#266 April 1, 2021 from Don Crowder www.don-guitar.com
First words:
I've finally gotten both of my Covid vaccinations
(Pfizer) and I'm awful pleased that I managed not to
catch the disease before I got vaccinated. Of course
New Mexico is still locked down so it's going to be a
while before I can get out and play some music but at
least now I might be able to get together with some
musicians who, like me, have had completed vaccination/s
and do a little jamming. I certainly hope so anyway.
Let's get started. :)
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The American Association for State and Local History.
http://www.aaslh.org/
Of and pertaining to forests (this is a rabbit hole y'all).
https://www.americanforests.org/
https://www.forests.org/
https://www.fs.usda.gov/
https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/forests.php
https://www.canadian-forests.com/
https://www.forestrycorporation.com.au/
https://www.youtube.com/c/DavidWeiller/videos
https://www.mbgnet.net/sets/temp/
https://www.un.org/esa/forests/
https://forest.ru/
https://www.saveamericasforests.org/
https://forestsociety.org/
https://www.communityforest-trust.org/
https://www.southernforests.com.au/
https://www.bagheera.com/spotlight-on-tropical-rainforests/
https://www.treealliance.com.au/home2
https://davidsuzuki.org/project/boreal-forest/
https://sustainableforests.net/
https://www.worldwildlife.org/habitats/forest-habitat
https://www.worldwildlife.org/initiatives/forests
https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/forests
https://www.wri.org/our-work/topics/forests
https://www.nationalforests.org/
https://www.ran.org/issue/forests/
https://www.greenfacts.org/glossary/def/forest.htm
https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/issues/forests
https://www.fs.usda.gov/managing-land/urban-forests
https://www.iucn.org/theme/forests
https://www.globalforestwatch.org/
https://foe.org/issues/forests/
https://www.cdp.net/en/forests
https://www.earthday.org/campaign/the-canopy-project/
https://discovertheforest.org/
https://greenglobaltravel.com/biggest-forests-in-the-world/
https://unece.org/forests
http://www.fao.org/state-of-forests/en/
https://ourworldindata.org/forests-and-deforestation
https://www.nwf.org/Eco-Schools-USA/Pathways/LEAF
https://www.forestsforever.org/
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56566377
https://theforestsdialogue.org/
I don't watch the news on TV, don't have subscriptions
to magazines or newspapers, never visit news websites and
don't listen to news on the radio other than NPR's Morning
Edition while driving but I'm almost never in the car in
the mornings (because I'm retired and don't have a job).
I'm embarrassed to say I get news from Facebook. I decided
it was time I started paying at least some attention to the
news and my first thought was The Guardian. I was dismayed
to learn that an email subscription to The Guardian is $20
a month and they don't have a senior citizen discount (that
I could find anyway). Then I remembered another excellent
source of minimally biased news; the BBC. You do have
to register with the BBC - https://account.bbc.com/register
but once you've registered the daily news email is without
cost: https://tinyurl.com/ypw3p9zv [bbc dot co dot uk]
I can't say how good the coverage is, because I've only
just subscribed but I'm hoping it's good (and at the very
least my only source of news will no longer be Facebook).
Join the fight against cybercrime. https://apwg.org/
The Milken archive of Jewish music.
https://www.milkenarchive.org/
The Black Film Center/Archive was established in 1981 as
the first archival repository dedicated to collecting,
preserving, and making available historically and
culturally significant films by and about Black people.
https://bfca.sitehost.iu.edu/home/
The website of an author of comic books. I don't read comic
books anymore, though I certainly did as a kid, but the
site is worth visiting for the artwork.
https://www.boltcityproductions.com/
A repository of population statistics.
http://www.citypopulation.de/
Explore the world virtually. https://www.earthcam.com/
Supporting educators. https://eduref.org/
An archive of data from the European Southern Observatory.
https://archive.eso.org/cms.html
A multimedia history of World War One.
https://www.firstworldwar.com/
Grammar Bytes! Grammar instruction with attitude.
https://chompchomp.com/menu.htm
World famous for beets (who doesn't love
Harvard beets?) they also have a film archive.
https://harvardfilmarchive.org/
Hip Hop music and culture. http://www.hiphoparchive.org/
The History Guide has been created for the high school and
undergraduate student who is either taking classes in
history, or who intends to major in history in college.
http://www.historyguide.org/
Internet home of the Hubble space telescope.
https://hubblesite.org/
The Institute for local self-reliance. https://ilsr.org/
The Internet Classics Archive. http://classics.mit.edu/
The Quote Garden. https://www.quotegarden.com/
A recipe archive. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjw/recipes/
Rescuing farm animals. https://www.farmsanctuary.org/
Speech (English) accent archive. https://accent.gmu.edu/
English poet Thomas Gray (1716-1771).
http://www.thomasgray.org/
A collection of mostly costless software apps.
https://www.mihov.com/software-development.php
The National Writers Union. https://nwu.org/
Birds of New Zealand. https://www.nzbirds.com/
A guide to nuclear weapons. http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/
Newspaper and current periodical reading room.
https://www.loc.gov/rr/news/stategov/index.html
The Replay Foundation - gaming through the ages.
https://replayfoundation.org/
The Public Library of Science. http://plos.org/
The Pulitzer prizes. https://www.pulitzer.org/
A guide to the University of Virginia's collections related
to Thomas Jefferson, with additional links to texts and
information resources about Jefferson.
https://guides.lib.virginia.edu/TJ
Jewish women's archive. https://jwa.org/
Local produce in the US. https://www.localharvest.org/
The 'blue book' for industrial equipment (not automobiles).
https://www.macraesbluebook.com/
Maya Adventure from the Science Museum of Minnesota.
https://www.smm.org/sln/ma/
Mouse magnifier and color pipette (costless app).
https://www.neuber.com/free/mousezoom/index.html
It's about time.
https://www.worldtimezone.com/
https://www.timeanddate.com/
Go ahead, just try to follow the bouncing ball.
https://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/
Nerdy but cute. http://www.userfriendly.org/static/
An interactive museum of science, humanities, and culture.
http://www.webexhibits.org/
Costless PDF creator. https://www.pdfdesk.com/winpdf.html
For all the paranoid people in your life.
https://zapatopi.net/afdb/
Learn more about yourself. https://www.queendom.com/
Rice and quinoa recipes from Lundberg.
https://www.lundberg.com/recipes/recipe_home.shtml
recipes from Grandmother's kitchen.
https://www.grandmotherskitchen.net/
They also make videos.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp5dJitpRt2QE8IjBOa1eew
I don't use an email client anymore (I use a browser to
manage my email) but back when I did, I preferred
Thunderbird - https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/
but some folks prefer Pandora.
http://www.drivehq.com/web/brana/pandora.htm
Have you heard of Jerusalema? It's a dance craze.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalema
This is the video that started it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCZVL_8D048
Lot's of youtube videos have been make about it.
https://tinyurl.com/8zwje3rf [youtube dot com]
There's a lot of nostalgia posts on social media asking 'do
you remember?' one thing or another. I'm not into nostalgia
but I do well recall a TV show that featured this lovely
lady and I still think she was awesome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinah_Shore
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/shore-dinah
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/shore-dinah
https://tinyurl.com/s93skh8f [latimes dot com]
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Dinah+Shore
This is supposed to be a game but I can't figure it out.
https://tinyurl.com/45byftsb [beinternetawesome.withgoogle]
I don't know whether they moved from Australia or New
Zealand but they came to Nashville, Tennessee to get into
the music 'bidnez' and seem to be doing well.
https://www.youtube.com/c/CamilleandStuie/videos
US Department of Energy, science news.
https://www.eurekalert.org/doe/index.php
The coolest radio you've probably never heard of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4x7cGALaC8
An 81 year old singing sensation (tissue time).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P3uDR6JSHM
Have you ever needed to convert an XPS file to a PDF file?
https://www.micre13b.com/xps-to-pdf-converter.html
A lovely singer I discovered on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4KTRhZTiPw9NLQWl3kHAEw
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Last words:
I listed the RTL-SDR in this issue (as 'the coolest
radio you never heard of). I bought one because I've
always been interested in short-wave radio. I had an
old tube set when I was a kid that I had a lot of fun
with) but it's not a 'plug and play' devices (doesn't
that just figure?). I'm going to have to take on a
learning curve before I get to have any fun with it.
I hate when that happens. :)
Wishing you the very best of love, luck, health and
happiness. See you next time.
Don Crowder
Wednesday, March 31, 2021, 11:05 PM (MDT/MST)
Albuquerque, New Mexico
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