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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #291 3/25/4 |
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Welcome to the 291st issue of the Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter offering weekly insights into new, cool, useful, fun, unusual and interesting sites on the Internet.
- Spiritual
Cinema
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With Mel Gibson's film "Passion of the Christ" setting box office records, take a look at other films with spiritual themes at The Circle's Spiritual Cinema, offering feature films, shorts and documentaries on DVD. While The Circle offers no X-rated films, not all are MPAA rated. members receive monthly DVD selections after first receiving a description of upcoming attractions. Promotional material is posted on the web site so that parents can preview films before sharing with children. Users may complete surveys about what films they've most and least enjoyed help influence future selections. Membership is not yet available but sign up for an e-mail alert to learn when membership sign-up begins. http://www.spiritualcinemacircle.com/ Humor Gazette "Trump Fires Bush," "Martha Stewart Spared the Death penalty," " Americans Hate Telephone Polls." These are headlines one can almost imagine reading in the daily newspaper, but for now they appear only at Humor Gazette, an online newspaper that spotlights absurd, disturbing activities in politics, culture, the median and society at large. The editor has been a newspaper reporter for two decades, no doubt dreaming up the stories he'd like to write one day. The Gazette presents intelligent, thought-provoking satire in a highly visual, reader-friendly format with the feel of a traditional print newspaper. Edgy, rather than mean-spirited, it's all in fun. Test your Humor IQ, read your gangsta Horoscope (Leo: If dissed in a social situation, shoot somebody. A new gold tooth boosts your confidence.") http://www.humorgazette.com/index.htm Girly Handwriting Ah, to be a 12-year-old girl, reflecting on her unfolding life and times. No one covers a page quite like a girly- girl, with hearts and flowers and smiley faces. At Girly handwriting, not just the penmanship is girlie but so too are the thoughts, the art and the stationery. In the portfolio view line drawings of kitties and bumble bees., pastel paintings of boys dreaming of unicorns and read all the news and reflections of 12-year-old Suzi's girlie-girl life: "Once again it is a milky day outside. The sky is not azure, but the color of milk that has been sitting out for much too long. SHORT TAKES The Kiss Whether you're a romantic-in-training or a full-blown Romeo, visit The Kiss, an entire site devoted to "that special kiss," we never forget. People share their most intimate kissing stories here, most of which lead to marriage. Submit your own kissing tale or just lie back and day-dream about the intimate tales of lip-locking, searchable by index. <><><><> Do-it-yourself Deity Spiritual seekers can church shop, or they can deign their own higher power at the Do-It-Yourself Deity, where visitors not only select a deity but create him or her by choosing how powerful he/she is, and getting a plausibility rating .From Philosophers' Magazine Online, a model god is created by the requirements users select. http://www.philosophers.co.uk/games/whatisgod.htm <><><><> The Pasta Blog Concerns about carbos haven't made pasta everyone's favorite food choice these days, but diet trends don't seem to affect 23-year-old Stefano from Rome, creator of The pasta Blog. With Five Fast Meals to prepare and an archive of pasta recipes to tempt, like Bucatini served with tomato sauce in abundance, onions, guanciale and parmesan cheese, visitors who are cutting carbs will just be tortured here. Enjoy
the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to: Projects in 1996, Harlem-born Douwe Osinga, who now lives in Amsterdam with his German wife. Decided to put various web-based projects online, found atdouweosinga.com. The projects range from one night ideas turned into code to more complex efforts, most of which offer something downloadable to play with it. Most are not open source; that is, he supplies the source and grants users the right to play. The play is diverse: Google Random, for example, scans the html of a page and finds a matching image. At Google Date, enter a date and find out what happened on that date. With Visited Countries keep track of countries you've visited via a color-coded map of the world. With Visual Poetry any text is translated into a series of images, projecting the whole as a slide show. Use the Canned Laughter Box to plays a laughter sound for an instant laugh track. Movies of Separation is a game in which the player builds the shortest path between two movies, starting with one movie and an actor from this movie. http://douweosinga.com/projects/ Ian's Shoelace Site Describing himself as a "lacing loony," not a "knotting nut," the creator of Ian's Shoelace has taken the simple act of securing one's shoes everywhere it could possibly go. After inventing a super-fast way of tying his shoelaces, a technique called the Ian Knot, the World's Fastest Shoelace Knot, Ian has shared it with the world, along with shoelace-related knowledge he's collected. The Shoelace Knots section offers not only the renowned "Ian Knot," but also other knots and advice on how to stop shoelaces from coming undone, fully illustrated with clear diagrams. The Lacing Shoes section offers 43,000 ways to lace a shoe with six pairs of eyelets. Knot Links connects visitors to other shoelace and knot-related web sites. http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/index.htm The American Package Museum The American Package Museum offers 142 exhibits of containers that have held a diversity of consumer products over the years, from A&P coffee to Aqua Velva. Twenty exhibits are poised to be rendered with a 3-D viewer and will be available as the regular pages are created and published. An index page gives visitors quick access to the tins, boxes and jars that over time have stocked medicine cabinets and kitchen pantries with some of the American consumers' most enduring images. The packages are part of a personal collection and are not for sale. **********Advertisement**************
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U-Haul takes visitors on a pictorial adventure through North America with images that ell a story about hauling one's life and possessions across country: with mysteries to solve, and wonders to be discovered. U-Haul launched its SuperGraphic program "America's Moving Adventure" in 1988. Among the first SuperGraphics were South Dakota's Mount Rushmore and Florida's Space Shuttle, and nearly 200 different images have been created since, each honoring individual states and province. The program has been praised for its spectacular artwork and compelling subject matter and is even used in the nation's schools to teach geography. Trucks are adorned with images representing the states and provinces. Trailers display images that honor individual cities. By 1997, thousands of SuperGraphic-clad U-Haul trucks and trailers were criss-crossing the highways of North America emblazoned with renditions of nationally recognized aspects of states, provinces and cities. View all of our classic graphics from 1988-1997 and modern graphics since 1998 on the site. http://www.uhaul.com/supergraphics/archive.html Dr. Shroud Adventures Robert Feldman started self-publishing comic books in 1999, and by 2001 he moved to the Internet by creating Flash-animated serials featuring his character, Dr. Shroud, adding an element that allows viewers to vote what happens next to the main character: A "Choose Your Own Adventure" story that meets the old Marvel cartoons. Each month, some 10,000 viewers follow Dr. Shroud Adventures, either at www.DrShroud.com or at the numerous web portals in which it appears. Follow the adventures, influence where it heads, or shop the Dr. Shroud store for books, CDs, clothing, house wares, hats, auto goods, prints, postcards and more. 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 ~Rob and Chris's Website - Special fundraiser for Kidney research. ~My Favorite Florist - Seattle's Finest Florist ~Morph
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