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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #236 3/6/3 |
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Welcome to the 236th 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: - Pop
Crazy ~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pop Crazy Fans of Hanson, "Dawson's Creek" or Mary-Kate and Ashley can come out of the closet and admit their obsession at Popcrazy.com, a web site for those who take pride in their fondness for pop stars, teen comedies on the WB and "Smallville" action characters. Maybe it's the rest of the world that's dumb! Hip twenty-somethings who are under-obsessed with their careers and love lives but are addicted to pop culture can enjoy stories of "second-hand" celebrity, take quizzes on non-PBS topics like what kind of cartoon car they would like to drive, play the BoyCrazy game or shop like a preteen for Buffy DVDs or Britney Spears dolls. The Vanishing Tattoo Over 41 million people in North America alone where them proudly, and their history is rich and fascinating. At VanishingTattoo.com, the goal is not to erase a bad night's inky memory but to find the last authentic tribal tattoo on the planet. Vancouver tattoo artist Thomas Lockhart and producer/adventurer Vince Hemingson are film the journey in tribute to the masters of the craft. They start in San Francisco and head for Borneo, Samoa, New Zealand, and beyond. In Japan, they enjoy special access to the greatest living master of the Japanese hand-tapped tattoo. Learn the history, like the Russian tradition of illegal tattoos as a form of Gulag protest, and view contemporary photos and tribal designs and techniques. http://www.vanishingtattoo.com Windscreen TV There's something eerily familiar about the view from a car window, like watching a movie of your own place in time. At WindscreenTV, the passion to take "windscreen" photos while traveling by car is on display in galleries dedicated to the view from the seat. The images are taken spontaneously, often in-transit from the middle of nowhere, either on one's way to or from someplace else. Visitors may browse the galleries or submit their own windscreen photos of a lonely highway, a crowded street, a bridge crossing at night. The galleries show shots of Berlin, the Mendocino Coast, Houston side streets, and evoke the nostalgia of driving that hot little red Mustang, your first car, down the main drag of your hometown. SHORT TAKES Dogs In Cars The photo that started it all was a black lab staring out the back window of a blue station wagon parked in a dusty lot on New Year's Day 2001. Now, there are 200 photos of Dogs In Cars for viewers to enjoy and say "Aww …" over. Pooches are patient. Ya gotta love 'em. http://mysite.freeserve.com/jezturner/dogsincars/index.html Beyond Duct Tape We live in times that require humor, and this parody of national disaster preparedness pokes fun at duct tape and plastic sheeting paranoia. For tips on how to survive a nuclear, biological or chemical attack with your humor intact, visit Ready.Gov: Helping America Prepare for a Fiery Death. http://www.idlewords.com/nuclear_blast.htm <><><><> Pacer Memories The mythical, mystical AMC Pacer - vehicular icon of the 70s - was a real car, a showroom laughing-stock and a unique road warrior. Read its history, statistics and fun facts and check out those that achieved fame, like Garth's baby blue, flame-painted Pacer in 1992's Wayne's World and the little "pod racer" that starred in The Pall Bearer, upstaging David Schwimmer. Youth Views It's no picnic being a kid today, especially if you're a sharp teen with heart and soul. Meet them at WireTap Magazine, an independent info exchange by and for socially conscious youth, with investigative news, essays, artwork and activism to shatter stereotypes and give us all hope for tomorrow and the generation that will lead us there. The site serves as a portal through which new writers, artists and activists can share, organize and mobilize. The magazine explores race, gender, sexuality and lifestyle. The Youth Media Network connects to youth media groups like high school and college newspapers around the country. The Gallery gives young artists a space to display photos, paintings, graffiti, sketches and poetry, with plans for video and audio displays. Mr. Rogers It's such a good feeling, a very good feeling, the feeling you know that we're friends. Few people have been more special to more people, kids and parents alike, than Mr. Rogers. His death in February was met with an outpouring of genuine, spontaneous sadness, and the folks at PBS' Mr. Rogers Neighborhood have created a special section for adults to help children cope with the loss of their friend. A video Tribute to Mister Rogers honors the kind and loving man whose message of acceptance helped so many children through the rough spots of childhood to deliver them safely into adulthood. With advice that is as good and simple as the man, the site helps grown-ups help their children, answer their questions, find comfort in the neighborhood and keep in touch. Art of John William Waterhouse Painter John William Waterhouse had a way with women, especially tragic or powerful femmes fatales, conceived in a pre-Raphaelite voluptuous mystery. At The Art of John William Waterhouse, discover the master or sink into already familiar territory among more than 150 paintings, studies and drawings. Poetry, especially the ceremonial magic and transformations of Tennyson and Keats, inspired much of Waterhouse's painting, a Brit of the mid 19th century who absorbed French techniques. Paintings can be searched by date, medium, location, availability and title. A Biography includes news coverage and relevant symposia and exhibits; the Library offers books, articles and still more news coverage; and the Gift Shop sells posters, calendars, books and items imprinted with the art of Waterhouse. http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/jww/ **********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
Early Comics Extend that delicious Sunday morning giggle over the comic pages at Dachshund Early Comics, a collection of old comics from their 9th century beginnings to 1929. From the Moutier Grandval Bible of 840 BC, found in a monastery near Tours, with its four painted pages depicting the creation of man, his fall and expulsion from paradise; to Karl Staudinger's Art Nouveau strip made just for the US market, comics are listed chronologically and alphabetically. A "best of" selection is offered in a digest version, and a visual bibliography of in-print books of and about early comics aids those who prefer hard copy cracks. Scoot straight to the Renaissance or newspaper strips via the timeline. http://bugpowder.com/andy/earlycomics.html Machu Picchu Is there any place-name on Earth that evokes more mystery and allure than the name Machu Picchu? The land of ancient temples, mythical gardens of gold, Conquistadors and the vibrant Quechuan culture is the destination of 600,000 people each year. Discover why at Destination: Peru. To get the most from the adventure, you'll need QuickTime 4 to navigate through 360° panoramas and movies. Download it on the site. Or visit via still images and text only. Either way, select an area of Peru from a map, then click and explore Machu Picchu, the Sacred Valley, Lake Titicaca, Lima or Northern Peru. Even book your real-life visit to Peru or check out Travel Resources for maps, brochures, calendars, events and museum listings. http://www.destination360.com/lostcities.htm 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 ~Columbia Shuttle Crew Memorial ~ST Training Stables in Burns Lake Canada ~Adore - The musings of Jerry Stout
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