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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #244 5/1/3 |
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Welcome to the 244th 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: - Global
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From reviews of the Fall 2003 collections to a global directory for shopping the world's most chic designers and boutiques, Lucire.com is one of the world's leading online fashion magazines for fashion, beauty, travel and lifestyle with a global perspective. Lucire's 1997 launch was set in New Zealand, Thailand, California and Bali, and soon the digital diva of fashion went truly international. With such diverse features as trends at the Melbourne Fashion Festival to the Jerry Garcia handbag line and its historical context, the site offers views of New York Fashion Week, a book store with the latest fashion books reviewed, a newsstand for subscriptions to the rag mags and a community where users can get a free e-mail account and e-mail updates. The Museum of Unworkable Devices Not every idea is a good one, and not everything works. The Museum of Unworkable Devices celebrates the fascinating devices created by obsessed inventors who refused to let go of what seemed like a good idea at the time -- despite the laws of nature and repeated failures. From Simanek's Bouncing Ball Engine to Schadewald's Gravity Engine, see eccentric devices like perpetual motion machines that have never moved in The Annex, which is loaded with incredible and unworkable machines. Galleries and activities let visitors exercise their own brains to puzzle out why the contraptions didn't work as envisioned. Visit the Physics Gallery, for example, where unworkable devices and the physics of the real world that defied their success are explained. http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/unwork.htm Documentography ISSUE is a quarterly web magazine with photo-stories by independent photographers who get where few others do and document the story for Documentography.com, a collective of documentary photographers who work on both personal and common projects that tackle social, political and cultural issues worldwide. The site and the web-zine were created to help build a network of young photojournalists and the archives are well worth the trip. Issue One offers such diverse docu-fare as the UKs worst football team, Shia Muslims in the UK and the rehabilitation of child soldiers in Congo. Issue two covers the first free elections in East Timor and the "disappeared" in Angola's civil war. The current issue documents a train that links landlocked Ethiopia with the sea, born-again churchgoers who convert junkies and prostitutes in Holland, and a sports school for hope-starved Haitian children. http://www.documentography.com/ SHORT TAKES Test Your Geography Knowledge You might want to visit Test Your Geography Knowledge in private, so you don't embarrass yourself in front of your kids when you place Suriname in Uruguay. Select a continent, its map appears, then you're asked to locate a specific nation or state. Just so you don't leave the site feeling as dumb as you did when you arrived, a Cheat button reveals all the answers. http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/ <><><><> Wi-Fi Networking Do you Wi-Fi? At Trepia.com, fans of the revolutionary technology can hook up with other Wi-Fi groupies in their area via a networking application that uses patent-pending technology to analyze base-station access patterns to instantly hook you up with other Wi-Fi users in the vicinity. <><><><> Search Engine Research Go grubbing for info at grub.org, which claims to build the best searches by automatically crawling the Web in the background during your computer's spare clock cycles. Users control how much they crawl, a screensaver shows real-time progress your computer is making and competitive Grubsters can compare their stats to other users. Last Words Who said "We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex," and when? Amazingly, these were the parting words of Dwight Eisenhower in his 1961 Farewell to the Nation. Last Words records the final utterances of the famous, infamous and fictional, whether epitaphs, wills or simple exit lines. Betty Davis' epitaph wryly announced "She did it the hard way," while Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger left a famously "slapdash" will. The final poignant line of George Reeves, who played Superman on the classic 1950s television series, just before shooting himself in the head, was an under-stated "I'm tired. I'm going back to bed." The collection resonates with the (not final) words of Shakespeare's Richard II: "The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony." http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/6537/index.htm Studs Terkel: Conversations with America He interviewed laborers, soldiers, politicians, writers, activists, labor organizers, performing artists and architects, virtually inventing the oral history of Americans from all walks of life while chronicling profound changes in our nation during the twentieth century. Studs Terkel.org shares the incredibly rich legacy of first-hand research by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Many of Terkel's riveting interviews with national and international leaders that originally aired on his Chicago radio program from 1952 to 1997 are featured here. Audio Galleries offer recordings from many of his most famous works: "Hard Times," an oral history of the Great Depression; "The Good War," with its first-hand memories of World War II; and "Division Street: America," a look at 20th century urban life. In "Talking To Myself," Terkel takes a rare step onto center stage and recounts incidents from his own life. Sixties City: British Nostalgia The most fun and exciting decade in history is relived at Sixties City.com, with all the music, memories and magic of the Swingin' Sixties as experienced by the Brits, in facts, features and photos about 60s TV, music, fashion, films, radio and fads. A section
on TV shows recalls old faves like "Juke Box Jury" and "Thank
Your Lucky Stars," even the logos and test patterns that graced British
TV screens. Every record to enter the 60s British pop charts is included,
as well as the price of records and a 60s Music Quiz - like this one from
1966: Who were "coming to take me away, ha-ha!"? Radio history
offers sights and sounds of the offshore pirate radio rampant at the time,
Youth Culture unearths dance crazes like the Freddie and the Frug, plus
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Toy Ads From AMX slot cars to Wham-O, Silly Putty to G.I. Joe, Toyadz.com lets visitors re-visit the vintage toy ads that made them fog up the toy store window and harass poor mom and dad back in the days before they got all grown-up and acquired their own credit cards. Search by toy makers like Kenner or Ideal, or click through pages to go right to categories like dolls, bikes, batteries required, model rockets and horse rides. Then view the ads for the toys you had to have. And if now, all grown-up, you can resist owning the toys but must have the ad, buy it here or visit the linked E-Bay site to bid on the ads that made you throw a tantrum for that 1961 Tonka truck or a hissy-fit for the 1960s Toni Paper Dolls set. World Press Review We all tend to view world events through the tunnel of our own language, culture and national interest. At World Press.org, expand your world view by reading news, editorials and cartoons from Moscow's Izvestia, the Beijing Review, the Daily Nation of Nairobi, Die Zeit of Hamburg and more. The site is the online home of The World Press Review, for more than 30 years the only English-language magazine offering a first-hand look at the world's debates -- some of which get precious little ink in the mainstream U.S. press. The best of the world's newspapers and magazines in more than 20 languages are translated, reprinted and analyzed here, so visitors can read headlines and front pages or visit the Reading Room to view documents, national profiles and special materials for students. 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 ~ PixelPuddle - weekly photography ~ Joeman's Jennifer Lopez Stalker Site ~ Hand Made Wheel Thrown Pottery By Gloria Singer
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