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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #106 9/7/00 |
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In this issue: - America
at Work, School and Play ~~~~~~~Our Sponsor's Message~~~~~~~ Reduce your home alarm monitoring bill! Have you ever wondered why you're paying $29.95 or more per month for your monthly home alarm monitoring service? NextAlarm.com offers enhanced monitoring at (UL) listed centers for $14.95 per month. See if your home qualifies. http://www.nextalarm.com ~~~~~~~Please support our sponsor~~~~~~~ If you long for more simple times, check out the American Memory Collection, which offers a glimpse of America at work, school and play around the turn of the 20th century. These historical film collections are the key contribution of the Library of Congress to the National Digital Library. From Vaudeville shows including animal acts, burlesque, dance, comic sketches and more through Society Ballooning and Shooting the Chutes at Coney Island, this site offers up a wonderful plate of nostalgia. America at Work, School and Play - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awlhtml If you're tired of looking at the drab shades of your internet browser, check out Hotbar.com. It's a free add-on that instantaneously converts your static browser into a personalized instrument of enhanced functionality and visual appeal. Composed of two components, a graphic overlay called a "skin" and a toolbar appended to the bottom of the browser, it allows the user to embellish the Web browser with a huge variety of exclusive skins. This is a very refreshing application. Browser Panache - http://www.hotbar.com Next week, all eyes will be focused on Sydney, Australia and the beginning of the 2000 Olympic games. In celebration of the games, Kodak has created a beautiful site featuring an illustrated timeline beginning with the rebirth of the modern games in 1896 to the present day. The site also features a section devoted to the athletes, consisting of over 120 black and white prints of athletes from Asia, Europe, the United States and Australia. Let the games begin! Olympic
History - http://www.journale.com/kodak/olympics/olympichistory SHORT TAKES: If you're looking for relief from the high price of gasoline, this site will enlighten and entertain. The Grease Car is a converted VW van that runs entirely on used cooking grease. Grease
Car - http://www.greasecar.com/ BeVocal is a phone service that enables you to dial a toll-free number and say simple spoken commands to obtain useful services such as point-to-point driving directions, real-time traffic reports, flight information, stock quotes, and weather. It is a very useful service. Be
Vocal - http://www.bevocal.com Scenario: You are normally glued to your computer screen and don't pay attention to the outside world. Problem: A severe weather warning or potential power outage situation is affecting your area. Solution: Sign up for this free service and get notified of an emergency by email, from your local, regional and national government sources. Emergency Email Network - http://www.emergencyemailnetwork.com Like this newsletter? Tell a friend and you could win $10,000! Just click here, click here Tune in, turn on and drop out was the advice given by Timothy Leary and taken by many (myself included) during the hippie heydays of the late 1960's. I will never forget my visit to San Francisco in 1967, and feeling like a stranger in a strange land. This
amazing site invites you to turn off your mind, relax and float downstream
and highlights some of the mood altering experiences of the psychedelic
era. If I could stop time, it would be here. Not to mention how much fun
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here Many companies are beginning to monitor employee working habits and being a slacker is becoming more and more difficult. IShouldBeWorking.com is a great site for free cyberslacking fun and online loafing humor. You can play games, read jokes, enter contests, check sports scores, and enjoy a wide range of non work related fun. If your boss should come by for a visit, there's a "panic button" that will take you to a business site, to make it look like you're really doing company business. I Should Be Working - http://ishouldbeworking.com With the recent court decision which ordered MP3.com to pay nearly $250 million in damages to Universal, and all the hoopla surrounding Napster, the recording industry is still in search of a solution to the online music trading phenomena. One possible future for artists outside the current system can be witnessed at IUMA.com. Short for "Internet Underground Music Archive", IUMA.com provides a place for musicians to post their music on their own customized web page. Here potential fans can get band info, free MP3s, buy CDs, post to message boards and even email the band. This service is free to the musicians. Simply put, IUMA's goal is about "...getting the music out and giving new music fans a cool way to discover music." Be sure to check out "Radio IUMA" which will introduce you to some great music, based on your favorite genre. Wanna be a rock and roll star - http://www.iuma.com Most of us take the workings of the WWW for granted, and are happy to know that it just works. If you'd like to have a greater understanding about web servers basics including, what http:// is, or how to choose a web server platform, this site is an excellent resource. How the WWW works - http://webcompare.internet.com/webbasics/index.html For those of us who enjoy interacting with our fellow net citizens via live chats, webcasts, and online games, there's a light-hearted, new site that is just what your connection ordered. iSketch offers a live interactive variation on the beloved board game Pictionary. Players join in a "room" in which one of the participants sketch the secret word while the remaining players have three minutes to figure out the word. Lots of fun! iSketch - http://www.isketch.net If you're interested in advertising in Cool Tricks and Trinkets, email info@tricksandtrinkets.com SUBSCRIBERS' SITES - Many of our subscribers have fascinating on-line projects. This weekly section will introduce you to some of these sites. Please let me know about your project so that I might mention it in this section. Write me at info@tricksandtrinkets.com ~Remote Firewalls - Remote configuration of your Internet Network. click here ~Dog Safety - Resource for learning about dog safety and PREVENTING dog bites.click here ~The Cardigan Welsh Corgi...a friend for life click here ~Haightstreet.net - Online guide to San Francisco's legendary subcultures.click here ~The American Smoker - The history of tobacco and the American Government.click here ~They Need Us And We Need Them - Dedicated to the neglected children of the world.click here ~HappyDawg.com - Complete web services provider for your business. click here ~Winghead - An eclectic, fun rest stop that has something for just everyone.click here ~Austin Fast - Very Cool and amazingly useful Austin, TX links + fresh headlines. click here ~Mystic Jitterbug - Professional Psychic & Tarot Readings. click here
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