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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #254 7/10/3 |
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Welcome to the 254th 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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QuickTime Theater for experimental videos, performers and travelogues.
The Little City Journal brings news from around the world, like an Independence
Day feature on the liberties we enjoy and how to protect, exercise and
secure them for others. Best of the Left is aimed at liberal, creative
citizens working for equality and justice, green living, peace and privacy.
Hitting Home journals what happens when developers move into little cities.
With poetry and short stories, articles and opinions, Atlas of the Body Carpal tunnel syndrome, what's that all about? And what happens to the brain to cause all that damage from stroke? Find out with help from the anatomy and medical illustrations offered by the American Medical Association at Atlas of the Body. Detailed views of the body, brain and muscle, inside and out, illustrate how the body works and what happens when something goes awry, from the complex endocrine system to the simple skeleton. Not so simple, perhaps: Can you label the humerus? The scaphold? Besides showing and naming body parts, the clear graphics illustrate medical conditions, like the loss of sensation that comes from damage to the sensory cortex after stroke, or disorders of the breast, like fibrocystic breast disease and fibroadenomas, the benign growths in breast tissue. http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/7140.html King of Kustomizers See David Lee Roth's California Girls Kustom Convertible Mercury appearing at Autorama 2004 and the Eddie Munster Spook Rod Kargoyle Hearse at Barris Kustom Industries, the online home of George Barris, King of Kustomizers. George
Barris founded Kustoms of America, the hot rod customizers who for years
have served movie studios and the automotive whims of celebrities. Revell
launched model kits of Barris cars in the 1950s. See the latest creations
from the Barris drawing board, like the Mustang Ranchero Sports Pickup;
and new toy releases, like the Barris Faster Furious scale die cast toy
cars. In the Gallery see Best of Barris, like the super-charged Surf Woody
and the super-cool convertible Golden Sahara, which started life as a
1953 Lincoln Capri hard-top, outfitted with a curved lounge seat and cocktail
bars. Shop for postcards and emblems, patches and posters at the SHORT TAKES Hooked on Facts Get a fascinating fact a day at Hooked on Facts, a dedicated fact engine that generates thousands of random confirmed facts, like the fact that more than half of all lottery jackpot winners go back to work after winning the jackpot. <><><><> Metallica Vault Metallica fans may want to move in to the Metallica Vault, an online concert of live performances, plus photos, videos and more. Coming in 2005, a console game now in development called The Metallica Game, a high-action combat game packed with customized vehicles, murderous opponents and Metallica soundtracks. http://www.metallicavault.com/ <><><><> You Don't Know Dick There's Cheney, Petty, Cavett and Smothers. Think you know Dick? Find out at You Don't Know Dick, where visitors click on various familiar faces to name that Dick, including Angie Dickinson, Richie Havens and Rick James. http://www.fscwv.edu/users/rheffner/ydkd/ Enjoy
the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to: The Radical Chef Yum, who's hungry for Kare-Kare, the classic Filipino dish of ox tripe and vegetables in peanut sauce? Take a culinary adventure away from steak and potatoes at The Radical Chef, a Filipino mom who shares a collection of family recipes, techniques and cooking lore of traditional Filipino cuisine. The cuisine reflects the colonial influences of the Philippine's long history, including Indonesian, Malaysian, Spanish, American, Japanese, Chinese, Arab and Indian. Filipino cuisine also offers many regional styles, from the Bicol region known for its use of coconut milk to the Ilocano style with its fondness for bagoong (salted shrimp fingerlings). Search for recipes by ingredient or category, from rice to seafood, tofu to oriental noodles, and sign up to get recipes in your mailbox. With food facts, tips on entertaining, and a glossary of Filipino and Chinese ingredients. http://cooking.houseonahill.net/ 8 Good People Think of it as reality web programming, like reality TV without the schlock. At 8 Good People, meet good people with good stories to tell. These eight support their local libraries, vote, pay taxes and love their families. But good as they are, all have been unemployed for over a year, have exhausted unemployment benefits and are scraping by on meager savings. The eight formed a "fellowship of the hopeful" to tell what it's like to be out of work and what they do to survive. They live in different states and are from different generations, but all are college-educated professionals with experience and references who have tried networking and scouring classifieds and online job boards. They're not on a mission for sympathy. They just want work. When all eight find it, the site disappears. So tune in to watch a real-life survival reality show. Burarra Gathering Meet the Burarra people of Australia's Northern Territory at Burarra Gathering, where visitors are invited on a virtual trip into the aboriginal territories that require a special permit from the traditional owners to enter. Your
guide is Danaja, a young Burarra man, who introduces you to his grandfather,
who grants your visitor's permit. Decide whether to tour the monsoon region
in the wet or dry season, then learn to set a fish trap at a billabong,
spot and follow emu tracks, navigate by the stars and make fire. A seasonal
calendar shows the sequence of events in nature and their significance,
bark paintings show how knowledge is recorded in a tradition still practiced
by the Burarra, and a teacher's guide offers more resources for studying
indigenous people, appropriate technologies and the Burarra http://burarra.questacon.edu.au/home.html **********Advertisement************** Website Editing For Everyone! Type
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Thrift Store Art The Mona Lisa will never hang above your sofa, so consider the strange allure of "Grumpy Cigar-Smoking Man with Velvet Crown" or "Multi-Cultural Children Ride Strange Creature." Those whose appetite for art exceeds their budget might do well to consider art that can be had for less than $25 by viewing the exhibits at Thrift Store Art. The creator has been collecting thrift store art, also referred to as outsider art, raw art or just bad art, since she moved into her first apartment and found her taste runs towards the old and weird. Running out of wall space for her collection but unable to give up the thrill of the hunt for new masterpieces, she created the twelve galleries here, including Gallery XI, showcasing the Marsha L. Downey Family Foundation collection, featuring the stupendous "Grumpy Cigar Smoking Man." http://www.thriftstoreart.com/ Sushi Race When the urge for sushi overwhelms but there's no sushi bar in sight, enter the Supaaaa Sushi Race at Tokidoki. Choose a driver, a sushi car, a sushi restaurant, and then smack your keyboard to catch yourself some ahi. Site
creator Simone is an Italian designer who admires Japanese culture and
creates designs of Japanese girls and crazy games like the Sushi Race.
Click on the Love icon to play the sushi game, then drive fast and become
a hero to Princess Huromi. Choose a driver, like Takojuro the octopus
or Kanio the crab, select a sushi car with different speed, resistance,
acceleration and braking power, then take timed laps around the sushi
bar while avoiding monsters. After the race, visit the Gallery for samples
of 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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