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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #281 1/15/4 |
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Welcome to the 281st issue of the Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter offering weekly insights into new, cool, useful, fun, unusual and interesting sites on the Internet.
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For national, regional and international news and current affairs direct from the countries of origin and award-winning documentaries covering economics, health, environment, arts, culture and music reflecting the lives and interests of ordinary people, visit World Radio Network (WRN). WRN is a broadcast and transmission company meeting the broadcasting and telecommunications needs of a global society. Using digital technology broadcasters can reach new audiences in new markets with a series of global radio networks and specialist transmission services. There's plenty of material for general listeners too. Visit the Listeners' Area to hear global broadcasts from Radio Australia to Radio Vatikan. A simple search starts with Regions, from which users select North America, Africa, Middle East, Europe, Asia Pacific or South America. Pong Story Not long ago, most people were satisfied with simply watching their TV screen. But as early as the 50s, engineer Ralph Baer saw something more than a screen of images. He saw a gaming opportunity and when challenged by his boss to create the best TV set in the world, he designed an early video game. Baer's boss didn't take to the idea and the rest is history. Learn the history at Pong Story.com Like most great notions, many people were simultaneously fiddling with some version of video games, but Baer is generally credited as being its inventor. In 1966, he returned to his idea of playing games on TV sets and started building the first video game prototypes. Here, read the story and see early games, like Noughts And Crosses, the oldest graphical computer game. Trace video game history in the US and in Europe, and see early ads, articles and schematics. Graffiti Archaeology Graffiti may be the most ephemeral of the arts, here this morning and by tomorrow tagged over by the next artist or sand-blasted by the authorities. At Graffiti Archaeology graffiti-covered walls in San Francisco are preserved as they change over time via a time-lapse collage of photos of graffiti taken by different photographers from 1998 to the present. Visit some of San Francisco's classic spots, see what they looked like in the past, and explore how they have changed over the years. The site weaves a history of the walls of San Francisco, showing how different taggers' street art appears, mutates and disappears from its concrete canvas in just weeks, an opportunity to see this street artistry in evolution and in context. http://www.otherthings.com/grafarc/flash/view.htm
Snow Day While away a cold day outside by staying inside to catch snowflakes on your tongue at Snow Day, a gentle animated game in which you try to snag the falling snowflakes without getting hit by the falling boots. When the game is over you can play again or send to a friend. http://www.powerdesign.com/snowday/
At Humphreybogart.com, Bogie fans get the latest news about Humphrey Bogart; find out when to catch him on TV; learn about his life from his days as a young stage actor to the romance with Bacall; read through milestones and accomplishments of his legendary career; check out the awards and nominations he earned; and get the basic Bogie facts. http://www.humphreybogart.com/
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the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to: Not Your Average CD Store The underlying philosophy of OEbase.com is to listen to the music, to artists, to listeners and to small labels in order to offer users the crème de la crème of CDs. A boutique rather than a superstore, OEbase offers a streaming MP3 player and music featuring local artists and artists from small labels. If you like what you hear, you can buy CDs from the OEbase online store. The site features its "handpicked favorites," and in addition to independent music, independent thought as well in articles on topics like artistic integrity, CD prices, and suggestions for clever gift packages for music fans. Items in the store are diverse, from classical -- like Three Leg Torso which specializes in a combination of modern chamber music, tango, Middle Eastern and Eastern European folk music -- to hip hop to world music and, of course, rock. Journeys Through Vietnam Every year, more than a million tourists visit Vietnam, a place many first knew from televised images of war. Among the tourists are former American GIs, who pilgrimage to Vietnam for healing and reconciliation. Others were born in Vietnam but now live abroad and are visiting a place known in memory as "home." At Vietnam: Journeys of Mind, Body and Spirit from the American Museum of Natural history, online visitors explore a changing Vietnam and the diversity of its landscape, its people and its traditions. The journeys take visitors on roads, highways, railways, rivers and footpaths, into the forests and city streets, through significant rituals and celebrations. There are journeys through Time and Space, of Families to Ancestors, of Life and Death, of Heroes and Deities, into the marketplace and Other Worlds, via videos, images and audio. http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/vietnam/ Low Carb Parties Just because you're watching your carb intake, you need not celebrate alone. Eat, drink and entertain the low-carb way with help from Low Carb Parties, a one-stop low carbohydrate party source for whatever you need to throw a low carb party, should you wish to do so. Click on Drinks to gather zero-carb cocktail recipes using vodka, tequila, whiskey, gin and zero carb mixers. Visit Food for low carb recipes for appetizers, entrees and desserts. The Entertainment section offers theme ideas and hosting tips for planning the perfectly carb-less party, even music to set the mood. Join the Community to share ideas with other low carb enthusiasts, read and post your own ideas and tips. The site is intended for use only by visitors who are of legal age to purchase alcohol and encourages intelligent drinking only. http://www.lowcarbparties.com/
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How many 1970 dollars would give the same purchasing power as $2,500 today? There's a question to keep your friends guessing through several poker nights. To find out how much a specific amount of money in a certain year would be worth now, visit How Much Is That Worth Today? Cool links give you lots of answers, like that the cost of a pair of leather shoes in 1941 was $1, equivalent to about $12 today. Tools include calculators and info on international monies and prices like the decline in purchasing power of the currencies of Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, USA, France, Canada, Great Britain, Spain, and Italy and data on historical prices and wages. Other features are the History of Money, with monetary history from the dawn of civilization to the 21st century; Money in Fiction; and Financial Scandals, from Enron to the scandal of the Allied Irish Banks. http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html Rooms with a View Turn off the lights and settle down to your computer screen to visit Rooms With a View, a gallery of original digital and fractal art and illustrated poetry, most of it by Terry Wright and best viewed with 800x600 screen resolution in a dark room. Fractal Art is mathematical art, created as the visual expression of equations created on a computer with specially written fractal programs. The images reveal more detail the more they are magnified; a fractal program finds the answer to a specific equation at each point in the picture based on the numbers the user inserts into the equation, and assigns a color to each point. The result is an image that may be symmetrical at some points and random at others. Explore nearly a hundred galleries and rooms and a small selection of illustrated poetry. http://www.eclectasy.com/cruelanimal/ 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 ~Bicycle Across Africa for Kevin Bowser Scholarship Fund ~Price Communications - Play to Win and enjoy the Fun.
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