[donspatch] #49
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- Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:23:03 -0500
Don's Patch #49 from http://www.don-guitar.com July 1, 2006
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I can't decide if this site represents, for blogging, the conclusion of
the digestive tract or a harbinger of the future.
http://daveibsen.typepad.com/
Some fun for kids aged 8 to 10 years.
http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/WebLessons/
Robert Broughton's blog about British Columbia politics.
http://broughton.ca/content/blogsection/
Coupon stuff for assorted products.
http://dealnews.com/coupons/
http://customcoupon.com/
http://www.couponpages.com/
http://www.couponsurfer.com/
http://www.couponmountain.com/
http://www.couponcraze.com/
http://www.4computercoupons.com/
http://www.ableshoppers.com/
http://www.onlinecomputercoupons.com/
http://www.currentcodes.com/
Camping and hiking info for kids.
http://www.camp-a-roo.com/fun.shtml
More stuff for kids.
http://www.funbrain.com/
http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/Harry_Potter/
http://www.eduplace.com/fakeout/
http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/noflash/fun_n_games/
http://www.coolmath.com/
http://www.funschool.com/
A book that discusses the techniques which have
enabled Linux to exist. http://snipurl.com/sflc
Chords and lyrics.
http://www.pegusisfreeware.com/musicdb/
(costless) economic, demographic and financial data.
http://www.economy.com/freelunch/
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If you plan to buy PhotoShop, check out GIMP, developed as
a costless image editing tool that rivals, and will soon
surpass PhotoShop in power and usability. Here's the site
and Wikipedia's overview.
http://www.gimp.org/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP
If you're already skilled in PhotoShop and aren't prepared
to embark on a new learning curve, there's GIMPshop, which
replicates the look and feel of PhotoShop.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMPshop
In case you've tried GIMP before and were less than inspired
by its help files and tutorials, check it out again. The
tutorials section promises to be a fairly complete image
editing education, for raw beginners (like me) to seasoned
expert. http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/
For GIMP tutorials, these sites are great.
http://www.gimpguru.org/
http://snipurl.com/sidu
Ever heard of a backronym?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym
Links to online learning materials.
http://www.merlot.org/Home.po
Assistance to anyone learning or teaching OpenOffice.
http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/
If you're not sure what to call that so-and-so, start here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pejorative_terms_for_people
Directory of the people and issues shaping the public agenda.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SourceWatch
If you get deceptive unsolicited email, go here to report it.
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/spam/index.html
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US Dept. of Justice. http://www.usdoj.gov/
Sports Picks. http://www.freeunderdog.com/index.html
Basic to comprehensive spreadsheet tutorials.
http://snipurl.com/sieh
Firewall and diagnostic tests. http://www.auditmypc.com/
Everything squid. http://squid.us/
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(these are chosen for maximum diversity regardless of "spin" ).
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http://www.dlib.org/
http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/
http://www.eurekalert.org/index.php
http://www.independent.co.uk/
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
http://linuxgazette.net/
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/
http://www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/
http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/
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Short films, some of which contain mature subject matter.
http://www.eggwork.com/
A hobby electronics resource. http://www.electronics2day.com/
How do you pay for your child's school lunch?
http://www.ezschoolpay.com/
https://www.mylunchmoney.com/index.asp
Google earth in flash. http://www.flashearth.com/
A gaming site. http://www.freelunchdesign.com/
A Linux resource. http://gnuman.com/index.php
Jim Bumgardner is a programmer/hobbyist with a passion
for making cool graphics software, and software toys.
http://krazydad.com/blog/
http://www.jbum.com/
It's the law.
http://www.thelawencyclopedia.com/
http://www.hg.org/
http://www.law.com/
http://www.findlaw.com/
http://www.law.cornell.edu/
http://www.nolo.com/
http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/
http://www.ilrg.com/
http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/
http://www.un.org/law/
http://www.courttv.com/home_primetime/index.html
http://www.law.columbia.edu/focusareas/legacy_portal
http://www.lsac.org/
http://vlib.org/Law
http://www.lawyers.com/
http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/intellectuallife.htm
http://www.austlii.edu.au/http://www.lawguru.com/index.php
With some folks, BitTorrent is a dirty word. I'm not sure how I
feel about it, but I've used BitTorrent to get at least one Linux
distro that wasn't available any other way. Here's some reading
on the subject, beginning with the information.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittorrent
http://www.dessent.net/btfaq/
A search engine. http://isohunt.com/
A collection of Torrents. http://www.legaltorrents.com/index.htm
The applications.
http://www.bittorrent.com/index.html
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
http://www.emule-project.net/home/perl/general.cgi?l=1
eMule is both a torrent-like app and a poetry archive.
http://www.emule.com/poetry/
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Tombs, headstones and other fun stuff.
Tombs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb
Headstones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_stone
DIY: http://www.jjchandler.com/tombstone/
Inscriptions: http://www.framland.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
Irreverent: http://www.nejman.com/todiefor/
Hadrian's wall: http://museums.ncl.ac.uk/wallnet/ant/tomb.htm
Larceny: http://www.interment.net/column/feature/stolen/index.htm
Bristol: http://www.bristolinformation.co.uk/tombstones/
Earthquake: http://snipurl.com/sif9
Geomorphology: http://snipurl.com/sifb
Greek: http://snipurl.com/sifh
Weblog: http://bradchoate.com/savannah/2004/02/tombstones
Bob: http://home.att.net/~tombstone.bob/
Concrete ships were called "floating tombstones".
http://www.unmuseum.org/concrete.htm
Keep bad things from happening to your computer.
http://egamma.org/security.aspx
Explore the Taj Mahal. http://www.taj-mahal.net/
The cable television program "Talking About".
http://members.aol.com/talkingabout/
Blogs on any topic. http://www.technorati.com/explore/
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A UK English learning site. http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/
Libraries and you.
http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=librariesandyou
Linux International. http://www.li.org/
This hamburger place is over two hundred years old.
http://www.louislunch.com/
Lunch box collectors.
http://www.lunchboxpad.com/
http://www.lunchboxes.com/
Live music for young folks. http://www.lunchmoneymusic.com/
Where to go for lunch? http://www.lunchonfriday.com/
A new way to market music. http://www.lunchrecords.com/
The (U.S.) National School Lunch Program.
http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/lunch/
No Free Lunch Theorems. http://www.no-free-lunch.org/
Here's a site you might pass on to your favorite doctor.
http://www.nofreelunch.org/
Now the internet can even play a part in your pregnancy.
http://preg.fertilityfriend.com/
I guess it's appropriate for a kid's blog to have a ghost writer. I'm
betting that Georgia is her mom. http://bradchoate.com/savannah/
Big cities are in bad shape the world over.
http://www.savevenice.org/
Ever want to put words in a celebrity's mouth? Watch
the links on the pages, they lead to other celebs.
http://chuck.says-it.com/
http://john.says-it.com/
http://arnold.says-it.com/
Do you have an old computer collecting dust somewhere?
Have you got two or more computers tied together into a
network? You can enjoy a much higher level of internet
security and they can all share a single internet connection
by converting your old computer to a router.
http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/
http://www.freesco.org/
How to scan 35 mm slides on a flatbed scanner.
http://www.abstractconcreteworks.com/essays/scanning/Backlighter.html
http://www.newt.com/wohler/scanning-story/
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Simplify your start menu. http://www.tidystartmenu.com/
A nifty tool for people who think visually.
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/?vt
The thinking space of Adam Shand.
http://www.spack.org/wiki/
Programmers', webmasters' and security resources.
http://www.thefreecountry.com/
The first 75 years of television.
http://www.tvhistory.tv/index.html
What's a tiktaalik?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiktaalik
http://tiktaalik.uchicago.edu/
Small, self contained no-install office software applications.
http://www.xtort.net/office/floppyoffice.php
Very small software for your PC. http://www.tinyapps.org/
The ultimate photographer.
http://www.williamcoupon.com/about_biography.html
News and opinions by top writers.
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/
Try not to yawn at this one.
http://www.gapingmaws.com/index.html
Open source server and client technology.
http://www.zimbra.com/index.html
Easy to use zip file manager. http://zipcentral.iscool.net/
Upload your videos here. http://www.zippyvideos.com/
Everything old is new again. Maggot therapy.
http://www.larve.com/maggot_manual/docs/history.html
http://snipurl.com/sih2
Are they dead or alive? http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/
Pat Morita was a very interesting person.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Morita
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Websites everyone should know about.
These aren't sponsors, they're the best of Internet
publications and I highly recommend them all.
http://askTCL.com
http://www.langa.com
http://www.tourbus.com
http://www.lockergnome.com
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http://www.scotsnewsletter.com
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How do I _____? http://www.how-do-i.us/
Scorpions terrify me so I didn't look at this site.
http://www.ub.ntnu.no/scorpion-files/gallery.php
Sea and Sky. http://www.seasky.org/
Earth and Sky. http://www.earthsky.com/
Wind and Sea.
http://www.lib.noaa.gov/docs/wind/windandsea.html
Earth and Moon. http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/
Moon and Stars. http://www.moonandstarsproject.org/
A search engine partnership chart.
http://www.ihelpyou.com/search-engine-chart.html
The (U.S.) national consortium for justice information and
statistics. http://www.search.org/
I enjoy this little program on the radio. http://stardate.org/
What is "bash"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash
The preceding set you up for this interesting article.
http://linuxgazette.net/issue55/okopnik.html
Python fans my enjoy this silly walks generator.
http://www.sillywalksgenerator.com/
Who remembers these guys? http://www.smothersbrothers.com/
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory.
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/explore/
The (U.S.) FTC on unwanted email.
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/spam/index.html
Our favorite Linux game is KDE Shisen-Sho. We liked it so
much that we had to find a similar game for Windows and
we found it in Shisen for Java.
http://www.admoore.de/javashisen/jshome.html
I recently found another version that has less fancy graphics
but plays well enough and the author has some other games
available on his site as well. http://dvalot.free.fr/games.htm
Shisen is a variant of Mahjongg. A patient aficionado might
be able to locate other interesting versions of Mahjong on this
site. http://home.halden.net/vkp/vkp/index.html
Geeky fun. http://www.lcdf.org/
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Things said by kids.
Part VI (final)
Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had
a large number of children. In between he practiced on an old
spinster which he kept up in his attic. Bach died from 1750 to
the present. Bach was the most famous composer in the world
and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian, and
half English. He was very large.
Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so
deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest
even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired
in 1827 and later died for this.
The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and
inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and started
reproducing by machine. The invention of the steamboat caused
a network of rivers to spring up. Cyrus McCormick invented the
McCormick raper, which did the work of a hundred men. Louis
Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbits. Charles Darwin was a
naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species.
Madman Curie discovered the radio. Karl Marx became one
of the Marx Brothers.
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Smart computing in plain English is a periodical magazine. There
are a number of informative files available for reading on their site.
http://www.smartcomputing.com/
The Secret Guide to Computers. http://www.secretguide.net/
Cyber security tips. http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/
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Links from readers are always welcome and
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From reader and friend John Lepse.
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Hey Don,
The first site I want to send you is a blog by linguists at the
University of Pennsylvania and other colleges. It's often
amusing and/or thought provoking and does a good job
of making the study of language accessible and interesting.
The blog is much more fun than my description. Find it at
http://tinyurl.com/94vkm One caution is that a few of the
posts I read contained some profanity.
Second is the blog based on the book "What Would the
Founders Do?" by Richard Brookhiser. I haven't yet read
the book but have visited the blog at
http://www.founderblogs.com
Of course it's impossible to know what the founders would
think of the issues of today, but it's fun to speculate.
Finally, there's the quiz: What OS Are You? Find it at
http://bbspot.com/news/2003/os_quiz.php Essentially
meaningless of course but fun. I'm a Palm OS, punctual
and straightforward. My mother, according to the quiz,
wishes I could be more like my cousin Wince, but I'm
happy the way I am.
Take Care,
John
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From reader and friend H. Davis.
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Don, here's one method a fellow from Austin chose
to distribute Linux. I thought it pretty novel. :-)
http://www.lobby4linux.com/WordPress/?p=63
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From reader and friend, Irving Stein.
http://www.irvings-info-page.cityslide.com
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The magic gopher (site has embedded sound).
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/games/magic-gopher-central.swf
The Pocket. http://www.thepocket.com/
Ramesh's Windows XP fixes, tips and tweaks.
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/index.html
Real time world statistics. http://www.worldometers.info/
Windows XP "Scandisk".
http://www.duxcw.com/faq/win/xp/scandisk.htm
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From reader and friend Patrick Barden
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So, got any books you don't want?
http://snipurl.com/shzv
Windows CleanUp! http://www.stevengould.org/software/cleanup/
Here's a blog that Patrick reads and loves.
http://holymama.typepad.com/holymama/
A few images on Patrick's website.
http://elberton.net/~wpb30635/
Patrick's blog. http://rrwbushangel.blogspot.com/
What's your phishing IQ?
http://survey.mailfrontier.com/survey/quiztest.html
An online summer camp for kids.
http://familyinternet.about.com/od/summerfuncamp/a/summerfun.htm
Here's a cute little animation entitled "Animation versus animator".
The link Patrick originally sent me has gone bad but google found
me a new one in short order.
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/animator
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From reader, and web sibling Jo-Ann Burton.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharinglinks2/
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News of the Middle Ages. http://scatoday.net/
Better living through... better knitting?
http://snipurl.com/shai
http://www.interweave.com/knit/charities.asp
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/knitting/
Flu info. http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/1918flu/index.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/influenza/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4949542
Toxic lunch boxes. http://www.cehca.org/lunchboxes.htm
Positive things about leeches.
http://dnr.metrokc.gov/wlr/waterres/Bugs/Leeches.htm
Search the Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
http://www.askoxford.com/dictionaries/quotation_dict/?view=uk
Conspire with others, to do good. http://www.pledgebank.com/
Car safety info (U.S.) http://www.safercar.gov/
American English. http://www.usefoundation.org/foundation/research/lia/
Thank you John, H. Davis, Irving, Patrick and Jo.
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Last word, from Lisa:
We're getting into full-blown summer here in Central Texas,
so people are a little less interested in large outdoor
projects. It's common around here to hear about peoples'
"fall project" plans for any and all outdoor work. The only
thing that won't wait is mowing and weeding the stuff that
you carefully planted in the spring. Very soon, temperatures
of 102- to 110-degrees every afternoon will be common,
unless of course, it rains; an all-too-scarce occurrence.
Still, this area is one of the best I've known. The day I
drove into Tow, TX I knew this was my home.
El mejor del amor y de la suerte.
Lisa
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