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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #193 5/9/02 |
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Welcome to the 193rd 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: - Encyclopedia
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Encyclopedia of 'Toons Bugs, Bullwinkle and Betty Boop - and their distinctive voices - seem almost like family, and like family they don't ever go away, rediscovered by each new generation. Every member of the species resides in Don Markstein's Toonopedia, a comprehensive "toonological" source for cartoons of every genre and media, from comic books to T.V. 'Toons are both the characters and the stories, and here visitors will also find the real live people and companies - from Marvel to Disney - who make the 'toons, plus histories of heroes as famous as Superman or as obscure as Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld. Today in Toons highlights a daily 'toon-related event, like May 5, 1967, the premiere of R. Crumb's Mr. Natural.
Which came first, the Maori carvings of Easter Island or Olmec hieroglyphics? At the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History, more than 20,000 years of art marches on, from prehistoric times to the present, to give online visitors an invaluable tool for studying art, archaeology, anthropology and history. Organized by geography, the timeline lets visitors click on a period from 20,000 BC to 1400 AD, then on art icons scattered on a map of continents to get overviews and key art events of the period, all linked to the Met's vast collection. Still a work in progress, more stages will be added, plus an index, glossaries and multimedia elements to enhance the content now available. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm Food Reference Only a real food nut would know a 4-letter word for a large, sweet, juicy hybrid of tangerine and grapefruit -the answer to 5 Across in the Culinary Crossword Puzzle, one of many activities at the Food Reference Web Site. People hooked on cuisine will find more than just recipes and articles, including trivia, cooks' tips, quotes, humor, even poems. There are recipes, of course, from ancient, classic and modern, plus articles on diverse food stuff from agar to TV dinners, food facts (jelly doughnuts have fewer calories and less fat than plain donuts with a hole in the center) and a weekly newsletter. Foodaholics need never leave their computers to feast on food info - except, of course, to eat. SHORT TAKES The Four Word Film Review Cut to the chase at The Four Word Film Review where the long-awaited feature "Spiderman" is summed up as "Red guy jumps around" and the Denzel Washington tear-jerker "John Q" earns a crisp "Poor man's Capra … pass." Good reviews, no nonsense. <><><><><><><><> Stars on TV Can't get enough of Alan Thicke? Stars on TV makes it easy to find your fave actor, actress, director or genre with TV listings for over 4,100 stars and hundreds of directors each month. Search by name and get the program title, synopsis, date, time and channel on which s/he appears. Dreamy Alan Thicke is actually on 3 times in May! http://www.tv-now.com/stars/stars.html <><><><><><><><> Buy the Expos Your dreams of owning a major league ball club could come true at Buy the Expos, where The New Expos Ownership Group is trying to keep the beleaguered Montreal club alive past the 2002 season. Fans are asked to pledge a buck here, a buck there, but don't laugh --- they say they've got $3.1 million in commitments so far (though no cash has been collected). http://buytheexpos.poptopix.com/ Enjoy
the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to: You're the General The Web is different than TV - and PBS gets it, especially at American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant, an online partner to its film biography of the Civil War general and controversial president. PBS gathered the stories, pictures, facts, interviews, maps and dramatic footage not used in its film to create this interactive broadband experience. Considered either a hero or a butcher, Grant was a brilliant military strategist whose presidency teemed with racial conflicts and scandals. Students of history who can't sit through even the most compelling documentary can take a journey into Grant's childhood frontier, play general as war rages and young soldiers are sacrificed, and make production decisions in visual, audio, and editorial labs, just like a big-time TV producer. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/grant/index.html Save Net Radio Web radioheads unite at Save Internet Radio, the online call to protest Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel recommendations that on May 21 could, say Net radio rebels, make the music die by drowning the Internet radio industry in royalty payments and record keeping. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act passed by Congress in 1998 established royalty payments to record labels from music webcasters and triggered the actions the site creators rail against. Learn about their position here, read editorials, contact your DC reps, encourage press coverage and spread the word now, before the May 1st "Day of Silence" when Internet radio stations shut down the music streams in protest becomes a permanent sound-out. http://www.saveinternetradio.org/ Movie Extra Confessions That random college guy who walked past Alyssa Milano in an episode of TV's "Charmed" may not be a big-time celebrity, but he does have the goods - and spills them at The Adventures of Dan: Movie Extra Extraordinaire. The self-proclaimed Living Prop offers first-hand accounts straight from the set, thanks to his yearlong career as a speechless, clueless background actor. With sometimes goofy, always good-natured journal entries that chronicle his adventures in Hollywood on the sets of movies like "The Faculty" and TV shows like "X-Files," and tips on how to get walk-on work yourself ("… for the love of God, don't park anywhere except the street!"), the site is a kick for either actor wannabes or celebrity hounds. http://www.adventuresofdan.com/
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Teach With Movies If you can't beat 'em, teach 'em -- and provide the popcorn. That could be the motto for Teach With Movies, where parents and teachers are encouraged to use film to give lessons about the achievements of civilization, music, dance, drama, literature and ethics to 6 - 15 year-olds. Find films by cultural heritage, minimum age, title, character development or keyword search, then access learning guides that describe the film's benefits, signal potential problems, offer discussion questions and bridges to reading and other projects. A list of films not appropriate for teaching is also given. http://www.teachwithmovies.org/index.html The Chronicles of George Pity the poor office workers who took their computer problems to the dim-witted star of The Chronicles of George. The help-desk operator from hell is featured here by a co-worker who, while working side-by-side with the hapless George (not his real name), was so appalled by the mangled help-desk tickets George wrote that he used them to create a web site straight out of Dilbert. Visitors can read along as workers do battle with their "anti-Norton virus service," and report laptops that groan "like they are diening." Visitors who recognize George as one of their own can share their office frustrations at George Forums. http://chroniclesofgeorge.nanc.com/ If
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