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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #295 4/22/4 |
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Welcome to the 295th issue of the Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter offering weekly insights into new, cool, useful, fun, unusual and interesting sites on the Internet.
- Kinja:
Weblog Guide
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Blogs are the essential personal web space on the Internet, "web logs" of text and graphics updated daily, even hourly Newbies can break into weblogging with help from Kinja: The Weblog Guide. Kinja is a weblog portal, collecting news and commentary from some of the best blog sites on the web so visitors can browse by topic, add favorite weblog authors to their favorites list, and create their own weblog. Kinja also brings weblogs closer to the surface of the Internet making them easier to locate and navigate and offers a list of sites to help understand the entire weblog underworld Now anyone can jump onto the weblog bandwagon and join the a massive online community of bloggers. Virtual Hospital Virtual Hospital is a digital health sciences library dedicated to bringing current, authoritative medical information into the home in hopes that health care providers may better meet the needs of their patients, and that patients may better manage their own personal needs in an increasingly complex world of human health to live better, healthier lives. Virtual Hospital has a strong and unique mission of educating those in need of medical attention while serving as a platform for research into the challenges facing worldwide information distribution since 1992 when it was introduced. The 100% free site is a useful source for student research as well. Chile Head We've all heard of metal-heads, those devoted to the head-banging, brain-smashing, eardrum bursting musical genre known as metal; so is a Chile-Head obsessed with chilies? You bet. There's more to becoming a chilehead than just eating red hot chile peppers to until heart burn engulfs your body, yes, There is knowledge, even fascinating details of why chile peppers are so addicting, how to roast them properly, how to say the word "chile" in several different languages, and mouth-watering recipes. SHORT TAKES Dog Reader Love your dog and you will be rewarded by Dog Reader, dedicated to improving pet owner and pet relationships relationship through better understanding. An article is posted daily Monday through Friday, view the archived articles, buy a DogReader tote bag, or submit a picture of your own furry Mini-Me. <><><><> Railroad Tycoon 3 For a free trial of Railroad Tycoon 3, where the player's goal is to lay track pieces across the land to make one long railroad, risking bombs if you error. Complete the track before the train comes a-tooting' down the line and crashes into your unfinished track. http://www.railroadtycoon3.com/rt3/us/downloads/game.html <><><><> Lensbabies Lensbabies are an amazing if weird photographic advance. Click on the laptop on the home page to learn how the Lens baby works, and see it remonstrated: two different Lensbabies are crafted to fit almost any camera. Enjoy
the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to: Renaissance Connection The Renaissance Connection is devoted to teaching math, arts, science, language, and social studies through the Samuel H. Kress Renaissance art collection held at the Allentown Art Museum. By playing educational games, students of all ages may find themselves lost in the Renaissance, and enjoying it. In fact, a visitor can become, for example, the patron to Jacopo di Cione while he created Madonna and Child in Glory, s beautiful alter piece covered from top to bottom in gold. This is just one example from one game showing how the wealthy and affluent patrons and patronesses supported the flowering of the arts to glorify God. http://www.renaissanceconnection.org/ Playing With Time Playing with Time may be as close as you ever come to Playing God. The web site and traveling exhibit work together to bring the everyday but complex concepts of Time and Change people in a light never yet experienced. The site takes visitors on a journey to the unseen world of natural change and shows events that happen too fast or too slow for human perception. Watch, for example, as the skeleton of a building is constructed in 10 seconds when the actual time elapsed was 8 months; and the blink of an eye, lasting about half a second spans over 10 seconds. Observe the mechanics of how things at work that are not typically so apparent to the eye. http://www.playingwithtime.org/index.html Old Time Music from 78s Nothing beats the sound of a needle scratching through carefully engineered grooves of a record. to provides a sound o raw, so true, so nostalgic A special treat in this digitally re-mastered sound age. Now old-time records and the digital age have joined forces to bring audiophiles rpm records with the sound you remember off the turntable. Offering more than 700 raw, scratchy recordings that may be burned to CD. Site creators request a small donation to keep the music alive. http://www.honkingduck.com/BAZ/baz_one.php?req=info
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Comedy Robot Stand up comedy has never been more popular. A Now a selection of robots has been chosen to do stand up, face the music and be vulnerable to voting, laughs or silent stares. Visitors to Comedy Robot either laugh, boo, or just don't get it. And a bar graph merciless reveals the audience response. Currently, robots tell 95 different jokes and visitors can email a tasteful contribution to add to the Schick. Also available is Comedy gar, support your favorite robot comedian and buy his shirt! Caution: Some jokes have sexual content and might not be suitable for children. Remembering Ma Bell An entire site dedicated to what was once known as the monolithic Bell System, Remembering Ma Bell recalls more than one might ever want to nor certainly ever need to know about the now ubiquitous telephones. With telephone history, including personal history like how the site creator wowed the neighbors by building and showing them their first short wave wireless phone set in the 1970s. http://www.bellsystemmemorial.com/index.html 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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