[donspatch] 2010-04-01
- From: "Don (& Lisa)" <dondashguitar@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:06:33 -0600
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First word, from Don:
Every year I remember at the last minute that April 1 is
also April Fools Day. Well, Lisa and I figure we're
foolish enough without deliberately aggravating the
condition and we despise so-called 'practical' jokes.
So, instead of ignoring the event this year I thought
I'd use this occasion to wish for all the fools in
the world to have a great day today and, for that
matter, every day.
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I bought a coffee can full of hardware at a flea market a
couple of weeks ago. There was an old brooch pin in the
bottom of the can, amongst the nuts, bolts, screws, nails
and such. On the pin there's a raised shape which
neither I nor anyone I know can identify. Are you up for a
mystery? http://www.don-guitar.com/pni2/mystery_pin.jpg
Traffic has been slow in our email group of late but that's
one of the things I love about it. There's no frivolous
email inundating my inbox but when someone has something
to say they can be assured they'll soon receive thoughtful,
caring, intelligent responses. As always you're welcome
to join us but you can't simply subscribe; it's a closed
list so you'll have to drop us a line asking be added
and giving us the email address you'd like us to add.
I'm a voracious reader of Fantasy and Science Fiction
but I've rarely been able to afford new books. Back
when I had my own business I ran a paperback book
swap and haunted garage sales and flea markets to
keep myself in books. After I closed the business
times got pretty lean so I was thrilled to find
the Baen Free Library on the web...
http://www.baen.com/library/
...though it took me a while go get used to reading
books on my computer screen. Later, as my circumstances
improved I was able to get affordable used books via
the web. http://www.paperbackswap.com/index.php
By now I've usually got at least a half dozen book
credits accumulated with paperbackswap so I've been
trying new authors. The web has been as much of a
boon to writers as it has to readers. There are
numerous sites which offer resources for writers
and, recently, sites which enable writers to pool
their energies and talents in collaborative works.
A few days ago I finished one such book, entitled
'Dogs and Goddesses' which was written by Jennifer
Crusie, Anne Stuart and Lani Diane Rich.
http://dogsandgoddesses.com/homepage.php
This fun little novel has made me an instant believer
in collaborative book writing. I'll be looking for
other works by these ladies.
http://www.jennycrusie.com/
http://anne-stuart.com/
http://www.lanidianerich.com/
See you next time.
Don
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Section One by Don.
Special Education teachers rock.
http://www.iser.com/
http://www.seriweb.com/
http://www.naset.org/
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/speced/
A few interesting videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mgaICZS79Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_drEFOaPaK8
http://www.youtube.com/user/NettwerkMusic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcxicGygTHs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeMyvybOfWc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KXk_8_8oLY
I think the website technology is way overdone
but the notion of doing more with paper is good.
http://www.sodrapulplabs.com/#/
A commercial site but very cool.
http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/
You don't have to be a rocket scientist...
http://www.matchstickrockets.com/
Ain't it cool? http://www.aintitcool.com/
Amusing facts. http://www.amusingfacts.com/
Artist Christian Furr. http://www.christianfurr.com/
America's roadside poetry; gone but not forgotten.
http://burma-shave.org/jingles/
Unusual vehicles.
http://www.mitchell.derbycounty.co.uk/weirdcars.html
http://www.coolcarsandgirls.com/
http://www.myunusual.com/downloads/Unusual_CarsC.html
http://tinyurl.com/rezux [diseno-art dot com]
http://www.offroaders.com/sandbox/vehicles/index.html
http://www.guy-sports.com/virtual/unusual_vehicles.htm
http://www.driversdrive.com/unusualvehicles/
http://www.velomobiling.com/gallery/
http://home.clara.net/peterfrost/
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/
http://tinyurl.com/yexz6gg [funpeak dot com, slow loading]
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Section Two by Lisa
Di Mackey. Her world is our world.
http://dimackey.com/
Want to keep up with the Web?
Learn the Lingo. What a treasure!
http://www.netlingo.com/
The history of theater. Very nice site.
http://www.theatrehistory.com/index.html
Fun with words.
http://www.savethewords.org/
http://www.wordspy.com/
http://bit.ly/3IjvP
http://www.pathguy.com/shakeswo.htm
For those of us to whom it applies,
welcome to the Third Age.
http://www.thirdage.com/
Help in solving any math problem.
http://bit.ly/c0uyV5
An easy way to understand your finances.
http://www.learnvest.com/
The magic of words.
http://wordsmith.org/
Pooja's grandma's recipes.
http://bit.ly/c8eMZS
What would life without eggs
be like? Not bad, actually.
http://www.egglesscooking.com/
Content is still King.
http://bit.ly/bq3b24
What if you saved $10 a day?
http://bit.ly/91YCrT
The 1909 Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition.
http://bit.ly/cd4ZrN
Fighting ignorance since 1973.
It's taking longer than we thought.
http://bit.ly/9iOmTo
Head in the clouds? You may
want to look down.
http://bit.ly/yJrGd
A fun look at ChatRoulette.
http://bit.ly/aXmzDX
To stop alien abductions, you must
wear a Thought Screen Helmet. Srsly.
http://www.stopabductions.com/
Ever wish songs just sang what was
happening in the music video?
Literal videos. http://bit.ly/33vfjY
I took a food safety course for a job
once, and it changed my habits in my
own kitchen. Here are some facts and
tips how to safely handle food.
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Home/index.asp
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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.flickr.com/groups/beginners_digital_photography/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/digitalps/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/nikondigitallearningcenter/
http://gracedavis.typepad.com/
http://www.lumpyscorner.com/
http://www.churchofreality.org/wisdom/introduction/
http://www.techradar.com/
http://jalopnik.com/
http://www.symphonious.net/
http://www.mattfarina.com/
http://washingtonindependent.com/
http://www.investopedia.com/
http://www.dailyfinance.com/
http://www.collegeboard.com/sat-achieve-more/
http://mediamatters.org/
http://diybio.org/
http://www.maximumpc.com/
http://whitelines.mpora.com/
http://www.netglimse.com/
http://howtosavetheworld.ca/
http://grant.robinson.name/blog/
Section Three by Don.
An email 'alias' is an address which simply forwards all
incoming email to another, designated address. This site
offers alias addresses (and website forwarding too).
http://listen.to/
It may be too little, too late but the notion is good.
http://www.climateprotectioncampaign.org/index.php
Don't know what to call this one; educational networking
maybe. http://www.zinch.com/
A very interesting collection of videos.
http://www.youtube.com/user/JamesBurkeWeb
It started as a blog...
http://blogs.salon.com/0001399/
...which lead to a book...
http://tinyurl.com/2fxr8x [amazon dot com]
...and finally wound up as a movie.
http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/julieandjulia/
This is an odd variation on google. This site provides
you with a link to a google search on a designated topic.
The name of the site is 'Let me google that for you'...
http://lmgtfy.com/
...Go to the site, click in a search term and you'll be
given a link. clicking on that link will take your browser
to a google-like page, type in the designated search term,
and automatically click the search button. For example...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=don crowder and lisa miller
Type in some text (a sentence, your name, whatever) and it
will be converted into an anagram.
http://sternestmeanings.com/
For some reason I can never remember whether to spell it
'gray' or 'grey'. http://www.greyorgray.com/
It's like Yahoo with less in-your-face advertising and a
great place to get an online email account.
http://www.myway.com/index1.html
I recommend against buying anything for your inner child
but it's fun to window shop. http://www.perpetualkid.com/
A few halls of fame.
Minnesota fishing. http://minnesotafishinghalloffame.com/
International Space (New Mexico).
http://www.nmspacemuseum.org/halloffame/
Econometrics. http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/fame.html
Aviary (online multimedia editing).
http://aviary.com/halloffame
Federal Campaign Contributions.
http://www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/
Nebraska music. http://www.nebrocks.org/main.html
Raleigh (non-profits). http://raleighhallofame.org/
A few 'things' of the day.
Find. http://www.foundmagazine.com/
Poem.
http://killdevilhill.com/poemday.shtml
http://poems.com/today.php
Typo. http://librarytypos.blogspot.com/
Questions (portal).
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/question_day.htm
Earthshots image. http://www.earthshots.org/
Mentally challenged criminal.
http://www.electricferret.com/bozo/
Map. http://tinyurl.com/yeg6dxh [atlantic dot com]
Bible verse. http://www.christnotes.org/dbv.php
Chess puzzle.
http://www.shredderchess.com/daily-chess-puzzle.html
Music single. http://www.singleoftheday.com/
Biz chart.
http://www.businessinsider.com/category/chart-of-the-day
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Section Four by Lisa.
Stop badware today.
http://stopbadware.org/
The innovative art of Alexa Meade.
http://www.alexameade.com/
Art deco history, design and architecure.
http://www.retropolis.net/exposition/
http://bit.ly/9abhWF
http://adsla.org/la_deco.htm
This site seems to be about design
in ordinary things.
http://www.crookedbrains.net/
I loved my Hess Toy Truck. 1967.
http://www.hesstoytruck.com/
Inspirational words of wisdom.
http://www.wow4u.com/
A history of Garbage Trucks.
http://bit.ly/agj8wL
I can't NOT share this. Warning;
incredibly cute puppies ahead!
http://goo.gl/45lw
This is my opinion, too.
http://surreal_killa.tripod.com/
So you wanna be a Superhero?
You're gonna need the suit.
http://goo.gl/4Cli
The things people do for 5 bucks.
http://www.fiverr.com/
Free and easy email reminder.
http://www.followupthen.com/
A web development group...and much more.
http://particletree.com/
I need this but it's only for
Mac! Can someone help?
http://www.threemagination.com/capsee/
Ambient noise of many kinds.
http://goo.gl/ngRD
The history of Mack trucks parallels
recent American history.
http://goo.gl/nvT9
Eating In is the new Going Out.
Nearly 1,500 copycat recipes make it fun.
http://goo.gl/5yeP
A showcase for writers and artists.
http://the-beat.co.uk/
A basic, inexpensive kitchen.
http://goo.gl/eOhk
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Section Five by Don.
So, what's your grade on twitter?
http://twitter.grader.com/
[they wouldn't give me a grade, I'm beneath their notice]
The owl-cam is at least more entertaining than watching
grass grow. http://www.ustream.tv/theowlbox
Learn the meaning of all those strange acronyms you see on
the web. http://www.sharpened.net/glossary/acronyms.php
An Open Source washing machine. http://www.oswash.org/
Open clip art. http://www.openclipart.org/
This is just silly.
http://urlshorteningservicefortwitter.com/
Not much help for email but great for online links on
social networks. http://www.longurlplease.com/
This tongue-in-cheek engine converts a
normal sized URL into a really huge link.
http://johannes.homepc.org/longurl.html
Once I saw a six year old boy jumping up and down on a toy
dump truck. I asked him what he was doing and he told me
'It has a lifetime warranty and I'm testing it'. Perhaps
that's what these 'older boys' were doing at the Pwn2Own
hacking contest. The headline only mentions IE but if
you read down you'll see that Firefox also got 'whacked'.
http://tinyurl.com/y8sd4v6 [computerworld dot com]
In some cases the characters following the last 'dot' in
a URL (by which I refer to the last period) tells you the
site owners country of origin. Here's the diregory.
http://www.checkdomain.com/list.html
Natalee Dee comics are sometimes far from family friendly
but almost always cute. http://www.nataliedee.com/
Aspiring writers can find a great deal of information
on this page, created by author Piers Anthony.
http://www.hipiers.com/publishing.html
Explanations. http://betterexplained.com/
Podcasts. http://podcast.com/
What to do about (whatever). http://www.whattodoabout.com/
A genealogy utility. http://www.myheritage.com/
Looking for someone? http://www.123people.com/
Know your politicians. http://www.aboutpolitics.com/
Promoting open information. https://www.sesawe.net/
Who needs a strong dose of cute? http://www.zooborns.com/
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Section Six by Lisa.
Save anything you want to remember.
http://springpadit.com/
Please turn the lights off when you leave.
http://mdesmond.com/end-of-the-internet/
Don't trash your old gadgets; recycle
them for cash. Gazelle makes it easy.
http://www.gazelle.com/
Internet lingo explained, not
always FF-family friendly.
http://www.netlingo.com/acronyms.php
3G free online backup, other plans available.
http://www.memopal.com/en/
Keep your own Twitter history with Twistory.
http://twistory.net/
Artist Anish Kapoor.
http://www.anishkapoor.com/works/gallery/index.htm
What do ancient spice traders and the
financial markets have in common?
http://snipurl.com/v4wq1 [www_getrichslowly_org]
A neat, easy-to-use online image editor.
http://www.citrify.com/
Hi-quality, free and free-to-use photos,
even a portfolio and a little SEO for you.
http://unprofound.com/
It's possible mushrooms can save the world.
http://blog.ted.com/2008/05/paul_stamets.php
Auroville, a universal city in the making.
http://www.auroville.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auroville
How much will it cost to drive there?
http://www.costtodrive.com/
My favorite world time converter.
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/index.aspx
Artist Renee Nault.
http://www.reneenault.com/index.php
Photograper Marcelo Gomes.
http://marcelogomesphoto.com/
Some things that could help your memory.
http://buqueex.notlong.com
http://baikua.notlong.com
http://hochaij.notlong.com
Free vector art.
http://all-silhouettes.com/
http://www.freevectors.net/
http://www.snap2objects.com/category/freebies/
End of Section Six.
The Linux Corner.
I've found Linux analogs for every must-have application I
used in Windows but there were a few Windows utilities I
missed and I've found that most of them run great under
wine... http://www.winehq.org/ ...and it's easy to check
the database to see if your favorite Windows app will run
under wine. http://appdb.winehq.org/
I've been thinking of building a Linux computer for my
grandsons to run World of Warcraft (safely).
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10418439-1.html
An international site for Linux beginners.
http://www.reallylinux.com/
Cloud computing simply means you need no more than a browser
on your computer which gives you access to software that's
on the web, or, 'in the cloud'. The easiest way to start
playing with cloud computing is via a live CD or bootable
thumb drive. There are many interesting alternatives.
http://www.xpud.org/
http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os
http://hacktolive.org/wiki/Hacktolive.org
http://www.slax.org/
http://www.slitaz.org/en/
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
http://puppylinux.org/
http://antix.mepis.org/index.php/Main_Page
http://www.vectorlinux.com/
http://www.simplelinux.org/
http://www.jolicloud.com/
http://www.archlinux.org/
http://www.thinkgos.com/
http://tinymelinux.com/doku.php/home
http://moblin.org/
Before you buy a wireless adaptor for your Linux box,
check this list for compatible products.
http://linux-wless.passys.nl/
A Little Humor.
http://icanhascheezburger.com/
http://ihasahotdog.com/
http://roflrazzi.com/
http://totallylookslike.com/
http://punditkitchen.com/
http://upnextinsports.com/
http://graphjam.com/
http://thereifixedit.com/
http://failblog.org/
http://engrishfunny.com/
Tips for This Issue.
How to save your Windows system with a thumb drive.
http://tinyurl.com/yk7666p [lifehacker dot com]
A collection of computer self-help info.
http://www.liverepair.com/encyclopedia/articles/
Hardware secrets. http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/
Contributions From Our Readers.
Links from readers are always
welcome and you can even write
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From our web-sibling Jo-Ann (Jo) Burton:
( Jo's site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharinglinks2/ )
Entertainment Weekly online. http://www.ew.com/ew
Oprah. http://www.oprah.com/index.html
Animaland is the ASPCA's pages for kids.
http://www2.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=kids_home
Girly stuff from Mattel.
http://www.everythinggirl.com/home/home.aspx
Other sites from Mattel.
http://www.barbie.com/
http://barbiestyle.barbie.com/
http://www.barbiegirls.com/homeMtl_b.html
http://www.barbie.com/activities/friends/soinstyle/
http://www.barbie.com/activities/fantasy/princess/musketeers/
http://www.hotwheels.com/
http://www.americangirl.com/index.php
http://www.fisher-price.com/us/default.aspx
http://www.matchbox.com/
http://www.mattelgames.com/
http://www.barbiecollector.com/
http://www.hotwheelscollectors.com/
http://www.battleforce5.com/
http://icanbe.barbie.com/
http://www.letsplayuno.com/
http://www.maxsteel.com/#/home/
http://www.girltech.com/index.aspx
http://www.blokus.com/
http://www.ubfunkeys.com/index.html
http://pollypocket.everythinggirl.com/home.aspx
http://www.xtractaurs.com/
Printable coloring pages via google.
http://tinyurl.com/yfton83
Mathematics. http://www.numbernut.com/
Answers for kids. http://www.faqkids.com/
Interesting maps.
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/akerman/index.html
Maps on stamps. http://home.planet.nl/~bleek139/
Designing a better world. http://www.inhabitat.com/
An interesting look at Russia.
http://englishrussia.com/
A relatively fun game. http://www2.framestore-cfc.com/
A photoblog. http://freshpics.blogspot.com/
News on gadgets and gizmos. http://gizmodo.com/
Web-sibling Norm Koedkritz sent this link to a font which
saves ink (by using less) without sacrificing readability.
http://tinyurl.com/yj5fzpk [pcworld dot com]
From our web-sibling John Lepse.
( John's blog: http://hucknjim.blogspot.com/ )
To assume we, humankind, are the only sentient
beings in all the universe seems awfully arrogant.
http://ieti.org/
Men in coats.
http://www.flixxy.com/fun-comedy-men-in-coats.htm
A little old man who may be slightly batty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn1px3zh2ys
Thank you Jo, Norm and John.
Last word, from Lisa:
The last two weeks have whizzed by as usual,
probably for you folks, too. Had my almost-annual
bout with bronchitis and am recovering nicely after
sleeping the better (?) part of a week, and getting
some of those lovely antibiotics.
Still missing my lovely old dog and feeling the
sadness (and the freedom) of being petless. It's
an odd feeling, first time I haven't had a pet in
my life. We've decided that at least for awhile
we'd try out this new state of being. Our friends
are probably out there taking bets....
'Til next time,
Lisa
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