[donspatch] 2007-10-15
- From: "Don Crowder" <don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Don's Patch" <donspatch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:17:13 -0500
Don's Patch #80 from http://www.don-guitar.com October 15, 2007
First word, from Don:
Mike Rubbo is Olive's 'ghost writer' (he writes her blog for her).
Olive is going to be 108 years old on October 20th. Here's her
blog: http://www.allaboutolive.com.au/
Ronni Bennett...
http://www.timegoesby.net/weblog/about2.html
...is hoping lots of folks will participate in her plan to wish Olive
a happy birthday....
http://www.timegoesby.net/weblog/2007/10/its-not-everyda.html
Lisa and I plan to participate and we hope you will too.
Saturday (10-13) I met my friend George Miller in Stephenville (TX).
George lives in Wichita Falls, which is about five hours from Tow
(where Lisa and I live). Stephenville is about halfway between us
which made it a convenient meeting place. We took in a big flea
market called "The Chicken House" (where I bought a couple of
books) and had lunch at Chili's (which was really good). George
gave me some old computers which I'll fix up (with Linux) and
give away (thanks George).
Tomorrow, October 16, is my birthday. I'll be 59 so it's not even
a 'significant' birthday but that's ok, I'll feel better if you send me
a hello, complaint, question or comment. You know you want to
but you keep putting it off so now you have a good excuse. You
can make your comment and wish me a happy birthday too.
How about it?
Don
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Section One by Don.
Luzius Schneider's extensive educational and Christian
resources. http://www.luziusschneider.com/Engindex.html
If you happen to have an S60 Smart Phone (I don't), this is
a pretty cool website. http://www.s60tips.com/
M.C. Escher's black and white photography is as timeless as
it is incredible. http://www.mcescher.com/
Here's an FTP archive of Escher's work
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pictures/art/M.C.Escher/
Goodies from Vasilio. http://www.vasileios.gr/freesoft/
Goodies for pocket pc.
http://www.webbyforever.com/PPCFinder.aspx
http://pachome1.pacific.net.sg/~welic/claunch.html
http://www.freewareppc.com/
http://mypaq.net/mobilesoft/wimr/
PDA and smartphone news and reviews.
http://www.brighthand.com/
Stuff from TeraByte Unlimited.
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.html
We're using Comodo's firewall on Lisa's laptop and have been
very impressed with it. We haven't tried any other Comodo
products but they certainly look impressive.
http://www.comodo.com/products/free_products.html
This clock tell you the time, out loud, in any of several languages.
It's a shame they don't make one of these that will only tell you
the time when you ask. http://www.lux-aeterna.com/clock/
Need encryption? http://www.truecrypt.org/
How about statistical computing? http://www.r-project.org/
Moor produces some very useful things.
http://www.moor-software.com/0.php?lang=English&page=welkom.php
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Section Two by Lisa
So far, these are the best HTML and CSS tutorials I've
read. I'm looking forward to the PHP and Javascript
tutorials. http://www.tizag.com/
Create and save a snowflake!
http://snowflakes.barkleyus.com
An amazing video of animals at play.
http://animalsatplay.notlong.com
Nothing to do? Click and scroll for more of
the same. http://www.papertoilet.com/
Word Documents can contain all sorts of extra data,
commonly referred to as "metadata". This costless app
can produce an analysis of any Word document to show
what metadata it contains and 'scrub' the doc clean.
http://www.docscrubber.com/
An interesting personal site.
http://www.lazylaces.com/default.asp
A huge web design resources site.
http://www.dynamicgraphics.com/
The history of the 20-mule borax teams.
http://www.desertusa.com/mag05/jul/borax.html
What you can do with baking soda.
http://www.armhammer.com
What is washing soda? http://washsoda.notlong.com
Clean things with vinegar.
http://www.vinegartips.com/cleaning/
Job and resume site for veterans.
http://www.militaryhire.com/
Some very nice costless apps from Jakub Noniewcz.
http://www.noniewicz.com/index.php
Pick up your email quickly and easily.
http://www.mail2web.com/
Another little NotePad replacement app.
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~fidgety/
Anti-authoritarian political opinion, research,
news and humor. http://eatthestate.org/
Sam the Sham and The Pharoahs. Go to 'Lyrics
and Sound' for some samples.
http://www.robert-kruse.com/samudio/intro.html
Big Ben on your PC. Sounds of Big Ben every
quarter-hour. http://web.ukonline.co.uk/kpj.jones/
End of Section Two.
At the time this issue was posted,
the current subscriber count for
this publication was 385.
This issue's collection of news,
magazine, and/or informational
sites (chosen for maximum
diversity regardless of "spin" ).
Section Three by Don.
How Software Companies Die by Orson Scott Card.
http://home.netcom.com/~casandra/alice/howsoftware.html
Smiley Lore :-). http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/sefSmiley.htm
In the Beginning was the Command Line.
http://garote.bdmonkeys.net/commandline/index.html
A pretty awesome resource for teachers.
http://www.canteach.ca/index.html
The Dying Earth is a role playing game. http://www.dyingearth.com/
Changing Minds dot org. http://www.changingminds.org/index.htm
News and reviews for Macs, gaming, mobile, chip technology and
more. http://www.geek.com/
A very interesting view of two different 1 GB data storage devices. The
larger of the two is 20 years old. http://sd4.sd-lj.si/diggit/20yago.jpg
Aces and aircraft of WW1.
http://www.theaerodrome.com/
http://www.acepilots.com/wwi/main.html
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Bunker/3017/air.html
http://www.wwi-models.org/
http://ww1-aircraft.info/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/redbaron/
Want more on WW1 aircraft? Here's a nice portal.
http://mamacass.ucsd.edu/people/pblanco/ww1_aviation.html
The history of aviation. http://www.century-of-flight.net/
Unofficial history of the Australian and New Zealand armed
services. http://www.diggerhistory.info/
Want to get rid of duplicate files on your Windows machine?
http://www.bigbangenterprises.de/en/doublekiller/
DIY with attitude. http://www.hacknmod.com/index.php
CourtTV Crime Library. http://www.crimelibrary.com/
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Section Four by Lisa.
EditCrypt is an edit tool that allows you to export
to PDF, encrypt text, and more features.
http://www.eskiso.net/editcrypt.htm
Camille Pissarro, Impressionist painter, bio and images.
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/P/pissarro.html
I've been impressed by SciTE, a source code
editor for Windows and Linux.
http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/SciTE.html
Ever wonder what Web robots are?
http://www.robotstxt.org/
Costless CGI scripts. http://www.scriptarchive.com/
Lesotho, a landlocked, mountainous kingdom near the
southern tip of Africa, is a fascinating place.
http://bbclesotho.notlong.com
http://www.kingdomgateway.co.ls/
This one's been around for awhile, but I'm glad it's
still here. Makes me smile everytime.
http://bbspot.com/News/2000/4/MS_Buys_Evil.html
Animated flags of the world.
http://www.atlasgeo.net/flags/Eindex.htm
You can find Dave Barry columns here. That's my
contribution to humanity. http://davebarry.com/
Maths online, an amazing array of learning
materials for school and distance learning.
Check out the cool online tools!
http://www.univie.ac.at/future.media/moe/index.html
A part of the history of WW2 we seldom, if ever, hear.
http://nprarabssavejews.notlong.com
The New Mathwright Library and Cafe.
http://www.mathwright.com/hr_default.html
A hyphenated life.
http://blueridgecountry.com/newtwins/twins.html
Completely useless, yet interesting.
http://www.angelfire.com/ca6/uselessfacts/
Extract DVD clips from your DVD's.
http://www.vcsoftwares.com/dk.html
Create a sculpture. This is fun!
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/education/interactive/flash.html
Tools for webmasters and web designers.
http://www.stronghtml.com/
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Section Five by Don.
Online medical resources.
http://www.med-help.net/
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/hp.asp
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/script/main/hp.asp
http://www.emedicine.com/
http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=&action=Home
Where do those medical names for things come from?
http://www.whonamedit.com/
A music community. http://www.letssingit.com/
Neil Young's Film Lounge.
http://www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/film/index.php
U. S. History. http://www.ushistory.org/index.html
A science education portal. http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/
Found things. http://www.foundmagazine.com/
How would you look as a manga figure, or much older, or... well,
see for yourself. http://morph.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk//Transformer/
Mix up some celebrity faces. http://www.morphthing.com/
Images which can be used in high-tech video editing.
http://www.fantamorph.com/goodies.htm
"Here you can find the movie Warriors of the net in several different
languages. It is the prefect tool for introducing Internet to novice
users. It helps the newcommers visualise how the Net works.
It is free to download for non commerical use."
http://www.warriorsofthe.net/
Drasko Markovic's pretty darn cool pbase galleries.
http://www.pbase.com/drasko
Old pictures. http://www.old-picture.com/
A resource for large dogs. http://www.bigpawsonly.com/
Amanda who? Well, I don't know, but her website is cool.
http://www.netnaut.com/index.html
Mnemonics are used to help you remember things.
http://www.fun-with-words.com/mnemonics.html
http://www.netnaut.com/mnemonics.html
http://tothink.com/mnemonic/
http://www.mnemonic-device.eu/index/
http://www.got2know.net/2Know/
http://www.eudesign.com/mnems/_mnems.htm
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Section Six by reader Terri Martin-Goin.
Weird auction items. http://www.bizarrebids.com/
Trivia about everything. (Did I ever find out how dumb I am!)
http://www.funtrivia.com/
This is a forum for folks relocating in any of the states.
http://www.city-data.com/forum/
Flash movies, my favorite is "Freedom Isn't Free." (embedded music)
http://objflicks.com/index.htm
A great site for animal lovers. http://www.petloveshack.com/
Just in time for the world series. http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/
Photos of trains from the old engines to their scaled models.
http://www.trainweb.org/vermande/
Photos and information on airliners. http://www.airliners.net/
Is your dream car is in this site? http://www.seriouswheels.com/
Out of this world. http://hubblesite.org/
Who remembers these? http://www.driveintheater.com/
1-800 numbers for cooking help and more.
http://www.pakadevasfreebees.com/help.html
Baking season is upon us. http://www.verybestbaking.com/
This site is about specific dietary problems.
http://www.gicare.com/pated/edt0001.htm
Fall flowers and tips for arranging them.
http://www.flower-arrangement-advisor.com/
Tutorials for most crafts.
http://familycrafts.about.com/od/craftstechniques101/
A crafting resource. http://www.craftsitedirectory.com/
The low down on baking. http://www.armhammer.com/
Vinegar uses and history. http://www.versatilevinegar.org/
Good information on allergies.
http://allergies.about.com/od/allergies101/a/seasonalallergy.htm
Sometimes it's good to know how stuff works.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/
Note from Don and Lisa: Thank you Terri!
End of Section Six.
The Linux Corner.
I made a list of live Linux CDs which would represent a
reasonable spectrum of available choices and enable a
total novice to quickly determine which 'flavor' of Linux
suits them best. The folks at OSDisc liked my idea so here
it is, the "Serious Sampler Pack". http://snipurl.com/1s60g
Tips for Linux explorers. http://www.brunolinux.com/
A U.S. national LUG. http://www.usalug.org/
Serious Linux advocates.
http://thetuxproject.com/
http://www.libervis.net/
An aging music pirate? http://snipurl.com/1s60u
A very nice site for Linux newbies.
http://www.linuxheadquarters.com/index.shtml
Yet Another Linux Nerd (Olivier Garcia's blog).
http://yet.another.linux-nerd.com/
Linux magazine. http://www.linux-magazine.com/
The best way to get help with your Linux system is to
join a Linux Users Group.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_User_Group
You should be able to find one, wherever you live.
http://www.linux.org/groups/
http://www.linuxforu.com/ShowLugs.php?countryCode=221
http://www.tux.org/luglist.html
http://www.linuxusersgroups.org/search.html
Of course if there isn't a LUG nearby, you can
always create your own.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html
A Little Humor.
How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?
Two, one to hold the giraffe and another to fill the wheel
barrow with brightly colored machine tools.
Q: What's the best way to see flying saucers?
A: Pinch the waitress.
Q: If George Washington were alive today, what would he be famous for?
A: Old age.
A pessimist says the glass is half empty.
An optimist says the glass is half full.
A Republican says, "Hey, who drank half of my glass of water?"
A state trooper pulls over a man driving a pickup truck full of penguins
and asks, "What's with the penguins?". The man says, "they were all
on the side of the road about to be run over so I picked them up."
The trooper says, "You should take them to the zoo." The next day
the trooper pulls over the same guy who not only still has the penguins,
they're all wearing sun glasses. The trooper says, "I thought I told you
to take them to the zoo." The man says, "I did, yesterday, had lots of
fun. Today I'm taking them to the beach."
Tips for This Issue.
http://articles.networktechs.com/tlist.php
http://www.nthelp.com/
http://www.geocities.com/~budallen/ (Win 9x)
http://www.windowstips.org/
http://www.linux-tips.net/
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From our web sibling Patrick Barden.
( http://rrwbushangel.blogspot.com/ )
These mite be a goad idea boot eye can sea were their
cud bee problems :) http://www.jott.com/
A 'hard copy' (for real) back-up solution.
http://www.ollydbg.de/Paperbak/index.html
Buy a friend a book. http://www.buyafriendabook.com/
From our web sibling Jo-Ann (Jo) Burton:
( Jo's site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharinglinks2/ )
Top 10 strangest Lego creations.
http://strangest-lego.notlong.com
Jo says "Gopher Central does a nice job on their blogs and
newletters. I get a few of them in my email each week."
http://archives.gophercentral.com/forum/category-view.asp
Kids stuff from Random House.
http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/index.pperl
This is interesting, I tried it, and got mixed results.
http://www.grasshopper.com/mind-games/how-to-stop-time/
Google Maps Mania and Political Arithmetik are a pair of
interesting blogs. http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/
http://politicalarithmetik.blogspot.com/
Baseball hall of fame. http://web.baseballhalloffame.org/
A humorous essay on holidays.
http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/13/holidays.html
American Humor:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/rourke/cover.html
The gift of Jewish women's comedy.
http://jwa.org/discover/infocus/comedy/
The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for Humor.
http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/specialevents/marktwain/
What Really Happened. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/
From our web sibling Jerry Fox.
Social networking for senior citizens. http://eons.com/
How much information is your computer giving to the websites
you visit online? http://www.spyber.com/
From our web sibling John Lepse.
( John's blog: http://hucknjim.blogspot.com/ )
A Murphy's Law portal. http://www.murphys-laws.com/
Our friend Jon Reed sent a link to this 'thingy' which is, no doubt,
destined to become a sales gimmick eventually, but it's still cool.
http://www.motionportrait.com/e/about/
Our young friend Justin Ryan sent an invitation to yet another
social networking site. http://quechup.com/
(Sorry Justin, we're just too darn busy to sign up for another one)
Thank you Patrick, Jo, Jerry, John, Jon and Justin.
Last word, from Lisa:
As you've probably guessed, we're learning junkies,
never really happy unless we have something to "look up".
Everything reminds us of the wealth of information that's
just within our grasp on the Web. Today while I was
supposed to be writing the ezine, I've been hip-deep in
learning CSS, frustrated and happy.
Add to that working and keeping up the homefront, life's
a whirlwind and I wouldn't have it any other way.
'Til next time,
Lisa
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Lisa at myspace.com. http://www.myspace.com/81825549
Lisa's blog. http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/dirtgoddess
Don at myspace.com http://www.myspace.com/donguitar
Don's blog. http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/eldergeek/
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Monday, October 15, 2007
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