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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #212 9/19/02 |
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Welcome to the 212th 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: -
60's Odyssey ~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ '60s Odyssey Communes, psychedelic buses, Woodstock and anti-war rallies - all the icons of the counterculture are faithfully recorded at A Visual Journey: Photographs by Lisa Law, 1965-1971, an exhibit sponsored by the National Museum of American History. Law's story is like thousands of others of the turbulent 60s, but she shot her photos from dead-center -- her home was "the Castle" in L.A., a can't-miss stopover for artists from Bob Dylan to Andy Warhol. The intimate photos, selected from a collection of 200 photographs donated to the Smithsonian, are accompanied by notes on the musical, political, spiritual and cultural scenes that emerged with each click. http://americanhistory.si.edu/lisalaw/ The American Highway Project Americans adore their automobiles, creating a lifestyle of mobility and independence. At The American Highway Project, vanishing Americana - the motels, billboards, service stations, signs, tourist attractions, drive-in theatres and diners - is being documented and preserved. Founder Edgar Praus, a photographer with a love of the American landscape, travels the backroads snapping the quaint roadside attractions before they disappear entirely beneath the Target/Home Depot/Wal-Mart strip malls that are fast taking over. Besides photos, the site brings news of current American Highway projects, a web journal along Route 66, a bookstore and resources for those inspired to trip backward through time. http://www.highwayproject.org/ Literary Traveler Dylan Thomas' Wales and Kate Chopin's Grand Isle off the Louisiana shore evoke the pages of beloved books for avid readers. At the Literary Traveler, the literary imagination is explored through articles about writers, artists and the places that inspired them. Launched in 1998 by a husband/wife team who met as English majors, the site is informed by her work at The Atlantic Monthly and his at Lycos, so it is both literary and user-friendly. Find topics via the Author's Index or Place Index, or scroll through back issues featuring Hemingway's Places and European Writers, with links to literary tours and cultural events, a book store and literary contests, like the summer essay. http://www.literarytraveler.com/ SHORT TAKES Palindrome List Dad, Mom, Bob and Hannah have something special in common. They're all palindromes, words spelled the same forward and backward, and they can all be found here on the Palindrome List with lots of others, sorted alphabetically - even a palindrome that is 12 pages long! http://www.palindromelist.com/ <><><><> Rent a Celebrity At $100,000-plus per appearance, Adam Sandler is not your typical wedding singer, but you can find him or a cheaper act, like Cheap Trick at a mere $25,000, to rent at Clear Channel's Artist Availability web site where various artists, including many alternative bands, are priced out with notes on availability and contact info. http://www.clearchannelcollegeentertainment.com/SearchResults.asp?Artist=%25 <><><><> Gallery of Regrettable Food Wax nostalgic all you want about mom's famous meatloaf, but the Gallery of Regrettable Food records home-cooked meals as they really were in the 40s, 50s and 60s - and it's not a pretty sight. These photos right from the recipe books, menus and ads, may be the best explanation for why American families raced to embrace the cookie cutter sameness of fast food - at least it looks edible. http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/ Enjoy
the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to: Leonard Nimoy Should Eat More Salsa Foundation Jeff Miller, president of the Leonard Nimoy Should Eat More Salsa Foundation, journeys where no man has gone before to bring together two excellent condiments. It's not mustard and mayo that he dreams of uniting, but Leonard Nimoy and salsa. The site offers three Flash Macromedia games, each requiring players to hook up the spicy sauce and the reluctant Mr. Spock, photographic evidence of the Vulcan's obsessive avoidance of the relish and 50 or more salsa recipes visitors have submitted to tempt the stubborn but excellent Spock. Foundation members, who claim Nimoy can reach infinite excellence if he would only eat salsa, meet three times yearly at a Florida Mexican restaurant to feast and plan how to achieve their mission. Totally off the Record Like the legendary water cooler where workers trade gossip, Totally Off the Record is where people go to share weird stories about life on the job - like the temp who left half a million bucks on the front seat of her car while she ran into a store, or the realtor who witnessed a divorcee ramming her ex's car. Use the drop-down menu to select an occupation, from accounting to sports, then click and read the anonymously submitted tales and forward those you like to co-workers who can relate. A "Best of" section goes right to the cream of the crop of embarrassing, funny, shocking or inspiring stories, and if you've got a whopper of your own to share, send it in. http://www.totallyofftherecord.com/ Censorship Files As long as there has been human expression, there have been attempts to suppress it. From the ex-communication of Arius in AD 321 to the banning of electronic games in Greece in July 2002, the File Room is a compendium of cultural censorship. Created by a group of artists, art students and teachers, the project began as an effort to gather case studies of censorship into a database to stimulate debate. Originally installed at the Chicago Cultural Center, the online site offers thoughtful definitions of censorship and resources and invites submissions. Visitors can search the archives by medium, like the visual arts or public speeches; by grounds, like explicit sexuality or racial, ethnic or religious factors; by continent or by date. **********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 ******************************** It Seems Like Yesterday Our national obsession with the culture and style of the post-World War II generations gets another treatment at It Seems Like Yesterday, the online magazine based on the History Channel's documentary TV show of the same name. In four major sections - Baby Boom Generation, Youth Quake, The Atomic Age and The Disco Years - visitors are treated to age-appropriate postcards, photos, factoids and articles from the media of the day ("Who's Who Among Hippies, Yippies and Other Troublemakers" from a 1968 Maclean's Magazine piece), crosswords, chat and plenty of links in a light-hearted explosion of commentary and interactive trips down memory lane. http://www.itseemslikeyesterday.com/ Guinness World Records From the most elastic man to the most pierced woman, why does this stuff fascinate us, even in the age of ho-hum? The drive to be the best at something - anything - thrives at Guinness World Records, where people balance hundreds of soccer balls on their heads and eat three-course meals in under 45 seconds just to say they can. The greatest feats of strength, skill and scientific ability wait to be outdone, and Guinness provides visitors the forms to make it official. What's better than reading about such feats? Watching them on video clips. It takes seeing to believe that one man can drag 20 freight cars filled with scrap iron 15 feet down a railroad track. http://www.guinnessworldrecords.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 ~Jambands.com - Get Your Groove On-Line ~TCCoC presents... The Avengers' ~TCCoC presents... Siouxsie Sioux' ~DiscipleNet- Resources For Christian Living and Spiritual Encouragement ~Spiritlight
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Life works when you choose what you got. Actually what you got is what you chose. To move on, choose it. ~Werner
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