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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #286 2/19/4 |
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Welcome to the 286th issue of the Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter offering weekly insights into new, cool, useful, fun, unusual and interesting sites on the Internet.
- Metrosexual
Tarot
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"Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" collides with the occult a Metrosexual Tarot, where a flip of the tarot card reveals your metrosexual present, future and fate in or out of the closet. Flip The Salon card, for example, your personal chariot through the ever-changing landscape of personal style, impeccable grooming, and attitude renewal where you are encouraged to stock up on obscure, impossible-to-pronounce European styling products. Each Tarot card carries a meaning, like renewal, beauty and attention; and has a reverse fortune, like "Vanity brings a problem." The Ab card declares that you have become an extension of your closet. Cards include the City, the Loft, the Stylist and more, each with meaning and wisdom for today's metrosexual, typically an urban male with a strong aesthetic sense who spends a great deal of time and money on his appearance and lifestyle. http://www.thomasscoville.com/metrosexual/ Confessions of a Car Salesman Edmunds.com blows the lid off the car lot with Confessions of a Car Salesman, where visitors learn what goes on in the back rooms of car dealerships, what that salesman does when he leaves you sitting in a sales office to go talk with his boss, the sales tricks used to increase profit, and how to avoid overpaying. Edmunds hired an investigative reporter to go underground and get first-hand experience living the life of a car salesman. Journalist Chandler Phillips worked at two new car dealerships in the Los Angeles area, first at a high-volume, high-pressure dealership selling Japanese cars, then at a smaller car lot selling domestic cars at "no haggle" prices. Here he tells all in an account of his day-to-day experiences. Visitors also get buying and selling tips for new and used cars. http://edmunds.com/advice/buying/articles/42962/article.html The Micropolitan Museum Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and to behold this artwork has required a microscope, until the Institute for the Promotion of the Less than One Millimeter's Micropolitan Museum, displaying the artistry of microorganisms. The Micropolitan Museum's curator Wim van Egmond has collected the finest microscopic masterpieces nature has produced during eons of natural selection and other life-sculpting mechanisms: microscopic art forms in two categories, freshwater and marine. What looks like filthy pond scum becomes breathtakingly beautiful under the microscope as you admire the flagella, cilia and arthropoda. Visit the Diatom Depot, the Hall of Anthropods and other micro-galleries. Learn how the images were gathered and about the amazing technology of microscopy that makes seeing the micro-tiny possible. http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/micropolitan/index.html
Rejection Collection Share your rejection misery with other frustrated artists and writers at the Rejection Collection, where you can share your rejection letter or experience, read and weep over others' rejection stories, or even turn rejection into a winner if yours is selected as the Reject Of The Month sob story. http://rejectioncollection.com/
For a lengthy list of deviations between the text of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and the translation of those texts to film by Peter Jackson, and others, like Jackson's failure to mention that it was both Bilbo and Frodo's birthday party--Bilbo's 111th and Frodo's 33rd, visit The NitPicker's Guide to Lord of the Rings.
The World's First Guns N Roses Kids' Tribute Band, and with luck the last, can be seen at lilgnr.com, where G n' R fans can meet li'l Axl, li'l Slash and the whole li'l band, watch their audition and performance videos, and follow them on tour. Enjoy
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Understanding and conserving the delicate web of life is the business of Biodiversity and Conservation from The Field Museum, exploring the fragile balance that sustains the amazing variety of habitats, people, plants, and animals on Earth. Researchers have identified some 1.4 million species with millions yet to be counted as thousands of species vanish yearly due to pollution, over-harvesting, habitat degradation and other human actions. Here,
get basic facts about biodiversity; discover how scientists and the public
are working to help preserve our planet's life. Explore educational events,
exhibits, and workshops. Meet The Field Museum's anthropologists, zoologists,
botanists, and geologists who reveal how they got into the field, their
sources of inspiration. Plan a trip to The Field Museum, or travel around
the world with Field Museum scientists in an interactive experience that
lets you investigate the planet's life. Learn how to help http://www.fieldmuseum.org/biodiversity/ Joseph Stashkevetch Fish and flora, skies and fields, the body of the city and the human body are all subjects of moody drawings by Joseph Stashkevetch, on view at Stashkevetch.com. Stashkevetch studied at the famed Rhode Island School of Design and exhibits from Aspen to Milan. Rendered in subtle and detailed shadings of black and white, the images are displayed in museums and galleries worldwide. You can see both his current works and archived portfolios to 1993. Mothers with Attitude Humor and help for adoptive moms, special-needs moms, any moms at all is offered at Mothers with Attitude. Not for those who think motherhood is a hallowed and sacred occupation, the site is aimed at those who know it is also messy, frustrating and bewildering hard work. With
a daily weblog, three years' of dispatches from the parenting front lines,
a Parent's Portfolio of info to share, study and file away and Reflections
on Parenthood, Moms can give themselves a time-out to gather tips on all
kinds of mothering challenges, from problem behaviors to learning disabilities.
Family Man offers notes from a dad with attitude, Therapeutic Laughing
lends a monthly dose of humor, and Fun and Games lets mom get playful,
always the best medicine. With links to useful sites about health and
development on topics from ADD/HD to attachment; and an online store for
MWA mugs, totes and mousepads. Adoption Watch offers http://www.motherswithattitude.com/ **********Advertisement**************
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Celluloid Skyline Every New Yorker has his or her own tales of the city, and knows that the Big Apple is not a single city, certainly not just the one seen in films like 42nd Street, Rear Window, Annie Hall, Taxi Driver or Do the Right Thing. Based on the award-winning book by architect James Sanders, the Celluloid Skyline is a multimedia exploration of the mythic city of "movie New York," and the real city of millions, with lessons about the design and use of cities. Visions of the Dream City is an interactive feature with innovative ways to explore the shape of the urban landscape, using reference photographs taken by Hollywood crews in the 20th century. Building the Dream City offers a gallery of rare and unusual production drawings of movie New York from the RKO art department. Sidewalk Glimpses offers an interactive database with links to early "actuality" films, shot on the streets of New York City from 1896 to 1906, downloadable from Library of Congress Paper Print Collection. http://www.celluloidskyline.com/main/splash.html Super Seventies If you missed the 70s the first time around, the Super Seventies RockSite brings back the Me Decade, aged like a mighty fine wine. The site creators call the 70s "the overall finest decade for popular music in the past forty years" and offer as proof such features as the Classic 200, album reviews, top singles and music forums. Beyond Black Sabbath, Aerosmith and Pink Floyd, the site also features 70s culture, with 170 portraits of famous personalities as they appeared in Time, TV Guide and Rolling Stone, plus trivia games, a bookstore (remember "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" and "The Thornbirds"?) and a poster room with gems from Donny and Marie to Kiss. http://www.superseventies.com/ 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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