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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #252 6/26/3 |
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Welcome to the 252nd 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: - Web
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Web Editing Made Easy Anyone who has ever wanted to update their web site and waited days for the web editor to make the changes can appreciate how much better it would be to do those edits now, do them yourself and do them right. Take control of your web site content at Editing Made Easy, offering VisualEdit, a simple editing process that anyone who can visit a web page can master. With no software to install and no technical skills required, for $50 per month even small businesses can keep content current without adding staff or outsourcing web editing services. Pay a small one-time setup fee and they'll handle the rest. After 15 minutes of phone training you'll be online editing your site from any PC. VisualEdit safeguards the design and structure and handles setup, maintenance and upgrades. A Resource Center explains every step and free demos show how it's all done. http://www.editingmadeeasy.com/ Hybrid Cars Fascinated by those temptingly fuel-efficient vehicles you see on the morning commute? Learn all about the latest and greatest innovation in the auto industry at Hybridcars.com, an online magazine about the 21st century eco-friendly vehicles from Ford, Honda, Toyota and other auto manufacturers. Check out articles about hybrid electric vehicles, read reviews and see views of the Toyota Prius, Honda Civic Insight, even Ford's first production hybrid gas-electric SUV. 2004 has been set as the target for production prototypes by General Motors, DaimlerChrysler and Ford, boasting triple the fuel efficiency of midsize cars and affordability, performance and safety. With classifieds and a Dealer Locator to help visitors find an auto dealer nearby; animations of hybrid systems; Tech Talk for chat about regenerative braking and torque-on-demand; and an online forum to discuss the latest hybrid technology. National Park Guide Plan a summer getaway to home-grown natural treasures at the National Park Guide, from the National Parks Service, where vacationers can plan their trip to national parks in every state, literally from A to Z - from the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site in Kentucky to Zion National Park in Utah. Use the pull-down menu to find your park of choice, click on a US map to choose a state and see all its national parks, or search by interest area like American presidents, endangered species or wildlife viewing. Choose a park, then access all the info you need to plan your trip: camping, lodging, facilities, fees and permits, maps, news and events, even volunteer opportunities. Travel Basics for each park gives operating hours by season, how to get there by car or plane, the weather to expect and how to get around inside the park. SHORT TAKES Button Homage Button, button, whose got the …The Buttonarium probably has it. The online button museum features hundreds of antique and collectible clothing buttons, from baseball to golf, Barbie to Pokemon, politics to Hollywood, even buttons with moving parts and secret compartments. <><><><> Extreme Ironing A tedious chore is reborn at Extreme Ironing, where competitors enjoy the thrill of bungee-jumping plus the satisfaction of having a well-pressed shirt at days' end. Take an iron, an ironing board and a few crumpled items of laundry to a remote location and iron as you plunge down a mountainside, ski, snowboard or canoe. See the photos and read the stories of these bold, tidy athletes. http://www.extremeironing.com/ <><><><> Slow Wave At illustrator Jesse Reklaw's online comic strip, Slow Wave, visitors submit their dreams to be transformed into panels of comedy, known here as a collective dream diary, with a new strip added weekly. The dream weaver has also spun three years' worth of strips into a single book, Dream Toons, available for sale only at the site. Enjoy
the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to: The Word Spy Conquering globesity may be a BHAG. If this means nothing to you, your vocabulary may be lagging behind culture, so stop by WordSpy.com to catch up on recently coined words and phrases, old words used in new ways, and words enjoying a renaissance. "Globesity" is the global obesity plague and "BHAG" is an acronym for a big, hairy, audacious goal, coined by a couple of Stanford profs. The words here are real; that is, they've appeared in newspapers, magazines, books, press releases, and Web sites. Newly spotted words, their definitions, recent examples of usage and earliest citations are posted daily. Search alphabetically or by subject, like Business, Language, Science and Culture. The Top 100 lists the top Word Spy words based on page views from the past week. Sign up for a daily word via e-mail and the latest word-related quotation from the online Words About Words section. English Heritage Imagine, for just 3,000 English pounds-less than $5,000 -you can hold your wedding at Chiswick House, a Palladian villa designed in 1728 as a temple to hospitality for 18th century London high society. At English Heritage.org, Britain's architects, archaeologists and historians share their fondness for England's historic buildings and landscapes. The site is devoted to understanding and protecting England's historic environment by opening national buildings to visitors; preserving buildings through advocacy, fundraising and planning; and encouraging visitors to discover English history. Hundreds of properties can be visited: medieval castles, abbeys, gardens, forts and world heritage sites like Stonehenge. A professional event service now offers four historic London venues for corporate and private functions: like a wedding or product launch at Chiswick House, Eltham Palace, Kenwood House or Wellington Arch. The site maintains the National Monuments Record, a public archive of archaeology, buildings and aerial photography of England. http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/ DigiBarn Computer Museum If you get teary-eyed over the memory of your old Amiga 500, Apple Lisa 2 XL or Tandy TRS80 take a trip down memory lane at the DigiBarn Computer Museum, preserving personal stories and tracking technological evolution through vintage computer systems, manuals, videos, interviews and other relics of the PC explosion. A "memory palace for the nerd-inclined," the DigiBarn is a 90-year-old redwood building on a farm in the redwood forests of Northern California near Silicon Valley. For six generations, it was a livestock barn. Today it houses a collection of computer systems, like the MITS Altair 8800 in its original 1975 chassis; counting machines and calculators; and print documentation, including a 1983 Apple MacIntosh ad featuring Bill Gates. Stories include personal histories and artifacts, like a 1977 Microsoft Applesoft BASIC on cassette tape. View the collections, submit your own stories or photos, or talk vintage computing at the DigiBarn Blogs. **********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
The Degree Confluence Project A confluence is a flowing together, a meeting place, more precisely defined at The Degree Confluence Project as the exact spot where an integer degree of latitude and an integer degree of longitude meet. Starting in 1996 with four photos of the confluence that started it all, a nondescript spot by a swamp located at 43N/72W two miles outside of Hancock, Cheshire, New Hampshire, the project has collected more than 20,000 photos of confluences from 120 countries. Photos and stories of confluences are posted, with 13,575 yet to be found, so there's still time to join the search. If you're on Earth, there's a confluence within 49 miles of you: find it and photograph your visit. Why? Because a confluence represents randomness that emerges from strict order and because confluence-hunting combines the outdoors, hiking and photography, plus planning and preparation. In short, it's an adventure. Human Beatbox When your mom made you stop making those strange sounds with your mouth as a kid, little did she know she was stifling what would become a 21st century art form known as vocal percussion, multivocalism or, on the street, beatboxing. Tutorials, guides, articles and recordings at Human Beatbox.com give visitors all they need to recapture their native talent. Called the fifth element of hip hop, beatboxing is the art of creating beats, rhythms and sound imitations using the human mouth. Learn how to beatbox using the online tutorials and exercises for making key sounds and tips on creating different sounds. Audio and video clips show beatbox pros at play, and listings of beatbox records and live performances help beginners find inspiration and explain their budding talent to friends and family. Forums hook visitors up with other beatboxers to ask questions and seek advice. http://www.humanbeatbox.com/index.shtml 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 ~Virtual Toner - new OEM Toner for any make/model Fax, Copier,or Printer ~Get REAL freebies - no postage, no strings - sign up for the newsletter! ~Always Faithful - Often Tested, Always Faithful, Brothers Forever. ~The Web Server Times - The Hype Stops Here ~Veritas Radio - The truth is here.
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