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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #213 9/26/02 |
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Welcome to the 213th 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: -
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Gateway to Another Dimension High-powered mind-warping multimedia by the Master of Digital Illusion promises to bliss you out at Virtual Om, where "psychoactive entertainment" from screensavers to soundtracks is handed out to visitors seeking an altered state of consciousness without leaving the keyboard. Screensavers like Scorpion Knight and Unicorn In Time can be downloaded for free, along with soundtracks of original music, and links billed as a gateway to the coolest, strangest, mind- blowing stuff online. Central to it all is the morphing digital art, like Launderette, set to mall music, and the odd Babymaker, "pregnant with sound." Some adult content and language. Guerrilla News Network
In addition to News Videos and News Wire, major sections are Counter Intelligence, Special Report and Forums, all with a counter-culture take on issues from the war on terror to the war on drugs. Included are shrewd segments like Spin of the Week, which looks critically at political PR, and Guerrilla of the Week, featuring a small act of defiance with great consequences. Plastic Fork Diaries Kids and food, think of the implications. Then go to Plastic Fork Diaries from Maryland Public Television for an intimate look at life and lunch at Stockinda Middle School via six real kids - from Amber, who struggles with her mom's "skinny" obsession, to Oscar, who secretly likes sauerkraut. The kids - ages 11 to 13 - give access to their public and private lives via diaries, letters and notes as they relate to food, family dinners, hormonal rampages and everything in between. New episodes appear weekly, and visitors can catch up on past episodes, get recipes and food facts about items mentioned in the story, learn about the disgusting stuff inside us - like spit - and do cool things with food at 4U 2Do. http://www.plasticforkdiaries.org/ SHORT
TAKES Fat File Transfer Like stuffing a crowded hotel elevator full of over-weight conventioneers, transferring files with loads of data, AKA fat files, is a risky business. At Fat File.com, members pay a small fee to instantly transfer and share mega- files like presentations, spreadsheets and graphics from their own computer - a special boon for those involved in desktop publishing, software development, web authoring or audio and video creation. <><><><> Dognose Heaven Admirers of proboscis canis will find all the dog snoots they've ever dreamed of at Dognose Heaven, a tribute to "Nature's truest work of art/Cold, wet, beautiful …" Find big noses and small, flat, long, pink, brown and black from all breeds in photos so lifelike you can almost feel their cold wetness nuzzling your hand. <><><><> British Youth Teddy boys, rude boys, mods, rockers and all British youth movements since are celebrated in words and images at Once Were Heroes, where visitors are invited to take a nostalgic step back through recent pop culture to peer at the styles and sub-cultures that spawned bands like Spandau Ballet, the Cramps and the glorious Sex Pistols. http://www.yesterdayskids.co.uk/Page1.html Enjoy
the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to: Supernatural Crime Mix the sexy dames and two-fisted action of hard-boiled pulp fiction with the drooling gargoyles of supernatural fantasy and you've got Supernatural Crime, a tribute to the Sunday funnies with a 21st century twist - original online weekly comic strips in full color. Dozens of episodes of the four featured comics can be read online. The Fright Gallery features sensational full-color supernatural crime characters like Femme Noir and Brother Grim, and Bloody Pulp offers "two-fisted tales of twisted terror." If you get hooked, meet the creators and join the message boards to talk with other fans, or buy supernatural crime-wear at the online store. http://www.supernaturalcrime.com/index.html Date the Men of Silicon Valley How to marry a millionaire geek is the appealing concept behind Date the Men of Silicon Valley, where those hot sexy network engineers and digital imaging consultants post their photos, perfect date fantasies and qualities they seek in a partner - and they're not talking venture capitalists. Online dating sites are as prevalent on the web as Windows errors but this one zeroes in on the eligible bachelors of California's high tech capital, where the wages are high, the men are smart and the women are, well, in short supply. Browse the profiles and if someone boots your program - so to speak - join up and find out if your platforms are compatible. http://www.menofthesiliconvalley.com/ Atmospheric Optics Stop and see - really see - the visual spectacle of everyday phenomenon like rain drops and dust at Atmospheric Optics, where nature's optical effects created by water, light and shadow are revealed in their stunning simplicity. Ice haloes, water droplets, sun rays, shadows and - everyone's favorite - rainbows get both a photographic and scientific treatment, as visitors learn about the optics of how common ice crystals and rare coronas form, view stunning images of these marvelous events and learn where to find them outdoors. Links are offered for more exposure to phenomenon as diverse as nacreous clouds and green flash mirages. http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/atoptics/phenom.htm **********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 ******************************** Vintage Ads Two great urges of American culture - to sell and to buy - make up a decades-long love-hate relationship between consumers and those who hawk the goods we've learned to desperately need. At The Emergence of Advertising in America, more than 9,000 images and a massive database of info trace the history of advertising in the US, from 1850 to 1920. Using sources from special collections libraries at Duke University, the site organizes ads by a timeline and by special categories, from tobacco to "Kodakiana," featuring some of the earliest Kodak print ads - a breakthrough in advertising media. For each ad, its title, date, company and product are listed with other info about the original source. http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/ Pulp Zone Who knows what evil lurks … Even though it was penned some 70 years ago, bet you know how that line ends! Pulp fiction, though hardly counted among the Classics, is certainly enduring. At the Pulp Zone, visitors are seduced into pulp - its lurid images and its mysterious heroes - in much the same way that readers were lured to buy the cheap pulp-wood books for vicarious thrills during hard times. Dastardly deeds, fantastic villains and voyages to mysterious planets - plus that outrageous cover art - can be found on the site, where visitors browse Heroes, Stories, Letters, Writers and Artists to find their favorites, plus articles on pulp fiction and a handy bookshop with links to help you start your own collection. 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 ~ Andrew Crawford - Fine Decorative Boxes ~ Mieir-King Services and King's Kung Fu ~Capital
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