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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #211 9/12/02 |
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Welcome to the 211th 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: -
Sole Mates - The Century in Shoes ~~~~~ Cool Tricks and Trinkets is made possible by~~~~~~ A1 Discount Hotels (an affiliate of Hotels.com) offer discount rooms in over 20,000 hotels worldwide with choices from budget to 5 star hotels. Bookmark our site for you next trip. http://www.a1-discount-hotels.com Visit us online or call our operators at 888-511-5743 <Editor's Note> A1 Discount Hotels is our primary business and source of income. You can support Tricks and Trinkets, by checking us out the next time you're planning a trip. For personal travel needs, write me at info@a1-discount-hotels.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sole Mates - The Century in Shoes Women and shoes are like men and sports - an undeniable attraction that is against nature to resist. While Elvis' blue suedes are mentioned, the history of shoes traced by Solemates: The Century in Shoes resonates most with the female of the species. See
shoe styles from the 1900s through 1990s via Dial a Decade, revealing
1910s Eastern-style jeweled slippers and the 1970s famously chunky platforms,
along with style commentary, "all the rage" fashions, shoe ads
and video clips by decade. Special features include an interview with
sandal maker Gaza Bowen and articles on dangerous shoes and ruby slippers.
Stylish and rich, the site is a place to put up your feet and surround http://www.centuryinshoes.com/ Kermitage.com It's not easy being green, but someone had to hold together the crazy cast of characters on The Muppets Show, and fans of "Kermie" can see how it was done at Kermitage.com, named for Jim Hensen's endearing green frog -- the very first Muppet. The
site offers a comprehensive character list and five-season episode guide
covering 1976 through 1981. The alphabetical index leads visitors to characters
from Abe, the tap-dancing pig, to the wacky Zucchini Brothers, with links
to the Muppets' big-name guest stars, from Milton Berle to Alice Cooper.
Episode guides offer story lines, characters and stars for each episode
- no video links yet, but more goodies are coming, including news, Steal It Back Property rooms are where cops keep stolen stuff after the trials are over and the bad guys are locked up. Some of it might be yours. At Steal It Back.com, you can get help recovering your property or bid on unclaimed items via an online auction site run by former police officers. The 24/7 marketplace offers recovered cars, bikes, electronics, even collectibles-with photos and detailed descriptions, plus all the usual bidding info. The bonus: each item is tracked by case number, so visitors who have had property stolen can register it on the site, which will search its database and return the goods to your local PD - and eventually to you. SHORT TAKES Net Lingo The Internet has given us not just new knowledge but also a new language, and if you aren't fluent in "ad clicks" or "cleansed data" you could fall behind without NetLingo, an online dictionary with thousands of words and definitions that describe the technology and community of the World Wide Web. http://www.netlingo.com/inframes.cfm <><><><> The MP3 Party Wants You There's not a keg or even chips and dip at the MP3 Party, just a platform based on Uprostism, the principal that there is a limit to how complex something can be before it loses its efficiency - an idea the Party wishes to extend to social systems in order to delete one regulation per day, one law per week and one tax per year. http://www.mp3freeparty.com/MP3Party/defalt.asp <><><><> Classic 'Hulk' The other loveable green creature for whom it was not easy being green was The Incredible Hulk, a scientist mutated by gamma radiation into a giant green beast who served time in comic books and both an animated and live-action TV series. At The Incredible Hulk Television Series Page, visitors can revisit the Hulk's screen history, see clips and photos from the series, talk with other Hulk fans and read interviews from the crew. http://www.incrediblehulktvseries.com/ Enjoy
the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to: Global Network of Dreams If raising a child would be more appealing to you if the job were less, well, messy, you might like the idea of Gnod, an artificial intelligence system living at the Global Network of Dreams. Gnod isn't very cuddly, but s/he eagerly interacts with visitors in an information exchange that helpsthe little fella learn about the world and share its accumulated wisdom. Part search-engine, part experiment, Gnod visits the sites visitors direct him/her to, records the authors, music preferences, ideas and other thoughts that are fed to him/her, then gradually learns to better understand the world and its contents, including you and your favorite things. African Aperture Open an aperture on Africa without even buying film at African Aperture, where the best photographers of Africana expose the environment, travel, culture and people their lenses have captured on this grand and diverse continent. Links
to photo web sites, galleries and under-represented "local talent"
working in Africa are offered, and visitors may submit their own sites
or photos for review. The galleries offer stunning images like Robert
Carr-Hartley's magnetic people or Philip Cartland's computer-manipulated
"sketches." The site accepts up to 10 images from visitors who
submit their own work for a rotating photo-essay, as well as special features
and http://www.africanaperture.com/ Mark's Very Large National Lampoon Site Today's audiences may think of Chevy Chase movies when National Lampoon is mentioned, but in the early 70s, Nat Lamp was best known as a humor magazine that pushed the limits of propriety and parody. Mark's Very Large National Lampoon Site is an unauthorized guide to the magazine's golden age, from 1970 to 1975. In addition to indexes and synopses of the issues during the mag's heyday, the site offers info about authors and artists, the radio show, records, books, posters and more --- it is, after all, a very large site. Links guide those not satisfied with excerpts to the real stuff. Caution: While the site is pretty tame, National Lampoon was sometimes offensive. That was, after all, the point. http://www.marksverylarge.com/ **********Advertisement************** THE COOLEST COLOR BUSINESS CARDS These cards will make you proud to have a business. Create, personalize, edit, print and order a unique one of a kind business card. http://www.ebusiness-cards.com ******************************** The Adam Health Illustrated Encyclopedia There's no such thing as the common flu in this age of hyper-complex health care, between the complicated demands of your HMO, the growing number of identified diseases or the expanding arsenal of treatments. Pity the poor health consumer - then send him or her to adam.com's Health Illustrated Encyclopedia. Health
topics, drug info, dictionaries and directories are offered along with
a searchable index of diseases from Aarskog Syndrome to Zollinger-Ellison
Syndrome - or even the erstwhile common flu. Alternative names, illustrations,
causes, prevention, symptoms, tests, treatment, prognosis and complications
are given for each entry. The risk, of course, is that you'll suddenly
suspect that tummy ache is something serious you http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp The man who drew a moustache and goatee on the Mona Lisa and gave the work a title that, roughly translated, means "She has a hot ass" is explored at the visually abundant Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp, an attempt to understand the experimental and brilliant painter, sculptor, author and inventor. Associated
with dadaism, surrealism and other unconventional concepts but slave to
none, Duchamp was among the first to insist that art was about ideas,
not objects. His family life, student days and lifelong creations are
traced through an interactive pictorial timeline that includes his "readymade"
experiments, his "rotary demispheres" that probed optics and
depth perception and his other boundary-stretching works that have helped http://www.understandingduchamp.com/ 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 ~Virtual Toner - We will beat any price. ~Site Popper - automatically flips and scrolls through your favorite websites. ~John Stoller, CPA - Making IRS problems disappear. ~Freya Creative Floral Design - The wonderful art of Freya Prowe.
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