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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #188 4/4/02 |
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Welcome to the 188th issue of the Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter offering weekly insights into new, cool, useful, fun, unusual and interesting sites on the Internet. In this issue: - Human
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Human Anatomy Online If you get your pituitary gland confused with your adenoids - and who doesn't - click on over to Inner Body for a straightforward explanation of what's connected to what inside your own bad self. Created by MyHealthScore.com, the group committed to helping consumers navigate the perilous waters of health care, the site makes learning easy by using the simple logic of point-and-click to guide visitors around and inside human anatomy. Click on an image for the skeletal system or the urinary tract, for example, then pick a point to zoom in on a new image and read about the body part or system you've selected. http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html Go To My PC When you arrive home to find you've left an important document on your office computer, or need to send an e-mail from work to a friend you only chat with at home, Go To My PC will be your super hero by letting you access your computer from any other Internet-connected computer through a secure, private connection. You download and install the magic via a self-launching plug-in that plops you - virtually - in front of your host computer to check and send email, use applications and work with documents. Site fees start at around $15 per month for one PC, rising to about $45 per month for up to 20 PCs for business users, but a free trial lets you give the technology a spin before signing up. Digital, Visual and Habitual What better way to visit a gallery of digital art than online, where the exhibits change fluidly and feature young, experimental digital artists who constantly push the boundaries. Two Fifty takes its name from the collection of 250 x 250 pixel digital art, self-submitted by artists who maintain their own ever-changing galleries on the site. You
don't have to be a pro to join in and form your own gallery of either SHORT TAKES Celebrity Router Tips Want to know how to set up Ethernet on a Cisco router or how to form an extended access list? Learn from celebrities, like Gary Coleman discussing priority queuing, at Celebrity Router Tips where 19 celebrity interviews reveal the stars' deepest secrets of routing. <><><><><><><><> Did You Feel It? Yikes! Did you feel that!? Californians know the feeling. At Did You Feel It? the US Geological Survey lets everyone check earthquake activity - and record what they felt - in all 50 states by offering and soliciting ground-shaking info via a color-coded rating system of each quake's magnitude. http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/index.html <><><><><><><><> Oxymoron List Microsoft Works is the cynical favorite topping the Oxymoron List, a compilation of incongruous or contradictory phrases that make you go, "Hmmm, I get it" before moving on to the next. Good for a quick laugh or a witty remark, there are hundreds here, including the Top 20 List that includes the timely "tax return." Enjoy
the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to: Prehistoric Petting Zoo He swims like an otter, kills like a croc. Meet Ambulocetus and prehistoric friends at Walking with Prehistoric Beasts, brought to you by The Discovery Channel. Select a photo from the gallery of rather gruesome creatures, then see it close-up and check its vitals: like Andrewsarchus, a wolf-like carnivore with a deceptively pleasant name honoring paleontologist Roy Andrews, the model for Indiana Jones. Try being a paleontologist by recreating extinct animals from fossil evidence - like completing a giant jigsaw puzzle without all the pieces - at Build a Beast. Or go the other way at Hide a Beast, an interactive game that lets you mix and match colors, patterns and habitats to see camouflage at work, or find out if you're a Beastmaster at the Beastly Quiz. http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/beasts/beasts.html PopCult Magazine A 3,000-word story on the failed attempt to bring back Roller Derby may not seem like high culture to you, but it sure is pop culture. There's lots more at Pop Cult Magazine, an e-zine dedicated not just to celebrities, movies and TV shows, but to the real deal: the history and creators of the weird stuff we all get hooked on, however briefly. Odd
Glimpses shows ephemera like a mid-60s brochure for a three-wheeled car
called a "Space Age Innovation." Obsessions features people
like John Bean, the Picasso of prank phone calls. Other sections recall
fads, food technology, and "the bottom five," celebrating our
culture's bottom feeders, like those who stick costumes on babies and
dogs and then Old Computer Museum You may think your Apple IIGS is the oldest computer on earth, but it can't compete with the fossils at Old Computers, which depicts in photos and text more than 500 machines. The site traces personal computers from their introduction in 1973 with the Micral, the first microprocessor-based computer, to the PCW 16 in 1994, which introduced a clever graphic-based interface called The Desktop. Anyone remember the Apricot, or the 1980 SuperBrain? A message board forum connects collectors and an online javachat helps visitors link to others to discuss such topics as emulation and computer history. Finally, a Fun section shows goofy old computer ads, quizzes and the Hall of Nerds. http://www.old-computers.com/news/default.asp **********Advertisement************** THE COOLEST COLOR BUSINESS CARDS These cards will make you proud to have a business. Create, personalize, edit, print and order a unique one of a kind business card. http://www.ebusiness-cards.com ******************************** Yiddish Radio Project Yiddish was the language of more than 2 million Jews who landed at Ellis Island about the same time that radio got very hot. By the early 1930s, the two came together and Yiddish radio flourished. Twenty years later it was all but gone, though not lost, thanks to the Yiddish Radio Project, the online version of NPR's documentary series about the golden days of Yiddish radio. Using a scant thousand rescued recordings, the site lets visitors hear the stories and rare radio clips, view archival photographs and sample the diverse fare, from searing dramas to an early version of Judge Judy, one Rabbi Rubin who resolved disputes among Jews, and Yiddish Melodies in Swing, a fusion of traditional Yiddish klezmer music with popular American swing. http://www.yiddishradioproject.org/ Crossovers and Spin-offs TV sitcoms are separated by even fewer than six degrees. Connect the dots at Crossovers and Spin-offs, devoted to tracing the Genesis-like relationships of TV shows that shared the same weird reality at some point, and then created another. Even
if you remember the Andy Griffith Show, starring punkin'- head Opie of
Oscar directorial fame, you probably don't know that the Mayberry sheriff
first appeared on the Danny Thomas Show, whose star was the real-life
dad of That Girl's Marlo Thomas, wife of Phil Donahue, who begat Oprah.
Well, sort of. With so many related characters, story lines and concepts
in TV land, visitors can click on any letter of the alphabet from A for
Adam-12 to Z for Zoe, a 1998-99 season replacement which, tragically,
died before http://home.earthlink.net/~jinxo/maincrosslist.html If
you're interested in advertising in Cool Tricks and Trinkets, 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 ~Quantum Simulations - Intelligent Tutoring Engines. ~International Dark-Sky Association
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