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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #235 2/27/3 |
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Welcome to the 235th 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: - Digital
News 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 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Digital News Archive Need a film clip of bombing raids, soccer games or the Beatles for a PowerPoint presentation? The Digital News Archive offers news, sports, social history and entertainment clips from 1896 to 1970, from its 3,500-hour British Pathe Film Archive. Type in the search word Beatles, for example, and the site delivers a black-and-white clip of the Fab Four in 1965 on the set of "Help," Beatlemania in New York in 1964, and a London factory making Beatle-cut wigs in 1963. Preview the clip, and if you want to take it home, drop it into your shopping basket. Low Resolution preview material is free, high res clips for web publishing are £100 each and high res clips for PowerPoint are £50. http://www.britishpathe.com/index.cfm Eye Witness
The sources are journals and news stories, photos, audio files and more, all from Ibis Communications, a digital publisher of educational programming. Voice recordings include socialist Eugene Debs in the 1904 Presidential campaign, Robert Peary planting the American flag on the North Pole in 1909 and a radio report on the surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945. Alternative Movie Awards Is anyone else sick to death of "feel good" movies? The 2003 Alties honor those other gems - the Guilty Pleasure Award, for example, the Best Damn Documentary and the Best Feel Bad Movie. The Alternative Movie Awards at Alternet.org celebrate the diversity of film and filmmaking styles in 14 categories. And you - not a bunch of Hollywood insiders - get to vote. The public votes online until March 7, and winners will be announced March 20. So, what do you bet that "Y Tu Mama Tambien" takes the coveted Unbridled Desire award? The Doobie Award, for the most realistic portrayal of the role drugs play in our lives, is anyone's guess. Cast your vote now. http://www.alternet.org/alties/ SHORT TAKES The Flash Mind Reader How the heck does this thing do it!? Choose a two-digit number, add the digits, then subtract the total from the original number. Match the number to a symbol on the chart provided, then concentrate on the symbol for a minute till it's really fixed in your head. Now, click on the crystal ball -- the Flash Mind Reader displays the symbol in your head! Try it again and again. It works, but God knows how. http://www.cyberglass.co.uk/assets/Flash/psychic.swf <><><><> How Smart Are You? Think you can outsmart Bill Gates? This may be your chance. The test at How Smart Are You? Allegedly has been used for over 50 years with great accuracy. If you don't score high, you can always improve. They say Bill Gates took this test and scored a 3. Call that accurate? Either way, it's fun, even if it does make you feel stupid. http://www.dur.ac.uk/t.m.jackson/intelligentietest.htm <><><><> Run the USA Dave and Scott are 25, no strings attached and in the mood to be a little crazy, so they're taking off across America on a 3,200-mile run with everything they need packed on their backs. Why? Simply because they want an adventure, they want it to be memorable, and they want to make people say "You guys are crazy." Craziness is not chasing a dream, says Scott - it's refusing to chase it when given the chance. Follow the runners, the route and the news at Run the USA.com. Enjoy
the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to: Auroras: Paintings in the Sky No two are ever alike, but each one glows in flames of color, waving and swirling overhead like painted strokes across a velvet-canvas sky. Learn about these celestial art works at Auroras: Paintings in the Sky. Created by a teacher and staff from the Exploratorium museum with NASA's Science Education Gateway project, the site shows what auroras look like on Earth and from space, explains how they are created, and shows where they can be found. Use the "Self-Guided Lesson" to browse the site, watch QuickTime movies of auroras in action, and listen to David Stern of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center explain the phenomenon. Teacher guides help move the lessons from the web into the classroom. http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/SegwayEd/lessons/auroras/ Roadside Peek Strap on your seat belt, curl into the backseat of the Ford, and press your nose against the window to watch the passing neon signs and gas pumps along Route 66. Roadside Peek.com takes visitors on a virtual road trip, past car dealerships in Fresno, motels in Anaheim, drive-ins in Las Vegas and bowling alleys in Palm Springs. Visit coffee shops and eateries, read roadside news, swing with retro, or collect roadside postcards. The site covers roadside attractions from San Diego to Florida, with lots of stops in between to let visitors savor the eclectic flavors of America's highways and byways, beyond the fast food outlets and hotel chains. Military Affairs Reporting With the military in the spotlight these days, read what soldiers read at Military Week.com, the weekly anthology of military affairs. Its sources range from the Al-Ahram Weekly to the Washington Monthly, and columns span war intelligence, war refugees, warheads and war memoirs, with a large special section devoted to 9/11 Remembered. This week's breaking military news; profiles of men, women and machines in battle; and "brushfires" in the Philippines, Columbia and the Ivory Coast are a few of the many fronts covered. The editor's weekly 10 "must-reads" tip readers off to deep intelligence for the rest of us: from the new Dolphin submarines to the poignant ordeal of the mother of the so-called 20th hijacker, Zacarias Moussaoui. **********Advertisement**************
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Snow Crystals Snow crystals and snowflakes, the complex and beautiful structures that appear out of thin air, are described, studied, displayed and honored as forms of immense fascination at Snow Crystals, from Caltech. Don't know a hollow column from a stellar dendrite? Check out the snow crystal primer to learn what snow crystals are, how they form, and why they form as they do. See how scientists are beginning to engineer "designer" snow crystals, visit the snow crystal galleries, view movies of lab-grown snow crystals, and learn how to make your own snow crystals. Study the physics of snowflakes and trace the place the lovely crystals have assumed in popular culture, from the US to Japan. http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/ 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 ~Houston Bands - Providing Houston Clients with quality bands since 1963.
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