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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #237 3/13/3 |
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Welcome to the 237th 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: - The
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The Coolest Homepage Choose your own headlines, images and layout at My Look.com to create your personal page for news, the arts, business, lifestyle, entertainment and sports. Whether you're a working professional, female exec, wired enthusiast or recreation buff, you'll feel at home with the look, feel and content of this news and info portal. You select it all yourself. Choose the type of news and images you want - even web cams - and the layout style that works for you, then save your settings and return daily to be greeted by content all laid out for you just the way you like it. Content rich, the site offers fresh news from tech headlines to Letterman's Top Ten list, personalized to suit your own impeccable taste. Iraqi Leaflets Even in the hyper-high tech 21st century, we resort to tried-and-true ways to get the word out. And even in the US military. See leaflets being dropped over Iraq at Leaflet Gallery, from the United States Central Command. On March 9, 2003, Coalition aircraft dropped 180,000 leaflets in Arabic and English warning readers on the ground "Do Not Use Weapons of Mass Destruction" and the consequences of doing so. Another leaflet reports that Coalition forces do not wish to harm "the noble people of Iraq." Says the press release: "The Coalition hopes to protect Iraqi lives and deter Iraqi aggression by providing relevant, factual information to both Iraqi civilians and military troops." Let's hope it works. http://www.centcom.mil/Galleries/leaflets/showleaflets.asp The Future We Were Promised Living on wheels is the heart of both America and the illustrations at Lost Highways.org, a collection of historic material that seeks to define and preserve the design of early American transportation and architecture through the eyes of futuristic illustrator Art Radebaugh. In an old studio that held a giant camera on narrow gauge railroad tracks among other fascinations, site creators discovered a collection of negatives from Radebaugh's portfolio. Enter through one of four portals: Negatives, your intro to Radebaugh's world; Automobiles, his designs for Chrysler/Desoto/Dodge and cars of the future; Ads, showing a working illustrator at work; and Syndicated, his weekly cartoon strip. If you get hooked, visit the Museum Store for a selection of colorful Radebaugh prints. http://www.losthighways.org/radebaugh.html SHORT TAKES Drainspotting Spot that drain at Drainspotting.com, directing your attention to the mating of function and design on manhole covers, drains, grates and trench covers. Check out the beauties on the site and remember to look down with appreciation at the metal work at foot-level. <><><><> DVDtoons Whether you seek Strawberry Shortcake or SpongeBob SquarePants, dvdtoons.com can hook you up with your favorite 'toon on DVD, with cover art, news, reviews, and links to 'toons across the Web. <><><><> Google Watch Many web surfers are googly-eyed over Google, the popular search engine. But Google Watch is less than enchanted and explains its charge that Google's monopoly, algorithms, and privacy policies are a major force in the struggle over the soul of the web. Enjoy
the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to: Urban Adventure in Rotterdam Adventurers need not travel far from home to see the world anew. Learn how to find adventure in your own city by following the explorers at Urban Adventure in Rotterdam. Go "buildering" or explore strange, deserted places and the psycho-geography of Rotterdam, where "everything is climbable." Read the notes and see the photos as adventurers climb air traffic control towers, smokestacks, bridges and airport towers. Clamber underground as hundreds of people drive overhead or gaze down from the solitude of steel mountains and concrete cliffs. Dig through deserted places like the metro track of Charleroi, a complex, winding city. Urban adventurers find graffiti in Oldenburg, ghosts along the highway and chase the sunset above viaducts. http://www.euronet.nl/users/kazil/index.html Cereal Box Characters Teachers may not like hearing that many of us were motivated to learn to read - really read - by staring at the goofy bears and tigers on our cereal boxes before we even arrived at school. Find long-lost friends like the Sugar Crisp Bears and L.C. Leprechaun of "magically delicious" Lucky Charms fame at Topher's Breakfast Cereal Character Guide. The guide leads visitors to favorite cereal box characters from the early 1900's to the present. Just click on a boxtop from Kellogg's, General Mills, Quaker and other major labels to start your visit with the old breakfast club. Enjoy lots of nostalgic images and info on over 750 characters, cast your vote for your favorite and see if Tony the Tiger outpolls Cap'n Crunch. http://www.lavasurfer.com/cereal-guide.html Totally off the Record Who hasn't had an embarrassing, outrageous, funny, or just feel-good moment at work? Share yours at Totally Off The Record, where you can tell the story you just can't keep down any longer and not lose your job in the telling. Enjoy the work stories of others, like the nurse who witnessed a patient's spouse shatter the in-room toilet. Or the Phoenix fire crew who fulfilled a dying child's wish to be a fireman with a day at the station, a real fire uniform, his own yellow slicker and rubber boots. Read stories organized by occupation or post your own. It's totally anonymous, totally work-related and, unlike your day job, totally fun. http://www.totallyofftherecord.com/ **********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
Cook it Quick So, what's for dinner? A tasty, healthy and appealing meal, no doubt. Hey, it's 2003. Seventy percent of us don't have a clue what's going on the table until 4 PM or later, so the University of Nebraska dishes up Cook It Quick, giving families a better choice than healthy OR fast. Based on the new dietary guidelines, the menus and recipes are guaranteed to be healthy and as easy as ABC. With timesaving tips like organizing your recipes, grocery list ideas and finding recipes on the Web, the site is loaded with resources for busy families, including how to get the gang to pitch in at meal time. Sign up for Monthly Cook It Quick Emails to make fast and healthy a habit. http://lancaster.unl.edu/food/ciq.htm Very Boy George Boy George was a major pop icon of the 70s, created memorable music and made it OK to be whoever the heck you wanted to be. At Very Boy George, the boy's still tumbling. Read the Dizzy Diary where George reminisces about gal pal Cyndi Lauper and bares his anxiety over meeting his idol David Bowie. Karma Cookbook combines 90 recipes with George's first-hand accounts of how a healthy diet can transform your life. Paint a Starr gives beauty advice to "help you look more presentable but not make you a better person," from the guy who says that, without make-up, his face looks like an Irish potato. Visit the gallery of photos, shop the Drag Bag and write the George at It's All About You. 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 ~Random Intelligence - The name says it all. ~P U L P - I T: modernized pulp fiction art ~Alltips.net : tips & tricks
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