement_medals.html
Um, if you work in a crowded, stressful environment it might
be wise to turn off your cellphone (a YouTube video).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLKFdOwkdG8
From our web sibling John Lepse.
Lots of geeky-cool stuff at TED. http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/
Gizmo's 46 favorite (costless applications).
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm
From our friend Irving Stein.
Cloudeight's Information Avenue is a good resource for
Windows users. http://thundercloud.net/infoave/
Very nice multimedia presentations from the JPL.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/
An interesting personality quiz. http://www.personaldna.com/
Ok, so you hit Ctrl, Alt, Delete on your Win2K or XP machine,
clicked
on Task Manager, and selected the Processes tab. What the heck
is
all that stuff? Here's a place that might help you find out.
http://www.processlibrary.com/
Pure-Essence seems to be an intelligent and sensitive woman.
This
is her blog. http://pure-essence.net/
Thank you Jo, Patrick, Hugh, Jerry, Bill, John and Irv.
Last word, from Lisa:
It's been a fun couple of weeks, diving into new gardening and
yard
projects. For the first time since I moved here, we're getting
rain almost
every day for two weeks. In Central Texas this is a rare and
wonderful
thing. The lawns and gardens are going nuts. In July and August
when
the temps are 105 degrees and it hasn't rained in two months,
we'll look
back wistfully and remember when the lawn squished when we walked
on it.
Continuing with the Master Gardener's course is a joy, I'm
learning
quickly with every class. I just love studying as an adult.
It's as
though everything sinks in and just makes sense, finally.
Life is good, love is wonderful.
Lisa
[Amen, let the good times roll *grin* - Don]
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Lisa at myspace.com. http://www.myspace.com/81825549
Lisa's blog. http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/dirtgoddess
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Don's blog. http://blog.myspace.com/donguitar
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Don Crowder and Lisa Miller
Sunday, April 1, 2007
1:15 AM CST - Buchanan Lake Village, Texas, USA
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