[donspatch] 2009-09-01
- From: Don Crowder <dondashguitar@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 01:47:44 -0500
#124 September 1, 2009 from http://www.don-guitar.com
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First word, from Don:
I've been researching the prospects for producing revenue
without having to drive to work. By which I mean, working
online. Amazon's Mechanical Turk is, so far, the only
prospect I've found. https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
I've figured out that by working really fast and being
extremely accurate I could make as much as two or even
three dollars an hour. Isn't that exciting?
Yeah, well, I didn't think so either but it beats nothing.
I'll keep looking and eventually I'll find something.
Meanwhile, I can make a few dollars a day online, I enjoy
the work and who knows, with experience my prospects may
improve. Mom used to say: 'Can't' never could'.
I can't argue with that now can I?
See you next time,
Don
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Section One by Don.
Exploring the universe of knowledge.
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/
A resource for movie lovers. http://www.allmovie.com/
Throughout most of my life, the first lady of tv comedy
had been Carol Burnett. http://carolburnettfan.com/
http://www.itsthecarolburnettshow.com/
It's about minerals.
http://www.galleries.com/
http://www.mindat.org/
http://www.minerals.net/
http://webmineral.com/
http://www.usgs.gov/themes/mineral.html
http://mineralsciences.si.edu/
Checkout some blues, listen to some jams.
http://www.atlantabluessociety.com/
http://www.koqx.com/
http://www.thebluesmobile.com/
Sites about automobiles.
http://www.automotivehistoryonline.com/
http://www.cartype.com/
http://www.carstyling.ru/en/
http://www.seriouswheels.com/
I'm a former AMC fan. http://www.amcrc.com/
A real transformer (sort of).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG8CUHGb1Y4
Microsoft's new contender in the search
engine market. http://www.bing.com/
Note: Call me a stick-in-the-mud if you must
but I use google almost exclusively though,
once in a rare while, I'll use a metasearch
engine. http://www.ixquick.com/
Bio-medicine. http://www.bio-medicine.org/
Celebrating African-American movies.
http://www.blackclassicmovies.com/
http://www.blackflix.com/
Celebrating Asian-American movies.
http://www.asianamericanfilm.com/
Celebrating native American movies.
http://www.nativecelebs.com/
Celebrating classic movies.
http://www.thegoldenyears.org/
http://www.classicmovies.org/
http://www.classicmoviefavorites.com/
http://www.combustiblecelluloid.com/movies.shtml
http://www.filmsite.org/
http://www.reelclassics.com/index.html
http://www.tcm.com/index.jsp
The Internet Movie Database is probably the
most comprehensive movie resource on the web.
http://www.imdb.com/
It's about Cary Grant.
http://www.carygrant.net/
How do you find the really good blogs?
http://www.blogrankings.com/
This commercial site might be a good business
resource. http://www.buyerzone.com/
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Section Two by Lisa
Artist and illustrator Matt Lee.
http://www.matt-lee.com/
It's good for you.
http://www.health.com/health
Do you have something that's worth something?
http://www.worthpoint.com/
CSS layouts and templates, news and techniques.
http://csstemplates.notlong.com
http://www.cssflavor.com/
http://cssglobe.com/
What are you wishing for?
http://www.wishlisting.com/
You can get frequent flyer miles many ways.
http://www.freefrequentflyermiles.com/index.htm
I found lots of cool home remedies here.
http://www.simplehomeremedies.com/
Beautiful, minimal web sites.
http://www.minimalsites.com/
I was recently looking for some costless,
royalty-free images for a website.
Surprisingly, there are lots of them.
The first one listed is, in my opinion,
the best. Thanks, Sam.
http://www.photos8.com/
http://www.unclesamsphotos.com/
http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/
http://public-domain.zorger.com/
http://www.burningwell.org/gallery2/main.php
http://www.pdphoto.org/
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/
End of Section Two.
At the time this issue was posted,
the current subscriber count for
this publication was 375.
This issue's collection of online news, blogs,
magazines, videos and/or other informational
sites. These are chosen for maximum diversity
regardless of 'spin' and in some cases may
have offensive or questionable content.
http://www.nea.org/
http://www.inklingmagazine.com/
http://explorerstreet.blogspot.com/
http://www.karensugarpants.com/
http://www.mominreallife.com/
http://www.momdot.com/blog/
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/
http://www.cracked.com/
http://www.airspacemag.com/index.html?keyword=home
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage
http://www.pinktentacle.com/
http://tangible.ca/
http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/
http://www.matthewgood.org/
http://www.openarab.net/en/
http://quarterlyconversation.com/
http://www.thefreemanonline.org/
http://www.opendemocracy.net/
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/
http://literallygenevieveclare.com/
http://handmadegonewrong.blogspot.com/
http://www.publicintegrity.org/
http://www.globalintegrity.org/
http://www.environmentalintegrity.org/
http://www.integralscience.org/
http://in.integralinstitute.org/
http://esciencenews.com/
http://www.molecularstation.com/
http://www.thestreet.com/
http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/sommaire.php3
http://www.joyunexpected.com/
http://www.filemagazine.com/
http://www.unexpectedwildliferefuge.org/
http://www.unexpectedbliss.com/
http://almostfearless.com/
http://www.insidehighered.com/
http://www.unexpectedfaces.org/
http://www.physorg.com/
http://texascook.blogspot.com/
Section Three by Don.
Before I buy anything online I google for a coupon
code for the site where I'm shopping. Sometimes
I get lucky. Here's a good place to start.
http://www.retailmenot.com/
The thing about CSS is, it can produce a
beautiful website and it's easier to learn
if you start with a template.
http://freecss.info/
http://www.freecsstemplates.org/
Who's up for an English test?
http://www.english-test.net/
The European Space Agency.
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html
A little geology for you.
http://www.geosociety.org/
http://www.usgs.gov/
http://geology.usgs.gov/index.htm
http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/
http://geology.com/
Once a year our friend Randi Simon goes nuts over
nanowrimo and spends all her free time in the month
of November trying to write a complete novel.
http://www.nanowrimo.org/
I always laugh at her obsession but I just discovered
FAWM which asks songwiters to produce an entire
album of 14 songs during the month of February.
http://fawm.org/
Now I'm thinking 'No, no, no, I'm not a songwriter,
I'm just a guitarist, there's no way I can do this'
or..... *argh*
'Funny or Die' is what this video site calls itself. I
watched a few. Most of them died, a few were funny.
http://www.funnyordie.com/
What's your favorite gemstone? http://www.gemstone.org/
Who wants to learn Japanese?
http://www.youtube.com/japanesepod101
Patrick Barden asked me to find him a good wysiwyg
editor. After some research, I sent him this link.
http://www.kompozer.net/
Patrick tried it and decided it would do.
Wondering what the heck is a wysiwyg editor?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG
Yet another file sharing site. http://www.ziddu.com/
A mixed up sort of personalized news portal.
http://www.mixx.com/
Much to explore at UCMP.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/index.php
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Section Four by Lisa.
Make your own favicon. Very cool!
http://www.favicon.cc/
wondering what a favicon is?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon
Can anyone become a millionaire? Maybe.
http://millionairemommynextdoor.com/
My video for this ezine. Happiness is.
John Lee Hooker and Carlos Santana.
http://carlosandjohn.notlong.com
Use what you have, get creative and save.
http://www.frugalupstate.com/
Sometimes a hoax is better than the truth.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/
A cost-saving method of insulation.
The whole site is great.
http://mtbest.net/bubble_glazing.html
About the budget...
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/index.html
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy10/pdf/fy10-newera.pdf
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy10/browse.html
An amazing concept.
http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/
Great high-yield checking accounts.
http://greatchecking.notlong.com
Information about the United States.
http://www.theusaonline.com/index.htm
Costless backup programs.
http://backopprog.notlong.com
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
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Section Five by Don.
A few interesting videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZPhyZZWjz8
http://www.youtube.com/weeklypiano
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHxEijSG7fg
http://www.youtube.com/user/schlowarzel
http://www.youtube.com/user/BroadcastnowTV
http://www.youtube.com/user/ChrisMannMusic
http://www.youtube.com/user/BPPNPR
Hall of Fame (continued)
Grammy.
http://snipurl.com/riccg [www_grammy_com]
Rick Jackson's Country (music).
http://www.rickjacksoncountry.com/
America's cup.
http://www.herreshoff.org/achof/index.html
International adult and continuing education.
http://www.halloffame.outreach.ou.edu/
Hawaii sports.
http://hawaiisportshalloffame.com/
Ted Williams. http://www.twmuseum.com/
National women's.
http://www.eteamz.com/hallfame/
Texas country music.
http://www.carthagetexas.com/HallofFame/
International hypnosis.
http://www.hypnosishalloffame.com/
Millionaire.
http://www.millionairehalloffame.com/
C64 (pocket pc). http://www.c64-hof.com/
Montana cowboy.
http://www.montanacowboyfame.com/
Alaska sports. http://www.alaskasportshall.org/
(to be continued)
A virtual tour of...
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
http://www.vancouver.sfu.ca/qtvr/rooms/index.html
Wisconsin state capital.
http://www.wisconsin.gov/state/capfacts/rotunda_c.html
Several locations in Minneapolis.
http://garden.walkerart.org/tour.wac
The International Space Station.
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/ISSRG/
A Best Western hotel.
http://www.bestwestern.com/virtual_tour.asp
Several locations in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
http://www.civilwaralbum.com/chattanooga/index.htm
Various things of the day.
Joke. http://www.ahajokes.com/joke_of_the_day.shtml
Deal. http://www.dealsucker.com/
Nanopicture. http://www.nanopicoftheday.org/
Map. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/map/map-day
Wikipedia picture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_of_the_day
Question. http://www.qod.com/question.phtml
Webopedia word. http://www.webopedia.com/totd.asp
Jamie Livingston's photo of the day collection.
http://photooftheday.hughcrawford.com/
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Section Six by Lisa.
The art and science of pencils.
http://www.penciltalk.org/
and more about pencils.
http://www.brandnamepencils.com/
Would you like to view or contribute
to the Thousand Watch Project?
Be sure to click on "Press", it's
a great interview.
http://www.moskowlinn.com/tkwp/
The number of calories you burn for different
activities. http://activecal.notlong.com
Buy, sell or trade. http://www.ioffer.com/
The art of the Photogravure.
http://www.photogravure.com/
Unfortunate real estate photos.
http://lovelylisting.com/
World-class ugly Bridesmaid dresses.
http://www.uglydress.com/
Author and illustrator Jan Brett.
http://www.janbrett.com/
The Sugar OS, written for the One
Laptop Per Child Project, is Open
Source, and of course, costless.
http://www.sugarlabs.org/
A cross-platform costless animation software.
http://www.pencil-animation.org/
History and evolution of offices
and office equipment.
http://www.officemuseum.com/
Do you know how to buy the right bicycle for you?
http://www.rehabtoracing.com/Bicycle_fit.php
End of Section Six.
The Linux Corner.
An extensive Linux forum.
http://www.linuxsolved.com/linux-forums/
This may well be the smallest Linux live-CD desktop.
http://www.tinycorelinux.com/
An interesting Linux info source.
http://linuxologist.com/
Our friend Stevie, who is a mega-Linux-geek and
adamant supporter of Linux Mint, sent this link
to the blog of Linux creator, Linus Torvalds.
http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/
Lots of Linux ISO files are available as torrent files.
http://www.tuxdistro.com/
Most Linux users are male geeks but there are some
super cool ladies in the Linux community too.
http://www.linuxchix.org/
A Little Humor.
Political quotes:
The President has kept all of the promises he intended
to keep. George Stephanopoulos
I'm not a member of any organized political party,
I'm a Democrat! Will Rogers
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Abraham Lincoln
One thing I can say about George, he may not be able to
keep a job, but he's not boring. Barbara Bush
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I
was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm
President of the United States and I'm not going to eat
any more broccoli. George Bush
To those of you who received honors, awards and
distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students,
I say you too may one day be president of the United
States. George W. Bush
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan
Rather would report it on CBS News as 'candle making
industry threatened'. Newt Gingrich
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for
term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote
for Colonel Sanders. Bob Inglis
If elected, I will win. Pat Paulsen
Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one
who will do the least harm. Frank Dane
When I was a boy I was told that anybody
could become President; I'm beginning to
believe it. Clarence Darrow
Politicians are the same all over. They promise
to build a bridge where there is no river.
Nikita Khrushchev
The Democrats are the party that says government
will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove
the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are
the party that says government doesn't work and
then they get elected and prove it.
P.J. O'Rourke
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything.
That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw
Politics makes estranged bedfellows.
Goodman Ace
A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office
that a Republican wants. Alben W. Barkley
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Lester Pearson
There ought to be one day, just one, where there
is open season on senators. Will Rogers
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which
no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The best reason I can think of for not running for
president of the United States is that you have to
shave twice a day. Adlai Stevenson
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as
a contest of principles. Ambrose Bierce
In Mexico, an air conditioner is called a
'politician,' because it makes a lot of noise
but doesn't work very well. Len Deighton
For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull,
and at last they are too dull even for the
newspapers. Gilbert K. Chesterton
When a politician is in opposition he is an expert
on the means to some end; and when he is in office
he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians
are hanged. Gilbert K. Chesterton
The trouble with Senator Long is that he is suffering
from halitosis of the intellect. That's presuming
Senator Long has an intellect. Harold L. Ickes
Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a
lot. We talked all night. We had the same views
on nuclear disarmament. Jerry Hall
If you liberals keep gettin' your way we're all gonna
hear one big loud flush. The sound of the U.S. of A.
goin' straight down the toilet.
Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker
~~~
Hey Don and Lisa,
Here's a t-shirt worthy quote from
British comedian Stephen Fry:
'If ignorance is bliss, why aren't
there more happy people in the world?'
John Lepse http://hucknjim.blogspot.com/
Tips for This Issue.
Lot's of info in Computer Bob's guest articles.
http://www.computerbob.com/guests/index.php
Worldstart's webmaster is overly impressed with glitzy
navigation but there's plenty of information here if
you've the patience to get to it.
http://www.worldstart.com/tips/index.php
A windows tips blog. http://trickthousand.blogspot.com/
Lots of computer lore in numerous categories.
http://en.kioskea.net/faq/
Contributions From Our Readers.
Links from readers are always
welcome and you can even write
your own link descriptions if you
like (just tell me when you send
them if that's what you intended).
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From our web-sibling Patrick Barden.
( http://lookeewhatifound.blogspot.com/ )
[ ^ ^ ^ ^ New blog! ^ ^ ^ ^ ]
Patrick had gotten Lisa and I hooked on a new
social network called 'aardvark'. I don't know
what else to call it but 'social network' though
it's not like any other social network we've seen.
It's all about asking and answering questions.
http://vark.com/
If you join aardvark, Patrick, Lisa and I would
enjoy being in your network. Here are our links:
Patrick: http://vark.com/s/6Yfn
Lisa: http://vark.com/s/Yg5m
Don: http://vark.com/s/PokR
Workspace, the home business network.
http://workspace.liveops.com/
Home based employment opportunity?
http://www.liveops.com/become-agent/index.html
Linux baby rocker.
http://www.likecool.com/Linux_Baby_Rocker--Baby--Gear.html
From our web-sibling Jo-Ann (Jo) Burton:
( Jo's site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharinglinks2/ )
Strange sleepy cat.
http://www.maniacworld.com/strange-sleepy-cat.html
More to explore. http://www.maniacworld.com/
Shopping 'hacks'. http://www.dealhack.com/
An odd but interesing little site.
http://purpleslinky.com/
A nice collection of interesting information.
http://xo.typepad.com/blog/
Ice stories.
http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/index.php
Now for a few cool thoughts about snow.
http://snipurl.com/rigcx [www_its_caltech_edu]
http://emu.arsusda.gov/snowsite/
http://snipurl.com/rigch [emu_arsusda_gov]
http://www.snowflakebentley.com/http://snowflakes.barkleyus.com/
http://www.papersnowflakes.com/
Celebrating American cooking.
http://whatscookingamerica.net/
Lots of close calls caught on video.
http://snipurl.com/rigim [blogs_howstuffworks_com]
A monster pile of pennies.
http://snipurl.com/rigky [www_commoncents_org]
More to explore. http://www.commoncents.org/
Dog-friendly vehicles and pet products designed for
traveling. http://www.dogcars.com/
An interesting living space and an equally interesting
digital book (scroll down to the bottom of the page).
http://www.n55.dk/NEWS/AUG_News.html
(some of the manuals are cool too)
This funny video, sent in by my old friend and former
coworker Dee Jordan, keeps coming back again and again
because it's hilarious. Seen it lately? Enjoy!
http://www.elwp.com/Joe%20Cocker.html
From our web-sibling John Lepse.
( John's blog: http://hucknjim.blogspot.com/ )
James May from Top Gear rides in a U-2 spy plane (video).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6cZLfK4Zjk
Deep Astronomy. http://www.deepastronomy.com/
Very cool science videos for folks who have short
attention spans (or not much free time for videos).
You'll need to allow pop-ups because the videos
come up in pop-up windows (they also have commercials).
http://snipurl.com/rih6m [dsc_discovery_com]
Our web sibling Randi Simon thought this pan pipe was
interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHV5ukFL0NU
Thank you Patrick, Jo, Dee, John and Randi.
Last word, from Lisa:
Sometimes it's challenging writing a closing statement.
What have we done this last two weeks? I've become
enamored of washboard percussion so I think I'll give it
a try.
Don's been in cooking mode, which is fortunate
because I'm in eating mode, packed on a few extra
pounds already. Looks to be an early fall, folks.
Let's see if the signs are prophetic.
We've joined Aardvark, which we learned about through
our friend Patrick Barden. Don was invited to become
an 'aardvocate' and I should get my own invitation in
the next day or two. Researching and answering people's
questions is a blast and very addicting. I love new
addictions, especially when they're healthy.
'Til next time,
Lisa
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