|
The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #185 3/14/02 |
|
|
Welcome to the 185th 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:
~~~~~ Cool Tricks and Trinkets is made possible by~~~~~~ A1 Discount Hotels We offer great prices and fast online reservations at over 5000 hotels worldwide. Bookmark our site for you next trip. Book online or call our operators at 888-511-5743. http://www.a1-discount-hotels.com <Note> This my personal hotel reservation business. You can support Tricks and Trinkets, by checking us out the next time you're online hotel reservations.
Museum of Hoaxes Easily fooled? In 1835 you might have been suckered into believing there is life on the moon. Today, you might stop using anti-perspirant for fear of getting breast cancer. At the Museum of Hoaxes, suckers are in good company as they trace the history of hoaxes as far back as 756 AD. The site creator adheres to the 1808 definition of a hoax as "contriving wonderful stories for the publick," ruling out practical jokes but not scams. Great hoaxes can astonish and amuse us, but nasty ones can cause serious damage. Search hoaxes by century or by category, from anthropology (the Patagonian giants) to zoology (the jackaloupe), or check out sub-species like urban legends and April Fool's pranks.
Medicine and Madison Avenue Bob Dole promoting Viagra may not be much different today than singer Rudy Vallee advertising Fleischmann's yeast as a way to "Put yourself across" in 1930. At Medicine and Madison Avenue, the relationship between medicine and advertising is explored through images and info for 600 health-related newspaper and magazine ads from 1910 through the 1950s. Judging from the ads, body odor seems to be a timeless worry. The site lets users search by product, then delivers the ad image, date, company, target audience and publication that each ad appeared in, plus 35 historical documents about the influence of health-related ads, with teacher and student guides for the classroom.
A Clown for Our Time The clown who offered breakfast in bed for 400,000 at Woodstock in 1969 is still going strong, even though he's well past the "don't trust anyone over 30" mark. Hugh Romney, aka Wavy Gravy, is A Clown for Our Time, still operating slightly out-of-time at a Berkeley offshoot of the entertainment / activist commune known as the Hog Farm. Today, Mr. Gravy runs Camp Winnarainbow, a performing arts program for children held every summer at the famous Hog Farm, and organizes rock concerts to raise money for environmental, political and charitable causes. Here, visitors can browse photos, read articles and bios, see awards or even book the famous clown, who Lenny Bruce once dubbed "a perfect entertainer."
It's strange how unfunny jokes become if they have to be explained, but How To Be Funny takes on the challenge anyway, with tips like "If nobody gets hurt, it ain't funny" and other sad but true guidelines for jokesters.
Rank My Pet Is your little poochie an angel face or a walking garbage can? Find out if others share your adoration at Rank My Pet. Post a photo and let the Oohs and Ahs rain down, or not. Either way, you can return the compliment by browsing the photos and rating other people's pets.
Dogs chase cats, birds eat worms, chickens stand on goats, and horses dine with bunnies … right? Strange couplings in the animal world are the subject of this site where the photos and the motivation are equally amazing.
Enjoy
the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to:
cool-tricks-join-request@list.adventive.com Reverse Speech
When Neil Armstrong said "That's one small step for man," his brain was thinking "Man will space walk," says the site's creator, who claims that the brain generates unconscious messages that can be heard by reversing a recording of normal speech. Overt and covert speech both form communication --- and silly us for paying attention only to the former. Visitors can listen to the evidence via RealPlayer or check out ways to use the theory on the job and at home. Dream Team Sports Match-Ups
Choices on the site bypass history and seasons as members pit teams from different seasons against each other, replay games from current and past seasons, simulate future or potential matches or even have their own dream squads take on other members. Free goodies, like software to manage the office pool, and chats about baseball, football and basketball mean you never have to get near a court or stadium to catch the action. http://www.whatifsports.com/locker/default.asp Red Flags
Visitors can read columnists like Barbara Lewis and Mark Elliot opine about such heady ideas as freedom or alcoholism research, debate with other thinkers in Weekly Controversy, keep an eye out for media censorship or subscribe to a weekly e-newsletter for trends and hot spots. At Rumbles, step behind-the-scenes to hear the latest controversies in medicine, science, politics and the arts - then use your head and make up your own mind. http://www.redflagsweekly.com/ **********Advertisement**************
These
cards will make you proud to have a business. Create, personalize, Special Offer! 1000 cards for $79.00 http://www.ebusiness-cards.com
Cool Chemistry Movies Forget Julia Roberts and Russell Crowe, the hot stars of these flicks are sodium iodide and magnesium. While everyone else is hyping Oscar-time, the creative types at the Journal of Chemical Education deliver 16 films of dramatic chemical reactions, from the colors of elements in a flame to the classic nitrous acid test. Gasp as a piece of sodium metal is placed in a flask containing chlorine gas! Weep as the reaction is initiated by a drop of water! Hang onto your seat as the dangerous reaction explodes in living color! The movies are part of a Chemistry Comes Alive CD-ROM series compressed into sample QuickTime movies that do make chemistry come alive -- if not to a theater near you. http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/jcesoft/cca/cca0/sampmovs.htm MouseSite It was the mouse that roared, and it's hard to believe that the least peripheral of all peripherals -- the invaluable computer mouse -- has been around since 1968. Its debut that year at Stanford University, along with hypertext and a host of other networking tools, is documented at MouseSite, a living repository of early computer history. Visitors can see the 90-minute presentation of the first mouse by Stanford's Doug Engelbart and colleagues, and participate in history-making by viewing dozens of mostly black-and-white photos to help identify the people, equipment and concepts represented -- all to capture the devices and culture future geeks will revere. http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.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 ~The Breast Cancer site - Vist and help by donating a free mammogram.
~My Search Guru - Connecting Your Site to the Web.
~The Sheila Casey Mysteries by Jean L. Hohnstein ~Employment
Ads online for nonprofit employers and job seekers in New England. \\
\\\ | /// // The
true profession of man Hermann Hesse oooO--------(
)----
|
