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Welcome to the 154th 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:
- Jelly Web
- Lab Tests Online
- Famous Name Changes
- Short Takes
- Home Economics History
- Photocartoonist Extraordinaire
- Cycle Jumpers of the World
- The Victorian Web
- Rare Bob Dylan
- Subscribers' Sites
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Jelly Web
A showcase of ultra-new interactive media, Jelly Web offers innovative products, from the intriguing bouncing ball menu that challenges visitors as they enter the site, to customized web sites that push the boundaries of web technology. The interface moves users beyond conventional point-and-click, and the site requires Flash 5, but patience is rewarded with innovative and creative displays of what the future may hold.
Predicting that interactivity will invade our toasters and TVs, the site's creators claim to be revolutionaries, and their portfolio shows it all off: character animation, 3D modeling and QuickTime animated movies.
http://www.jellyweb.com/
Lab Tests Online
Today consumers must be their own best advocates in the sometimes scary health care marketplace. This site is just what the doctor ordered. Lab Tests Online offers vital info about the most "invisible" yet routine of health care processes, clinical lab tests.
Designed for consumers by lab professionals, the site is peer-reviewed, non-commercial and truly patient-centered. Pull-down menus make it easy to select a test and get a thorough, simple explanation of how and why it's done. Select a condition to read about its symptoms or select a group (like adolescents) and read about the right preventive and diagnostic tests.
Go Inside the Lab to follow a throat culture from gathering the sample to reading the results, or get tips on how to give a true specimen at Understanding Your Tests - so you won't have to be needlessly poked or swabbed again.
http://www.labtestsonline.org/
Famous Name Changes
Everyone knows John Wayne was born Marion, but even Jennifer Aniston's best "Friends" might not know her teachers in Sherman Oaks had to struggle with Jennifer Anistonapoulas during roll call.
This site spills it all, on actors, singers, sport stars, politicians, religious leaders, models, moguls - plus the "Totally Obscure," like the transsexual bank robber who went from Richard to Patricia. Choose a category, then click on A-Z to read a celebrity's birth name, date and place of birth and a brief bio.
Visitors can add famous name changes they know - and wonder why some people choose to stick with the name they were given.
http://www.famousnamechanges.com/
SHORT TAKES:
Internet Eye Test
Get your eyes officially certified to surf the net and kill a little time at the office with another activity from the self-described "odd stupid stuff" collection. If you can read the E, you're on your way.
http://www.getodd.com/stuf/stupid/eyetest/eyetest.html
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Alternative Dictionaries
Learn to say strange, rude things in languages from Acadian to Yiddish (no entries for Zulu yet). The site offers about 3,000 words in 79 languages to date, and is an experimental "internet collaborative" project; that is, users make all the entries, and most are rarely found in conventional dictionaries.
http://www.notam.uio.no/%7Ehcholm/altlang/
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Time Capsules
Enter a date and get a "time capsule," a listing of the top news headlines, songs, toys and books, plus sample prices (like stamps at 2 cents each in 1921) and a list of celebrities born on that day. A cool birthday gift, the list can also be customized by adding your own headlines, songs, etc. to those of history.
http://www.dmarie.com/timecap/
Home Economics History
A class in human development at Cornell University studied rare manuscripts to create this exploration of "the intellectual history of home economics" -- which may seem like an oxymoron to those who recall learning how to make quesadillas in a microwave oven. But when scholarship is applied to home economics, the result is alot more than just perfect gravy.
The extensive exhibit includes social, political and economic theory that makes a strong, even feminist, case for housekeeping as both an art and a science leading to higher education, social stability and the mental and physical health of the nation. Biographies of early Cornell home economics faculty and audio clips of oral histories from women like Florence Beck, seen modeling a Mexican bonnet for an exhibit of foreign costumes in 1919, make these early 20th century women and their field of study come alive.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/homeEc/
Photocartoonist Extraordinaire
Featuring the portfolio of Kat.Caverly, a greeting card photographer and
maven, Photocartoonist is a collection of photos of funny people looking funny, many with funny captions written below the photos to make them even funnier.
Visitors will see babies, "Beasties," (mostly dogs and cats) a series in which seemingly normal adults have been talked into posing with an odd set of "liberty" sunglasses, fake animal noses and Lite beer cans. You can also chat with Kat., who promises to be online at least once daily, subscribe to receive updates and daily photo-cartoons or check out the e-greeting cards.
http://www.photocartoonist.com/
Cycle Jumpers of the World
Billed as "your e-jumping destination," the site features the jumps, the bikes and the crashes of the world's greatest living and dead daredevil motorcycle jumpers, from America's Evel and Robbie
Knievel, to China's Zhu Chaohui, who jumped a Suzuki 250 across the Yellow River before 50,000 spectators.
Created by an ardent fan, the site is an online scrapbook devoted to those who chase thrills by flinging themselves over rivers, semi-trucks and rows of school buses. The big draw here is the jumpers, more than 75 of them from around the world, with photos, news, records and hospital stays.
Daredevil Suits displays the unique style of different jumpers through their "leathers," or jumpsuits. What's New lists updates to sections on the site, upcoming events, congratulations to successful daredevils and (often literally) breaking news on who landed on what surface -- and how hard.
http://www.cyclejumpers.com/
The Victorian Web
We may speak of "Victorian" and "repressed" in the same breath, but this period of roughly 75 years named for the British Empire's Queen Victoria gave us a wealth of social, political, philosophical, literary and artistic product that has yet to be duplicated. A web-based translation of materials for courses in Victorian literature at Brown University, the Victorian Web is an exhaustive resource covering it all.
Visitors will find everything from detailed essays on movements in 19th century British thought to illustrations of men's informal sporting dress in the late 1880s. The period gave rise to thinkers from Locke to
Malthus, discoveries from the Daguerreotype to evolution, and art styles from the crafts movement to clutter - not to mention notions of sexuality we struggle with even today. Every nook and cranny of it is explored here.
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/victov.html
Rare Bob Dylan
This site of previously unreleased live recordings of Bob Dylan in concert includes many rare recordings via RealAudio. Among the gems, two songs intended for the 1964 never-released Bob Dylan In Concert album, "Lay Down Your Weary Tune" and "John Brown" - the latter not released until the 1995 Unplugged album.
Most of the recordings are from the 1990s, but many of these are also rare, including "Visions of Johanna," heard by the public only a few times. The recent re-release on DVD of the classic film Don't Look Back includes five unreleased and uncut performances, and two of them can be heard here: "To Ramona" and "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue," from the opening and closing nights, respectively, of Dylan's 1965 UK tour. Brief notes and music links complete this treasure.
http://bobdylan.com/performances/
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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
~ GrowHair Photo Gallery
- A photo gallery of cosplay girls in Harajuku.
~ FreebieForum.net - Home of the best freebies on the net! Updated daily.
~ WebHomez.net - The network for professional webmasters.
~ The Mid Herts School of Magic and The Performing Arts
~ Third Millennium Global News - Breaking news from throughout the world.
~ MonsterMoving.com - Changing the way people move.
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Charles Kessler
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