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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #251 6/19/3 |
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Welcome to the 251st 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: - Supermarket
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Supermarket Guru Bless yourself with smarter shopping, healthier eating and better living at the Supermarket Guru.com from grocery guru Phil Lempert and friends. Lempert, a TV and radio reporter and columnist, is the food trends correspondent for NBC's Today Show and a regular on The View and Oprah, among others. His weekly live call-in radio show on WOR radio, "Shopping Smart," airs in over 100 cities nationwide. Read food and health news updates, restaurant reviews from across America, readers' tips and featured columns. Follow food trends; vote on new product hits, like Amy's Organic Vegetarian Beans, and misses; take the Quick Poll, like "What should happen next to Martha?"; and sign up for an e-mail NewsFlash for supermarket information and special contests. Coming soon: Broccoli, Beans and Bananas, a consumer shopping, food and health section just for kids. Disco-Disco Disco never died. It lives on and prospers at Disco-Disco.com, where visitors who never got past the guards into Studio 54 can meet the brightest stars of the Disco era and boogie in its most legendary clubs to the hot DJs who mixed the beats from the booth. Go inside the Paradise Garage, known to disco kings and queens as simply "the Garage," or the equally celebrated FunHouse. Meet the heroes of the booth, like Frankie Knuckles, the DJ/remixer known as the Godfather of House Music. Read the history of influential disco labels like Casablanca Records, Prelude and SalSoul. Online interviews hook you up with legends like Tom Moulton, who created a trademark disco-mix sound found on more than 4,000 songs, and Loleatta Holloway, the Queen Diva of SalSoul, one of the most sampled female voices. Photo Pixelense Tia Marie is a 22-year-old Californian with an eye on her world, from the sunlit view while sprawled on her back on a grassy hill to an achingly sweet black-and-white image of a sleepy kid on a bus. A "very beginner photographer" with little knowledge but plenty of passion, she shares the view from the lens of her digital camera at Photo Pixelense, a photo blog of simple, graceful photography. Waiting for the bus on a grassy hill, she shoots the view on either side of her head. Walking to the store, she snaps the three stages of bloom in one plant bush. Passing a law book store downtown, she snatches a garish red and blue image of 75-cent volumes, stacked and tipping on a wooden shelf. Tia Marie shares her showcase in an archive of work through March 2003, with Gallery Links to other photographers' works. SHORT TAKES Fling The Cow Compete with your PC peers to catapult a cow as far as you can across a field at Fling the Cow.com, where the only muscle required is the one used by your index finger to hold down the mouse button to make that bovine fly. Using Macromedia Flash, nearly 3 million competitors have tried to unseat the reigning champ. <><><><> Sandals and Socks If you find men wearing socks with sandals offensive, Sandals and Socks will offend your socks off with its gallery of photos, like a man wearing only a yellow Speedo, a sun visor and the obligatory sox and sandals. View the Soxer of the Week and vote for your favorite in the Fashion Poll. http://www.sandalandsoxer.co.uk/ <><><><> Museum of Coathangers The history of the coathanger is traced at the Museum of Coathangers, from the earliest evidence of coathanger use carved in limestone on an ancient Egyptian queen's sarcophagus to the Koop Imex 770, a thoroughly modern hanger created for use in hotels across Southeast Asia by a premier coathanger manufacturer. http://homepage.mac.com/marchesbaugh/moch/intro.html Enjoy
the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to: Mom's Minivan Family road trips can be heaven or hell. With the road to summer vacation stretching ahead, get help making it heavenly at Mom's Minivan.com, offering over 101 travel games and road tips, from fun things to do in the car to car seat safety. Organized by age, sections include Ideas for Babies and Tips for Toddlers, two age groups that make parents long for non-communicative teenagers zoned out on their Walkmans. The bag of tricks includes a selection of goodies to print and take along, like printable car Bingo games; tips on helping kids make their own travel diaries; sing-alongs to make the miles fly; roadside scavenger hunts; best car sickness prevention tips and worst barf stories; and road trip "freebies" to order. Virus Myths When so-called experts breathlessly warn of the latest super-threat virus and your own PC terror alert surges toward red, don't panic! Head to Vmyths.com for a dose of simple truth and knowledge. Search a list of computer virus hoaxes from A to Z, get the real deal on computer virus myths, urban legends and the potential dangers of succumbing to paranoia and preventive virus medicine. With coverage of computer security hysteria, the site refuses antivirus ads to maintain independence and uses columnists who are respected security critics while tackling persistent virus myths and misconceptions about real viruses. Virus hysteria plays on fear of the unknown. Laugh in the face of that fear. Columns poke fun at fearmongers while offering useful info, including Hot News about how people self-damage their own PCs on the advice of hysterical non-experts; Hoaxes, covering virus alerts and publicity stunts; plus Rants and Resources. Wise Guide The Library of Congress is brimming with fascinating audio and visual resources. The Wise Guide is an online portal that sifts through and directs visitors to the best of the Library's online offerings: prints, photographs, film, audio recordings, maps, manuscripts, music and digital materials -even books. Organized like a magazine, the site plucks the timeliest material for its front page. For example, at "Work" view Ansel Adams photos of working stiffs or listen to interviews, like the iron worker who, when asked if his job is dangerous, replies "You ain't an iron worker unless you get killed…" The fare is diverse, fun and serious, from online dance demos to poignant oral histories of war by the boys who fought them; from a history of Father's Day to celebrity art from caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, whose recent passage took a significant piece of entertainment history with him. http://www.loc.gov/wiseguide/index-flash.html **********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
Radio Lovers Before there were video games, malls, MTV and the Internet, families sat around the radio together, laughing over Abbott and Costello, thrilling to The Avenger, and dancing to Benny Goodman. Bring it all back at Radio Lovers.com, offering thousands of vintage radio shows to listen to in MP3 format, all free of charge. The comedies, dramas, mysteries, variety shows, westerns, sci-fi and music are all here, from Amos and Andy to Hopalong Cassidy and Death Valley Days, Blondie to Buck Rogers. Search alphabetically, from Abbot and Costello to Omar the Wizard of Persia. Or browse by genre to sample such vintage variety shows as Arthur Godfrey and his Talent Scouts or miscellaneous fare, like more than 20 episodes of The Creaking Door and a 1942 episode of Breakfast at Sardi's. Fantastic Physics Forget J-Lo and Ben, Britney and Justin. Who's your favorite physicist? Only at Physics Central.com do you find stiff competition in the polls among Stephen Hawking, Enrico Fermi and Isaac Newton. You can see celebrity antics and Hollywood gossip just about anywhere, but only here can you view antihydrogen antics and catch the buzz about antimatter. Learn how your world works at Physics in Action; meet the stars of physics in People in Physics; see crystal cannibals at Physics in Pictures, showing a Space Shuttle experiment in which large crystallites devour smaller ones; and follow Team Physics, the US Physics Olympiad Team, at Physics News. The Writer's Gallery tackles topics like ethical issues of science, and at Dear Lou, ask the brainiac columnist simple questions like "What causes the smoke when you extinguish a candle flame?" http://www.physicscentral.com/action/ 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
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