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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #233 2/13/3 |
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Welcome to the 233rd 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: - Sacred
Text Archive Cool Tricks and Trinkets is made possible by A1 Discount Hotels 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sacred Text Archive Religion, mythology, legends, folklore and the occult, from alchemy to Zoroastrianism - literally from A to Z - are gathered at Sacred Texts.com, an archive of original texts that seeks to promote both religious tolerance and scholarship. The site experienced a spike in hits post-September 11, as people worldwide sought to understand Islamic law and tradition. World Religions, Traditions and Mysteries can be explored via scanned material, with such diversity as the Hypertext Bible and Sacred Sexuality, the predictions of Nostradamus and Gothic texts about vampires, plus translations of Shinto texts and a bookshop link to Amazon. http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm Revisiting the Psychedelic '60s Are we better for having experienced Timothy Leary and LSD, the Black Panthers, Kent State, the Mekong Delta and the Feminine Mystique? Were the 60s the best of times or the worst of times? At The Psychedelic '60s, the University of Virginia explores the historical, cultural and social context of the celebrated summer of love to move beyond simple nostalgia into healthy skepticism. The site traces the iconoclasm of the 60s to Thoreau's pre-environmentalism and Whitman's mysticism, and puts the issues of discontent in context with headlines, images, concert bills, posters and - at the heart of it all - the music of groups like Moby Grape, The Velvet Underground and Country Joe. http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/sixties/index.html Wood That Works 'Wood That Works' is an art website dedicated to the displaying David C. Roy's mesmerizing wooden sculptures. His pieces are kinetic mechanisms that seem to move almost randomly. In addition to showcasing and interpreting Mr. Roy's work, the site also provides a biography of the artist, insight into his techniques and artistic processes, as well as the ability to purchase individual pieces of art (most start at about a thousand dollars). His work is also for sale in galleries across the United States. SHORT TAKES Avril Revolution Become an Avrilutionary in revolt against the "stagnant wasteland of homogeny and commercialism" of youth culture at Avrilution.com, dedicated to the undeniable right to cultural self-determination and rock singer Avril Lavigne's sassy, in-your-face style. <><><><> Zen Cards We live in scary and unsettling times, so help your friends to focus, meditate and find their spiritual centers with an e-card from ZenCard Gardens. The site is a service of the DailyZen.com, which offers screen savers, a meditation hall and inspirational quotes to deal with anger, violence, sorrow - and hope for brighter days. http://www.dailyzen.com/zencards.asp <><><><> Starbucks Everywhere Talk about wired. Thirty-year-old John Winter Smith has visited more than 3,300 Starbucks Coffee shops in North America and 38 in the United Kingdom - his record is 28 shops in one day! Besides getting a good cuppa, he grabs a good photo of each Starbucks he visits to post on his Web page and chat about the experience. http://www.starbuckseverywhere.net/ Enjoy the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to: cool-tricks-join-request@list.adventive.com Photo Tag Zebra has returned after 77 days on the road - with pictures to tell the story. Zebra is one of 38 disposable cameras released by PhotoTag.org, a project that traces the wanderings of transient cameras that have been labeled and released into the wild. The cameras carry instructions for finders to take a picture and pass the camera on, and return postage so the last user can drop it into the mail. Read journals and see photos from cameras returned so far, and the journals from those still wandering. In short, it's a community photo project compiled by strangers. Flash Arcade Giving visitors something to actually do on your web site, not just look at, is a Net rule-of-thumb. With Flash Arcade.com, add over 50 Clever Media games to your site for under $100 for a year or 10,000 plays, whichever comes first. Clever Media, a game development company, has created more than 100 Shockwave games in the past 5 years. So first, check 'em out via a free 2-week trial, then add your games using the supplied HTML tags - even brand the games by popping your own graphics around them and charge your visitors to play. The site offers its most popular games, including holiday games, puzzles, action games, quizzes, sports and cards. http://www.flasharcade.com/index.html Public Record Databases Whether you want to research campaign contributions in Alabama or art thefts worldwide, your starting point is Search Systems.net, the largest collection of public record links on the Internet. Search the US state-by-state, nationwide or by keyword, or search worldwide records like missing children in South Africa or European patents. Then settle in to dig through more than 12,000 public records databases. The Texas list, for example, starts with an Alumni Database and ends with Uniform Commercial Code Filings. While the site and many of the databases are free, some databases charge a fee, and these are duly noted. **********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
A Chinese Home The Huangs are holding an open house and you're invited to view their ancestral home. Yin Yu Tang, at Pem.org, is a late Qing Dynasty merchant's home, originally in southeast China and recently dismantled, relocated, preserved and reassembled at the Peabody Essex Museum. The home opens for public touring in June 2003, but web visitors get a rare opportunity to preview -- through photos, audio, quotes and narrative -- the structure, its history, construction and immense cultural and social significance. View elements of the renowned Huizhou architecture, feng shui orientation, ornamentation and furnishings, and study the genealogy of the Huang family, extending back 35 generations, eight of them spent in Yin Yu Tang. Darron Silva: Photojournalist Swimming, soaring and shadow boxing. Drowning, daycare and Danielle. These are some of the subjects of freelance photojournalist Darron Silva, whose portfolio of colorful photographs catching the precise moment of exhilaration, triumph, loss and struggle are on view at Darron Silva.com. Silva shoots for ESPN, the New York Times and other major media and his sports photography catches not just the game but the passion. But no images are more passionate than those in a special photo journal that tells the story of Silva's fiancée Danielle, born in Taiwan and adopted by an American couple, as she returns to Taiwan to meet her birth family. 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 ~Thought Wear - Thoughts create things. ~T Bone Photo - Skateboard photography work of Ted Terrebonne.
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