[donspatch] 2010-06-01
- From: "Don (& Lisa)" <dondashguitar@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 00:19:11 -0500
#142 June 1, 2010 from http://www.don-guitar.com
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First word, from Don:
Seems like the more I do, the more I have left that
still needs doing. I have some musical equipment to
repair, some to build, some to modify and our lawn
badly needs mowing. Meanwhile I'm itching to start ascending
the learning curve for multi-track audio recording but I've
just spent all of the only free day I've had for the last
week or so working on this ezine. Still, tomorrow is another
day and, since it's the first of the month, I need to gather
up the recycling and haul it to the fire hall. With the
ezine out of the way, maybe I can spend part of the day on
my equipment problems but I'll have to brave the heat long
enough to at least start on the mowing. I'm sure glad I'm
unemployed. If I had a real job right now I don't see how
I could get anything at all done. :)
I hope all of you are enjoying life as much as we are. See
you next time.
Don
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Section One by Don.
I'm not certain I know, or care what P2P software is but
if it means something to you, take a look at Pando.
http://www.pando.com/
Need a to-do list for your iGoogle page?
http://www.labpixies.com/
Photo sharing with a geographic spin.
http://www.panoramio.com/
http://www.picturesofplaces.com/
http://www.twip.org/
I couldn't write a good, concise description so here's
the one that's on the website. 'Carry your favorite
computer programs along with all of your bookmarks,
settings, email and more with you. Use them on any
Windows computer. All without leaving any personal
data behind.' http://portableapps.com/
This looks like a nice clipboard utility for Windows.
http://101clips.com/freeclip.htm
A spiffy online calendar.
http://www.30boxes.com/welcome.php
(check the bottom of the page for other good stuff)
A few good things from SX. http://sxsoftware.com/
How to prolong lithium-based batteries.
http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm
Much more good info on all sorts of batteries.
http://www.batteryuniversity.com/index.htm
Some of the toons on this interesting site are in English.
http://www.pt0k.com/index.html
Social networking for bookworms. http://www.shelfari.com/
Make yourself a 3D box. http://3d-pack.com/
Here's mine: http://www.don-guitar.com/pni2/donbox.jpg
Make yourself a 3D game. http://www.3drad.com/
Movie reviews, trailers and such. http://www.spout.com/
Believer magazine's reader survey...
http://www.believermag.com/issues/201005/?read=reader_survey
...and their home page. http://www.believermag.com/
Awesome teacher's blogs.
http://www.teacherleaders.org/featured-bloggers
Awsome teachers. http://www.teacherleaders.org/
I honestly dislike about dot come websites because it seems
to me like I'm required to navigate through bushels of pages
to get a thimble-full of information, however, it might be
worth your trouble if any of these online courses happens
to be of interest to you. http://u.about.com/
Do you have an old computer you'd pass on or recycle if you
could erase its hard drive? http://www.killdisk.com/
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Section Two by Lisa.
Clay Shirky explains the Cognitive
Surplus. What do you do with yours?
http://bit.ly/4CHqjy
Massage yourself. You know
you want to. http://bit.ly/VoALP
A weekend project for you.
http://bit.ly/anb7jo
How to treat foot blisters.
You might consider throwing away
those shoes, too.
http://bit.ly/zY8TX
http://bit.ly/c2nzll
Photos of jazz and blues legends.
http://www.jazzimage.com/
Would you like a stylus for your phone
touchscreen? How about making one?
http://bit.ly/aMpcxT
Possibly the perfect lunch box.
http://www.lunchboxes.com/tiffin.html
The Phobia List.
http://phobialist.com/
Lots of fun-at Sesame Street!
http://www.sesamestreet.org/
Public Health images and video.
http://phil.cdc.gov/Phil/home.asp
An engineer's resource tool.
http://www.engineering.com/
Dedicated to Richard Nixon's legacy.
http://nixonfoundation.org/
Dogs and how they help us.
http://bit.ly/b8QMDT
http://bit.ly/aTP3Ge
http://bit.ly/9VVHDC
http://www.policek9.com/
A place for people to connect.
http://www.peoplespot.com/
Household tips and handy hints.
http://www.tipking.co.uk/
Free computer help.
http://www.computerhope.com/
End of Section Two.
At the time this issue was posted,
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this publication was 379.
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://infidelsarecool.com/
http://chamorrobible.org/
http://www.thedailybeast.com/
http://www.blueprintmagazine.co.uk/
http://mightyohm.com/blog/
http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/
http://womennewsnetwork.net/
http://www.crunchyroll.com/
http://www.edweek.org/ew/index.html
http://www.thatcupoftea.com/
http://www.geekradio.com/
http://www.plasticbag.org/
http://www.greenbiz.com/computing
http://www.seomoz.org/
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/
http://www.cato.org/
http://www.thebulletin.org/
http://www.whattoexpect.com/
http://sweat365.com/
http://www.phaster.com/unpretentious/
http://www.fotothing.com/
http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/index.do
http://stop.zona-m.net/
http://www.wendmag.com/
http://redmonk.com/
Section Three by Don.
A small program to easily print CD and DVD covers.
http://www.undercoverxp.tk/
Easy to use online video conversion. http://vixy.net/
Healthy stuff.
http://www.webmd.com/
http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/
A great collection of informative and instructional videos.
http://www.youtube.com/user/theRSAorg
Even allowing for some exageration this
Windows utility may be a good thing.
http://www.iobit.com/advancedwindowscareper.html
An interesting internet radio station.
http://www.toginet.com/
Um, I think it's actually a blog, a strange blog.
http://fakescience.tumblr.com/
A wikipedia directory of social networks.
http://tinyurl.com/k2jhx
I've recently been taking Ginkgo Biloba, because it's
reputed to improve one's memory. The stuff actually seems
to be working which prompted me to do some research.
http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/ginkgo-biloba-000247.htm
Don't know if it's the most insane but it's pretty crazy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QGyljhDU84
A recent malware has been pushing traffic to a scam pharmacy
site. http://tinyurl.com/2fmb7uy [spamtrackers dot eu]
Assorted reading regarding the dark side of the web.
http://ikillspammers.blogspot.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(electronic)
http://www.spyware-removal-info.com/
http://www.virusbtn.com/index
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
http://www.onguardonline.gov/
http://www.fbi.gov/cyberinvest/escams.htm
http://www.spamhaus.org/index.lasso
http://www.malwarehelp.org/
http://www.darkreading.com/index.jhtml
http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/dgcmsps.php
http://malwaresurvival.com/
http://www.about-the-web.com/shtml/scams.shtml
http://www.spamcop.net/
http://www.cexx.org/adware.htm
http://www.xeromag.com/fvspam.html
http://www.antisource.com/
http://www.securelist.com/en/
http://www.internetsafetyzone.co.uk/root/default.htm
http://www.stopbadware.org/
http://www.stopspamhere.ca/
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Section Four by Lisa.
News about TV shows.
http://g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/index.html
Lycos is still around, a good
search engine and much more.
http://www.lycos.com
A site for machine embroidery enthusiasts.
http://www.secretsof.com/index.html
Newpapers, magazines, TV and radio worldwide.
http://www.mondotimes.com/
Negro Leagues legacies.
http://bit.ly/cL2xLF
Convert an image to text.
http://www.text-image.com/
Read romance novels online.
http://www.publicbookshelf.com/
The Gibson (guitar) magazine. Lots
of cool stuff here.
http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/
The 'Toy With One Moving Part'.
http://www.sillyputty.com/
Selected links to locations and
events around the world.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html
A new type of phishing attack.
http://bit.ly/8YwTJf
Descriptions, resources and help
for all kinds of eating disorders.
http://www.pale-reflections.com/
Andy Goldsworthy, ephemeral artist.
http://bit.ly/krjVz
Start a food exchange or co-op.
http://bit.ly/7devXh
http://bit.ly/dcRSc5
http://bit.ly/aRt13p
http://bit.ly/9Ar8OP
A local Open Source journalism publication.
http://www.openfile.ca/
Where knowledge junkies get their fix.
http://www.mentalfloss.com/
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Section Five by Don.
I'm not smart enough to create my own 3D world but it's cool
that I could. http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page
A gaming news/tech site. http://www.gamasutra.com/
This may be the next facebook. http://joindiaspora.com/
Taking social networks to the next level.
http://www.drumbeat.org/project/appleseed-social-networking
When I first ventured onto the web, back in nineteenmumble,
I thought of myself as an aging nerd and named myself
'eldergeek' when I registered for eBay and have since used
the same cognomen to identify myself on other sites. Turns
out I'm in good company.
http://www.theeldergeek.com/
http://www.theeldergeekvista.com/
http://www.webteacher.ws/category/eldergeek/
http://elder-geek.com/
http://eldergeek-geeksunlimited.blogspot.com/
Gaming stuff. http://battletracker.com/
Arsty stuff. http://www.artgonia.com/
This PDF document explains how websites are
sometimes able to take your 'digital fingerprints'.
https://panopticlick.eff.org/browser-uniqueness.pdf
Sometimes it's fun to be a part of something huge, even
in a small way. Here's the story...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX3ktoiLjsc
Here's the site. http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/
It's always been difficult to use special fonts on
websites. Google is helping make it less difficult.
http://code.google.com/webfonts
Designed for malware protection.
http://tinyurl.com/27qlmse [artificialdynamics dot co . com]
PowerPoint to Flash converter.
http://tinyurl.com/ynklj2 [authorgen dot com]
Google Wave is now open and available to all.
http://mashable.com/2010/05/19/google-wave-everyone/
WebM the high-quality, open video format of the future.
http://www.webmproject.org/
http://tinyurl.com/2emac84 [engadget dot com]
The Amphibian Avenger. http://pinktreefrog.typepad.com/
Mixing the Monkees and Jimi Hendrix wasn't a particularly
successful experiment in musical fusion.
http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/hendrix.asp
A Windows utility for those who prefer the keyboard to the
mouse. http://www.autohotkey.com/
A social network for cooks. http://www.bakespace.com/
The images supercede the language barrier.
http://www.slideshare.net/giannisver/met-de-trein-mee-elza
Not much use for someone who doesn't have a twitter account.
http://analyzewords.com/
This may eventually be an interesting site.
http://quotewords.com/
Diary of a crossword fiend. http://www.crosswordfiend.com/
Social networking for TV junkies. http://sharetv.org/
Information networking. http://www.beengo.net/
I can't think of a practical use for this one, can you?
http://befuddlr.com/
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Section Six by Lisa.
So...what's a figlet?
http://www.figlet.org/
A couple of freeware and shareware sites.
http://www.freewarestop.com/
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/
Free CGI scripts.
http://www.scriptarchive.com/
A collection of mathematical software,
papers, and databases.
http://www.netlib.org/
A nice site to teach kids chess.
http://library.thinkquest.org/6290/?tqskip=1
Artist and illustrator Ellis Nadler.
http://www.ellisnadler.com/
Let's give a big hand for the
little lady. Thanks, Grace.
http://bit.ly/ddp0t8
http://bit.ly/1L2z4e
How to cook lobster; it's easy!
http://bit.ly/chi6vz
It's summer, time to refinish that deck.
http://bit.ly/9sf3RX
Tie fashion.
http://bit.ly/b2Igo2
15 things she's learned by 36.
http://bit.ly/bZg8c0
Internet bumper stickers.
http://bit.ly/cb6RGI
What a great idea!
http://bit.ly/SDx4a
Vast, comprehensive site on
artistic activities for children.
http://www.kinderart.com/
Carsten Clasohm's home page.
http://www.clasohm.com/
Games and fun for kids 'up to ten'.
http://www.uptoten.com/
Home DIY help.
http://www.household-helper.com/
End of Section Six.
The Linux Corner.
The Ubuntu Women's newsletter. http://fridge.ubuntu.com/
A newbie guide to Linux.
http://distrowatch.tradepub.com/free/w_make07/
Getting started with Linux.
http://www.linux.org/lessons/beginner/index.html
Online Linux courses.
http://tinyurl.com/yuzlrk [education-portal dot com]
Linux Training Materials Project.
http://www.linuxtraining.co.uk/
Unix (Linux, BSD, Solaris) Training Materials.
http://www.kegel.com/linux/training.html
Can you design a Linux t-shirt?
http://tinyurl.com/2fka4zj [linuxfoundation dot org]
A Little Humor.
My wife sat down on the couch next to me as I was flipping
channels. She asked, 'What's on the TV?' I said, 'Dust.'
And then the fight started....
---
My wife and I were watching 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire'
while we were in bed. I turned to her and said, 'Do you
want to have sex?' 'No,' she answered. I then said, 'Is
that your final answer?' She didn't even look at me this
time, simply saying, 'Yes.' So I said, 'Then I'd like to
phone a friend.'
And then the fight started....
---
Saturday morning I got up early, dressed, made my lunch,
grabbed the dog, and slipped quietly into the garage.
I hooked up the boat to the truck and proceeded to back
out into a torrential downpour. The wind was blowing
50 mph, so I pulled back into the garage, turned on the
radio, and discovered that the weather would be bad all
day. I went back into the house, quietly undressed and
slipped back into bed. I cuddled up to my wife's back,
now with a different anticipation, and whispered, 'The
weather out there is terrible.' My loving wife of 10
years replied, 'I know. Can you believe my stupid
husband is out fishing in that?'
And then the fight started....
---
I rear-ended a car this morning. So, there we were
alongside the road when the other driver got out of his
car. You know how sometimes you get so stressed that
little things just seem funny? Well, I couldn't believe
it, the other driver was a dwarf! He stormed over to my
car, looked up at me, and shouted, 'I am NOT happy!'
So, I looked down at him and said, 'Well, then which one
are you?'
And then the fight started....
---
My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming
anniversary. She said, 'I want something shiny that goes
from 0 to 150 in about 3 seconds.' So I bought her a scale.
And then the fight started....
---
When I got home last night, my wife demanded that I take
her someplace expensive. So I drove her to a gas station.
And then the fight started....
---
After retiring, I went to the Social Security office to
apply for Social Security. The woman behind the counter
asked me for my driver's license to verify my age. I
looked in my pockets and realized I had left my wallet at
home. I told the woman that I would have to go home and
come back later. She said, 'Unbutton your shirt.' So I
opened my shirt, revealing my silver chest hair. She said,
'That silver hair is proof enough for me' and she processed
my application. When I got home, I excitedly told my wife
about my experience at the Social Security office. She
said, 'You should have dropped your pants. You might have
gotten disability, too.'
And then the fight started....
---
My wife and I were sitting at a table at my high school
reunion, and I kept staring at a drunken lady swigging her
drink as she sat alone at a nearby table. My wife asked,
'Do you know her?' 'Yes,' I sighed, 'She's my old
girlfriend. I understand she took to drinking right after
we split up those many years ago, and I hear she hasn't
been sober since.' 'My God!' exclaimed my wife, 'Who would
think a person could go on celebrating that long?'
And then the fight started....
---
I took my wife to a restaurant.
The waiter, for some reason, took my order first.
'I'll have the strip steak, medium rare, please.'
He said, 'Aren't you worried about the mad cow?'
'Nah,' I said, 'She can order for herself.'
And then the fight started....
---
My wife was standing nude, looking in the bedroom mirror.
She turned to me and said 'I feel horrible; I look old,
fat and ugly. I really need you to pay me a compliment.'
I told her 'Well, your eyesight is nearly perfect.'
And then the fight started....
Tips for This Issue.
A practical guide to small business and personal email.
http://www.oeupdates.com/
The PC Technology Guide. http://www.pctechguide.com/
Assorted bits of information. http://www.lytebyte.com/
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Our web-sibling April Bapst suggests you adopt a sailor.
http://www.mollysadoptasailor.com/
From our web-sibling Jo-Ann (Jo) Burton:
( Jo's site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharinglinks2/ )
Spudtacular? Gimme a break. :)
http://www.potatoparade.co.uk/
Underground gardening. http://www.guerrillagardening.org/
http://www.guerrillagardening.org/.
http://ds9a.nl/amazing-dna/index.html
Oops. http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakesamic/2151717824/
The Hutchinson Dictionary of Difficult Words.
http://tinyurl.com/285g6ro [talktalk dot co dot uk]
Yes, it's book abuse but also very cool.
http://www.foleygallery.com/artists/artist_ins.php3?artist=8
http://www.carabarer.com/portfolio/dimensions/
http://www.carabarer.com/portfolio/2006-2007/
http://www.carabarer.com/portfolio/2008-2009/
http://www.carabarer.com/portfolio/sculpture/
Nina Katchadourian's sorted books which tell a story.
http://tinyurl.com/2y2xbs [ninakatchadourian dot com]
Are you a hippie? (I scored 44%)
http://www.gotoquiz.com/are_you_a_hippie
Promoting transparency in government.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/
Got cynicism? http://www.cynical-c.com/
I remember animated lamp shades which used this principal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvvcRdwNhGM
Nature photos. http://pixdaus.com/
An interesting online magazine. http://www.grist.org/
From our 'other brother' Bill (Beeyil) Lanoue.
( Bill's blog http://ncvietvet.blogspot.com/ )
Linux documentation. http://linux.die.net/
From our web-sibling John Lepse.
( John's blog: http://hucknjim.blogspot.com/ )
Celebrating the most horrible form of humor.
http://somuchpun.com/
The four stages of fear.
http://tinyurl.com/39duvms [discovermagazine dot com]
From our friend Lee Parmeter who is also the
mind-behind our local Highland Lakes Linux
Users Group. ( http://www.hllug.org/ )
An early look at Fedora 13.
http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7765/1/
From our web-sibling Marla, aka Not A. Shroom.
( http://www.google.com/profiles/notashroom#about )
Entire movies available on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/movies
Corn syrup is deadly stuff.
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/
What is it? I don't know, read the FAQs, I intend to.
http://rapportive.com/
Thank you April, Jo, Bill, John, Lee and Marla.
Last word, from Lisa:
'Put another nickel in, in the Nickelodean...'
The chorus is 'All I want is loving you and
music, music, music'. We had a great musical
weekend, two gigs back-to-back, Saturday night
and Sunday afternoon. What a treat!
People have asked us how we find the time to
work, play and get the ezine out. We just
smile and say, 'In our spare time...'
I used to think that as I got older I'd have
more time to just sit around and do nothing,
now I know time has to be used to be of any value.
Clay Shirky describes this phenomenon beautifully,
he calls it 'Cognitive Surplus', what you do with
the time you have after your essential needs
are met.
http://bit.ly/4CHqjy
Here's hoping you spend your spare time
doing what you love.
'Til next time,
Lisa
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