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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #221 11/21/02 |
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Welcome to the 221st 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: -
Morphizm ~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Morphizm Get yourself naked and put yourself on the chopping bloc. Morphizm.com is your axe. Sound scary? The site's theme is "Don't fear change. Change fear," offering writers on global cultural life a stage where the scenery is anything from a baseball stadium to the killing fields. Writers with something productive to say -notes or criticisms - can put it on the line here, from an expose of Elvis Schmiedekamp and company to an interview with Viggo Mortensen, Tolkien's Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings series. With recommendations on music and film, opinions on icons from Ozzy to Abercrombie & Fitch, new fiction and poetry, politics, race, scandal and sports - and none of it is run-of-the-mill. An American's Guide to Canada Americans tend to be a bit smug about the Great White North, viewing it as a vast wasteland of hockey players, beer drinkers and people who go "eh?" At An American's Guide to Canada, an American emigrant shares her view of the country as an endearing, civilized and charming place. An entire section is devoted to Really Big Roadside Attractions like great big pineapples, bison and fish you'll see plunked into the middle of otherwise normal towns. How To Tell You're In Canada tells you milk comes in plastic bags and What Every Canadian Knows describes purple Thrill Gum that tastes like soap. Topics like Canadianisms, How To Immigrate, True Facts and Academia round out the lesson plan. Laugh Lab If laughter is the best medicine, why not check it out in the laboratory? At Laugh Lab, an online experiment is underway to discover what people think is funny. This month, it's a joke with the punch line, "OK, now what?" The funniest jokes have 103 words, and ducks are the funniest joke animal. The lab has learned this much but seeks more answers, like what makes children laugh. Jokes are posted for visitors to read and rate, and each month the winners and losers are revealed and analyzed. The lab even subjected people in mid-joke to magnetic resonance imaging to identify the precise area of the brain involved in the joke response. http://www.laughlab.co.uk/topByCountry.html SHORT
TAKES "It was a dark cantina. The cantina was dark like the night that falls swiftly during wartime in the Sangre de Cristo mountains …" and so goes another chapter at Bad Hemingway.com, where a group of struggling writers - you can join them - are faced with a blank page and the need to fill it with clipped sentences, run-on thoughts and the pointlessly rich descriptions that are Hemingway at both his best and his worst. <><><><> Choose Your Own Adventure Even grown-ups need to escape into fantasy, and at Cap 'n Wacky's Choose Your Own Adventure, adults can start as a receptionist to see how far they climb up the corporate ladder, make eye contact with a babe at a party to see what develops, or say I Do and find out if you'd rather death does part you and your new mate. http://www.capnwacky.com/choose/ <><><><> America's Richest: The Forbes Fictional Fifteen From The Simpson's to The Great Gatsby, we Americans love our faux filthy rich. At Forbes.com's Fictional Fifteen, billionaire characters from Willie Wonka to Gordon Gekko are ranked. You won't believe who's number one. http://www.forbes.com/2002/09/13/400fictional.html Enjoy
the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to: Historic Asylums Magnificent buildings of brick and stone in incredible detail … American castles? No, mental institutions of the 19th century, also known as insane asylums. Historic Asylums.com catalogues America's historic state hospitals - many representing a barbaric period in mental health care, others more progressive. Postcard images, historic and modern photos, architectural sketches and info on hospitals, whether still in use or long since demolished, are presented. Click on a US map to find a region, then click on an institution name. Camarillo State Hospital, for example, now the Cal State Channel Islands campus, once housed jazz great Charlie Parker and is said to be the inspiration for the 1976 Eagles hit "Hotel California." http://www.historicasylums.com/ Small Ball When your hometown baseball team tanks it and you sit scratching yourself on the sofa thinking "I could do better than that!" take yourself to Small Ball.com to get your own team, train the bums, then challenge others. You -- coach, manager, and owner. At last. Your Small Ball players develop under your nurturing wing, and games are played in public before an active community of other players. First download the Small Ball client, then follow three easy steps to the plate. Watch other teams, move your own team up through the leagues, trade tips in the owner's forum, even listen to a virtual sportscaster report on season highlights at Small Ball Radio. International Poetry Enter the world of poetry at Poetry International.org, a worldwide forum of poetry news, reviews, essays, interviews and discussion - but mostly hundreds of poems by modern poets from Columbia, Greece, Croatia, Zimbabwe. The emphasis is on poetry in translation, so 12 editors in 12 different countries maintain their own national domain and select a "Poet of the Quarter" to feature. Works are linked by related themes to encourage visitors to meander from page to page, country to country. The Poetry International Foundation provides poems from its archive, and a collection of video material is found in Camera Poetica. Also included: coverage of international poetry events, interviews and essays by leading poets. http://www.poetryinternational.org/ **********Advertisement**************
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The Big Cartoon Database With more than 42,000 cartoons, 2,000 series and 1,300 cartoon reviews, the Big Cartoon Database describes itself as the Internet's largest searchable database of cartoons, episode guides and crew lists, with cartoons from ten major studios, from Columbia to Warner. The result is an easy way for 'toon fans to search out info about cartoons, filmographies and episodes, with special features like Cartoon of the Moment (currently,1986's Operation Total, starring Bananaman and General Blight), reviews, a chance to vote for your favorite cartoon, and special search functions to quickly locate artwork or cartoons on video. Viewing Japanese Prints From samurai and courtesans to flappers in the Jazz Age, Japanese woodblock prints have captured Japanese cultural themes for centuries. At Viewing Japanese Prints, the roots and images of this ancient and complex traditional art form are preserved, shared and explained. The work of three centuries of printmakers from the 17th to the 20th century are on display. The artists and prints of Ukiyo-e, called "Pictures of the Floating World"; Shin hanga, known as "new prints"; Sôsaku hanga, called creative prints; and Kindai hanga, or contemporary prints, are illustrated and discussed, as well as the enduring themes, genres and contexts that inspired the art. http://spectacle.berkeley.edu/~fiorillo/ 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 ~Club HGH - Pure somatropin HGH from Asia at a fair price. ~Dr.
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