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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #284 2/5/4 |
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Welcome to the 284th 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 a fluid, intuitive way to expand your musical tastes, start with the tried-and-true and then go to Music Plasma for a universe of suggestions. Users just enter their favorite music artist, and soon the name is surrounded by a screen of interlocking colored halos containing still more artists' names. The closer each halo is to your original artist, the musically closer to your favorite is the artist named in it. To guide you further, artists' halos are clustered by period and style. Type in Beatles, for example, and halos naming each of the Fab Four appear, plus clustered halos naming rock-a-billy hero Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley and The Traveling Wilburys. Click on a name, like Carl Perkins, to see his discography, then click on a disc selection, and link to the Amazon page to purchase the disc. The size of the artist's halo represents how popular s/he is or how representative s/he is. Tech Thuggery Tech watchdogs bite back at Tech Thuggery, shining a light on anti-competitive practices in the tech industry, including ranking presidential candidates on tech policy, editorializing on tech news and gathering tech news headlines. Industries under the spotlight are aerospace/defense, biotech, broadband, energy/utilities, hardware, internet/E-commerce, semiconductor, software, telecom and wireless. The Compet-O-Meter rates how competitive a tech industry is, analyzing the number of market participants, whether one company controls the market, how the company is viewed within its industry, how often it runs afoul of U.S. or international regulators, how difficult it is for new companies to enter the market, and history of anti-competitive behavior. Be a thug yourself by signing up for the free e-newsletter to get quotes, links and editorials to remind you just how anti-competitive tech can be. http://www.techthuggery.com/index.php Mutant Reviewers from Hell Movie goers who can't relate to effete movie critics who quote cinematic history and refer to movies as 'film" might relate better to the Mutant Reviewers From Hell. MRFH is like a group of friends sitting around discussing the movies they're interested in using the language of real movie-goers, without the star ratings or the thumbs-up, thumbs-down cliches. MRFH cover movies they like, whether new, old or mainstream, with a bias for cult. The emphasis is on counterpoint reviews, so a movie review page may have two or more reviews by the staff, which includes "men and women, young and old, Canadian and civilized, married and dog-owner." Go to Reviews for an alphabetical listing of hundreds of reviews; meet the staff at Mutant Bios; find movies at Findaflik; get articles and freebies at Features and laughs at the MRFH web comic; or visit the Mutant Café to join in the conversation. http://www.mutantreviewers.com/ SHORT
TAKES Monobrow.com is about that single thatch of hair that extends from temple to temple and makes women reach for their tweezers, featuring pictures of the monobrow elite, men who would never consider "manscaping," no matter how out of control the bush becomes. View the Monobrow of the Week, the Monobrow in Cinema and play MonoMatch, a memory game in which players match the famous monobrows.
Even the lowly toothpaste tube has fans, found at Toothpasteworld, a toothpaste fan site where dentist Dr. Val Kolpakov shows off his collection, from Scotch Whiskey-flavored, six proof toothpaste, to his most valuable item, a $203 tube of classic Hopalong Cassidy toothpaste. http://www.toothpasteworld.com/
Some people see the street as just a route to somewhere else; others see it as a gallery. At Street Stickers, see a collection of more than 150 photos of the graphics, art and messages that occupy the city streets, roads, highways, lanes and avenues. http://www.streetstickers.co.uk/ Enjoy
the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to: Morphases Play God, or plastic surgeon, or cosmetologist at Morphases, offering online real-time software for face manipulation that lets the user modify and create human faces from several different elements. See Latest User Creations for inspiration or nightmare material, then load the Morphases Editor to try it yourself. Select Random Face to load the face that will be your canvas, then manipulate eyebrows, hair, eyes, nose, mouth and chin. Add a beard or mustache to that fresh-faced blonde, or flirty eyewear to that punker kid. Visitors may submit photos to the Morphase gallery for use by all, but they must be of the proper resolution and quality to be used. You can not load and morph your own photos. JungleWalk Take a Jungle Walk to hear a kookaburra's laugh, see jellyfish sting, read wildlife news and headlines. Students, teachers and nature lovers of all kinds will find a vast collection of audio, video and print material at this virtual animal encyclopaedia., including a large compilation of links to animal movies and animal sound clips, categorized and arranged for easy reference. Discover animals small and large by watching movies of protozoan animal cells or hunting cheetahs, or by listening to the songs of the blue whale. Audios and videos bring animals from aardvarks to zebras to life. Visit the Jungle Mall for animal shopping sites, like the T-shirt Gallery for t-shirts and links to the best animal poster sites. Visit the chat room Jungle Talk to join the conversation or pose your own questions. http://www.junglewalk.com/frames.asp Cameron Davidson Photography Cameron Davidson shoots locations for clients from American Airlines and Chevron to National Geographic and the Smithsonian. See his spectacular portfolio at camerondavidson.com, from suppliants praying in a temple in Yangoon, Myanmar to aerial shots of Chicago. Davidson has published three books of his photography, including images from the Arlington National Cemetery compiled in A Moment of Silence, and his two aerial photography books will be published this year. The Field Notes section is a special treat for photophiles, with its war stories, humor, narrow escapes and tales from the road. The Stock section offers a library of aerial images available for stock and as fine art prints. http://www.camerondavidson.com/ **********Advertisement**************
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Makeup 411 Got a cosmetic crisis? Get the 411 on make-up at MakeUp 411, a source for reliable and quality beauty information, featuring beauty analyses of leading actresses in upcoming films, television shows and music videos directly from the make-up artists who actually created the looks. The site is a division of Make-up Artist Magazine, the professional make-up industry's leading publication, and does not publish beauty analyses of celebrities with cosmetic contracts that exclusively boost the brand's line. It just offers insider tips from the industry's top make-up artists, and the 411 on the best new make-up and skin care products. The site has teamed with cosmetic companies to sponsor a monthly product giveaway, but there's no e-commerce here, just links so users can easily find where to purchase intriguing products. The 2003 Words of the Year "Metrosexual" is winner of the 2003 Word of the Year. The noun referring to a fashion-conscious heterosexual male tops the list that word freaks will love: at 2003 Words of the Year, find the American Dialect Society's choices for the words that most colorfully and persistently tripped off our tongues and dominated the nation's conversations in 2003. The verb of the year? What else but "embed," the action of placing a journalist with troops or within a political campaign. Other favorites come straight from the headlines: like the noun "governator," referring to California's Governor Schwarzenegger. Learn the most useful new word of the year and the most creative, and note how much language informs our experience by checking out past words of the year - remember when WMD hit the scene? And "Mother of all…." ? http://www.americandialect.org/ 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 ~Internet Review News - Reviews of websites, software, 'net culture, and other oddities. ~Jazzmaster's Strange Facts & Useless Information ~Diamond Willow Walking & Hiking Sticks
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