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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #232 2/7/3 |
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Welcome to the 232nd 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: - Broken
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Broken Saints Storytelling is as ancient as the spoken word. Time for an update. A new narrative is created at Broken Saints.com, bringing the art of the story into the 21st century. The online graphic novel created in Macromedia Flash is part art, part animation, part philosophy and part dream. The Audience Award Winner of the 2003 Sundance Online Film Festival, the story is told in compelling images and sounds to drown in. Twenty-two chapters to date tell the stories of Shandala, Oran, Raimi and Kami, the novel's main characters, but viewers can catch up via archives, bone up on bios of the main and supporting casts and stay tuned with e-mail updates telling when new chapters are posted. Becoming a Butler Paul Hogan, Joe Millionaire's butler, may not have expected celebrity, but he may make viewers envy the sophisticated, knowledgeable, behind-the-scenes gentlemen who are really in charge of the castle. Learn how to be one at Butlers Guild.com, site of the International Guild of Professional Butlers. Visitors learn how to prepare for a career as the boss of upstairs and downstairs, the man (or woman) of wit and discretion who is the ultimate authority on food, drink and, of course, the one who always "dunnit." Learn how to behave like a butler via the reading links and TV and movie lists, or -- if you decide you'd rather hire one than be one -- browse the listings of butlers, domestic couples and personal assistants. http://www.butlersguild.com/guests/index.html Digital Library Collection "I am not in the habit of introducing myself or others by the adjective 'colored'…" And so begin the essays of Ann Plato, an 1841 African American writer whose work is recorded at the Digital Library Collection, where visitors can preview images from the future online location of the New York Public Library's digital image project, available in late spring 2003. The collection will ultimately offer thousands of images in the arts, humanities and sciences, including digitized artwork, maps, photographs, prints, manuscripts and illustrated books. Meanwhile, material to see now includes maps of the mid-Atlantic region to 1850, views of small town America, performing arts from 1875 to 1923 and African American women writers of the 19th century. http://digital.nypl.org/igatedemo/ SHORT TAKES Polling Reports Since American politics have become so poll-driven, it might be patriotic to visit Polling Report.com, an independent, nonpartisan source for current American opinions on the death penalty, the President's latest speech, the VP's job performance, military action against Iraq and a host of other topics as reported by Gallup and various news organizations, plus analysis of the reports by pollster pundits. <><><><> Tom Around the World At Tom Around the World.com, Tom and crew are heading for rock festivals worldwide and promise to post photos, interviews, journals and tips on how universal peace and goodwill can be achieved through global appreciation of a sweet guitar lick. Tom has also taken on Hero Quest 2003 to meet two on his list of living rock legends, Johnny Cash and Gene Simmons. You can help by donating a dollar or, if you're tight with Johnny or Gene, by hooking Tom up. http://www.tomaroundtheworld.com <><><><> Mistake Proofing The world is a dangerous place and people are imperfect. Bad combination. Thank goodness for under-appreciated mistake-proofing. At Everyday Examples of Mistake-Proofing, appreciate that urinals are fitted with light sensors to avoid the error of not flushing, that beveled corners on diskettes prohibit incorrect orientation and that locking file drawers reduce the risk that a cabinet will tip over and smash your grateful head. http://www.campbell.berry.edu/faculty/jgrout/everyday.html Enjoy the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to: cool-tricks-join-request@list.adventive.com Castles of the World Honeymoon in a Portuguese palace at the edge of a fishing village. Rent the 17th century Chateau Martet, nestled in 50 acres of French vineyards. Or, if you have a spare $1.1 million, purchase Castle Kataryna with its 132 tons of castle stone and history galore. At Castles.org, find castles, palaces and monasteries from Austria to Wales, book a castle tour, rent a room or just read the history of armor. Visitors can book a European tour of palaces, chateaux, cathedrals, monasteries and medieval towns from Versailles to Windsor, browse a directory of castle hotels, palaces, inns and medieval hotels, and find both prices and photos to make reservations for tours and trips of all castle-kinds. Human Rights Watch The forced use of children as soldiers in Somalia. Sexual abuse and HIV infection among little girls in Zambia. The rape of 140,000 men in US prisons. Thank God someone's watching. At Human Rights Watch, visitors can read the reports, view the photo essays, see videos and lend a hand to fight inhumanity against man, woman and child. Search by such global issues as children's rights, HIV/AIDS, prisons, refugees and women, or search by region. Read about current global issues of human rights violations and what HRW is doing about it, or view photo essays on such topics as cruelty and neglect in Russian orphanages, then link to the full HWR report and actions you can take to prevent the abuse. The Art of Making Glass Flashed glass, streaky glass, reamy glass, cathedral glass. After a visit to Glass for the World by Germany's Glashuette Lamberts, you'll wonder why anyone thought a clear pane of glass was a good idea. For more than 65 years, Lamberts has made genuine antique glass, like the fluid mouthblown reamy, the hand-rolled cathedral and the brilliant streaky glass, among others. Lamberts is one of the few remaining production sites of handcrafted sheet glasses in the world, and here you can see the production processes, read about the secret formulas of color known only by the "meltingmaster," and learn how sand, soda, lime, copper, silver and even gold are used to make the stunning glasses that adorn some of the world's most exquisite buildings. http://www.lamberts.de/elambhom.htm **********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
Lost America Night Photography Go where the dry Mojave night wind sucks the moisture from your eyes or where the stars pinwheel over head, into "the land of broken dreams and forgotten futures" at Lost America.com, presenting night photography of the abandoned roadside west, straight from the camera and unmanipulated by darkroom or computer. New Work shows the Burlingame Drive-In, a four-screen theater razed in late 2002. Five galleries show a mixture of striking shots - like Moonrise Over a 1962 Chrysler, a Chevron station along old Route 66 in Arizona, and an abandoned rocket test site near Edwards Air Force Base in Barstow, California. How To Do It tells how it's done - always at night within four nights of the full moon. http://www.lostamerica.com/lostframe.html Smithsonian Journeys Would-be explorers who enviously thumb through the pages of the Smithsonian magazine can reserve their own personal adventure at Smithsonian Journeys.org, with Smithsonian experts and travel companions who share a passion for intelligent exploration. Select a departure date, an area of interest, a tour type and a destination and make your reservation. Then in June 2003, find yourself in Italy's Heartland, taking a behind-the-scenes tour of the restoration of San Francesco in Assisi, meeting Principessa Guilia Panichi Pignatelli, and savoring local Umbrian wines at a special wine tasting. Featured journeys include Holland's Golden Age, where you'll spend July immersed in 17th century Holland. Tour leaders are world-renowned experts in their fields, and itineraries are custom-designed. http://www.smithsonianjourneys.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 ~Women Like It Both Ways, A Hairy Story. ~Capital City Solutions - PC Repair & Professional Web Design, For The Tallahassee Area.
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