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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #225 12/19/02 |
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Welcome to the 225th 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: - Adventure
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Adventure TV Ease into those New Year's resolutions to see the world by video-sampling natural adventures, like a mountain bike trip through India or a dive tour of the Great Barrier Reef, at AdventureTV.com, where adventure travel starts virtual and then goes live. Click on a map of mountains, jungles, deserts, water, snow or safaris to hit the beach in Belize, chart a cruise up the Amazon or tour caves in Borneo, and then view a video of the adventure. Next, use the Trip Finder to package your personal nature journey: select a destination, activity, price range, date, trip length and other preferences and get a low-price guarantee on the designer trip of your choice. Not by Bread Alone
From prohibition to processing, cookbooks to corpulence, the site explores influences on gastronomical America over the past 200 years via rare books, photographs and menus. Recipes from 1847 tell how to revive tainted meat, Boston Cooking School textbooks apply scientific principles to the American home and early kitchen gadgetry like the ice box, apple peelers and seeders attest to our long-held fascination with doodads. http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/food/ Alchemy Art Magical,
mystical alchemy sought to turn lead into gold, cure disease and prolong
life in its early years as a medieval chemical science and The 20 galleries feature alchemical emblems from woodcuts, engravings and hand-colored manuscript drawings that show alchemical symbols for substances, processes and equipment, from the time of the Egyptians through the 19th century. Some 60 or so articles are offered on the main site, with titles like "Alchemy, It's Not Just for the Middle Ages Anymore," discussion groups, even alchemical music via downloadable midi files. http://www.levity.com/alchemy/galleries.html SHORT TAKES Santa Tracker If FedEx can track your Amazon order, can it track a letter to Santa? And if so, would it arrive, when, and who would sign for it? Find out at "Is There a Santa Claus? Let's Ask Fed Ex," a personal web site that has not just the answers, but the tracking number, reference number, delivery date - and signature. http://www.davidm.net/personal/fedex.html <><><><> Fast Food Fever Haute cuisine it is not, but fast food fans have taste, too. And there's no accounting for it. At Fast Food Fever, new dishes are cooked up by stuffing a handful of fries from one restaurant into a burrito from another and other taste-tested recipes that create a new breed of monsters from fast food heaven. http://www.jaybrewer.net/fastfoodfever/ <><><><> Free Fall Humpty Dumpty's got nothing on the free fallers whose stories made the Free Fall Research page by Green Harbor.com, most of them World War II airmen who fell more than 20,000 feet without a parachute and survived to tell about it. With tips on how to survive a fall and stories from other lucky - or unlucky - survivors. http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/ffresearch.html Enjoy the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to: cool-tricks-join-request@list.adventive.com Internet Journal: First Monday Those in the mood for deep thought will find a home at First Monday.org, an online peer-reviewed journal with such heady fare as an analysis of web accessibility in Ireland and post-human law in a "machinic world." Since
May 1996, the site has published 411 papers in 78 issues by 492 Discovering Music with the BBC If you don't really "get" jazz, world music or classical music, leave it to the British to explain what makes great music great by tuning in to BBC Radio's Discovering Music, where each week a major musical masterpiece undergoes a thorough diagnosis. Four musicologists are your guides through the series, which uses recorded examples to analyze context and content in a complete concert performance featured in the current week on BBC's Radio 3. Visitors may tune in, then re-experience the music with the help of new listening tools and new insights from your learned tutors. Visit the archive of past programs by clicking on a composer, reviewing play lists or, for the light-hearted, playing music games to enhance your music IQ. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/classical/discover.shtml Office Politics Ethics can seem like a moving target these days. Test your aim at Office Politics.com, where visitors play the game and try to unseat the current CEO using tactics from back-biting to kissing -- well, another part of the backside. Visitors join the game by completing a registration form, then gain points by playing through a series of typical office scenarios. The game ends December 20th with the highest scoring player declared CEO and awarded cash to throw a real-life office party. Get tips for playing the game at The Office Pub, submit a real-work whine to the Bitchboard, or seek advice at Ethics 101 from Dr. John, who guides visitors through the thorny issues of today's sometimes unprincipled workplace. **********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
Virtual Warfare Longing for a day at the front? Command a Sherman tank in the last days of the Normandy Campaign at Armoured Warrior, a history lesson-adventure game from the Canadian War Museum based on the real experiences of Canadian tank crews fighting in North West Europe during WWII. Players live through one day of despair, brutality and excitement, where your decisions at the end of each section lead you to the outcome - either continue the adventure or experience the fatal consequences for you and your crew. Unlike a real battle, you can start over if you do something stupid as you try to capture and hold a vital crossroads behind enemy lines, or just survive! http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/armwar/enhance/home_frame_e.html Churches of London Some 50 historical places of worship are tucked into the City of London, converted into offices or fallen to ruins, all of them leftovers of the 100 parish churches once within the city boundaries. City of London Churches.com is a photographic record and celebration of those that remain. Rich
in world history but today visited only by film crews or solitary http://www.cityoflondonchurches.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 ~Alamo City Community Marching Band ~Truly Huge - Bodybuilding, Health and Fitness. Free Fitness Tips.
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