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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #199 6/20/02 |
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Welcome to the 199th 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: - Super
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Super Seventies If you missed the 70s the first time around, the Super Seventies RockSite brings back the Me Decade, aged like a mighty fine wine. The site creators call the 70s "the overall finest decade for popular music in the past forty years" and offer as proof such features as the Classic 200, album reviews, top singles and music forums. Beyond Black Sabbath, Aerosmith and Pink Floyd, the site also features 70s culture, with 170 portraits of famous personalities as they appeared in Time, TV Guide and Rolling Stone, plus trivia games, a bookstore (remember "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" and "The Thornbirds"?) and a poster room with gems from Donny and Marie to Kiss. http://www.superseventies.com/ String Theory To most of us, string theory is grandma's tip to tie a piece around your finger to help you remember stuff. Welcome to the 21st century - and high time you got current at The Official String Theory Web Site. The basics of theoretical physics (there's a contradiction in terms) are explained at Basics, bosons and fermions mix it up at Experiment and gravitational collapse is explored at Black Holes. None of it's easy, but the explanations are as simple as possible, and it's not all hard work. the Theatre presents light entertainment in the form of a RealAudio physics colloquium and a multimedia history of string theory. Ugly Footballers While the World Cup 2002 has your attention, take Ugly Footballers.com for a trip into the less attractive elements of the sport, like the streakers, mullets, obese fans, some of the most nauseating sports injuries on record and, of course, the homely players. The ugly round-up includes players from the 80s through today, rated on an ugliness scale, with some pretty ghoulish goalies. A Beauty and the Beast section shows players' inexplicably gorgeous wives and girlfriends, Fan Forum encourages visitors to tell ugly jokes, a Hall of Fame seeks nominees and a caption contest asks visitors to submit witticisms for the witless antics. http://www.uglyfootballers.com/ SHORT TAKES Embassies of the World World travelers can put all the world's embassies at their fingertips by making a quick stop at EmbassyWorld.com, an easily searchable database of embassies and consulates worldwide. Select a world location from A to Z or search by either Whose Embassy? or In What Location? to go right to the embassy's own web page. http://www.embassyworld.com/embassy/directory.htm <><><><><> Art Crime It's crime, but is it art? At Art Crime: A Journal of Modern Iconoclasm, crime-artists projectile vomit, urinate and heave eggs on and at works of art in acts of vandalism or self-expression, depending on your viewpoint. Here, the acts are chronicled in a time line, photographed and explained by the perpetrators . http://www.renewal.org.au/artcrime/ <><><><><> The Lenny Bruce FBI File Lenny Bruce, called a noble hero trapped in conservative America, changed the face of comedy and earned an FBI file in the process, available at The Lenny Bruce FBI File, much of it Bruce's own complaints about a conspiracy against him and the memos the FBI traded in response. http://www.fadetoblack.com/foi/lennybruce/ Enjoy
the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to: Preserving Endangered Cocktails If Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails (LUPEC) catches on, women will get some guts, stop ordering Chardonnay and convert to real cocktails like a Gin Fizz or a Singapore Sling. LUPEC
members hope to save from extinction the great mixes, history, rituals,
barware and hors d'oeuvres of cocktail parties that preceded and far outclass
today's tailgate beer busts. The recipes are mouth-watering and poetic:
Coconut-Lime Rickey, La Blonde Negresse (named in honor of Josephine Baker)
and the Red Velvet Swing, a mix of dry Champagne and pomegranate molasses
served in "Breast of Venus" glassware. Photos of LUPEC meetings
like the May 2001 gathering in honor of Edith Piaf make you want Reef Expedition Tour the Atlantic Ocean's largest coral reef without muddying up your boots at the World Wildlife Fund's Expeditions in Conservation: The Mesoamerican Reef. Home to more than 65 species of coral and 500 species of fish, the reef stretches 450 miles from the Yucatan Peninsula to the coast of Honduras. Visitors can read about the expedition, take an underwater tour of the reef via ReelPlayer Media, view photos of the diverse inhabitants - from the manatee to the red-footed booby - meet the scientists and learn the science via a spectacular underwater journey. For 20 years, the Fund has been working to ensure the survival of this vast eco-region. The site tells how you can help. http://www.worldwildlife.org/expeditions/reef/index.html When Stars Did The Commercials Imagine the gang of Dawson's Creek stepping out of a scene, walking through a curtain clutching a tablet of Claritin or a Big Mac and launching into a sales pitch. George Burns and the entire Ozzie Nelson family did it in the early days of TV, when even advertising was simpler. Until the mid-60s, program sponsors would pay production costs in exchange for plugs, often acted out as scenes starring the cast in full character. Hogan's Heroes even hawked Jell-O in a Nazi prison camp with Nazi memorabilia featured in the product shot. See Clark Kent and Perry White emoting over Sugar Smacks and the Three Stooges nyuk-nyuking over Simonize car polish. http://www.tvparty.com/vaultcomsp.html **********Advertisement************** THE COOLEST COLOR BUSINESS CARDS These
cards will make you proud to have a business. Create, personalize, http://www.ebusiness-cards.com ******************************** Watergate Anniversary Thirty years ago, Watergate was just a Washington DC hotel until it catapulted into the headlines to become a synonym for political scandal. One of the most loathsome and intriguing periods in American history, the events that seem like ancient history to high school kids today had profound consequences, explored in detail at Watergate.Info. Every dark corner is recalled, from the long list of political casualties and convictions to the changes in campaign reform and aggressive media the events ushered in. With links to a vast library of books and films, Nixon's 1994 eulogy delivered by Bob Dole, studies of its Constitutional relevance and commentary by conservatives, liberals -- even one of the burglars whose bungling led to the story's break. Playing with Fire Play with fire at ZippoTricks.com, where creative souls prove that holding up a lighter at a Paul McCartney concert or using it to light candles, fireplaces or smokes is just so pedestrian. With 274 tricks, detailed instructions and difficulty levels available online, visitors can start easy with Blister Agent, advance to Quasi-static, then challenge themselves with the Universal Spin. Most tricks can be seen on video clips, and the Hall of Fame features the top Trickheads, like the Englishman who knows 40 tricks and writes that "this site is the ultimate inspiration for me." Visitors can also submit their own tricks, vote for their favorites and download 3D rendered Zippo wallpapers. If
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