[donspatch] 2008-01-01
- From: Don Crowder <don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:14:24 -0600
Don's Patch #85, January 1, 2008 from http://www.don-guitar.com
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First word, from Don:
Happy New Year everyone! Lisa and I are beginning the year
with a change of computer operating systems. We each still
have two computers, one Windows and one Linux, and, until
recently, we each used Windows as our primary computer.
That's changed. I've been using Debian Etch as my primary
system for several weeks and Lisa's been using PCLinuxOS
for just under two weeks. We've both been surprised and
pleased that the change was neither traumatic nor difficult.
I started with a list of tasks I expected to continue doing in
Windows but I've found ways to do almost everything I want
to do in Linux. My new-to-me XP machine is very nice but,
by now, I prefer to use Debian Etch. Mainly, I love having
choices.
I was writing some website feedback today and decided that
"John Q. Public", used as a reference to a random member
of the planet's human population has become passe so I've
coined a new one for the web. Her name is Anne E. Surfer.
Aren't I clever? So, when you start seeing her mentioned
all over the place, remember where she got her name.
*grin*
Don
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Section One by Don.
A "clean" multimedia intense site. http://www.armandhammer.com/
This is somehow connected. http://www.armhammer.com/
Trade your unneeded stuff for other stuff. http://www.swap-bot.com/
Make a sandwich before you visit this one; you'll need it.
http://www.epicurious.com/
I think it's for news junkies *shrug* though I'm not sure (somebody
explain it to me). http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home
Images which speak volumes. http://www.viewpointgallery.org/
Lest we forget. http://www.remember.org/
This one made me think of Patrick Barden, our "staff" scrapbooker.
http://www.irememberwhen.com/
If you're one of those annoying people who emails these sorts of things
to everyone you know, you'll enjoy this site however, the rest of us may
decide to tar and feather you. http://www.link4u.com/
I never heard of the Staten Island Boys but they've got some good music
on their website. http://www.thestatenislandboys.com/
Remember those in bonds. http://www.rememberthose.org/
Semantic bible. http://www.semanticbible.com/
English lessons anyone? http://www.better-english.com/
An opportunity for writers or readers.
http://www.365tomorrows.com/
Stuff that was. http://www.retrojunk.com/
Old 45s (embedded music). http://oldfortyfives.com/
Linda Young's remember WENN website.
http://www.rememberwenn.org/
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Section Two by Lisa
If you haven't yet tried Firefox and would like to look at
some useful tutorials, here's the place.
http://www.mouserunner.com/FF_Cell
Computer tips, tricks and help. http://www.pctipsbox.com/
A wonderful painter located in our town, Tow, TX.
http://kimsartblog.blogspot.com/
You know you want to wear your hair in dreadlocks.
Admit it. http://www.perfectdreadlocks.com/
A very good computer help site I recommended to my mom.
High praise indeed. http://compukiss.com/
News of the People's Republic of China.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/
Windows to the Universe. http://www.windows.ucar.edu/
This article claims to be satire. Ahem.
http://www.newstarget.com/022389.html
2008 is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
60th anniversary. http://www.everyhumanhasrights.org/
Firefox has a lot of really cool plug-ins, but this is
one I really appreciate. http://urandom.ca/nosquint/
A magazine of natural family living.
http://www.mothering.com/
A mini-feature on one of my favorite subjects, coffee!
http://www.aboutcoffee.net/
http://coffeegeek.com/
http://www.coffeereview.com/
For complete bliss, add Krispy Kreme Doughnuts.
http://www.krispykreme.com/
Symbols for people who use a symbol system for
communication. A fascinating site, the links at the
bottom of the home page take you to other sites and
organizations involved in making accessibility
available to everyone.
http://www.isaac-online.org/select_language.html
Modern and ancient Olympics.
http://www.olympic.org/uk/index_uk.asp
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/
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" ).
http://www.yesbutnobutyes.com/
http://www.fair.org/index.php
http://www.middleeast.org/mereport/index.cgi
http://www.yesbut.org/en/
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/indx.php
http://www-tech.mit.edu/
http://dembot.com/
http://www.fredoneverything.net/index.html
http://www.organic-nature-news.com/
http://www.humanevents.com/
http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/
http://www.sondrak.com/
http://www.shirky.com/
Section Three by Don.
The brain and learning. http://www.brainconnection.com/
Reviews, cast list and song lyrics for Broadway musicals.
http://www.allmusicals.com/index.htm
Share your know-how. http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page
A couple of things which might speed up your XP system.
http://www.registry-clean.net/free-registry-defrag.htm
http://www.infomagazine.ma/news_world/Tweaking_Windows_XP.html
An encyclopedic source of information. http://lexicorient.com/e.o/
Articles on ancient history. http://www.livius.org/
Ancient and lost civilizations. http://www.crystalinks.com/ancient.html
The Roman Empire. http://www.roman-empire.net/
History of Western Civilization. http://history.boisestate.edu/westciv/
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook.
http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/asbook.html
Ancient Worlds. http://www.ancientworlds.net/
Ancient Greek Cities. http://www.sikyon.com/index.html
Ancient Sparta. http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/sparta.html
Discover France. http://www.discoverfrance.net/
Travel info. http://www.lonelyplanet.com/
The Catholic Encyclopedia. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/
The Phoenician Encyclopedia. http://phoenicia.org/index.shtml
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Section Four by Lisa.
Is Google making us dumber? I know what I think,
how about you? http://googledumber.notlong.com
This guy is one of my heroes, showing people how to
be Happy At Work. http://positivesharing.com/
Make your own milk alternatives, quickly and inexpensively.
http://members.tripod.com/~iskra/nomilk/altmilk.htm
Watch the entire "The Elegant Universe"
series from Nova on PBS.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/
HowtoForge provides user-friendly Linux tutorials
about almost every topic. http://www.howtoforge.com/
Finding computer-related manuals online can be a bit
of a hassle. Here's a much-appreciated article by
Sam Evans on how to search effectively. Thanks, Sam.
http://findmanualsonline.notlong.com
We appreciate people like this.
http://www.kramden.org/
Utility that will evaluate an image and give you the
image's primary and complementary dominant colors.
http://whatsitscolor.com/
For geeks and wanna-be's. http://www.geek.com/
Watermark your images online. http://picmarkr.com/
An archive of Open Source software.
http://www.osliving.com/
Very cool app to organize your stuff.
tp://www.getlibra.com/
The on-line library of digital photography.
http://www.shortcourses.com/
My guess is a lot of us got laptops at holiday time.
Here's a magazine of review, buying and using
laptop computers. http://laptopmag.com/index.htm
Lots of lists, or write your own.
http://www.listafterlist.com/
Tasty recipes from India, many with videos.
http://indianrecipe.org/
Articles about nearly everything.
http://www.suite101.com/
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Section Five by Don.
Java is a computer language which can run on just about any
computer. https://www.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectList
This one's a bit too media intense for me but then it's not for "old
geezers", it's for kids. http://www.noggin.com/
What's your opinion worth? http://www99.epinions.com/
"E" stuff. http://www.epatrol.org/
The government of Singapore. http://www.ecitizen.gov.sg/
We don't watch TV. We just don't, so, to us, this is silly.
http://www.eonline.com/gossip/kristin/index.jsp
A plethora of bird lore. http://ebird.org/content/ebird/
U.K. politics. http://www.epolitix.com/EN/
Higher education, online.
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/about/about/index.htm
http://web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/
http://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/
http://www.elearners.com/
http://www.worldwidelearn.com/
http://edu-article.notlong.com
Self publishing technology for Windows or Mac.
http://www.blurb.com/home/1/
Maintenance tools for Seagate hard drives.
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools
This one's all about parasitic plants.
http://www.parasiticplants.siu.edu/index.html
A rock (music) museum. http://www.rock-museum.de/en/
The official website of Chick Corea. http://www.chickcorea.com/
I got this in an email from my friend Kenneth Hale in San
Antonio and had to find it on the web (with google).
http://www.rootsweb.com/~txlndmrk/HowGreatIsTexas.htm
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Section Six by Lisa.
A list of unusual museums.
http://www.wooden-nickel.net/
http://www.marvin3m.com/
http://nobodys-perfect.com/vtpm/index.html
http://www.toaster.org/
http://miningartifacts.homestead.com/
http://www.zippogallery.com/
http://www.lawnmowerworld.co.uk/
The community for women who blog.
http://www.blogher.com/
We need more Tapas (snacks).
http://www.arrakis.es/~jols/tapas/indexin.html
Ancient mosaics.
http://www.classicalmosaics.com/photo_album.htm
Mosaics of all kinds. http://mosaicmad.notlong.com
A wonderful artist, Temper.
http://www.temper-art.com/main.html
The science of hair.
http://www.hair-science.com/_int/_en/index.aspx
All about animals, all of them.
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html
The world's healthiest foods. http://whfoods.org/
Uplifting stories. http://myteacher.net/up.html
How stocks and the Stock Market work.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/stock.htm
How Much Is That? The most popular page of a site on
Economic History. Very interesting. http://eh.net/hmit/
End of Section Six.
The Linux Corner.
Why Linux is better. http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/
Why Linux? http://www.seul.org/docs/whylinux.html
Why Linux? Why Debian?
http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/talks/why_debian/talk.html
One man's strong opinion about desktop Linux.
http://www.advogato.org/article/948.html
If you've decided you're only going to read one book about Linux, here's
a good choice. http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
or you can read the original essay here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar
A Linux portal site. http://www.linuxlinks.com/
Ubuntutrinix is a network security monitoring and analysis tool.
http://code.google.com/p/ubuntutrinux/
Linux blogs.
http://blog.linuxgalore.com/
http://www.digitaltippingpoint.com/
Open Source Society: Applying open principles to everyday life.
http://www.opensourcesociety.org/
Linux tips. http://www.linuxtips.info/
A Little Humor.
1) Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart
attacks than the Aussies, British or Americans.
2) Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart
attacks than the Aussies, British or Americans.
3) Africans drink very little red wine and suffer fewer
heart attacks than the Aussies, British or Americans.
4) Italians drink large amounts of red wine and suffer fewer
heart attacks than the Aussies, British or Americans.
5) Germans drink a lot of beer and eat lots of sausages and fats and
suffer fewer heart attacks than the Aussies, British or Americans.
Conclusion.....
Eat and drink what you like.
Speaking English is apparently what kills you.
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From our web sibling Patrick Barden.
( http://rrwbushangel.blogspot.com/ )
Fractal Vibes. http://www.fractal-vibes.com/
A little data music.
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/5858
When is the DVD coming out for that movie you can't
wait to watch? http://videoeta.com/
Wanna see the trailers? http://www.comingsoon.net
From our web sibling Jo-Ann (Jo) Burton:
( Jo's Yahoo Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharinglinks2/ )
Sports madness. http://www.doctordanger.com/index.html
A strange blog. http://tinselman.typepad.com/tinselman/
Another strange blog. http://warehouse.carlh.com/index.php
Strange reviews. http://www.uberreview.com/
The Civil War. http://www.sonofthesouth.net/
I'm sure these people do not throw rocks.
http://www.maisonsdebouteilles.com/buildings.cfm
http://www.agilitynut.com/h/dochope.html
http://www.members.aol.com/raggtya/
An "on the edge" sort of DIY site. http://www.instructables.com/
Some folks just are. http://www.bornrich.org/
Candy addict. http://candyaddict.com/blog/index.php
From our "other brother" Bill (Beeyil) Lanoue,
( Bill's blog http://ncvietvet.blogspot.com/ )
here's a good online educational resource.
http://education-portal.com/index.html
From our web sibling John Lepse.
( John's blog: http://hucknjim.blogspot.com/ )
This chimp made me feel like a chump.
http://the-chimp-wins.notlong.com
More from the same site. http://knowledgenews.net/
Software which PC World thinks you ought to have.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,138368/article.html
Interesting stuff. http://www.interesting.com/
I mentioned this one a few issues back and Patrick was raving
about it prior to our last issue. John says he likes it too.
http://www.librarything.com/
The website is titled "The twenty worst things a person can say" to which
John appended "to a grouch". http://wolverine.c8.com/twenty.html
A little Texas traveling music from our friend Cranz Nichols.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC1Lrk1aP14
Our web sibing George Miller was looking for a calendar and
figured our readers might enjoy seeing what he found.
http://davidseah.com/page/compact-calendar
http://www.mcuniverse.com/Calendar-Strip-Horizontal-or-Ve.1755.0.html
http://www.mcuniverse.com/Calendar-Cube.787.0.html
http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/CT101043131033.aspx
http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/calendars/a/122900a.htm
Editor's note: For an installable calendar, on Windows systems, Mozilla
Sunbird is very nice and, if you're already using Thunderbird, you should
take a look at Lightning. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/
Linux users, you'll find both of these in your repository and Iceape, in
Debian, has a nice calendar for which I assume there is a Seamonkey
analog in Linux distros but I couldn't find a link to a Windows version.
Jon Reed sent us this link to a building that's going to be a lot more than
just another sky scraper. http://russian-skyscraper.notlong.com
While Lisa and I were on the phone with Michael Harding, one of our
Australian readers, a few days ago he mentioned a really terrific
magazine published by the Melbourne PC User Group which we were
pleased to learn is available online. This is an enormous resource.
http://www.melbpc.org.au/pcupdate/
Thank you Patrick, Jo, Beeyil, John, Cranz, George, Jon and Michael.
Last word, from Lisa
Another Christmas has come and gone, but it feels like
Thanksgiving to me. Every holiday serves to remind me
of all the wonderful things in my life, too numerous to
count. Good friends, family, home, a nice town, what more
can you ask?
All the best to you and yours this holiday season and
Happy New Year. I just know this will be the best year
of my life...so far.
Lisa
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Sunday, January 1, 2008
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