[donspatch] 2008-07-01
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Don's Patch #96, July 1, 2008 from http://www.don-guitar.com
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Section One by Don.
The American Museum of Photography.
http://www.photographymuseum.com/
Forgot your Windows NT/2k/XP/Vista admin password?
http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/
A multiplatform, open source backup application.
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
The Freenet Project. http://freenetproject.org/
Freenetworks dot org. http://www.freenetworks.org/
YouTube clone. http://vimeo.com/
What's your religion? http://www.religionfacts.com/
IM without downloading a messenger application.
http://www.meebo.com/
For dog owners.
http://www.canismajor.com/dog/
http://doggiewoggie.com/
Any questions?
http://wiki.answers.com/
http://www.answerbag.com/
Digital photo contest. http://www.dpchallenge.com/
What's your story? http://www.testimonialindex.com/
If you've got the tuition, they've got the class.
http://www.ed-x.com/
Passions in poetry. http://piptalk.com/
Have you visited the Smithsonian site lately?
http://www.si.edu/
How about the zoo? http://nationalzoo.si.edu/
Science learning resources. http://www.fi.edu/learn/
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Section Two by Lisa
Here's a nice little Firefox add-on I've found useful.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3199
A wonderful abstract artist, Lynn Taetzsch.
http://artbylt.com/
A student's guide to financial aid.
http://www.finaid.org/
Calculators and lots of cool reference materials.
http://www.1728.com/
A blog on defense and the national interest.
http://www.d-n-i.net/dni/
A deceptively simple-looking blog. This guy's been
writing for some time, so there's lots to absorb.
http://www.e-gineer.com/
Here's a nice commercial site covering a gardening
subject that's a bit under-reported, nice groundcovers.
http://classygroundcovers.com/
Useful ideas for smart marketers.
http://www.damniwish.com/
Very good ideas and writing here. I particularly
enjoyed the articles about modern newspapers and why
Google is so successful.
http://publishing2.com/
For and about women enterpreneurs.
http://www.womenentrepreneur.com/
Comprehensive and attractive site about Buddhism.
http://www.buddhanet.net/index.html
Museum of science, art and human perception.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/
Would you like to "sound off" now and then and
need a venue? Here you go. http://publicradar.com/
The Story of Stuff. http://www.storyofstuff.com/
A list of eponymous laws (laws, adages or
observations named after someone).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymous_laws
I love rock, brick and concrete. This commercial
site displays some of the work of an artist.
http://www.concreteexchange.com/
A teacher and artist in concrete.
http://www.zenzibar.com/juanita/default.htm
The Sea Scouts, an adjunct to the official Boy Scouts
of America, is a coed outdoor program for young people
to promote citizenship and hone skills in seamanship.
http://www.seascout.org/
End of Section Two.
At the time this issue was posted,
the current subscriber count for
this publication was 390.
This issue's collection of online news, blogs,
magazines, videos and/or other
informational sites (chosen for maximum
diversity regardless of "spin" ).
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/
http://www.lycos.co.uk/
http://online.wsj.com/ad/intro.html
http://blog.littlerockjams.com/
http://www.networkworld.com/
http://myufo.com/
http://www.intercom.net/local/shore_journal/index.html
http://monkeyfilter.com/index.php]
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/home/
http://www.vennesla.vgs.no/webchannel/avis2.htm
http://www.somethingspace.com/
http://www.infoworld.com/?source=nav_HOME
http://www.ucsd.tv/
Section Three by Don.
Goodbye George and thanks for all the laughs.
http://georgecarlin.com/home/home.html
Fascinating reading. True? I've no idea.
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/141821.asp
Western Australian Museum.
http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/index.asp
A sort of YouTube/Flickr combo-clone.
http://www.smugmug.com/
A Flickr clone. http://www.shutterchance.com/
A word search tool. http://mt.kapsi.fi/duckdeluxe/
Photographer Henry Wagner. http://www.henrywagner.org/
Millions of media files.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Historic Pittsburgh. http://digital.library.pitt.edu/pittsburgh/
Symbols, logically enough. http://www.guide-to-symbols.com/
A useful application for some CDMA phones.
http://www.bitpim.org/
Wanna hack your Razr? http://www.hacktherazr.com/
Urban Survival. http://www.urbansurvival.com/
Artist and singer/songwriter Daniel Johnston.
http://www.hihowareyou.com/
Interesting reading, cool images.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/antarcticwave.asp
Very interesting reading.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5432412
What is a 'podcast'?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting
Worth volunteering. http://www.readthistome.org/
A disquieting poem.
http://www.catranslation.org/Translation/tahapoem.html
Is your Blog worthy of a $10,000 scholarship?
http://www.collegescholarships.org/our-scholarships/blogging.htm
Main page, same site. http://www.collegescholarships.org/
Women's Institute for Financial Education. http://www.wife.org/
Looking for a domicile? http://www.house.com/
Women's Health & Environmental Network. http://www.when.org/
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Section Four by Lisa.
Self-reliance and self-sufficiency magazine.
http://www.backwoodshome.com/index.html
Urban design, culture and alternative art.
http://weburbanist.com/
Dr. Evermore's Forevertron.
http://heart2art2heart.com/pages/theforevertron.html
A new way to use your phones, it's costless for now.
http://www.grandcentral.com/
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus pioneered
microcredit, the innovative banking program that provides
poor people––mainly women––with small loans to launch
businesses and lift their families out of poverty.
http://www.grameen-info.org/
One loan at a time, making the world a better place.
http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=home
Want to seem friendlier? Try learning to smile.
http://www.wikihow.com/Smile
Canon's website is full of useful info
about photography.
http://canonteach.notlong.com
The Patriot Guard Riders attend the funerals of
fallen US service personnel and shield the mourning
family and their friends from interruptions
caused by protestors. Can I get an Amen?
http://patriotguardriders.notlong.com
There's a lot of good info on the Social Security site.
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/
The magazine for independent professionals.
http://www.1099.com/
Laura Dellutri, the Healthy Housekeeper.
http://www.healthyhousekeeper.com/
Want your own custom Start Page? Start here.
See note at bottom about disabling cookies.
http://www.awesomestart.com/
Web apps, cool tools, tips and software reviews.
http://www.makeuseof.com/
Create Power-Point-style presentations online,
save and share them on the web.
http://280slides.com/
Share, print and store documents with your
mobile phone. http://cloudprint.hpl.hp.com/
A video website for very young children.
http://www.totlol.com/
Get the most from every day. http://hackyourday.com/
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Section Five by Don.
Here's yet another new idea for social networking; a social
web browser. http://www.flock.com/
If you've been thinking of developing your own Open Source
project, here's tool for you. https://launchpad.net/
This looks like a web analog of MTV.
http://www.powerplay-mvtv.com/index.html
Beyond a pretty cool online dictionary, you can create and
account, log in and set up your own custom start page.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
This social networking site seems to be targeting young adults.
http://community.sparknotes.com/
Scads and oodles of online music. http://warnerbrosrecords.com/
So, you want to go out for lunch, take your laptop, and check your
email? No problem. http://www.wi-fihotspotlist.com/
Commit a random act of kindness. http://www.actsofkindness.org/
It's about time, world-wide. http://www.timegenie.com/
A geeky, minimalist sort of comic strip. http://www.xkcd.com/
Artist Jason Jones. http://www.artistjasonjones.com/index.htm
Artist John Rivera-Resto. http://www.muralmaster.org/
Famous people, characters and creatures. http://www.who2.com/
The Star Wars encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
Retro housewife. http://www.retro-housewife.com/
Ordinary women. http://www.ordinarywomen.org/home.aspx
I don't know if I can afford it but drobo looks like a very cool data
backup solution. http://www.drobo.com/drobodemo.html
William Saroyan was a wonderful writer and an interesting person.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Saroyan]
http://www.williamsaroyan.org/
http://www.williamsaroyansociety.org/about.html
As a young man my second favorite comic strip was Li'l Abner...
http://www.al-capp-lil-abner.com/
...my favorite comic strip was Pogo.
http://www.pogopossum.com/
Comic Museum. http://www.cartoon.org/
Cartoonist's Society. http://www.reuben.org/ncs/news.asp
Lots of reading on comics.
http://www.psu.edu/dept/inart10_110/inart10/strip.html
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Section Six by Lisa.
Start your day with Strange New Products.
http://www.strangenewproducts.com/
Software, websites, tools you can use.
http://www.killertechtips.com/
Ask the questions you can't ask your company's admin.
http://www.asktheadmin.com/
Advertise on or just enjoy The Flyer Wall.
http://www.theflyerwall.co.uk/
Adam Dorman, digital artist.
http://www.adamdorman.com/index.php
Making the world a better place, one evil mad
scientist at a time. http://www.evilmadscientist.com/
A personal site I highly Recommend.
http://www.tinsie.net/Recommended/
Want to travel, meet people, save lots of money?
Try the Couchsurfing Project.
http://www.couchsurfing.com/
Can you pass the Wonderlic test?
http://walterfootball.com/draftwonderlic.php
Your daily dose of imagery.
http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/
Lets all celebrate candy.
http://www.typetive.com/candyblog/
All about teen health.
http://kidshealth.org/teen/
Among all the attributes of a potential
neighborhood, where do you rank Walkability?
http://www.walkscore.com/
Offbeat tourist attractions.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/
Celebrate the unconventional life.
http://chrisguillebeau.com/3x5/
Profiles and reviews of new Internet
products and companies.
http://www.techcrunch.com/
Jeff's House of Beer Cans.
http://cansmartbeercans.com/take_a_tour.html
Bottle houses from around the world.
http://www.agilitynut.com/h/otherbh.html
End of Section Six.
The Linux Corner.
Gparted, which can be used as a live CD or installed as a
utility, is an excellent hard drive partition manager.
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
PartedMagic is a similar tool.
http://partedmagic.com/wiki/PartedMagic.php
The story behind Tux the penguin.
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2001/03/42209
A couple of cool commercials, the first from Red Hat
and the second from IBM.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go25ri20fVM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JqtMgiUaf4
Learn Linux in 40 video lessons from Mepis Linux.
http://www.youtube.com/user/mepislinux
Super Grub Disk is a bootable floppy or CDROM that is oriented
towards system rescue, specifically for repairing the booting
process. http://www.geocities.com/supergrubdisk/
How fast is the Open Source software movement and Linux
growing? http://www.opensourcesun.com/wildfire.html
Getting (Linux) help: the powerful man(ual).
http://snipurl.com/2q5ph
Sun Microsystems podcasts. http://hpcradio.blogspot.com/
Helping the needy get nerdy. http://www.freegeek.org/
Linux tips, tricks and opinions. http://www.foogazi.com/
Documentation for Linux enthusiasts. http://linuxdocs.org/
PCLinuxOS has a very cool online magazine.
http://pclosmag.com/
A Little Humor.
Q: Why did the cookie go to the doctor?
A: Because he felt kind of crumby.
Doctor: What's wrong with your brother?
Boy: He thinks he's a chicken.
Doctor: Really? How long has he thought this?
Boy: About three years.
Doctor: Three years! Why didn't you bring him in sooner?
Boy: We would have, but we needed the eggs.
Q: How can you get four suits for a dollar?
A: Buy a deck of cards!
A psychiatrist's secretary walks into his office and says,
"There's a guy in the waiting room asking to see you.
He claims he's invisible." The psychiatrist responds,
"Tell him I can't see him."
A guy calls his doctor and says, "Doc, I broke my arm in
two places! What should I do?" The doctor replies,
"Well, I certainly wouldn't go back to either of those places."
A guy goes to his doctor complaining of a stomach ache that
won't go away. The doctor gives him a thong and tells him
to chew it every day for twenty minutes until the thong is
completely eaten. A couple of weeks later, the patient shows
up at his doctor's office again. "Did you eat the thong?,
" asks the doctor. The patient replies, "yes, the thong
is gone, but the malady lingers on."
Tips for This Issue.
You don't still use a screen saver, do you?
http://YahooGreenBlog.notlong.com
A very nice collection of info.
http://www.computerfreetips.com/
Geek tips. http://www.geektips.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 Patrick Barden.
( http://rrwbushangel.blogspot.com/ )
Wallpaper from Patrick.
http://www.don-guitar.com/romanrw.html
Mystery on Fifth Avenue (NY Times article).
http://mysteryon5th.notlong.com
Get Service (inspirational video).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfeXxkbgCVE
From our web sibling Jo-Ann (Jo) Burton:
( Jo's site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharinglinks2/ )
Flip some text. http://www.revfad.com/flip.html
What do you know about the Arab world?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFf897bUW2Y
Video of an illusion called an 'Ames Room'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ic7QGjGEX8
Mexican masks. http://www.mexicanmasks.us/
The Bedouin Tribes of Petra.
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0607/petra.html
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0607/petra_thumbs.html
Bad baby names. http://turabiannights.blogspot.com/
Speculative fiction. http://www.freesfonline.de/index.html
An interesting art mag. http://www.artkrush.com/
Of an pertaining to words. http://www.doubletongued.org/
What words do you deliberately mispronounce?
http://www.kottke.org/remainder/08/04/15376.html
More reading from the same source. http://www.kottke.org/
Lots of interesting pages from the National Geographic site.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/ancient/artifacts-symbols.html
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/geopedia/Cowboys
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/geopedia/The_Geography_of_Religion]
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/geopedia/Last_Colonies
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/visions-of-earth/visions-earth-2008
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/09/bog-bodies/bog-bodies-text
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/your-shot/daily-dozen
The Funny Farm puzzle. http://shygypsy.com/farm/p.cgi
An interestig blog. http://dearjanesample.wordpress.com/
High tech digital identification tags aren't needed with all pets.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90714735
Mysteries of Ancient Egypt. http://www.catchpenny.org/
From our web sibling Jerry Fox.
The amazing intelligence of crows (video).
http://joshua-klein-teddotcom.notlong.com
Virtual flying (interactive flash).
http://www.electricoyster.com/electric3d/index.html
Precision driving (video).
http://www.flixxy.com/hyundai-driving-skills.htm
My other-brother Bill (Beeyil) Lanoue says there's water on mars.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0504/WaterOnMars2_gcc.jpg
From our web sibling John Lepse (rhymes with pepsi).
( John's blog: http://hucknjim.blogspot.com/ )
iCue is an innovative learning environment built around video
from the NBC news archive. http://www.icue.com/
The Science of Sarcasm (NY Times article).
http://science-of-sarcasm.notlong.com
Wanna go fishing? http://www.takemefishing.org/
A salute to fallen veterans (Rocky Mountain News article).
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2005/nov/11/final-salute/
Mark Hurst/s interesting blog. http://goodexperience.com/
The man who can move anything (blog).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRDzFROMx0
http://www.theforgottentechnology.com/
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where John lives, has been innundated by water.
http://www.kcrg.com/floodwatch
From our friend and fellow Highland Lakes
Linux User Group member, Cranz Nichols.
The Mississippi state legislature removed fractions and decimal
points from the mathematics curriculum of public secondary
schools. http://www.snopes.com/lost/fraction.asp
Common sense dictates that you should never fully
rely upon someone else to do fact checking for you.
http://www.snopes.com/lost/false.asp
News and information about meteor showers,
solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids.
http://spaceweather.com/
From our friend Lee Parmeter who
is also the mind-behind our local
Highland Lakes Linux Users Group.
http://www.hllug.org/
SuperGamer Livedvd is meant to showcase the
Linux side of Gaming. http://www.supergamer.org/
According to this article on zdnet.uk, Asus is planning
to embed a lightweight, instant-on version of Linux
called "Splashtop" into all its motherboards.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39418766,00.htm
From our friend and neighbor, Stevie Scott.
An interview with Linux Torvalds.
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/05/18/global.office.linustorvalds/
An interesting article on XP and Vista from eWeek.
http://XP-Vista-eWeek.notlong.com
An installation guide for Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna (also known as
The Perfect Desktop). http://howtoforge-linuxmint.notlong.com
Firefox 3 memory usage.
http://blog.pavlov.net/2008/03/11/firefox-3-memory-usage/
IBM's new super computer, Roadrunner, is billed at the fastest in the
world, operating at one petaflop or one thousand trillion calculations
per second. http://www.crn.com/hardware/208403186
Looking for a new desktop? Ubuntu’s spiffy progeny includes several
worth checking out, including Linux Mint, Freespire, and gOS.
http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6200
More interesting reading from Linux Mag.
http://www.linux-mag.com/
Thank you Patrick, Jo, Jerry, John, Cranz, Lee and Stevie.
Last word, from Lisa:
Thanks for bearing with our little "lapse" of ezine
continuity; we're back on track and ready to rock.
We thank our readers for sticking with us and continue
to count our blessings; our love, our luck, our families
and our friends. What else is there?
'Til next time,
Lisa
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Sunday, July 1, 2008
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