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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #223 12/5/02 |
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Welcome to the 223rd 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: - Paper
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http://www.a1-discount-hotels.com Visit us online or call our operators at 888-511-5743 Group and Corporate Travel Services Available (contact info@a1-discount-hotels.com) <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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paper Veins Museum Experimental artists and their fans who long for a home will find it at Paper Veins Museum of Art. Created in 1995 to showcase the interactive arts, the site features over 50 visual artists, filmmakers, writers and performers in a diverse collection of web projects and performance showcases. Organized like a brick-and-mortar museum, Paper Veins holds a film room, a poetry room, four floors of exhibition space and, on the top floor, The Artists' Café where artists and their portfolios are profiled, including site creator Virgil Wong. Coming up: Artists will custom-code their own artificial intelligence personality for you to chat with online, with live and MPG-recorded experimental music performances. Note: Adult language and content. Quiet Times On occasion, we are blown away by the energy, content and style of someone's personal website. This amazing site was designed by a San Francisco graphic designer/writer and employs a mixture of prose and visuals to convey a whim or a thought. Quiet-foxes is the name of the magazine and Quiet-time is the graphic design company. Web designers: be sure to check out the various icons, backgrounds and banners on display. Travel Your Dreams Planning a visit to the birthplace of Don Juan and El Cid, or experiencing intriguing medieval walled villages tucked away in a spectacular European landscape? If you've been aching to travel, and haven't the slightest idea where to start, Karen Brown's Guides are just the ticket. This site outlines delightful accommodations, sightseeing highlights and itineraries in regions considered of prime interest, allowing visitors to explore old towns and friendly villages with cozy cottages, quaint country inns and ancient castles. SHORT
TAKES Señor Sandwich is one of the first, and by no means the last, of the toys created by the imaginary Gobler Toys - that's imaginary, not imaginative. Nope, the toys don't really exist, but a catalogue, ads and an interview with Ira Gobler, the founder of Gobler Toys, make it all seem somehow real. <><><><> Harper's Index Forget the profound articles, great short fiction, and hilarious excerpts; the best part of Harper's magazine is definitely the Index. This is the list of statistics at the beginning of each edition that contains facts that will make your jaw drop and your eyes pop. Faithful readers of the incomparable index now can go online for their monthly fix of absurd stats. The site is regularly updated with the current edition, and has an archive of hundreds of previous indexes. http://www.harpers.org/harpers-index/harpers-index.html <><><><> If you have an irrational fear of something specific (flying, insects, heights, etc.), then you may have what is commonly known as a phobia. Millions of people suffer from phobias, many of them severe enough to alter their lives. Phobialist is a deviously entertaining website that focuses on the lighter side of these very serious problems. There are some truly bizarre listings on the site, including Zemmiphobia, fear of the 'great mole rat', or our favorite, Ergophobia, fear of work. Enjoy the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to: cool-tricks-join-request@list.adventive.com Practical Pet Care Pets are an important part of our culture; loyal companions that enhance the quality of our lives with their love, character, and natural presence. While the average family pet is usually a cat or a dog, people around the world have opened their homes to more exotic animals as well. The Practical Pet Care website is an online resource for pet owners to learn about the proper care of their animals. The site provides info on dogs, cats, rodents, fish, birds, lizards, snakes, spiders, and even crustaceans! Users can buy pet products, place ads in the 'Pet Yellow Pages', and send in pictures of their pet to be put on display in the Pet Gallery. http://www.practical-pet-care.com/ The Kitchen Link Year-end is a delicious time to settle into the kitchen with family and food, and the Kitchen Link is a must-have connection. Called the Yahoo! of food sites, it's an enormous compendium of info about cooking, recipes, cookbooks and original content. Users can browse 10,000 "hand-selected" recipes and links, find cookbooks, click through a huge list of hot topics like gingerbread-baking and candy-making or shop for everything from coupons to bake ware. Also, find local resources where good cooks can also be good neighbors to the homeless and hungry, providing you with all the ingredients to fill your home with good smells, good eats and good spirits this winter. Internet Archive Movie Collection A 16-minute film on a 1945 newspaper strike and a 1965 ad called "Parade of Homes" by the National Association of Home Builders- where do they find this stuff? At the Internet Archive Movie Collection, where 956 "ephemeral" films made by trade groups, industry, schools and governments have been digitized for public viewing for the first time. These mini-movies, never intended for a long shelf-life, are the flotsam of daily life that becomes precious over time for what it reveals about ourselves. Yours to view free via RealPlayer, the large files require DSL speed or higher to download and save. Perhaps the closest ancestors to today's Internet - a rich stew of social and cultural junk that together becomes treasure. http://www.archive.org/movies/ **********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
Closer to the Truth According to John Locke, consciousness is "the perception of what passes in a man's own mind." Others regard it as a kind of substance, or "mental stuff," quite different from the texture of the physical world and that which separates mankind from lower forms of life. Closer to Truth brings together leading scientists, scholars and artists to debate consciousness and other fundamental issues of our time. Visitors can read through great articles and online transcripts, participate in unique 'hyper-forum discussions', or simply browse the Video Archive. There is also a cool section called 'Daily News' that is constantly updated with stories and articles about interesting, often eccentric topics affecting people today. Human Body Online Nature is a genius inventor, having created many complex and beautiful things including unusual species and ecosystems. The human body is perhaps its most glorious achievement yet, though many of us have very little information about how our own bodies function. Human Body Online is part of the BBC online network, a website that focuses on educating visitors about the structure and systems of the human body. The site uses a 'dummy' to demonstrate the various aspects of the body, such as 'Organ', 'Skeletal', 'Muscles', 'Nervous System', and 'Circulation'. There are also links to related pages such as 'Health', where you can use the 'Life Calculator' to determine your current life expectancy. http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/ 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
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