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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #215 10/10/02 |
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Welcome to the 215th 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: -
The Schøyen Collection ~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Schøyen Collection Visit your local book mall and pause among the shelves to honor the Australian Aborigines, who started it all 50,000 years ago with rock carvings, the first recorded forms of written communication. The Schøyen Collection, the world's largest private manuscript collection of the 20th century, presents more than 12,500 manuscripts spanning 5,000 years of scribbling. Visitors will find descriptions and fascinating images of 222 manuscripts - representing less than 3 percent of the collection - on clay, metals, wood, bone, even glass. The Dead Sea Scrolls are here, as are works created by ancient "hoards," or tribal groups, as diverse as Hebrews and Buddhists. Sections include the Bible, History, Literature - like Sumerian epics on clay tablets - Paleography and Special Collections. http://www.nb.no/baser/schoyen/ Yoga With Cats Kitty seeming a bit stressed lately? Spare your furniture and bliss out together at Yoga Kitty, a "practical guide" for people and pusses who seek to achieve physical, mental and spiritual ecstasy, without drugs or catnip. In free instructional videos for clearing past karma, tapping electromagnetism and meditating, Yogi Karl and partner Yogi Ovaria -- the original Yogakitty -- show viewers how to adjust their shakras in seriocomic scenes that will have you cracking up even while the cat shreds another pillow. "Purr-fect Yoga" items are available in the online shop, like tee-shirts with the site's slogan: "Higher Consciousness, It's Not Just for Humans Anymore." http://www.yogakitty.com/index.html Film Journal Skulk down the seedy back alleys of film noir, meet the femmes fatales and the two-bit losers, as well as the cinematographers and directors, at Images, a journal of film and popular culture. Like the special feature that examines 10 of the greatest noirs, the site offers intelligent articles, video and interviews about movies, television and other popular visual arts. In addition to reviews, the site has specialty areas like In Focus, where recently 30 of the most influential Westerns were explored. Features offer special bits like Billy Wilder and Samuel Fuller talking about film noir, articles about Italian Gothic Horror Cinema and a hard-core critical analyses, "Myth and Gender in Gone With the Wind." SHORT
TAKES Cap'n Wacky's Boatload of Fun brings back an old-time series, Choose Your Own Adventure books, for grown-ups who want a risk-free look at what happens when they come to the fork in the road as they climb the corporate ladder, fall in love or get married. http://www.capnwacky.com/choose/ <><><><> Glass Eating The kids at Harvard are at it again at the I Can Eat Glass Project, which is more like the I Can Say I Can Eat Glass in Swahili Project. The idea - besides avoiding studying - is to say the phrase in an indigenous language. So far, the site has recorded the phrase's utterance in dozens of tongues, from Afrikaans to Yiddish. http://hcs.harvard.edu/%7Eigp/glass.html <><><><> NewZoid World news is mind-boggling but never more so than at NewZoid, where visitors can find all the news that never happened, doesn't make sense and isn't supposed to. The #1 and perhaps only source of false headlines since 2001, the site offers computer-generated headlines like "MSNBC Gets Spanked In Chinese Landslide" and lets visitors vote on their favorites. Enjoy
the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to: Dumb Warnings! Thank god for package warnings or we'd all be going around witlessly dropping air conditioning units out windows or using blow dryers while we sleep. There's a reason for alerting consumers to the hazards of ironing clothes while wearing them - according to Dumb Warnings, it's to avoid pointless lawsuits. Besides reproducing warnings we shouldn't need, the site links visitors to such related sites as Dumb Instructions, like the label on a Swedish chainsaw that instructs users not to try to stop the moving blade with one's genitals. The site creators will pay $20 for photo submissions of Dumb Warnings you uncover if you'll let them use the material for an upcoming book. Dinosaur Depot Parents or teachers with kids who are crazy about dinosaurs will want to take the youngsters on a trip to The Jurassic Park Institute, created by people at Amblin Entertainment and Universal Pictures who must have teaching in their bones. Keeping kids' interests and intellects center stage, DinoLab takes visitors into a research center to begin fieldwork in the Institute's virtual habitat, collect dinosaur eggs and study dinosaur parental behavior. Teacher resources abound, matched to the National Science Education curriculum. Dinopedia is an encyclopedia with a graphic timeline and user-friendly search tools for hard-to-pronounce dino names. DinoNews has science and entertainment news about recent finds and fun, and DinoGuides delivers the best dinosaur sites on the web. http://www.jpinstitute.com/index.jsp Dark Alliance Billed as "the web site that refused to die," Dark Alliance reproduces the award-winning online expose first published by the San Jose Mercury News in 1996, and then yanked by the editor. Journalist Gary Webb recreates the series here from a CD-ROM that was rescued from a batch made by the newspaper for distribution, then destroyed when things got sticky. The series exposes a Bay Area drug ring that sold cocaine to LA street gangs and funneled the profits to Latin American guerrillas who, as the story goes, were run by the CIA. Heady stuff. "The Story Behind the Crack Explosion" details the opening of the first pipeline between Colombian cartels and LA's crack-infested neighborhoods. http://home.attbi.com/%7Egary.webb/wsb/html/view.cgi-home.html-.html **********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 ******************************** Theban Mapping Project The Valley of the Kings, on the West Bank of the Nile, was the resting place of choice for ancient Egyptian rulers. Today it contains 62 discovered tombs, from a simple pit to one containing more than 121 chambers. The Theban Mapping Project, from the American University in Cairo, is creating a comprehensive database in hopes of out-running treasure-hunters, pollution, rising ground water and tourist hordes that threaten the area. Visitors can use the interactive Atlas to explore each tomb in the Valley, study the database, view some 2,000 images, interact with models and measure, pan and zoom over 250 detailed maps and elevations. Search by graffiti, sarcophagi, decoration, condition and more, or take one of 65 narrated tours. http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/ Kinoko-ya Hiroshi Takahashi is a kinoko-ya, a "mushroomer," but neither grows nor sells the fungi. Hiroshi just photographs them. Charmed by the beauty and diversity of wild edible mushrooms while munching one day, Hiroshi decided to start recording them. One thing led to another, and he ended up with photos of 121 species, on display at Kinoko-Ya, a simple site with a simply lovely subject: mushroom photography. A site index leads visitors through the photos, from Naratake, the popular mushroom that grows wild in Japan, to a vivid yellow rain-soaked "tremella messenterica" that resembles underwater sea coral. In What's New, see a dozen or so recent photos, or follow links to sites with more mushroom info. http://www.cx.sakura.ne.jp/~kinoko/01eng/0e_index.htm 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 ~The Martial Arts Friendship Gathering, Expo and Exhibition ~The Scott Family Home Page - Are you related? ~Debbie Weiss - Wonderful World of Animation
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