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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #253 7/3/3 |
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Welcome to the 253rd 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: - Sinking
City of Venice
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 Visit us online or call our operators at 888-511-5743 <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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sinking City of Venice Venice has been slowly drowning in the rising tides of the Adriatic Sea for centuries as Venetians fight the forces of nature that threaten their beloved city. NOVA's Sinking City of Venice, an online version of the 2002 PBS-TV special, reveals past and present rescue efforts as engineers propose a multibillion-dollar series of gates to combat acqua alta, the rising water. The lessons learned about how to save the city may one day help save other coastal cities from New York to Shanghai. Watch a video about the proposed barriers. Click on satellite images to zoom in on natural and man-made hazards imperiling the city and its wonder, and step through an animation of tidal ebbs and flows. With transcripts of the program and a teacher's guide to view the program and study the challenge with students. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venice/ Distinguished Women Hildegard von Bingen, 12th century poet, musician, painter and counselor to popes and princes, is one of many unsung women featured at Distinguished Women, a source for biographies of women bypassed by history books despite their contributions. The women include past and present writers, educators, scientists, heads of state, politicians, civil rights crusaders, artists and entertainers. Search by name, from contemporary songstress Aliyah who rules the pop charts today to Zenobia who ruled all of Syria and most of Asia Minor in the 3rd century. Or search by subject area, from activism to veterinarian medicine. A section on Black History Month directs visitors to sites about women of color; a bibliography lists books about women, and extensive links offer deeper probing, including a Women in World History curriculum. http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/ Rock Paper Scissors Who has never resorted to the game of Rock, Paper, Scissors (RPS) to solve a difference? Bart Simpson did it and increased the measurable use of RPS worldwide since the famous Simpsons episode was aired, notes the World Rock Paper Scissors Society at World RPS.com. Founded
in London in 1842 as the Scissors Paper Stone Club, the Society is dedicated
to promoting RPS "as a fun and safe way to resolve disputes,"
detailing its roots, fame and infamy. Find rules for basic game play,
advanced play, even an online trainer, plus fascinating facts like why
paper covers rock and why RPS is known as the Father of Martial Arts.
Called Roshambo, Ching Chong Chow and Farggling in other parts of the SHORT TAKES The Paint Game Is Gypsy Bloom green, brown or pink? What about Javan Dream? Clever paint designers today leave consumers clueless about the actual hue in the can they've so attractively named. At The Paint Game, read a paint color name and select from a palette of colors to try to guess the color. http://www.iamcal.com/games/paintgame/ <><><><> Web Site Monitoring Service Now that you've got that web site up, be sure your Internet and web presence is truly 24/7 with the web site, network, and server monitoring services at PingALink, offering customer retention tools that watch and alert you to signs of unexpected downtime. <><><><> Barbed Barbie These Barbies are not for kids. But adults who have had Barbie up to here will appreciate Spatula Production.com's creations of a Marge Simpson Barbie, Dominatrix Barbie, Mars Attack Barbie and other ghoulish, mean-spirited, but very funny versions of the perfect plastic lady. Ken gets his too, re-created as a seriously creepy Marilyn Manson Ken. http://www.spatulaproductions.com/spatula/barbies.html Enjoy
the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to: Seafood Lover's Guide Seafood lovers can make menu choices based not just on price and palate but on sustaining ocean habitats and their yummy inhabitants. At the Audubon's Living Oceans Seafood Lover's Guide, learn how your meal is extracted from the sea and the implications for the abundance and diversity of marine life. In short, if you want to continue to enjoy seafood, choose carefully. View Seafood Guide Profiles of your favorite seafood, coded and ranked by sustainability concerns, then download national and regional seafood wallet cards to carry with you and consult as you debate the merits of the wild Alaskan salmon or the fresh mahi-mahi. With the color-coded Fish Scale, see at a glance how a species is doing: Is it over-fished? Is its habitat intact? Are other creatures caught in the by-catch? http://www.audubon.org/campaign/lo/seafood/ Word Chowder Word Chowder is a collection of light verse on wide-ranging everyday topics, like food, love and sex, and life's absurdities, plus tongue-in-cheek word play like this from Confessions of a Cannibal: "Perhaps I'm slightly ghoulish or my mind is out of whack/But I love the taste of Manwich with a side of Hungry Jack." Written by Scott Emmons and a guest poet, with illustrations by Chris Harding, this is poetry for the low-brow: a light snack to cheer you up, rather than a heavy feast to slow you down. Topics include Genius, the Bible, and Rants, plus fun bits "torn from the headlines," like the poetic side of Donald Rumsfeld, Madonna's new album release, Wal Mart's banning of wicked magazines and the irony of Saddam's personal pleasure palace. Vatican Museums View the collections, zoom into the details of frescoes and take a virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel and other museums of the Holy See at Vatican Museums, opening the Vatican's 500-year-old art collections visited by more than three million people each year to the wide world of online visitors. The collections include masterpieces commissioned, collected and preserved by Roman Pontiffs through the ages, from movable works of art like sculptures and paintings to the most artistically significant rooms of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, like the "Stanze" painted by Raphael. The Vatican Museums started as a group of sculptures collected by Pope Julius II. The popes were among the first sovereigns to open their palace art collections to the public. Now they've gone world-wide and virtual. While visiting the different rooms, zoom into and explore every object. http://mv.vatican.va/StartNew_EN.html **********Advertisement**************
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How Volcanoes Work Ten volcanoes erupt on earth on any given day and, since 1800, nineteen eruptions have killed a thousand or more people each. Learn about and view astounding images of volcanic events and how they happen at How Volcanoes Work, an educational site sponsored by NASA for university students of geology and volcanology and teachers of earth science. The site explains and illustrates volcanic environments, volcanic landscapes and eruption products like lava flows and gaseous emissions and their harmful local and global effects. Learn about types of eruptions, from calm lava dribbles to headlining violent events. Historical Eruptions traces the big blasts, like 1902s Mt. Pelee and 1980s Mt. St. Helen's, and Volcanism on Other Worlds examines spewing on Mars, the moon and Venus, where spectacular volcanic features were uncovered by radar imagery in the 1990s. Each section includes a self-test, and a Volcano Crossword helps you cool down. http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/ Pop Culture Humorous and insightful commentary on pop culture and its always relevant irrelevance is the promise of Shaking Through, with reviews, discussion and criticism of popular movies, music, books and comics. Head-to-Head ratings pit music releases against each other, like Johnny Cash's American IV: The Man Comes Around versus Kindred Spirits: A Tribute to the Songs of Johnny Cash, to see which wins the ratings game, or 1963's Stan Lee, creator /co-creator of Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk and The X-Men, versus Stan Lee of today. The site accepts submissions to suggest a CD, book, comic or film for review. Visitors can sign up for an e-mail newsletter or join one of many forums to chat about The Hulk, Blade 2 or The Vines. http://www.shakingthrough.net/ 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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