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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #231 1/28/3 |
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Welcome to the 231st 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: - Intuitive
Art from Japan ~~~~~ 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 Group and Corporate Travel Services are also available. <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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Intuitive Art from Japan Sometimes it's a shout, sometimes a murmur. At Ningen.com, ningen equals humankind equals inspiration. Nob, Tommy, Michiko and the other creators of this Japanese sound-and-image site blend music, still lifes and short-short films in an intuitive creation of photos and sound. "O Solo Mio" choreographs a hyperactive young man bouncing off the walls of a corridor in Ape, as another takes to the swings in a weed-covered lot in the short-short "god in my head" in Cinema. Just use your intuition and browse around to discover random street life in Japan, Thailand and Chicago in New, a cutaway of the Ningen Sound System in NSS, pink ninja wallpapers in Wall and 101 silver spoons in Pix. Get That Gig When life in the cubicle gets you down, get gigged at Get That Gig.com and do more than just fantasize about being a white river guide, a sommelier or a UN intern. Find the coolest jobs and start enjoying life before the 9 to 5 puts you 6 feet under. Before you post your resume, click on Day in the Life to see what it's like to be a trapeze artist for Cirque de Soleil or an FBI special agent. Ask questions about your career interests at Gig Gab forums, or if you aren't sure what to be when you grow up, get your gig on with cool counselor Colleen, who'll match your hobbies and skills to careers in 20 categories, from art to travel. Stuck in the 70s Some people just can't get up from the bean bag chair, off the shag carpet or out of the bell-bottomed Wranglers long enough to turn off The Brady Bunch. Sound familiar? You too may be Stuck in the 70s. With
memorabilia like Tom Selleck's autograph, mood rings, Afro wigs, and collectibles
of Scooby Doo and Sigmund and the Seamonsters, the site is all 70s, all
the time. Cars, magazines, toys, movies, music, plus 70s theme party tips,
shopping sites, history (without "all the gory details about Watergate
or Vietnam") and the personal diary of a genuine 70s chick who SHORT TAKES File Extensions Get wise to the letters, symbols and keyboard characters that come after the dot in computer file names and give you serious pause when you aren't quite sure what kind of file that is. Filext.com is the file extension resource, with a searchable alphabetical listing of file extensions you never dreamed existed - until you're clearing out your hard drive and just aren't sure if you really need that one. http://filext.com/ Forgotten Toys If
Action Man, GI Joe, Corgi and Dinky, Micronauts and Major Matt Mason are
missing in action, Forgotten Toys will send a rescue team into the attics
and fairs of England, bring 'em home safe, take their picture and let
you know how much it will cost to take the boys home. Looking for a 1975
in-package anti-tank bazooka for Action Man? They've got it. Need a special http://www.forgottentoys.co.uk/ <><><><> Watching Microsoft Whether you compete with, partner with, envy, admire or despise the most influential and dominant technology company in history, Microsoft Watch by investigative journalist Mary Jo Foley - who writes ZDNet's column, "At the Evil Empire" - is the need-to-know site for pre-headline news about Microsoft's products and strategies. http://www.microsoft-watch.com/ Enjoy the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to: cool-tricks-join-request@list.adventive.com Virtual Parks Eric Goetze has seen the tufa towers of California's Mono Lake, the rugged beauty of the Canadian Rockies and the slick rock canyons of Utah. And words cannot describe what he has seen, so he shows it to you at Virtual Parks.org. The site offers panoramic photographs of more than 2,500 wilderness scenes in the Western US and Canada, including a 105-mile walk on the John Muir Trail. Click on Geography to pick a park via map or search by themes like lighthouses, ghost towns or chaparral. A "Best" section gives stunning favorite views, and visitors with a special valley, peak or crest in mind can search the massive alphabetical listing. http://www.virtualparks.org/main.html Pop Culture Pop Cult Magazine is obsessive about a contradiction in terms: quality and pop culture. Like it or not, it's fun, it's weird, it's us. Just take a look at the Pop Culture Headlines like "In search of Michael Jackson's nose." In Obsessions, meet John Bean, the original phone prankster, and Neal Caldwell, creator of the hard-bodied plastic owl. At Passing Fancies, test your knowledge of the mind-numbing world of mass culture or meet the top pop culture webmasters. Odd Glimpses catches snatches of culture like a pictorial review of silly articles about sex , and amazing food technology is explored at Material Whirl with a visit to The National Laboratory for the Testing of Exotic Beverages. Supermarket History Whether sneaking a peek at the tabloids in the checkout line or pinching melons in the produce aisle, supermarket life is an American cultural routine. From Safeway in San Francisco to Kohl's in Wisconsin, "Did You Bring Bottles" at grocerteria.net presents the history and architecture of supermarkets from the 1920s to the 1970s. A&P was founded in 1859 as the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, in 1950 Swanson introduced frozen TV dinners, and in 1999 Lucky disappeared from California. With vintage photos and ads of Safeway, Alpha Beta, Kroger's, A&P and Lucky, the site is a guide to American grocery stores, giving the history and telling the tales about stores that have already disappeared from the food chain.
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 ******************************** Myth's Web The big boys of Tampa Bay may be heroes right now, but chances are Odysseus, Perseus and the Gods of Mt. Olympus will outlast the fleeting fame of any modern champs. Myth Web.com is a kid-safe site to teach the little ones about the heroes, gods and monsters of Greek mythology. A group
portrait of the Olympians leads visitors to the 12 immortals who lived
on Mount Olympus, and their complex relationships with mortals. In Heroes,
learn about the trials of 16-year-old Theseus, the tests of Jason and
the quests of Perseus and Hercules. Teachers get lesson plans, games and
learning products in a section for educators, and the Encyclopedia of The Legacy Project Sometimes, the only silver lining of a tragedy is the lessons we learn, but what happens when the sole survivors pass on? The Legacy Project is dedicated to recording the language of loss expressed in art and literature, leaving a legacy of the violent traumas of the 20th century. Defining loss on a global scale, whether apartheid in South Africa or September 11 in New York City, the site packs a powerful punch with art like Jane Alexander's sculpture of plaster, bone and wood called "Butcher Boys," a blunt criticism of apartheid. Archived art and literature are on display in exhibitions, a gallery, a film library and a literary sampler, and an ongoing Virtual Symposium discusses "remembrance issues" in cultures around the world. http://www.legacy-project.org/ 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 ~~Eye Envision - it's flash cartoons, strange, funny, and oddly entertaining. ~Melissa Data - many useful links in one place. ~Game Hippo - quite possibly the world's largest source of free PC games. ~The
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