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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #273 11/20/3 |
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Welcome to the 273rd issue of the Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter offering weekly insights into new, cool, useful, fun, unusual and interesting sites on the Internet. Currently there are over 170,00 subscribers. In this issue: - Changing
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Visitors can search the database to learn about the challenges and achievements of African-American Halle Tanner Dillon who the New York Times noted in 1891 passed the Alabama State Medical Exam, or today's Deborah E. Powell, M.D., dean of the University of Kansas School of Medicine. Interactive games like the Circulation Station, guiding a red blood cell on its journey through the body, test skills and visitors are encouraged to "Share Your Story" about memorable women physicians. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/ Who's Who in the Canadian Hinterland Visitors won't find Canadians like Celine Dion or Dan Aykroyd on this Who's Who list. Instead, Who's Who in the Canadian Hinterland lists the Marbled Murrelet, the most mysterious bird on Canada's Pacific coast, and the Common Eider, the largest duck in the northern hemisphere. From Environment Canada comes this web partner to the long-running TV series of wildlife vignettes created in the early 1960s as a groundbreaking effort to promote wildlife conservation. Vignettes describe the appearance, history and habits of Canadian birds and mammals and cover wildlife-related topics like sustainable development. With videos and other resource materials, the site also offers ecosystem news, services like the Canadian Hurricane Service, and products from calendars to kids' activity sets. http://www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/hww-fap/index_e.cfm Create a NationState The world has 84,924 nations in 10,077 regions. Visitors get their piece of the action at Create a Nation State, an interactive game where players sign in to create their own nation based on their political ideals. Create a flag, a government style based on models from Denmark to Zimbabwe, a currency, even a national animal and motto. Answer a questionnaire to define the type of nation created, whether authoritarian or permissive, left-wing or right, compassionate or psychotic. Then the work begins. An issue and a need to make a decision is e-mailed to players daily as their nation evolves. The site delivers a UN Report with useful tidbits about nations and current resolutions being debated by UN members.. There are no winners here, but success comes when a nation lands on top of a UN report. SHORT TAKES The Meatrix The Meatrix, an animation about the cruelty suffered by cattle, hogs, poultry and fish and the health hazards humans sustain through industrial agriculture, or factory farming, educates consumers about the virtues of sustainable foods, with extensive resources, solutions and action alerts.
They say that if enough monkeys banged randomly on typewriters they'd eventually type the works of Shakespeare. The Monkey Shakespeare Simulator tests the theory. Participate by displaying the page to stimulate virtual monkeys to type randomly. Each page is checked against every Shakespeare play, and the simians are doing pretty well. http://user.tninet.se/~ecf599g/aardasnails/java/Monkey/webpages/index.html <><><><>
Intel Centrino mobile notebook users can find a technology-verified hotspot among the 10,859 in the US and others world-wide by visiting Intel Hot Spot Finder and entering a street address. Intel users can use their notebook at any hotspot, and access is available by subscription. Paste Magazine Looking for "signs of life in music & culture"? A "thinking person's Rolling Stone" ? Check out Paste Magazine, the online version of the quarterly print magazine that comes packaged with a full-length sampler CD for subscribers for diversity in contemporary music, movies and books. From a review of a live performance by Paul Weller, of the legendary Brit-punk outfit The Jam, to a review of "The Magdalene Sisters, " the film about the history of the Catholic church in the last century, the site focuses on adult-album-alternative, indie rock, world, jazz and film with some books. Subscribers may download exclusive MP3s and CD art for every Paste Sampler CD, browse the Article Index of past issues and submit CDs from new bands for review. 100 Scariest Movie Scenes of All Time Who
stars in your nightmares? Hannibal Lector? Those creepy twins from "The
Haunting"? Maybe even the pink elephant hallucinations from 1941s
"Dumbo"? RetroCrush.com has assembled fresh nightmare material
at The 100 Scariest From the virgin sacrifice inside a giant wicker man in 1973s "The Wickerman," to the opening scene of 1954s "THEM!" when police find a traumatized girl wandering in a trance, to that classic fright when viewers meet Norman Bates' mother in 1960s "Psycho," the creeps are all here to be revisited. RetroCrush creator Robert Berry took a month-long trip through scary movies to create the list, write descriptions and show the scenes that still terrify. http://www.retrocrush.com/scary/ Gallery of Missing Masterpieces Through theft, war and natural disaster, hundreds of thousands of works of art have disappeared. From a just-ransomed Cellini sculpture to a Leonardo recently stolen from the Duke of Buccleuch, the Gallery of Missing Masterpieces from The Guardian presents a virtual exhibition of these lost great works. "The greatest art show you'll never see" features works like Nazi loot taken from its original Jewish owners who died in Auschwitz to a fresco of St Matthew by Florentine Renaissance painter Cimabue that was reduced to shards in a 1997 earthquake. In addition to images of the lost art and investigative reports on art theft, the site offers links to the Italian Police's Database of Stolen Art, the Art Loss Register and Trace Magazine, dedicated to searching for stolen art, antiques and collectibles. http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/arttheft/story/0,13883,1034951,00.html **********Advertisement**************
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Child's Play Would today's kids tolerate the classic video games you grew up with? The average gamer these days is in his late 20s, nearly old enough to worry about mortgages while reminiscing about the good old days of video games. At egmag.com, Electronic Gaming Monthly rounded up nine kids to play games from the late 70s to the mid-80s and recorded their comments in "Child's Play." Prepare to feel old as you listen to Tim, Andrew, Becky, Gordon and the others, ages 10-13, hold forth on Atari's 1975 Pong, 1981s break-through Donkey Kong, 1978s Space Invaders, and 1968s all-time classic Super Mario Brothers: "I think mushrooms are like steroids in this. See how you get bigger and stronger?" Tetris, and others. http://www.egmmag.com/article2/0,4364,1338730,00.asp Ruin Your Computer Most of us don't need help ruining our computers, but those who succumb to upgrade frenzy, daily dragging home the latest peripherals, upgrades and drivers, really ask for it. At Hardware Analysis.com, the tongue-in-cheek "Expert's Guide To Ruining Your Computer" tells how not to install newly purchased hardware. Guidance covers start to finish: Opening the Case, Mounting Peripherals, Mounting Add-On Cards, Connecting Cables, Configuring the BIOS, Configuring the Motherboard, Mounting the Processor. The conclusion confesses the instructions are for amusement, not to be taken seriously, and that doing so could result in damaging the most vital and expensive parts of a computer. So site visitors can finally do an upgrade because now they really need one - not just to try out some cool new peripheral. http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1672/ 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 ~ReadORama - Discovering the Joys of Reading ~Ecards and Web Cards by Jacquie Lawson
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